Best tech stories this week

In week 37 of 2026, the top tech stories on Hacker News include the discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board, which garnered 853 points and 582 comments, and the unveiling of GPT-6 Astra with 844 points and 580 comments. Additionally, Isar Aerospace successfully reached orbit and deployed payloads on their second flight, while Asahi Linux announced official support for Apple M3 Macs, albeit with some caveats. Other notable stories include the unarchiving of Nitter, the development of a Python interpreter in just 1024 bytes, and discussions around AI's impact on humanity.

#10

Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This September

91 pts, 21 comments

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#11

We have a year to fix security everywhere

85 pts, 49 comments

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#12

Programming is Art

80 pts, 79 comments

80 points · 79 comments · Add your take →

#13

GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea

72 pts, 55 comments

72 points · 55 comments · Add your take →

#14

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

69 pts, 18 comments

69 points · 18 comments · Add your take →

#15

Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame

68 pts, 34 comments

68 points · 34 comments · Add your take →

#16

My Feed, My Way

67 pts, 43 comments

67 points · 43 comments · Add your take →

#17

No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds

67 pts, 25 comments

67 points · 25 comments · Add your take →

#18

Emacs Bedrock 2.0

62 pts, 0 comments

62 points · 0 comments · Add your take →

#19

Simple Is Not Small

60 pts, 18 comments

60 points · 18 comments · Add your take →

#20

AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200

58 pts, 58 comments

58 points · 58 comments · Add your take →

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Best tech stories this week

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Jellyfin 12.0

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TALA Is Open-Source

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Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users

Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This September

We have a year to fix security everywhere

Programming is Art

GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame

My Feed, My Way

No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds

Emacs Bedrock 2.0

Simple Is Not Small

AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200

'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

AI Cold Showers

Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution

How well do agents use test/verification techniques?

Intellectual Fly Is Open

Live map of public transport in Belgium

I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer

Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

John Margolies' photographs of roadside America

De-Brainrot Vacations

Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

A Screensaver for LG's Spying Smart TVs

Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs

This Month in Ladybird – August 2026

I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task

C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)

I refused to train the AI that could replace me

Why the AfD Wins

Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker

There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis

PostgreSQL 19 Interactive Tour

Google WeatherNext 3

Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set

Splash-free urinals for global sustainability and accessibility

Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7

Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia

1% increase in immigration leads to a 1.78%-2.97% increase in Far-Right voting (2024)

VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent

Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

Impedance Matching (2017)

bzip3

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI

The Education of a Doomer

Replaceable but Employed: Automation and the Meaning of Work

Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?

Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security

If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one

HomeCat – Design your backyard office

Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics

Trump homeland security chief says ICE agents could be sent to polling places

Prompting Is Dead in 6 Months. Andrew Ng, Stanford [video]

The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here

US Republicans revolt against Flock AI surveillance as backlash intensifies

I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32

TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings

216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

Every Novel Is Boring–Until It Isn't

How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform

Canada's counter-tariffs take effect on various US goods

Do tech billionaires dream of shared abundance? We should probably just tax them

Colorlight 5A-75B: A dive into a popular low-cost ECP5 (FPGA) development board

The smallest edge AI device for local LLMs

25 years ago, two strangers met in the twin towers and escaped on 9/11

Interactive Tree of Life

Whistle Synth

AI cancer cures slowed by chip shortage, says Arm boss

Germany Power Grid Sabotage: Launch Devices Found Near Weisweiler Plant

'Global reckoning for big tech': Australia to force opt-out of social algs