Top Hacker News Stories – September 19, 2026 (Summarized)

Recent top stories on Hacker News include Stanford Medicine-led research revealing that the human brain consists of two separate organs, based on a study of 151 patients. Additionally, a breakthrough with GPT-6 Astra demonstrated its ability to decode a WWI German radio cipher, garnering significant attention. In the software development sphere, Android 17 introduced new APIs without releasing them to AOSP, marking a notable update since version 3.x. Other notable discussions include the importance of celebrating non-mathematical aspects of proof, the San Francisco Onion Futures Company, and open-source initiatives like Science Is Open Software and the Small Device C Compiler.

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Brood War Bench

196 pts, 156 comments

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#11

Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

179 pts, 190 comments

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#12

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

177 pts, 106 comments

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#13

I think you should almost never use AI to write

169 pts, 177 comments

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#14

Science Is Open Software

162 pts, 75 comments

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#15

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

155 pts, 33 comments

155 points · 33 comments · Add your take →

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Top Hacker News Stories – September 19, 2026 (Summarized)

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

English: A vs. An

Laya the open source version of Jev

The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

Measure internet censorship

Exfiltrate Your Weights

How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

Brood War Bench

Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

I think you should almost never use AI to write

Science Is Open Software

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

Apple M6 Pro achieves the highest single-core CPU score in Geekbench 7

Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%

CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use

Divide by depth for instant 3D

An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons

Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

DraftKings Uses A.I. To Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan

Can you tell which images are AI-generated?

Mayday Mysteries

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and others made illegal agreement on AI slowdown

NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model

So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news

Open Weights Are Good. Open Source Is Better

LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe

JavaFX 27 Native Image on a Raspberry Pi 5

Agreement between the USA and Denmark (1951,2004) [pdf]

Economics Nobel Laureates' Letter Supporting the California Billionaire Tax [pdf]

Tin: full-text search for Postgres

FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS

How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?

HellGates, custom CPU gate-level challenge

How did Apple Silicon get 50% faster in three years? – Daniel Lemire's blog

Qualcomm's Adreno X2 GPU

Executive order on H-1B nonimmigrant visa administration

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