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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-29

  1. Sonnet 5.5 www.anthropic.com - 556 comments 825 points
  2. Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah twitter.com - 526 comments 663 points
  3. Pirating the Pirates mubi.com - 313 comments 614 points
  4. It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs calnewport.com - 225 comments 534 points
  5. Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms github.com - 197 comments 520 points
  6. Coding is not solved blog.alexewerlof.com - 498 comments 505 points
  7. Windows 11½ definitelynotwindows.com - 156 comments 488 points
  8. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat www.thisamericanlife.org - 231 comments 431 points
  9. The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent www.ssp.sh - 234 comments 370 points
  10. MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta www.reuters.com - 285 comments 352 points
  11. World Labs is Joining AMD www.worldlabs.ai - 111 comments 285 points
  12. Hijacking the PS5’s RTMP stream yashgarg.dev - 87 comments 264 points
  13. MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM’s in the browser stateofutopia.com - 89 comments 257 points
  14. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops www.kqed.org - 657 comments 256 points
  15. So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes lecaro.me - 98 comments 246 points
  16. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests www.petervijeh.com - 308 comments 244 points
  17. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts hn.watch - 96 comments 195 points
  18. Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline theintercept.com - 89 comments 193 points
  19. Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent www.cnbc.com - 240 comments 191 points
  20. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display jagi.studio - 21 comments 167 points
  21. AI companies leak data to advertisers - pdf jorgegarciaherrero.com - 42 comments 163 points
  22. Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API blog.cloudflare.com - 79 comments 156 points
  23. U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982 oilprice.com - 171 comments 153 points
  24. Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman destroy.spritefusion.com - 36 comments 145 points
  25. Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? theeducatorsroom.com - 315 comments 141 points
  26. Tank Body Problem www.jimsitu.com - 30 comments 130 points
  27. I switched to Brave kevquirk.com - 217 comments 122 points
  28. Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show www.nytimes.com - 38 comments 122 points
  29. 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops lolchat.rip - 46 comments 118 points
  30. Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden www.arctictoday.com - 85 comments 114 points