Hacker News Daily — September 6, 2026

29 stories · September 6, 2026

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In this issue

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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

cloudinabottle.org · 590 points · Discussion

TLDR: Cloud in a Bottle is your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.…
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The revolt of the reader

bcantrill.dtrace.org · 547 points · Discussion

Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is…
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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

isaraerospace.com · 502 points · Discussion

Andøya, 5 September 2026  – Today, Isar Aerospace became the first commercial space company from Europe to successfully deliver satellites into orbit, on what was only its second flight. Mission…
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A/I shuts down – Stay human

keepitfree.ai · 421 points · Discussion

Sep 6, 2026 The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as…
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Your intellectual fly is open (2025)

bcantrill.dtrace.org · 405 points · Discussion

Note: This was originally published as a LinkedIn post on November 11, 2025. I need to make a painful confession: somehow, LinkedIn has become an important social network to me. This isn’t necessarily…
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Music Theory for Programmers

runjs.app · 330 points · Discussion

I can't play an instrument. I have tried more than once, and each time I got as far as being able to make roughly the right noises without ever understanding why they were the right noises. The…
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Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death

edwest.co.uk · 318 points · Discussion

I’m not the only parent who feels increasingly anxious about their children’s media diet. For teenage boys in particular, entertainment often comes in the form of YouTube, which for any adult briefly…
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Nitter and XCancel restored

github.com · 292 points · Discussion

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://xcancel.com/cdclegal https://nitter.net/ https://xcancel.com/
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An Alien Mind

openai.com · 242 points · Discussion

In mid-2023, within the “RLSlow” research project, we saw the first results that gave us confidence that we will be able to scale the training of reasoning models, unlocking the capability of…
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Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats

phoronix.com · 234 points · Discussion

Asahi Linux developers announced today that they are now officially supporting the Linux distribution on Apple M3 powered Macs. With the exception of the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, other M3 / M3 Pro / M3…
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M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years

en.wikipedia.org · 164 points · Discussion

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia M-DISC Media type Write-once optical disc Encoding Universal Disk Format (UDF) Standard DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray BDXL Developed   by Millenniata, Inc.…
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NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

blog.netbsd.org · 89 points · Discussion

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for netbsd-9 September 06, 2026 posted by Martin Husemann The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.5, the fifth (and final) release from the NetBSD 9 stable…
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Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

openai.com · 77 points · Discussion

For AGI to benefit all of humanity, we believe it must be democratically governed. This can only happen through an informed public debate about the capabilities, risks and safeguards of highly capable…
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IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2

ibm.com · 73 points · Discussion

Key takeaways: IBM Quantum Nighthawk r2 uses independent, high-speed qubit reset to execute 100,000+ circuits per second—up to 25x higher circuit throughput than IBM Quantum Heron. Active qubit reset…
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The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay

a.wholelottanothing.org · 62 points · Discussion

cars · August 20, 2026 · 3 min read Chevrolet Blazer EV A couple years ago, GM made waves by saying that soon, all their new cars would be completely free of Apple's CarPlay and Android Auto support,…
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Research carried out using NetBSD

netbsd.org · 60 points · Discussion

Several groups, organizations, and individuals have conducted research or performed demonstrations utilizing NetBSD as a vehicle. If you have such material that might be appropriate for this section,…
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The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry

economist.com · 54 points · Discussion

Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Is There I/O After Death? What Happens to Io_uring When a Process Dies

blog.ydb.tech · 52 points · Discussion

Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

babylonian-collection.yale.edu · 51 points · Discussion

You are here Watch modern recreations of Babylonian cooking: Try a Babylonian recipe at home:  Babylonian lamb stew with beets Recipes are for 2 full portions or  15 bite-size servings…
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Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations

vidact.dev · 35 points · Discussion

React, compiled to VanillaJS Vidact reads your function components at build time and writes the DOM code for them. The component body runs once, at mount. A setState call after that reaches only the…
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Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure

news.wsu.edu · 28 points · Discussion

PULLMAN, Wash. – An electronic skin with a sensing system that can detect pressure and temperature could someday be used to help amputees gain feeling in their prosthetics. The work led by Washington…
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There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything

out-of-hell.xylon.me.uk · 15 points · Discussion

06th September 2026 The past few months have shown a radical escalation of AI capabilities which forces me to change my expectation for the future. Firstly we have seen unprecedented evidence of AI…
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It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

anubis.techaro.lol · 14 points · Discussion

Loading... You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does…
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Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple

github.com · 9 points · Discussion

mador.js Make DOM Reactive. Nothing more. Mador: is a very small reactive DOM runtime. is for people who don't need or want a framework. It gives you reactive state and a way to bind that state to…
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GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

grapheneos.social · 9 points · Discussion

Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Black Hole of Los Alamos Seller of surplus nuclear research materials

atlasobscura.com · 7 points · Discussion

Black Hole of Los Alamos is permanently closed. This entry remains in the Atlas as a record of its history, but it is no longer accessible to visitors. Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.…
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Show HN: VODForge – a free local desktop UI for YouTube video/playlist downloads

getvodforge.com · 6 points · Discussion

I built VODForge because I work with a CTV company that needed to pull YouTube videos from our channel partners into our media workflow. Converter sites are always an option but the bitrate wasn't…
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Show HN: Agentic OS: one Rust Linux binary, one SQLite and sandbox per entity

github.com · 4 points · Discussion

Where agents build agents. An agentic build system for agentic systems. Ontology-grounded, auditable, one Rust binary. Start an assistant · Docs · Templates · Examples · Roadmap meclaw is three…
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Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM

ycombinator.com · Discussion

Helping Healthcare Providers Speak Any Language Founding GTM $70K - $200K • 0.10% - 0.30% • San Mateo, CA, US Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. Apply to role › About…