Hacker News Daily — September 12, 2026

27 stories · September 12, 2026

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google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

autom.dev · 601 points · Discussion

What's happening Google Search is rewriting organic result links to google.com/goto?url=... instead of exposing the destination URL directly in the HTML. When you click a result, Google redirects you…
2

IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

youtube.com · 503 points · Discussion

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We must pace the frontier

darioamodei.com · 402 points · Discussion

September 2026 I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I’ve written often about these incredible benefits: I believe that…
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LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'

tomshardware.com · 288 points · Discussion

https://www.lg.com/global/newsroom/news/statements/statement...
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Navier-Stokes Announcement

claymath.org · 288 points · Discussion

23 July 2026 2026 Fields Medals The Clay Mathematics Institute extends its heartfelt congratulations to former Clay Research Fellow John Pardon (2015-2020), to 2026 Clay Research Awardees Yu…
6

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

economist.com · 270 points · Discussion

https://archive.ph/kt50V
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Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

eiln.github.io · 201 points · Discussion

I stopped working on the reverse-engineered Apple Neural Engine (ANE) driver three years ago, upon a sad mini realization that the ANE block is just not that useful, and I could be doing more useful…
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Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

high5apps.github.io · 171 points · Discussion

Intro This quick tutorial will help you make a meaningful contribution to OpenStreetMap (OSM) in less than 15 minutes. By the end, you will have added an official website tag to a nearby shop or…
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Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown

supuk.ch · 151 points · Discussion

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/another-way-to-leak-traffic-on-a...
10

The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle

tedium.co · 94 points · Discussion

It started with a fact check. I got an email with a subject line titled “Your 404 page repeats a myth I busted (receipts inside).” The message essentially was a takedown of the poem I have on my 404…
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LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest

github.com · 84 points · Discussion

I replayed 68,266 requests from 393 real Claude Code sessions and 23,608 Mooncake requests through a prefix-cache simulator, tried to beat the production baseline three different ways, and failed. The…
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I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold

wired.com · 74 points · Discussion

https://web.archive.org/web/20260911105205/https://www.wired... https://archive.ph/1xTJ3
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Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026

00f.net · 70 points · Discussion

I wanted to know if WebAssembly runtimes are getting faster. This is a follow-up to the earlier libsodium WebAssembly benchmarks from 2019, 2021 and 2023. Not “does the newest version beat native code…
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Stabilizing Rust's Never Type

lwn.net · 67 points · Discussion

Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free…
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A few good ideas in programming languages

prydt.xyz · 66 points · Discussion

A Few Good Ideas in Programming Languages Posted: 2026-05-10 Author: Pranoy Dutta Here are just a few programming language features I love: 1. Flow Typing A great idea that I first encountered in…
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A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)

transformer-circuits.pub · 66 points · Discussion

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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

righto.com · 62 points · Discussion

In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating-point systems were designed around hardware simplicity…
18

Will There Be a 7G?

arxiv.org · 60 points · Discussion

View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: The transition from 5G to 6G is becoming concrete: the ITU-R IMT-2030 framework has established the high-level vision and capability set for 6G, while 3GPP…
19

Eating Fruit Skins

pgadey.ca · 50 points · Discussion

Menu This summer, I learned that one can eat a whole apple. Every part of the apple is edible 1. Before learning this, I would just eat the flesh and throw away the core. The core seemed hard and…
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I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times

lalitm.com · 50 points · Discussion

I built buildprof ( Github ), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep:…
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Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard

hachyderm.io · 30 points · Discussion

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How we manage and engage with our horses shapes their personality

utu.fi · 29 points · Discussion

Horse personality has long been known to influence welfare, training outcomes, and the quality of human–horse interactions. While genetic and biological factors clearly play a role, far less has been…
23

How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats

blog.trailofbits.com · 27 points · Discussion

Every Signal chat starts the same way: the client asks the Signal server for the public key associated with your contact’s phone number. But how do you know the server gave you the right key? A…
24

Reconstructing Concurrency Invariants Through Medieval East Asian Logic

oborona.zip · 16 points · Discussion

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LG Says We're Fake News [video]

youtube.com · 11 points · Discussion

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Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work

modelrift.com · 8 points · Discussion

ModelRift generates OpenSCAD for every model on the platform. That choice is worth re-testing occasionally, so we ran a controlled comparison against the most credible alternative for code-first CAD:…
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The Magic Behind Cubacadabra

andrewarrow.dev · 4 points · Discussion

01 / Make some code disappear Before abracadabra was something you said over a top hat, it was something you wore around your neck. In the ancient Roman Liber Medicinalis, attributed to Quintus…