Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-30
- GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price openai.com - 851 comments 973 points
- Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over www.derekthompson.org - 702 comments 795 points
- Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? github.com - 268 comments 680 points
- Dots: Always-on agents openai.com - 511 comments 647 points
- America.gov america.gov - 505 comments 603 points
- DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers www.eff.org - 403 comments 545 points
- How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent spectrum.ieee.org - 297 comments 535 points
- 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive www.theguardian.com - 295 comments 492 points
- macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess www.squareorbits.com - 339 comments 458 points
- US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS www.tomshardware.com - 381 comments 379 points
- PS5 Relapse Exploit github.com - 195 comments 323 points
- Ask HN: What are you reading? news.ycombinator.com - 598 comments 313 points
- September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy tomwojcik.com - 181 comments 308 points
- Tcl/Tk 9.1 www.tcl-lang.org - 126 comments 282 points
- Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites space.bl2.net - 67 comments 275 points
- 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds www.cbc.ca - 138 comments 266 points
- U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels postalemployeenetwork.com - 139 comments 239 points
- Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models github.com - 91 comments 235 points
- Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries www.bbc.com - 182 comments 232 points
- GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities www.anthropic.com - 222 comments 229 points
- Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 www.backblaze.com - 64 comments 215 points
- AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom www.thenationalnews.com - 303 comments 207 points
- ChatGPT Pro 500 help.openai.com - 241 comments 207 points
- Google ending ChromeOS support two years early www.theregister.com - 136 comments 205 points
- Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? prospect.org - 131 comments 172 points
- Claude partial outage status.claude.com - 143 comments 171 points
- We’re forgetting what darkness feels like www.theguardian.com - 91 comments 170 points
- Unsurprisingly, Meta’s new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions appleinsider.com - 41 comments 158 points
- Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu - 107 comments 145 points
- Sustainable energy without the hot air - 2008 www.withouthotair.com - 82 comments 143 points
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