It's 2026-09-05. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

The Real Luxuries In Life | comment
Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil | comment
Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop | comment
Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA | comment
.name Termination | comment
GPT-6 Astra | comment
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 | comment
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber | comment
Fastpotify | comment
Audacity 4.0 | comment
Hang on to Your Firefox | comment
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board | comment
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem | comment
Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived | comment
Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users | comment
AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link | comment
Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s | comment
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? | comment
Muse Spark 1.3 | comment
Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year | comment
Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive | comment
Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? | comment
GPU World | comment
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses | comment
A Note from LWN | comment
Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 | comment
True Rate of Unemployment | comment
Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI | comment
Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business | comment
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

.name Termination | comment
GPT-6 Astra | comment
Dolly Parton has died | comment
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 | comment
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber | comment
CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO | comment
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded | comment
Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices | comment
Fastpotify | comment
GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven | comment
GLM-5.3 is now open-weight | comment
Tim Curry has died | comment
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID | comment
Audacity 4.0 | comment
Hang on to Your Firefox | comment
Htmx 4.0 | comment
Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO | comment
Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache | comment
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board | comment
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law | comment
Playa Phone | comment
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem | comment
Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane | comment
Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived | comment
Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users | comment
Small Models Have Arrived | comment
AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link | comment
Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s | comment
AWS Acquires DuckDB | comment
My Friend Aaron | comment
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