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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-14

  1. Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher www.vals.ai - 444 comments 1016 points
  2. Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? www.atomic14.com - 376 comments 851 points
  3. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 www.lesswrong.com - 206 comments 444 points
  4. I’m being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc dreamstation.systems - 118 comments 436 points
  5. Data collected by cars and sold to third parties www.theverge.com - 222 comments 435 points
  6. Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too techcrunch.com - 216 comments 390 points
  7. Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation www.investigatetv.com - 255 comments 348 points
  8. David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don’t Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models twitter.com - 228 comments 307 points
  9. Mark Zuckerberg: “Cambridge Analytica” - 2017 twitter.com - 133 comments 299 points
  10. Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs community.signalusers.org - 152 comments 297 points
  11. Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? devblogs.microsoft.com - 58 comments 254 points
  12. Apple’s Dimensional Drawings developer.apple.com - 87 comments 238 points
  13. The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org - 155 comments 229 points
  14. Making Startups Powerful paulgraham.com - 109 comments 210 points
  15. Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco guessingheadlights.com - 191 comments 208 points
  16. Ask HN: What are you working on? - September 2026 news.ycombinator.com - 591 comments 199 points
  17. Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster techcrunch.com - 256 comments 191 points
  18. The case against JPEG XL giannirosato.com - 246 comments 188 points
  19. Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout fortune.com - 240 comments 180 points
  20. CUDA for AMD on Windows github.com - 92 comments 172 points
  21. US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs www.tomshardware.com - 108 comments 130 points
  22. Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing? www.youtube.com - 83 comments 125 points
  23. ‘Fingerprints’ inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet ras.ac.uk - 42 comments 125 points
  24. Open-source AI and open models reading list www.interconnects.ai - 24 comments 120 points
  25. Romania soccer introduces black card to ‘combat abusive behaviour’ from parents www.nytimes.com - 71 comments 118 points
  26. Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side unsung.aresluna.org - 31 comments 107 points
  27. The Coming War on General Computation - 2011 en.wikisource.org - 35 comments 101 points
  28. Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic clashreport.com - 88 comments 100 points
  29. EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe www.eurobirdportal.org - 32 comments 92 points
  30. Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server - 2003 pages.cs.wisc.edu - 11 comments 91 points