HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-09-02

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)

    1160 points · HN #49537553

  2. 02

    Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (trellner.com)

    519 points · HN #49536375

  3. 03

    Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? (mistral.ai)

    498 points · HN #49535284

  4. 04

    Muse Spark 1.3 (meta.com)

    691 points · HN #49541256

  5. 05

    Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business (nytimes.com)

    473 points · HN #49537131

  6. 06

    Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them (studyfinds.com)

    353 points · HN #49535548

  7. 07

    Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle (science.org)

    346 points · HN #49536079

  8. 08

    Exit the Cave (turtlespace.blog)

    302 points · HN #49536606

  9. 09

    A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards (clui.org)

    207 points · HN #49513856

  10. 10

    Fable 5.1 World Modeling (github.com/philolabs)

    327 points · HN #49541458

  11. 11

    Poisson Disk Sampling (stripeacross.com)

    193 points · HN #49536177

  12. 12

    Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 (dfarq.homeip.net)

    359 points · HN #49533497

  13. 13

    Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex (werwolv.net)

    256 points · HN #49508608

  14. 14

    Wendell Berry has died (nytimes.com)

    232 points · HN #49517018

  15. 15

    Hang on to Your Firefox (newsonaut.com)

    994 points · HN #49527748

  16. 16

    WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine (github.com/mlc-ai)

    145 points · HN #49536411

  17. 17

    The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks (arxiv.org)

    297 points · HN #49531651

  18. 18

    A note on subscription prices from LWN (lwn.net)

    733 points · HN #49535752

  19. 19

    Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023) (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

    179 points · HN #49540565

  20. 20

    FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (krebsonsecurity.com)

    485 points · HN #49529621

  21. 21

    Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

    119 points · HN #49543530

  22. 22

    Sonic Pi (sonic-pi.net)

    239 points · HN #49482099

  23. 23

    Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022) (tweedegolf.nl)

    113 points · HN #49540415

  24. 24

    Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters (wasmi-labs.github.io)

    138 points · HN #49521031

  25. 25

    We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora (cloudflare.com)

    139 points · HN #49521909

  26. 26

    Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf] (gatesnotes.com)

    75 points · HN #49541754

  27. 27

    The efficient frontier of LLM inference (baseten.co)

    155 points · HN #49529898

  28. 28

    Fine, I'll build my own text editor (dbushell.com)

    263 points · HN #49524863

  29. 29

    True Rate of Unemployment (lisep.org)

    310 points · HN #49530989

  30. 30

    Making the Internet Boring (cemrehancavdar.com)

    134 points · HN #49502367