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Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

karakoram — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:03:16 +0000

Article URL: https://news.gallup.com/poll/713933/record-high-say-government-corruption-widespread.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570772

Points: 440

# Comments: 337

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

negura — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:52:01 +0000

Article URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570669

Points: 518

# Comments: 279

Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

p4bl0 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:34:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.statichost.eu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569896

Points: 303

# Comments: 123

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

iopapa — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:48:29 +0000

Article URL: https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569366

Points: 265

# Comments: 163

Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

mywacaday — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:50:28 +0000

Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579

Points: 356

# Comments: 158

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

jlebar — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:42:56 +0000

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/flt-anthropic-h...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506

Points: 625

# Comments: 390

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

stingrae — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:18:08 +0000

Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool.

Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in workout/biking) implementation for ESP32 by messing around with undocumented registers: https://github.com/RaemondBW/esp32-ant

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567437

Points: 292

# Comments: 102

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive

speckx — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:46:59 +0000

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567053

Points: 390

# Comments: 228

Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

aaraujo002 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:33:45 +0000

https://archive.is/kmOqm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566137

Points: 297

# Comments: 272

IBM Bob

artpar — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:50:29 +0000

Article URL: https://bob.ibm.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563851

Points: 272

# Comments: 292

Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search

DeepLogin — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:59:15 +0000

Article URL: https://productrise.app/blog/google-ai-mode-prefers-more-expensive-products

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563386

Points: 383

# Comments: 73

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

moultano — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:54:53 +0000

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355

Points: 1741

# Comments: 1337

Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge

anitil — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:17:01 +0000

Article URL: https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562657

Points: 419

# Comments: 92

Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

beardyw — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:47:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561320

Points: 541

# Comments: 238

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

screm — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:20:34 +0000

Article URL: https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557206

Points: 294

# Comments: 148

GPT-6 Astra

kibae — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:41:05 +0000

System Card: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra

Related ongoing threads:

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555691

GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556147

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554643

Points: 2178

# Comments: 2004

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

altertable — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:32:13 +0000

Article URL: https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554520

Points: 681

# Comments: 223

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

maskil — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:18:22 +0000

https://thenewstack.io/openai-gpt6-astra-benchmarks/, image: https://cdn.thenewstack.io/media/2026/09/358eb84a-screenshot...

https://venturebeat.com/technology/welcome-to-the-agi-era-op...

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/988334/o...

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2095595741528125780

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554273

Points: 277

# Comments: 253

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

speckx — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:21:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552572

Points: 369

# Comments: 122

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

karimf — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:36:43 +0000

Article URL: https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551760

Points: 332

# Comments: 127

Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

halcdev — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:07:01 +0000

https://status.openai.com

https://status.claude.com

https://status.x.ai

ChatGPT outage – Resolved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550614 (315 comments)

Claude outage – Resolved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549676 (146 comments)

Grok outage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551589 (142 comments)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551096

Points: 396

# Comments: 689

.name Termination

pavel_lishin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:54:39 +0000

Article URL: https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550772

Points: 2169

# Comments: 534

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

thinkingemote — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:51:10 +0000

Article URL: https://anyhumanever.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550698

Points: 640

# Comments: 308

ChatGPT outage – Resolved

stacktrace — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:46:47 +0000

Article URL: https://chatgpt.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550614

Points: 362

# Comments: 318

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

rabahs — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:28:18 +0000

These are my notes from porting my Amiga game, which I originally built in Baghdad in 1993 in MC68000 assembly, to Godot, using Claude Fable 5 during last July holiday. It took an evening! Getting the feel right and shipping it took a few more weekends and evenings.

I spent the last few weeks analyzing what Claude did, feeding it my 33 years of memory of how I built the game, my notes and the git repos. It wrote the first draft of the article, and I edited line by line over a week. The screenshots of my 1993 map editor is the first I have run it since then. The one thing I never verified myself is the 108-byte explanation.

"Before starting everything, the model assembled the code using vasm on my Mac, and kept going till the binary is byte-identical to the binaries I had in my original game. Even after that, the there was mismatch of about 108 bytes. I originally used AsmOne which assembles into memory, and the game saved into the disk by saving that memory after running the game. So the original shipped files are a snapshot of the game that had already been running, not clean asm-one output."

Please post any questions. I am also releasing the original game for free.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550375

Points: 373

# Comments: 131