Hacker News Daily — September 7, 2026
30 stories · September 7, 2026
In this issue
- 1
Keep Our Servers Running
blog.archive.org · 908 points · Discussion
“Universal access to all human knowledge is within our grasp. Our job is to put the best our world has to offer within the reach of our children.” —Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Digital Librarian…
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bzip3
github.com · 336 points · Discussion
A better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2. Features higher compression ratios and better performance thanks to a order-0 context mixing entropy coder, a fast Burrows-Wheeler transform…
- 3
216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
youtube.com · 298 points · Discussion
https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-au...
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Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
techemails.com · 284 points · Discussion
Welcome to Internal Tech Emails: internal tech industry emails that surface in public records. 🔍 If you haven’t signed up, join 50,000+ others and get the newsletter: From: Bill Gates Sent:…
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Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics
mathathonchallenge.com · 197 points · Discussion
40 hours, $2M+ AI credits, solve an open problem. AI has made groundbreaking progress in pure math in the past few months: May 20, 2026: Erdos's planar unit-distance conjecture was disproved (open 80…
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Live map of public transport in Belgium
openbaarvervoerbelgie.be · 169 points · Discussion
Elke bus, tram, metro en trein van De Lijn, STIB-MIVB, TEC en NMBS op één kaart, met realtime vertragingen, haltes en vertrektijden. Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Antwerpen Oost-Vlaanderen…
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Simple Is Not Small
jyn.dev · 151 points · Discussion
@notjack.space: UIs with too many buttons confuse and alarm me @ sixfold-origami.com: ah, this is the unix thing! @notjack.space: no, because I want cross device sync to actually work Do we need…
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Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)
lax-skyline.parcelscope.net · 104 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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WeatherNext 3
deepmind.google · 104 points · Discussion
Paper [pdf]: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/papers/weather...
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This Month in Ladybird – August 2026
ladybird.org · 85 points · Discussion
Hello friends! In August Ladybird gained video playback on Twitch, more video formats on YouTube, CSS scroll snap, JavaScript debugging in DevTools, downloads you can pause and resume, and session…
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Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode
martypc.blogspot.com · 85 points · Discussion
reenigne's decoding of the 8088 microcode in 2020 opened the doors for extremely accurate emulation of the 8088 CPU.   Although I had added support for the NEC V20 in MartyPC, the V20 core…
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Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds
mceglowski.substack.com · 84 points · Discussion
If you’ve ever spent time with an 11-year-old during their dinosaur phase, you know the feeling of having everything you thought you knew upturned by a pitiless pedant. Science moves on and leaves…
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The Dataflow Model Revisited
vldb.org · 69 points · Discussion
PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p4953-fernandez-moctezuma.p...
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Whistle Synth Mac App
jefftk.com · 49 points · Discussion
My program that uses whistling to control a synthesizer is now available in the Mac App Store: It's free, no ads, and open source. If you have a mac and like to whistle, give it a try? You need an…
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Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution
arxiv.org · 48 points · Discussion
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Ken Thompson's trusting-trust attack, in which a compromised compiler backdoors the programs it builds and reproduces the backdoor in subsequent rebuilds of…
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How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform
werwolv.net · 38 points · Discussion
Introduction Many embedded systems these days run Linux as their operating system. Generally because it’s a great foundation to run anything you like on top of and because many great developers and…
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My practical approach to surfing the web safely
molily.de · 35 points · Discussion
The web is a dangerous place. While modern browser security architecture protects against many threats, security vulnerabilities are found and fixed every day. Through security exploits, malicious…
- 18
Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world
ox.ac.uk · 35 points · Discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfjnTJos_no
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Methods for Random Gradients (2024)
justinjay.wang · 31 points · Discussion
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 Over the years — including during my time at OpenAI — I’ve experimented with different methods for generating random gradient images. These include: Heightmap Layered radial…
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Decapitating a MacBook (2025)
mm-dev.rocks · 28 points · Discussion
Decapitating Macbook: An Odyssey 6 Mar '25 update 28 Aug '25 27 minute read Intro  Part 1 of 11 Accepting that I need a Mac if I want to develop for Apple platforms. Macbook Air M1 Headless I…
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Finding a bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra
kallus.org · 28 points · Discussion
Finding a Bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra During my second week at the Recurse Center, I've been trying to formalize Dummit and Foote's abstract algebra textbook (appropriately titled…
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Academia as a d-index measuring contest
kevinmunger.substack.com · 24 points · Discussion
Social scientists are victims of the quantification trap. We do things, countable things, so those things are counted, and the resulting numbers are taken to mean something; any number beats no…
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Schemy Lisp En DOS
sled.neocities.org · 21 points · Discussion
Schemy LISP en DOS About SLED ( S chemy L isp e n D OS) is a purely symbolic LISP (LISt Processor) with functionality (largely) inspired by Scheme. Originally derived from the fantastic Kilo LISP, but…
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Replaceable but Employed: Automation and the Meaning of Work
nber.org · 21 points · Discussion
Home Research Working Papers Replaceable but Employed: Automation… Working Paper 35559 DOI 10.3386/w35559 Issue Date July 2026 Can automation harm workers without replacing them? We study jobs in…
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Show HN: HomeCat – Design your backyard office
myhomecat.com · 18 points · Discussion
Hey HN! Ilya and Nikita here. We’re building HomeCat, a tool that lets you design a backyard office space - https://myhomecat.com We started out by helping people design sheds, and quickly realized…
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Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd
jeffgeerling.com · 16 points · Discussion
In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time. I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down…
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Show HN: Wg-admin – web UI for an existing WireGuard host
github.com · 15 points · Discussion
Reads /etc/wireguard, lets you add/edit/remove peers, applies with wg syncconf (no interface bounce). Does not install WireGuard or rewrite your PostUp/NAT. That's all
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She Also Found It at the Movies
hedgehogreview.com · 11 points · Discussion
ONE There are some film critics I read to get a sense of whether a movie is worth seeing and, perhaps, to get some idea of how I might approach a particular film. Over the last 25 years or so, the…
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Catching Crumbs from the Table (2000)
nature.com · 8 points · Discussion
https://web.archive.org/web/20150719010624/http://www.nature... https://www.scribd.com/document/893921964/CHIANG-Catching-Cr...
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Macbeth and His Problems
porticoquarterly.com · 6 points · Discussion
Still from "Macbeth," directed by Justin Kurzel. Source: IMDB. If you’ve never seen a bad production of Macbeth, you’ve probably never seen a production of Macbeth. Famously cursed, the play has…