Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W41

In week 2026-W41, top discussions on Hacker News included a personal account titled "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken," garnering 273 points and 738 comments. Meta's successful approach with Muse was also highlighted, receiving 120 points and 160 comments. Additionally, the release of Kolibri, a sovereign open-weight model, sparked significant interest with 39 points and 310 comments, reflecting ongoing debates around AI development and organizational culture.

Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W41

I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

What Meta got right with Muse

Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)

We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (2023)

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2

Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)

Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

Results from the Jane Street hardware puzzle

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

Inside Anthropic's Quest to Instill Morality into Its A.I. Models

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

The Work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on Improving Old AMD GPUs on Linux

Why don't more developers "use the platform"?

So You Think You Could Be an Electrician?

Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool

AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction

Your body of work thinks back at you

Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?

Bob Cringely Has Died

Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

What is going on with ceiling fans

How effective altruism conquered the world (and might yet end it)

VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next

Ncdu: An Updated Fork

Your Right to Privacy Doesn't Disappear When You're in Public

Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

Bill Draper Dies at 98; He Was a Tech Investor Before There Was a Silicon Valley

cp: -r or -R?

Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program

TurboPython – A Python-to-C++ Compiler

A parasitic Fibonacci computation inside /usr/bin/top

Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search

How to hack time, with C2PA

pi pod – run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server

Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

Homa: The End of TCP for AI Clusters [video]

Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability

Incentives in Academic Research

Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws

'Neanderthals Among Us' by Peter Sahlins Review

Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting

Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast

The dot and the Swarm: Benefitting from the bitter lesson

Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline

What's the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?

Typst 0.15 Contains Multitudes

Google Japan shows off conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to fingers

We're working on a new RuneScape MMO

European Commission Staff Dislike Their 'Sovereign' Alternative to Teams

An AI couldn't beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

Mac OS 9 Platinum desktop recreated in the browser

Lawmakers look to require AM radio in new cars despite automakers' pushback

Infidel Goes Wild

A Map of Every Lighthouse on the Planet

Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]

Interview with Chicken Scheme Maintainer Sjamaan/Peter Bex

Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio – Tufte's Razor

Page Table Memory Consumption

In the wake of closure, a digital archive of animated materials appears online

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict

A man who listens to whales

The Heilbronn Problem

Archiving the Oldest Webcam Feed

Second Chances

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages

gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer

AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war

AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS