Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-19
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping ’the largest theft of labor in human history’ techcrunch.com - 786 comments 891 points
- Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP grapheneos.social - 415 comments 845 points
- I don’t like passkeys hawksley.dev - 765 comments 775 points
- Cloudflare Quick Tunnels try.cloudflare.com - 283 comments 708 points
- Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md code.claude.com - 235 comments 657 points
- OpenJev openjev.com - 266 comments 628 points
- US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report www.cnn.com - 339 comments 454 points
- Saving another 100TB of RAM blog.cloudflare.com - 78 comments 361 points
- Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap blog.liampwll.com - 231 comments 320 points
- Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue www.koreajoongangdaily.com - 104 comments 308 points
- Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him www.nytimes.com - 200 comments 307 points
- ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history tokenstead.ai - 14 comments 259 points
- I vibed a proof of Conway’s conjecture overreacted.io - 222 comments 239 points
- Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds med.stanford.edu - 102 comments 233 points
- An empirical study of harness design for coding agents arxiv.org - 57 comments 211 points
- Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion lawandcrime.com - 172 comments 207 points
- North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes www.science.org - 163 comments 206 points
- Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug donjon.ledger.com - 70 comments 193 points
- San Francisco Onion Futures Company onionfutures.com - 68 comments 193 points
- There’s no point at which turning your brain off will work danluu.com - 153 comments 184 points
- US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four www.reuters.com - 133 comments 179 points
- US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments wolfstreet.com - 130 comments 147 points
- Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes developer.apple.com - 104 comments 140 points
- How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip spectrum.ieee.org - 88 comments 123 points
- Second Circuit allows government to search electronic devices at the border knightcolumbia.org - 74 comments 123 points
- Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions www.scmp.com - 15 comments 121 points
- GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher www.prinzai.com - 56 comments 119 points
- Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain www.newscientist.com - 64 comments 116 points
- AI is an elite crime spree www.thebignewsletter.com - 40 comments 116 points
- AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people’s minds www.science.org - 97 comments 107 points
September 19, 2026 ∙