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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-04

  1. .name Termination neil.fraser.name - 454 comments 1855 points
  2. GPT-6 Astra openai.com - 1634 comments 1844 points
  3. Audacity 4.0 github.com - 251 comments 1105 points
  4. Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived anyhumanever.com - 281 comments 596 points
  5. Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s inference-docs.cerebras.ai - 188 comments 573 points
  6. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? news.ycombinator.com - 535 comments 373 points
  7. ChatGPT outage – Resolved chatgpt.com - 318 comments 361 points
  8. Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended twitter.com - 211 comments 317 points
  9. Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face www.cnbc.com - 99 comments 313 points
  10. K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models ifm.ai - 101 comments 303 points
  11. Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly babyloniantwins.com - 97 comments 301 points
  12. OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra www.cnbc.com - 246 comments 267 points
  13. Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% www.discoverwildlife.com - 83 comments 262 points
  14. Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond reason.com - 264 comments 260 points
  15. New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal newsguild.org - 203 comments 256 points
  16. Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out armature.tech - 106 comments 228 points
  17. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 arcprize.org - 126 comments 212 points
  18. Claude outage – Resolved status.claude.com - 151 comments 205 points
  19. VC isn’t VC anymore www.anildash.com - 2 comments 181 points
  20. Sony makes bold claim about game ownership aginggamer.net - 252 comments 174 points
  21. Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year www.techdirt.com - 52 comments 171 points
  22. The asteroid currently hitting front end web development nolanlawson.com - 184 comments 162 points
  23. Grok outage status.x.ai - 154 comments 158 points
  24. Gloria Steinem has died www.theguardian.com - 59 comments 148 points
  25. 120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom tuta.com - 45 comments 141 points
  26. How concerned should we be about Astra’s recurrent architecture? www.lesswrong.com - 93 comments 131 points
  27. GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB gizmodo.com - 57 comments 114 points
  28. Codex outage github.com - 1 comments 102 points
  29. ChatGPT and Codex Is Down chatgpt.com - 1 comments 96 points
  30. Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn’s Atmosphere www.sciencealert.com - 36 comments 95 points