Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W37

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

Fuck it, make it anyway

606 pts, 607 comments

606 points · 607 comments · Add your take →

#11

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

582 pts, 401 comments

582 points · 401 comments · Add your take →

#12

iPhone Duo

581 pts, 2545 comments

581 points · 2545 comments · Add your take →

#13

Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

556 pts, 957 comments

556 points · 957 comments · Add your take →

#14

De-Brainrot Vacations

518 pts, 210 comments

518 points · 210 comments · Add your take →

#15

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

495 pts, 420 comments

495 points · 420 comments · Add your take →

#16

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

489 pts, 517 comments

489 points · 517 comments · Add your take →

#17

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

479 pts, 235 comments

479 points · 235 comments · Add your take →

#18

I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

453 pts, 118 comments

453 points · 118 comments · Add your take →

#19

Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

451 pts, 105 comments

451 points · 105 comments · Add your take →

#20

DaVinci Resolve 21.1

440 pts, 218 comments

440 points · 218 comments · Add your take →

#21

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Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W37

Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

A misalignment of AI in mathematics

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

So you want to use OpenRouter?

We must pace the frontier

Can we please limit the AI news flood?

What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

Fuck it, make it anyway

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

iPhone Duo

Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

De-Brainrot Vacations

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

DaVinci Resolve 21.1

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

ChatGPT Images 2.5

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

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

iPhone Duo

TALA Is Open-Source

Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route

Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)

Logo Programming

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games

Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

HuggingFace: Security.txt

The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify

AirPods 5

The contagion of fear

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou

Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract

Reversing Factorio's RNG

Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier

Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

Cherenkov Radiation

The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Splash-free urinals (2025)

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco

An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights

How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy

Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization

Making Startups Powerful

Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine

Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities

Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant

Hacker News, Without AI

Emacs Bedrock 2.0

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

LLM Attention Visualization

I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)

The Interim Computer Museum

Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?

NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It's Unveiling Rock Art on Earth

Measuring the sloppiness of code

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem

Apple Watch Series 12