HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-09-04

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)

    2301 points · HN #49563355

  2. 02

    Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (nist.gov)

    805 points · HN #49570669

  3. 03

    Statichost.eu – European static site hosting (statichost.eu)

    506 points · HN #49569896

  4. 04

    Can AI design circuit boards yet? (eebench.org)

    422 points · HN #49569366

  5. 05

    Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (anthropic.com)

    773 points · HN #49568506

  6. 06

    IBM Bob (ibm.com)

    338 points · HN #49563851

  7. 07

    Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer (opentrailpaper.com)

    424 points · HN #49567437

  8. 08

    Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% (discoverwildlife.com)

    377 points · HN #49552572

  9. 09

    Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (mullvad.net)

    484 points · HN #49568579

  10. 10

    Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap (kedglobal.com)

    467 points · HN #49544762

  11. 11

    GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)

    320 points · HN #49570545

  12. 12

    Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread (gallup.com)

    589 points · HN #49570772

  13. 13

    Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?

    274 points · HN #49533840

  14. 14

    Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year (techdirt.com)

    561 points · HN #49561320

  15. 15

    Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4 (github.com/anthropics)

    146 points · HN #49568697

  16. 16

    The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite (master.dev)

    179 points · HN #49567873

  17. 17

    Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge (jestoph.com)

    439 points · HN #49562657

  18. 18

    Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch (rietta.com)

    117 points · HN #49568828

  19. 19

    Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs (github.com/gioblu)

    225 points · HN #49562219

  20. 20

    An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy (quad9.net)

    135 points · HN #49569663

  21. 21

    How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language (news.mit.edu)

    208 points · HN #49507072

  22. 22

    Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search (productrise.app)

    403 points · HN #49563386

  23. 23

    Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive (torrentfreak.com)

    438 points · HN #49567053

  24. 24

    Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

    198 points · HN #49548600

  25. 25

    Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025) (gwern.net)

    126 points · HN #49559522

  26. 26

    deSEC – Free Secure DNS (desec.io)

    165 points · HN #49566193

  27. 27

    RSA-260 Factorized (twitter.com/penlume)

    147 points · HN #49546284

  28. 28

    Decompiler Explorer (dogbolt.org)

    135 points · HN #49529161

  29. 29

    Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building (starelevator.com)

    159 points · HN #49516312

  30. 30

    Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI (nytimes.com)

    334 points · HN #49566137