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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-17

  1. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust developer.nvidia.com - 292 comments 715 points
  2. Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres rohanbansal.com - 120 comments 562 points
  3. Small programming tricks will-keleher.com - 239 comments 531 points
  4. Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera www.wired.com - 243 comments 530 points
  5. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard mimo.xiaomi.com - 120 comments 443 points
  6. The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week gultsch.social - 338 comments 353 points
  7. PS5 Linux lead quits: “a bunch of noobs using LLMs” that “they don’t understand” frvr.com - 217 comments 318 points
  8. Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip ‘broken wide open’ after 26 years www.tomshardware.com - 83 comments 276 points
  9. Salesforce Global Outage status.salesforce.com - 180 comments 271 points
  10. Backups Aren’t Simple filipovski.net - 150 comments 249 points
  11. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude claude.com - 221 comments 222 points
  12. Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU www.independent.co.uk - 182 comments 222 points
  13. A warning about ‘model welfare’ mustafa-suleyman.ai - 611 comments 216 points
  14. Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs arxiv.org - 33 comments 210 points
  15. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds arxiv.org - 49 comments 205 points
  16. Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver’s license barcodes ryan.science - 67 comments 186 points
  17. Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields www.reuters.com - 217 comments 174 points
  18. The DeepMind Institute institute.deepmind.com - 62 comments 172 points
  19. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort - 2022 opensource.googleblog.com - 28 comments 169 points
  20. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model enclave.ai - 66 comments 165 points
  21. OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents openai.com - 173 comments 156 points
  22. ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market temertymedicine.utoronto.ca - 148 comments 156 points
  23. OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework openspec.dev - 64 comments 142 points
  24. Can we stop with the uptime percentages? blog.jim-nielsen.com - 106 comments 140 points
  25. HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? harnesstax.github.io - 55 comments 136 points
  26. Reverse-engineered Jev-like model github.com - 20 comments 131 points
  27. macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review arstechnica.com - 146 comments 119 points
  28. AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult skywriter.blue - 72 comments 117 points
  29. DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression zartbot.github.io - 9 comments 115 points
  30. The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind gcaptain.com - 67 comments 99 points