Hacker News Daily — September 2, 2026

30 stories · September 2, 2026

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1

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

blog.google · 687 points · Discussion

https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/
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A note on subscription prices from LWN

lwn.net · 650 points · Discussion

The online publication industry, as a whole, is struggling, with challenges coming from multiple directions. Thanks to the support of all of you, our readers, LWN would appear to be doing better than…
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Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

help.mistral.ai · 325 points · Discussion

All Collections Trust, Security, Compliance Data Governance Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? In certain cases, your input and output data (such as conversations,…
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Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

dfarq.homeip.net · 299 points · Discussion

On September 1, 1982, the Commodore 64 launched. Its name referred to the amount of memory it had on board: 64 kilobytes. And it was the first computer with 64K of memory to sell for under $600. When…
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Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

trellner.com · 252 points · Discussion

We asked two web-grounded models for the best products in 380 software categories and kept every URL they retrieved. Of the 7,534 citations that came back, 59.8% point at domains ranked worse than…
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Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

science.org · 209 points · Discussion

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Muse Spark 1.3

developer.meta.com · 177 points · Discussion

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I Don't Have a Smartphone

ploum.net · 175 points · Discussion

by Ploum on 2026-09-02…or, at least, I wish I didn’t. "I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting that I…
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Exit the Cave

turtlespace.blog · 167 points · Discussion

There’s something romantic about the Cave. About grinding away at something in private. About training with headphones on in our own little world. About stepping away for six months to emerge…
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Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them

studyfinds.com · 158 points · Discussion

(Credit: © Aryazu - stock.adobe.com) In a Nutshell Memory accuracy for pairing faces with objects and scenes dropped sharply after young adulthood, with middle-aged and older adults scoring similarly…
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Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

forums.paint.net · 147 points · Discussion

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Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

nytimes.com · 124 points · Discussion

https://archive.ph/rlAbY https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-defeats-us-b...
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A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards

clui.org · 119 points · Discussion

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Poisson Disk Sampling

stripeacross.com · 103 points · Discussion

In 2024, a team of nine mathematicians released a monstrous, nearly 1,000 page proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture. It is a crowning achievement in pure mathematics, and I have accepted that I…
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SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods

nexusmods.com · 85 points · Discussion

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Wendell Berry has died

nytimes.com · 74 points · Discussion

https://archive.ph/YP8Uz https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/31/kentucky-writer-farme... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wendell-berry-kentucky-...…
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WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine

github.com · 66 points · Discussion

WebLLM High-Performance In-Browser LLM Inference Engine. Documentation | Blogpost | Paper | Examples Overview WebLLM is a high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine that brings language model…
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Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x

frontierharness.org · 59 points · Discussion

Pass rate Median cost per successful task Median cost per task Median cache hit rate per successful task Median time per successful task Beyond the numbers 01 OpenCode: failures excluded. It only…
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I wanna live an NPC life

signalundefied.bearblog.dev · 58 points · Discussion

signalundefied somewords reading 01 Sep, 2026 the general consensus around being an npc is that you’re giving up your autonomy—essentially becoming a side character in someone else's story or watching…
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Introducing Muse Spark 1.3

research.meta.ai · 51 points · Discussion

We’re excited to release Muse Spark 1.3, which delivers improved performance across agentic and coding tasks. Drawing on what we learned from months of broad adoption of Muse Code and…
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Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf]

itp.cdn.icann.org · 44 points · Discussion

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Making the Internet Boring

cemrehancavdar.com · 41 points · Discussion

Everybody asks me why my phone is in grayscale. I tell them the story and show them my setup. At some point I got tired of repeating myself, so I wrote it down. It starts with a failure. Once I…
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Fable 5.1 World Modeling

github.com · 39 points · Discussion

Worlds via code. Explorable, browser-native reconstructions of real places — researched, modelled, and quality-checked end to end by autonomous Claude Fable 5.1 agent swarms, then shipped as plain…
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We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

blog.cloudflare.com · 38 points · Discussion

Memory costs are increasing dramatically. Both RAM and hard disk drive prices have exploded over the past year. At Cloudflare, we run several massively distributed storage products (including our…
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Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS

tweedegolf.nl · 33 points · Discussion

It's time for another technical blog post about async Rust on embedded. This time we're going to pitch Embassy/Rust against FreeRTOS/C on an STM32F446 microcontroller. It's time for another technical…
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Qantas Airbus A380 catastrophic engine failure in 2010 (2023)

admiralcloudberg.medium.com · 30 points · Discussion

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AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens

rosenfeld.page · 22 points · Discussion

September 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM Working with AI agents day to day, I’ve started noticing a trend that worries me. Teams — including experienced engineers who used to know better — have quietly stopped…
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A practical guide to running 8x RTX PRO 6000's

gpupartner.com · 16 points · Discussion

Maximize parallelism across 8x RTX PRO 6000's: high-concurrency inference, model fleets, and 70B fine-tuning. When we got our hands on an 8x NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell system paired with an AMD…
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Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form

nooshu.com · 13 points · Discussion

Build a secure Eleventy (11ty) contact form using Cloudflare Pages Functions, reCAPTCHA v3, Resend, and as an alternative Cloudflare Turnstile to reduce spam. Introduction I recently wrote a blog post…
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Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]

images.gatesnotes.com · 8 points · Discussion

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