Hacker News Daily — September 11, 2026

30 stories · September 11, 2026

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In this issue

1

So you want to use OpenRouter?

mmoustafa.com · 642 points · Discussion

Might seem simple on the face of it, but unfortunately it's pain all the way down. I run Olly, an AI assistant that lives in iMessage, on open source models through OpenRouter. To date Olly's…
2

Claude is only available to people over 18 years

support.claude.com · 501 points · Discussion

All Collections Safeguards Age assurance on Claude Claude, our consumer product, is only available to people over 18 years. You’ll need to confirm you’re 18 or over while setting up an account. When…
3

A misalignment of AI in mathematics

mathandai.org · 306 points · Discussion

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a-severe-misalignm... https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/11/..., https://unwall.app/www.economist.com/science-and-technology/...
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HuggingFace: Security.txt

huggingface.co · 216 points · Discussion

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Measuring the sloppiness of code

earendil.com · 207 points · Discussion

LLMs have become almost perfect at generating code, but that isn’t the end of the story. Just because the code is formally correct doesn’t mean that it is not introducing unnecessary abstractions,…
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The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

capitalbnews.org · 204 points · Discussion

Americans don’t agree on much, but that’s not the case when it comes to data centers. Seven in 10 Americans oppose building data centers for artificial intelligence in or near their communities.…
7

Logo Programming Language

el.media.mit.edu · 182 points · Discussion

The Logo Programming Language, a dialect of Lisp, was designed as a tool for learning. Its features - interactivity, modularity, extensibility, flexibility of data types - follow from this goal.…
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Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

hcker.news · 144 points · Discussion

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I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years

tinybird.co · 139 points · Discussion

Pricing Docs Data Platform Managed ClickHouse ® Production-ready with Tinybird's DX Ingest Plug in your data, ship in minutes Query Sub-second SQL APIs for your data platform Kafka Connector Real-time…
10

Global Glacier Extinction Explorer

glacierextinction.com · 134 points · Discussion

Glacier changes are traditionally quantified in terms of total (regional) mass and area loss, but such metrics do not fully capture the disappearance of individual glaciers. Yet every glacier, no…
11

RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree

quesma.com · 130 points · Discussion

RTK (Rust Token Killer) filters and compresses terminal output before the AI agent reads it. With over 79k GitHub stars today, RTK is one of the most popular tools to make AI coding cheaper. One X…
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Show HN: Bodily Oddities

vester.si · 125 points · Discussion

When I was about 11 years old, my best friend and I were playing during recess at school, and I was carrying him around on my back, presumably pretending to be a multipart attack robot. All of a…
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Room 641A

en.wikipedia.org · 110 points · Discussion

37°47′07″N 122°23′48″W / 37.78528°N 122.39667°W [[Geographic coordinate system|Coordinates]]: {{#parsoid\u0000fragment:3}}…
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GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released

github.com · 89 points · Discussion

Notable changes in version 13: Version 13 replaces the legacy interface with Jetpack Compose and Material 3. It rebuilds every screen, adds new conversation controls and large-screen support, and…
15

Rune is now open source

rune.build · 88 points · Discussion

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Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead

gist.github.com · 83 points · Discussion

/ swap.md Last active September 11, 2026 20:35 Star ( 16 ) You must be signed in to star a gist Fork ( 2 ) You must be signed in to fork a gist Clone this repository at <script…
17

How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread

edconway.substack.com · 76 points · Discussion

My new book, Trade World, is out NOW. In an effort to try to nudge you into buying a copy, here is a little essay featuring one of the most fascinating, obscure stories from the Trade World. And, as…
18

Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study

snap.berkeley.edu · 72 points · Discussion

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118M Queries per Second on Neki

planetscale.com · 72 points · Discussion

We released Neki in platform preview yesterday. To celebrate the release, we wanted to test out running 1 million queries per second on Neki. We hit this goal pretty quickly on 5 shards and decided to…
20

Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)

github.com · 67 points · Discussion

I wanted to share my side-project: gPTY. Started off as an idea to combine Godot and Rust in a project (two stacks I wanted to use more to learn more). The base inspiration was tmux - simply allow…
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Copying login keychains between Macs fails on Secure Enclave Macs with Tahoe

derflounder.wordpress.com · 62 points · Discussion

I recently encountered an issue with the login keychain on macOS. For those not familiar with the login keychain, it’s a keychain that macOS automatically creates for each user account on a Mac. The…
22

Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat

github.com · 53 points · Discussion

litellm's routing + translation in ~2,900 lines and 2 dependencies ( openai, httpx ). litellm routes LLM calls across providers and translates between message formats. That core is buried under 100k+…
23

CIA Releases President's Daily Briefs in Commemoration of 9/11

cia.gov · 47 points · Discussion

https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/cia-releases-presidents-da...
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Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization

science.org · 43 points · Discussion

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Copper lined vest to help penguins with recovery

apnews.com · 40 points · Discussion

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I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots

dayzlegame.com · 31 points · Discussion

I run a small puzzle app called Dayzle. I’m a numbers guy, so a marketing optimization problem is right up my alley. Two weeks ago I turned on a Google Ads campaign for Android at CA$40 a day, with…
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AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants

spectrum.ieee.org · 31 points · Discussion

DNA is often explained as a codebook or set of instructions for producing proteins, and ultimately, life. Some stretches of DNA, called genes, code for proteins, but the vast majority of DNA is…
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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

cel.cs.brown.edu · 8 points · Discussion

Many programming languages now provide the async / await keywords for expressing concurrency. The design rationale is pretty consistent: to make concurrent programs look more like straight-line code…
29

ElevenLabs Music v2.5

elevenmusic.io · 5 points · Discussion

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Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

getzep.com · Discussion

We're hiring! Come build with us → Careers Working at Zep Join a high-agency team building the Context Lake for AI agents. Memory across every user, every domain, every agent. Agents are limited by…