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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: 435

# Comments: 330

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: 513

# Comments: 279

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: 623

# Comments: 388

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

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: 1735

# Comments: 1330

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

codechicago277 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:17:24 +0000

Article URL: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555233

Points: 219

# Comments: 271

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: 2177

# Comments: 2003

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

Sony makes bold claim about game ownership

speckx — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:44:54 +0000

Article URL: https://aginggamer.net/game-industry/sony-makes-bold-claim-about-game-ownership/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551925

Points: 179

# Comments: 268

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: 395

# 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: 2168

# 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

Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond

softwaredoug — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:12:19 +0000

Article URL: https://reason.com/2026/09/02/virginia-mom-gets-6-month-suspended-jail-sentence-for-letting-5-year-old-walk-to-the-pond/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550174

Points: 280

# Comments: 283

Audacity 4.0

ClydeN — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:53:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548395

Points: 1142

# Comments: 262

I wanna live an NPC life

conferza — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:52:53 +0000

Article URL: https://signalundefied.bearblog.dev/i-wanna-live-an-npc-life/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541519

Points: 294

# Comments: 273

Muse Spark 1.3

bvaldivielso — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:35:04 +0000

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-spark-1-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541256

Points: 686

# Comments: 448

I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't

speckx — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:51:29 +0000

Article URL: https://ploum.net/2026-09-02-i_dont_have_a_smartphone.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539872

Points: 255

# Comments: 256

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

bratao — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:12:40 +0000

https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537553

Points: 1154

# Comments: 662