Hacker News Daily — September 8, 2026

30 stories · September 8, 2026

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In this issue

1

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

openai.com · 852 points · Discussion

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Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

cims.nyu.edu · 799 points · Discussion

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There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis

weirdgloop.org · 500 points · Discussion

Big week! We just finished moving the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off of Fandom. It’s still my favorite thing in the world to help wiki editors grab control of their projects and make them awesome…
4

Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas

blog.google · 404 points · Discussion

The human genome is made of about 3 billion base pairs of DNA — but much of it remains a mystery. Scientists understand the 2% of the human genome that codes for proteins relatively well, but have…
5

DaVinci Resolve 21.1

blackmagicdesign.com · 309 points · Discussion

All items on this website are copyright Blackmagic Design Pty. Ltd. 2026, all rights reserved. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. MSRP includes duties, but excludes sales tax and…
6

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

github.com · 223 points · Discussion

ADHD-friendly outputs. No ADHD diagnosis needed! 🇬🇧 · 🇨🇳 · 🇧🇷 · 🇯🇵 · 🇻🇳 · 🇰🇷 · 🇹🇭 Install Copy/paste into your CLI prompt: Install the i-have-adhd skill/plugin from…
7

ChatGPT Images 2.5

openai.com · 219 points · Discussion

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Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software

copperhead.sh · 181 points · Discussion

Proven on real copper. Open Telegraph: pocket-size ESP32-S3 Morse key, built end to end with this workflow. Every decision, every check, every file is public. Read the build story Browse the repo…
9

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

quesma.com · 176 points · Discussion

How much GPU RAM do you actually need to run Qwen3.8 27B without sacrificing quality? The full BF16 model weighs 55 GB, putting it beyond most consumer hardware. Yet the 17 GB Q4_K_M matches the full…
10

The two Christian saints who are the Buddha

signoregalilei.com · 173 points · Discussion

Let me tell you the story of saints Barlaam and Josaphat of India. A king named Abenner, who persecutes Christians, hears from his court astrologers that his son will attain great power and rule over…
11

Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities

ai.meta.com · 151 points · Discussion

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The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades

hackaday.com · 123 points · Discussion

Skip to content Sometimes you find gold in unexpected places. In this case, it’s from a video about the CH-53 helicopter. The CH-53 Sea Stallion first entered service in 1966. It’s a huge helicopter,…
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Flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue

bbc.com · 107 points · Discussion

Live Reporting Watch & listen 1 Summary There are warnings of further disruption after an issue with air traffic control cancelled and delayed hundreds of flights across the UK on Tuesday Nats - the…
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FreeBSD 14.5-Release

freebsd.org · 91 points · Discussion

FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE Announcement FreeBSD 14.5: announcement signed checksum files installation instructions hardware information release notes errata readme schedule Date: September 8, 2026 The…
15

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice

nytimes.com · 90 points · Discussion

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Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization

ishamf.dev · 83 points · Discussion

One interesting thing about transformer-based large language models are that, during the generation phase, it is able to draw information from any of its previous tokens. But it needs to be selective;…
17

ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound

bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com · 78 points · Discussion

As part of the ZX Spectrum tour, I implemented some routines that would let you play simple tones out of the 1-bit beeper. These were in large part inspired by earlier work I did on the Apple II. We…
18

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem

techcrunch.com · 74 points · Discussion

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in…
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AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome

deepmind.google · 69 points · Discussion

September 8, 2026 Science How predicting the molecular impact of every possible single-letter DNA variant in the human genome will help accelerate our understanding of biology. Today, we are…
20

Y Combinator Early Access Network

events.ycombinator.com · 63 points · Discussion

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Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs

github.com · 62 points · Discussion

A fork of gavamedia/deltafin (MIT) running Kimi K3 from SSDs on Apple Silicon, with the ARGODRIVE storage work. The benchmark package, placement manifests and results are in k3-public-bench/; the…
22

Connecting the Machines

herdr.dev · 61 points · Discussion

The next step for Herdr is connecting the machines. Herdr already has more than 700,000 downloads and close to 1,000 plugins. There is a big community behind it, with people using it to manage their…
23

C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C

arxiv.org · 57 points · Discussion

Authors: Yiyuan Cao, Jiayi Zhuang, Houjin Chen, Jinkai Fan, Wenbo Xu, Zhiyi Wang, Di Wang, Qinxiang Cao, Yingfei Xiong, Haiyan Zhao, Zhenjiang Hu View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Ensuring the…
24

Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster

pointersgonewild.com · 47 points · Discussion

This blog post is the sixth in a series about my work building and optimizing the Plush language interpreter and virtual machine. The previous one was Speeding Up the Plush Garbage Collector. In the…
25

Mercury 2.5

inceptionlabs.ai · 31 points · Discussion

Today, we’re releasing Mercury 2.5, our most capable production model yet. It is a significant step up in quality over Mercury 2, with the same low-latency, low-cost serving profile. Since Mercury 2’s…
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Implementation of GCC's Nested Functions (vs. C++ Lambdas)

uecker.codeberg.page · 31 points · Discussion

Implementation of GCC's Nested Functions (vs. C++ Lambdas) Martin Uecker, 2026-09-05 Introduction Here, I want to explain how GCC's nested function are implemented. I am not going to discuss taking…
27

Tyranny of Optionality

hvpandya.com · 22 points · Discussion

A few weeks back, I came across a Harvard study from 2010 on X that made me stop scrolling. Researchers pinged thousands of people randomly throughout their days, asking: “How are you feeling right…
28

Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors

jerf.org · 20 points · Discussion

In several debates online about function colors over the years, people have argued the apparently reasonable position that function arguments can constitute colors as well. For instance, in Go, there…
29

Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture

glocq.com · 11 points · Discussion

August 27, 2026 So you just downloaded an animated 3D character.glb file on a free assets website. You have a basic Bevy application running. Now you want to spawn your character in your Bevy app.…
30

Tracing np.add, all the way down

blog.veitheller.de · 7 points · Discussion

The notes for this blog post have been sitting in my drafts folder for half a year now. I’ve done a little work on NumPy itself in the past year. Nothing notable, but enough to have to find my way…