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

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

Sorry, I'm in a meeting

Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

Bot traffic from Yandex

“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically

JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

Grieving the loss of details

OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled

I paid people to try and follow my README

Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil

Bitwarden Dual License Model

Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire

So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion?

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation

Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)

Mistral Large 4

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't

Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model

Calculus with Julia

Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompetitive' Fees

Bevy 0.20

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia

ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments

GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions

Computers Cannot Make Decisions

US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams

OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

Wood Tape (2004)

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project

Lobbying

EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks

Deno Is Joining Cloudflare

Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court

Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand

Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants

Whatever became of holography? (2011)

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

Lobbying Is Corruption

I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal

Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging

How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect

What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason

OLED burn-in test: 30-month update

Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)