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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-16

  1. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations github.com - 209 comments 1683 points
  2. Introducing System One Models and Jev typesafe.ai - 410 comments 1448 points
  3. 25 years of mass surveillance is enough www.schneier.com - 317 comments 860 points
  4. An update on Wayback Machine access blog.archive.org - 274 comments 548 points
  5. Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption www.bbc.com - 440 comments 497 points
  6. Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking blog.google - 276 comments 426 points
  7. Let’s make quality the norm again www.forbrukerradet.no - 422 comments 401 points
  8. Java 27 mail.openjdk.org - 350 comments 338 points
  9. Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month codyho.dev - 193 comments 337 points
  10. Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite withcapsule.app - 141 comments 333 points
  11. America’s Driver’s License Breach Is a National Security Disaster www.lawfaremedia.org - 177 comments 293 points
  12. Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers’ Citizenship over Gaza Documentary www.reutersconnect.com - 77 comments 293 points
  13. We got admin access to Baseten’s production GitHub www.strix.ai - 161 comments 286 points
  14. Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography security.apple.com - 199 comments 275 points
  15. Why I’m still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes dank.systems - 280 comments 244 points
  16. German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol rheinmetall.github.io - 78 comments 227 points
  17. There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet www.404media.co - 161 comments 222 points
  18. Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device bkovac.github.io - 33 comments 189 points
  19. Chopping up books when they’re physically too big attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com - 170 comments 185 points
  20. Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality dallincrump.com - 98 comments 180 points
  21. WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages github.com - 58 comments 164 points
  22. Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers www.reuters.com - 168 comments 162 points
  23. 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough - Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier www.lawfaremedia.org - 7 comments 155 points
  24. The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026 spectrum.ieee.org - 17 comments 148 points
  25. Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it thenextweb.com - 49 comments 145 points
  26. The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped josprague.com - 85 comments 144 points
  27. Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100 mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk - 24 comments 136 points
  28. Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers’ names without credit www.reddit.com - 13 comments 134 points
  29. Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA nand2mario.github.io - 38 comments 131 points
  30. OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M techcrunch.com - 97 comments 127 points