Top Hacker News Stories – September 30, 2026 (Summarized)

Recent HN discussions highlight significant developments, including NASA's recruitment of former SR-71A engineers to assist with a secret project, garnering 39 points and 30 comments. Meanwhile, Livenerf users are debating whether Opus 5.5 has been nerfed, receiving 5 points. In cybersecurity news, the USPS shut down a site that sold 5 million counterfeit postage labels for $2 each. Additionally, a working 3D model of an Enigma machine has been shared, and a project now tracks the entire Solar System and satellites live in the browser.

#10

America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here

29 pts, 9 comments

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#11

The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We're forgetting darkness

4 pts, 0 comments

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#12

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

7 pts, 6 comments

7 points · 6 comments · Add your take →

#13

Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev

5 pts, 0 comments

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#14

When oil prices spike, where does the money go?

5 pts, 0 comments

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#15

UnoDOS

6 pts, 1 comments

6 points · 1 comments · Add your take →

#16

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Top Hacker News Stories – September 30, 2026 (Summarized)

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

USPS shuts down site that sold 5M counterfeit postage labels for $2 each

A working 3D model of an Enigma machine

The US state replacing power plants with home batteries

GPT 6.1 Sol

The whole Solar System and every tracked satellite, live in the browser

Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent

America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here

The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We're forgetting darkness

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev

When oil prices spike, where does the money go?

UnoDOS

New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released

AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization

C64 MERCENARY (1985): a novel exploit bug at the start of the game

Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released

NSL – WSL for Linux

What're You Reading?

How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it

Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It

Corral kill every command your agent starts

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

Dots

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT

Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet

TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s

Without the Hot Air

Using any C++ library in Godot

Walking Men

Galaxy Game – Interim Computer Museum

ChatGPT Pro 500

What if Jev spoke Arrow?

Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper

Is open-weight AI banned yet?

Councilmember, residents push back on AI 'blight scores' given to homes

1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds

McDonald's Is Using AI to Dynamically Price Its Burgers

DevDay 2026 Recap

Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)

McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac

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