Hacker News Daily — September 5, 2026

23 stories · September 5, 2026

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In this issue

1

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

nvd.nist.gov · 720 points · Discussion

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2

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

codeberg.org · 568 points · Discussion

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3

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

sylvainkalache.com · 343 points · Discussion

When I was an SRE at LinkedIn, back in 2012, I designed a system that could heal itself and learn from previous incidents. AI capabilities were nowhere near what we have today, and that remained a…
4

Git hosting that never leaves Europe

pushin.eu · 287 points · Discussion

Pushin.eu Explore Sign up Login European Git hosting Public and private Git repos, hosted 100% in the EU, on a platform built for humans, not AI. We block slop, never use your code to train models,…
5

The Real Luxuries In Life

feld.com · 250 points · Discussion

I love Labor Day weekend. It’s the “back to school” moment of the year for me. When I was a kid growing up in Dallas, we didn’t go back to school until after Labor Day, so that was the weekend that…
6

Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA

wikiworkersunited.org · 216 points · Discussion

San Francisco, Calif. – U.S.-based workers at Wikimedia Foundation—the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and sister projects—have won their union election, voting overwhelmingly to join…
7

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

devquasar.com · 215 points · Discussion

Ok it’s not exactly $60 but you can get the board itself for that amount of money on eBay if you’re lucky, but on average the price is around $70-$100 (as of November 2025) which is still very cheap…
8

.gitignore Everything by Default

packagemain.tech · 115 points · Discussion

I think we’ve all been there. You’re working on a project, making commits, and then suddenly realize you’ve been committing.DS_Store files, node_modules, IDE configuration files, or other junk…
9

Learn Programming with OCaml

usr.lmf.cnrs.fr · 101 points · Discussion

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10

Terpstra Keyboard

terpstrakeyboard.com · 100 points · Discussion

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11

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

sofiabelen.github.io · 82 points · Discussion

I’m venturing into Rust and it’s both satisfying and mind-boggling at the same time. So far I’ve been learning from the book and Mara Bos’ book, but I got the itch to do some dissecting myself. My…
12

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

space.com · 69 points · Discussion

Isar Aerospace's second Spectrum rocket launches from Andoya Space Center in Norway on Sept. 5, 2026. (Image credit: Isar Aerospace/NASASpaceflight) No rocket had ever reached orbit from European soil…
13

A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads

buttondown.com · 60 points · Discussion

TPUG Magazine Nov 84 via The Wayback Machine “Sir, we don’t have a prototype or a price for the Spartan ad.” “But we do have a mime.” Mimic Systems Inc. wouldn’t ship its first product until nearly…
14

A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found

nationalgeographic.com · 57 points · Discussion

By Ed Yong Photographs by Ákos Stiller Last updated August 21, 2026 Most birds of prey   are loners. They might form huge flocks during migration, but for the rest of the year, they stick to…
15

Steffen's Polyhedron

gregegan.net · 37 points · Discussion

by Greg Egan Symmetries and the 24-cell | Average Shadows | Ball Bearings in a Hypersphere | Black Hole Passing | Borehole Oscillators | Born Rigid Motion | Catacaustics | Resonant Modes of a Conical…
16

Singapore subway (mrt) information display types

sgtrains.com · 34 points · Discussion

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17

Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video]

youtube.com · 30 points · Discussion

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18

Stopping the Unstoppable: When an unstoppable force meets a dashpot snubber

practical.engineering · 30 points · Discussion

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On the morning of September 29, 2016, a New Jersey Transit commuter train rolled into Hoboken Terminal during rush hour with about…
19

Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation

terrytao.wordpress.com · 25 points · Discussion

I’ve just uploaded to the arXiv the paper “ Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation “, submitted to J. Amer. Math. Soc.. The main purpose of this paper is to…
20

Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor

github.com · 25 points · Discussion

balrogg losslessly recompresses Ogg Vorbis and Opus files. Archives are typically 8-12% smaller than.ogg files and 3-8% smaller than.opus files. Releases are not backwards or forwards compatible until…
21

Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war: report

defensenews.com · 22 points · Discussion

The United States does not have enough engineers, technicians and assemblers to rebuild military space assets destroyed in a war with China or Russia, according to a RAND report published Aug. 31. The…
22

Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan

lttlabs.com · 20 points · Discussion

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23

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

arxiv.org · 8 points · Discussion

View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their…