HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-09-13

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (vals.ai)

    1216 points · HN #49688695

  2. 02

    Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (atomic14.com)

    960 points · HN #49686445

  3. 03

    Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (yoshuabengio.org)

    658 points · HN #49678969

  4. 04

    Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (xeiaso.net)

    811 points · HN #49678683

  5. 05

    Frontier Models Tested in Chess-Based Alignment Evals Attempt to Use Hidden Engine Sockets

    479 points · HN #49684393

  6. 06

    JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)

    571 points · HN #49681152

  7. 07

    Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (theverge.com)

    482 points · HN #49683953

  8. 08

    CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com/speedstu)

    174 points · HN #49684356

  9. 09

    Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust (bensimms.moe)

    451 points · HN #49638071

  10. 10

    Julia 1.13 highlights (julialang.org)

    271 points · HN #49642645

  11. 11

    Homebrew 7.0.0 (brew.sh)

    636 points · HN #49681545

  12. 12

    Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

    265 points · HN #49683262

  13. 13

    Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine (eiln.github.io)

    217 points · HN #49636479

  14. 14

    Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

    266 points · HN #49677577

  15. 15

    Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) (wisc.edu)

    109 points · HN #49688391

  16. 16

    The Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)

    164 points · HN #49679459

  17. 17

    Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)

    224 points · HN #49684196

  18. 18

    Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)

    416 points · HN #49685253

  19. 19

    Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)

    109 points · HN #49653311

  20. 20

    Aligned to whom? (hyperbo.la)

    181 points · HN #49679643

  21. 21

    LG says we're fake news [video] (youtube.com)

    415 points · HN #49676324

  22. 22

    Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX (github.com/foadsf)

    116 points · HN #49629624

  23. 23

    P(doom) (pocoo.org)

    158 points · HN #49677450

  24. 24

    'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)

    133 points · HN #49683033

  25. 25

    AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research (agentsdock.net)

    81 points · HN #49678435

  26. 26

    I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (dreamstation.systems)

    458 points · HN #49686766

  27. 27

    David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com/davidsacks)

    332 points · HN #49685991

  28. 28

    TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com/feralfirmware)

    78 points · HN #49678423

  29. 29

    Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com/techemails)

    314 points · HN #49688157

  30. 30

    Base84 deserves a place in file names (00f.net)

    77 points · HN #49655450