Hacker News Daily — September 26, 2026
28 stories · September 26, 2026
In this issue
- 1
Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
swarmtraces.org · 679 points · Discussion
Swarm traces, Mishka Kharlov Parse, Will Tom Parse, Jeffrey Ladish Palisade Research, Spencer Kitts Work done contracting for Nightingale, Cormac Slade Byrd Trajectory Institute, Colleen McKenzie…
- 2
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
gultsch.de · 593 points · Discussion
Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in…
- 3
Plan mode is dead
aymannadeem.com · 526 points · Discussion
Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI. My belief in this idea was so strong that I built and launched an entire desktop coding…
- 4
We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
terrytao.wordpress.com · 330 points · Discussion
[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with several…
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Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
lexontech.org · 303 points · Discussion
In 2011, Apple released the Cards app. The app — which required iOS 5 — let you design custom letterpress cards, with your messages and photos printed upon them — which Apple would ship to your…
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What even is an OS now?
sockpuppet.org · 282 points · Discussion
Crazy as it sounds to say this, since it’s all anybody’s been able to talk about for over a year, but the impact of AI on computing hasn’t yet sunk in. Today I’m parting company with Fly.io to work…
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PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
github.com · 238 points · Discussion
NewPipe, reimagined: faster, more stable, and packed with more features. Beyond NewPipe YouTube Enhancements Integrate SponsorBlock for skipping sponsored segments (YouTube & BiliBili) Restore YouTube…
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Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service
floci.io · 140 points · Discussion
Skip to main content Any cloud. Locally. Run AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in milliseconds: the fast, credential-free loop your team and its AI agents need to ship faster. Cloud Emulators Pick your…
- 9
Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
economist.com · 135 points · Discussion
https://archive.ph/n8Akh
- 10
16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade
tuckerosman.com · 132 points · Discussion
Watch the first video I first had this project idea in April of 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. I didn't really know how long it would be (the project or the pandemic) and I was curious why…
- 11
Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?
safenotsafe.dev · 116 points · Discussion
◆ migration.sql CHECKING ⌥⇧F ⋯ session › migration.sql › 0 statement s CHECKING Loading PostgreSQL parser. Downloading and compiling libpg_query WASM in a browser worker. 0 flagged of 0 bash + ⌃` $…
- 12
Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
castle-engine.io · 114 points · Discussion
Table of Contents 1. Why this book 2. Basics 2.1. "Hello world" program 2.2. Compilers and FPC "syntax modes" 2.3. Functions, procedures, primitive types 2.4. Testing (if) 2.5. Logical, relational and…
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How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
discourse.haskell.org · 108 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 14
The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu · 96 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
techcrunch.com · 94 points · Discussion
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has rebuilt the company’s board just weeks after its previous directors tried, and failed, to oust him. The board, which was announced to staff Friday, is an eclectic…
- 16
Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees
macrumors.com · 92 points · Discussion
An antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of blocking tap-to-pay competition is moving forward and will see banks and credit unions able to band together to sue Apple. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White this…
- 17
The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU
jia.je · 81 points · Discussion
cpu erratum loongarch loongson 中文版本 TL;DR ¶ In February 2026, Wang Miao ran into something strange while packaging normaliz for Debian on a LoongArch server: the math software's built-in test kept…
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OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
bbc.com · 76 points · Discussion
OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites Kali Hays, Technology reporter and Lily Jamali, North America Technology correspondent, San Francisco Reuters OpenAI has been at the centre…
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Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
github.com · 73 points · Discussion
I love making diagrams to help understand, plan, etc. However, the options are (A) auto-placement languages like Mermaid or Graphviz (which don't let me decide how the diagram looks), or (B) software…
- 20
Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
tangled.org · 72 points · Discussion
6 Configure Feed Issues Pull Requests Commits Tags Select the types of activity you want to include in your feed. This repository has no description 6 Configure Feed Issues Pull Requests Commits Tags…
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Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math
gmays.com · 70 points · Discussion
I finally hit 1,000 days of doing math daily! 1,000 day milestone from Main Character, the habit tracker I made. Early on in my journey I was a lot more aggressive with my XP targets, but settled into…
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A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward
movingimagearchive.com · 57 points · Discussion
2007 · 5 seconds 26 seconds 1981 · 21 seconds 2007 · 4 seconds 1933 · 9 seconds 1940 · 25 seconds 1938 · 7 seconds 1923 · 8 seconds 29 seconds 1975 · 5 seconds 2008 · 13 seconds 1971 · 2 seconds 1946…
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Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia
blog.priyan.in · 44 points · Discussion
"HTML view" (the icon), not "Compose view". Post title (put this in Blogger's Title box): Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia (Apple II, 1989) by Jordan Mechner…
- 24
DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
arxiv.org · 36 points · Discussion
Authors: Jialiang Huang, Hongxuan Tang, Jingchang Chen, Yuxuan Liu, Yixiao Chen, Yuan Cheng, Yi Tao, Jingli Zhou, Yupeng Chen, Haoyu Chen, Jiarui Wang, Shengkai Lin, Chuqi Zhang, Bryan Lee Teng, Lian…
- 25
Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop
viewsproject.wordpress.com · 27 points · Discussion
Our summer Visiting Fellow Roland Buckingham Hsiao very kindly led a workshop on Chinese calligraphy a few weeks ago, which we greatly enjoyed. It was not only an opportunity to learn but to…
- 26
The Rise of Audio AR
dbreunig.com · 17 points · Discussion
The Right Information, At The Right Time, Without Looking Photo by Justin Lynham For a bit there, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) were being heralded as the next big thing. Meta went…
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LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on Earth
basin.la · 8 points · Discussion
If you’ve ridden an escalator in Hong Kong or Singapore, the climb out of an LA Metro station can feel painfully slow. It’s really not just Metro though, American transit escalators generally operate…
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Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station
lightspeedmagazine.com · 3 points · Discussion
Published in Mar. 2016 (Issue 70) | 2100 words © 2016 by Caroline M. Yoachim. Art Copyright 2016 by Reiko Murakami. A. You take a shortcut through the hydroponics bay on your way to work, and notice…