Hacker News: Best

Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)

highfrequency — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:27:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movie-maker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599481

Points: 325

# Comments: 212

bzip3

tosh — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:35:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49598291

Points: 349

# Comments: 97

De-Brainrot Vacations

DanielVZ — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:00:48 +0000

Article URL: https://devz.cl/posts/i-spent-my-vacations-de-brainrotting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597907

Points: 453

# Comments: 184

Splash-free urinals (2025)

u1hcw9nx — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:58:57 +0000

Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745?login=false

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597895

Points: 214

# Comments: 116

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

mdp2021 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:46:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/07/smartphone-makers-dont-bother-to-comply-with-eu-repairability-requirements/5294532

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597189

Points: 265

# Comments: 143

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

cianmm — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:33:39 +0000

Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/nathan-fielder-surprise-film-telluride-elizabeth-holmes-1236853513/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596119

Points: 298

# Comments: 247

Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

astroanax — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:26:53 +0000

Article URL: https://mathathonchallenge.com/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596055

Points: 202

# Comments: 66

LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

chris_overseas — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:03:20 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594878

Points: 1090

# Comments: 3

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

ivell — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/switzerland-replace-microssoft-pilot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594251

Points: 327

# Comments: 261

Keep Our Servers Running

sonicrocketman — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:29:51 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this-september/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593563

Points: 922

# Comments: 225

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

treve — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:22:04 +0000

https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-au...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592375

Points: 363

# Comments: 654

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

azhenley — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:14:08 +0000

Article URL: https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591876

Points: 305

# Comments: 102

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

xena — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:32:38 +0000

Article URL: https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2026/anubis-wasm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590611

Points: 348

# Comments: 186

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

Cider9986 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:24:00 +0000

Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225539756835649

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590512

Points: 394

# Comments: 251

Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

imadtaieber — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:27:10 +0000

How do you find skills, keep them organized, and make sure they actually work? Do you keep improving them over time?

I believe skills will eventually be eating by model capabilities, but until then I'm just looking for a better way to manage things.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49589914

Points: 283

# Comments: 258

Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue

Cider9986 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:51:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49589003

Points: 268

# Comments: 1

Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

zImPatrick — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:49:47 +0000

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

https://xcancel.com/cdclegal

https://nitter.net/

https://xcancel.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588988

Points: 890

# Comments: 379

An Alien Mind

tosh — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:27:05 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588080

Points: 458

# Comments: 448

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

iamsyr — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:08:44 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587217

Points: 203

# Comments: 176

A/I shuts down

captainmuon — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:34:34 +0000

Article URL: https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586898

Points: 616

# Comments: 522

Asahi Linux on M3

mdp2021 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:08:59 +0000

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-Official-M3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586698

Points: 550

# Comments: 341

QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

mraniki — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:02:41 +0000

Article URL: https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586171

Points: 1315

# Comments: 290

Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

cyb0rg0 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:56:43 +0000

Article URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/your-intellectual-fly-is-open/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585644

Points: 704

# Comments: 429

Doomscrolling ourselves to death

shubhamjain — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:53:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/doomscrolling-ourselves-to-death

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585627

Points: 412

# Comments: 314

You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules

vrganj — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:14:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/drinking-water-mississippi-lawsuit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584637

Points: 229

# Comments: 174

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

mpweiher — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:21:06 +0000

Article URL: https://isaraerospace.com/press/history-for-european-spaceflight-isar-aerospace-reaches-orbit-and-deploys-payloads-on-second-flight

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584083

Points: 606

# Comments: 194

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

Anon84 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:52:45 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.robocurve.org/gpt-6-astra/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582582

Points: 240

# Comments: 189

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

zplizzi — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:03:29 +0000

Article URL: https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582000

Points: 631

# Comments: 310

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

ExMachina73 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:39:47 +0000

Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581870

Points: 606

# Comments: 118

The revolt of the reader

chmaynard — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:37:49 +0000

Article URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580939

Points: 597

# Comments: 295