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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-03

  1. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber blog.google - 578 comments 1037 points
  2. A note on subscription prices from LWN lwn.net - 144 comments 706 points
  3. Muse Spark 1.3 developer.meta.com - 390 comments 592 points
  4. Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? help.mistral.ai - 205 comments 448 points
  5. Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them trellner.com - 208 comments 431 points
  6. Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business www.nytimes.com - 282 comments 396 points
  7. Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle www.science.org - 105 comments 304 points
  8. Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them studyfinds.com - 119 comments 289 points
  9. Exit the Cave turtlespace.blog - 94 comments 269 points
  10. Fable 5.1 World Modeling github.com - 74 comments 260 points
  11. I wanna live an NPC life signalundefied.bearblog.dev - 223 comments 259 points
  12. Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London nltimes.nl - 233 comments 232 points
  13. I Don’t Have a Smartphone ploum.net - 218 comments 228 points
  14. Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux forums.paint.net - 158 comments 194 points
  15. GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all grapheneos.social - 153 comments 187 points
  16. Quasar 438B: Europe’s Leading AI Model multiversecomputing.com - 113 comments 181 points
  17. Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools www.nytimes.com - 139 comments 177 points
  18. Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 pola.rs - 32 comments 173 points
  19. Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero aisle.com - 56 comments 169 points
  20. Poisson Disk Sampling stripeacross.com - 21 comments 169 points
  21. Check if a file was made with Claude claude.com - 126 comments 168 points
  22. Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 - 2023 admiralcloudberg.medium.com - 88 comments 144 points
  23. Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect www.bbc.com - 104 comments 127 points
  24. A third of Perplexity’s citations don’t contain the number they’re cited for hausresearch.com - 47 comments 124 points
  25. WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine github.com - 20 comments 123 points
  26. Uber is laying off 10% of staff www.uber.com - 61 comments 118 points
  27. SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods www.nexusmods.com - 83 comments 117 points
  28. METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident metr.org - 91 comments 110 points
  29. Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage www.markpitblado.me - 127 comments 107 points
  30. Reasons robotics is hard secondthoughts.ai - 55 comments 101 points