Hacker News Daily — September 4, 2026
28 stories · September 4, 2026
In this issue
- 1
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
collusion.wiki · 1290 points · Discussion
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-...
- 2
Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge
jestoph.com · 354 points · Discussion
Or: Why do I always do things the hard way? Jane Street periodically puts out challenges, and this one thoroughly nerd-sniped me and sent me down a month-long rabbit hole that I’m only now emerging…
- 3
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
anthropic.com · 271 points · Discussion
https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/flt-anthropic-h...
- 4
Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
torrentfreak.com · 224 points · Discussion
For well over a decade, copyright holders have used U.S. federal courts to unmask anonymous BitTorrent users. Adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings has turned this into an industry of its own, filing…
- 5
Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI
nytimes.com · 219 points · Discussion
https://archive.is/kmOqm
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IBM Bob
bob.ibm.com · 187 points · Discussion
Welcome to IBM Bob: Your AI-Powered Development Partner Hi, I'm Bob! I'm here to work right alongside you in your codebase, and help you build quality software faster. What I can build with you…
- 7
Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
opentrailpaper.com · 166 points · Discussion
Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool. Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in…
- 8
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
mullvad.net · 135 points · Discussion
Mullvad has operated public encrypted DNS (DoH) servers since 2022. They are unnecessary when using Mullvad VPN — traffic is already encrypted and Mullvad VPN's internal DNS handles all queries.…
- 9
Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building
starelevator.com · 131 points · Discussion
Elevator World Project of the Year Winner, for elevator modernization! San Francisco in 1907. The City is still shaken from the aftermath of one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. …
- 10
Ok, but does it scale?
spacetimedb.com · 98 points · Discussion
This is probably the question I get asked most about Spacetime. It’s a simple enough question, and it certainly seems like it should have a simple answer. Scaling is a complex topic, and the devil is…
- 11
The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce
muratbuffalo.blogspot.com · 92 points · Discussion
When talking about TLA+, I keep referring to "abstraction" as the most important thing to learn. And it is about the hardest to learn as well. But a contradiction has been bugging me. Aren't CS people…
- 12
deSEC – Free Secure DNS
desec.io · 82 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 13
The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
blog.master.dev · 70 points · Discussion
Following the oxc team’s release of official support for the Rust React Compiler on August 4, 2026, we switched our 1,036-file React Router codebase ( Outlyne, a website builder) over to it and saw a…
- 14
Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
github.com · 64 points · Discussion
I love research and development, you may have heard of me because of PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network). It is a network protocol I started developing in 2010, which was recently implemented in…
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Getting Started with AT Protocol
bnb.im · 64 points · Discussion
Tierney Cyren Bluesky GitHub Instagram Essential Resources for Getting Started with AT Protocol Originally posted on 25 Aug 2026 A number of times now, I've shared links with personal software…
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Resources to Get Good at Soldering?
63 points · Discussion
Hello. I've recently started soldering, specifically wanting to repair the joysticks on several Playstation 4 controllers I have, but I also want to get good at electronic repair in general. Right now…
- 17
Can AI design circuit boards yet?
eebench.org · 47 points · Discussion
We got pretty excited yesterday when OpenAI put a demo of GPT-6 Astra working on a circuit board in KiCad on the front page of its launch post. It is cool to see electronics show up in a major model…
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Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
github.blog · 44 points · Discussion
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research…
- 19
Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
rietta.com · 37 points · Discussion
After hours on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, Rietta executed our emergency hotfix procedure across our entire client base for sites impacted by a severe remote code execution vulnerability in…
- 20
People that worked on the same idea for decades
nityasnotes.com · 34 points · Discussion
I collect examples of people that worked on iterations of the same idea over the course of decades, before landing on their magnum opus 1. BM25 + Stephen Robertson Stephen Robertson is a computer…
- 21
Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express'
millersbookreview.com · 15 points · Discussion
When local police investigate the death of a young couple on Kashii beach, a rocky strip on the eastern side of Hakata Bay on the island of Kyushu in the south of Japan, they assume it’s a lovers’…
- 22
An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy
quad9.net · 13 points · Discussion
An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy Quad9 is a free service that replaces your default ISP or enterprise Domain Name Server (DNS) configuration. When your computer…
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Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4
github.com · 12 points · Discussion
Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4 A complete, machine-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4, built on Mathlib (Lean 4.33.1; Mathlib v4.33.0, pinned by commit in lakefile.lean ). The argument…
- 24
Deadpan Photography: Enjoying the Pretence
photoni.st · 8 points · Discussion
Juliette wrote last week about Deadpan photography. I was intrigued because it’s a term I had seen start appearing all over the place lately and I wasn’t sure what it was. So I did a deep dive to…
- 25
Statichost.eu – 100% European static site hosting
statichost.eu · 7 points · Discussion
Hi, fellow web developer! My name is Eric, and I believe the internet got too complicated. Too many layers, too many vendors, too much trust quietly handed to American companies behind the scenes. And…
- 26
How to Create a Tor Exit Node
madpsy.uk · 6 points · Discussion
This will be a quick tutorial on how to configure an Exit Node for the Tor Network. Doing this comes with some inherent risks for the operator but exit nodes are essential for bridging Tor with the…
- 27
Bin Laden's "Letter to America"
ceu.su · 6 points · Discussion
Bin Laden's "Letter to America" In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, "Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because…
- 28
SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF
ycombinator.com · Discussion
The Open-Core Security Graph Founding Engineer $170K - $230K • 0.50% - 1.00% • San Francisco, CA, US Skills Python, Distributed Systems Connect directly with founders of the best…