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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-07

  1. QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes beige.party - 277 comments 1278 points
  2. Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice github.com - 338 comments 767 points
  3. Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post - 2025 bcantrill.dtrace.org - 409 comments 660 points
  4. A/I shuts down keepitfree.ai - 485 comments 587 points
  5. Keep Our Servers Running blog.archive.org - 122 comments 558 points
  6. Asahi Linux on M3 asahilinux.org - 305 comments 499 points
  7. An Alien Mind openai.com - 381 comments 421 points
  8. Doomscrolling ourselves to death www.edwest.co.uk - 294 comments 396 points
  9. GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard grapheneos.social - 216 comments 309 points
  10. It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis anubis.techaro.lol - 138 comments 285 points
  11. LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices www.notebookcheck.net - 157 comments 269 points
  12. Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue github.com - 1 comments 266 points
  13. Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes austinhenley.com - 86 comments 246 points
  14. Switzerland’s Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers itsfoss.com - 155 comments 197 points
  15. Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI openai.com - 133 comments 184 points
  16. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? news.ycombinator.com - 136 comments 162 points
  17. How I feel about AI beza1e1.tuxen.de - 253 comments 158 points
  18. NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9 blog.netbsd.org - 13 comments 136 points
  19. Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC - ~$320M from the Liquid Federation wallet twitter.com - 78 comments 115 points
  20. Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one kepter.app - 170 comments 110 points
  21. 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem - video www.youtube.com - 42 comments 109 points
  22. The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay a.wholelottanothing.org - 120 comments 107 points
  23. TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings cordcuttersnews.com - 53 comments 101 points
  24. ‘Old Person Smell’ www.theguardian.com - 52 comments 97 points
  25. Research carried out using NetBSD www.netbsd.org - 25 comments 95 points
  26. 2026 Hugo Awards www.thehugoawards.org - 48 comments 93 points
  27. Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple github.com - 31 comments 92 points
  28. Programming is Art orchidfiles.com - 94 comments 89 points
  29. Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system www.piie.com - 44 comments 89 points
  30. I refused to train the AI that could replace me restofworld.org - 97 comments 86 points