The Fastest-Rising Hacker News Posts
We track 250,912 stories from Hacker News, averaging 206 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 16,149 stories. Together they drew 28,265,027 comments, 113 per story on average. The fastest riser we measured gained 538 points in a single hour.
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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
openai.com · tedsanders · 8 Sep 2026
329/h peak
1.3k pts
1.1k comments
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QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
beige.party · mraniki · 6 Sep 2026
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1.4k pts
293 comments
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.name Termination
neil.fraser.name · pavel_lishin · 3 Sep 2026
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2.2k pts
547 comments
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Gemini 4 Argon
blog.google · bradleyg223 · 30 Sep 2026
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1.7k pts
1.2k comments
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna
openai.com · OfficialTurkey · 22 Sep 2026
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1.8k pts
855 comments
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Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
blog.google · bratao · 2 Sep 2026
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1.2k pts
669 comments
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Claude Opus 5.5
anthropic.com · km144 · 22 Sep 2026
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1.8k pts
1.1k comments
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Introducing System One Models and Jev
typesafe.ai · albelfio · 15 Sep 2026
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2k pts
520 comments
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Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
anthropic.com · denysvitali · 1 Sep 2026
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1.4k pts
1.4k comments
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Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
cromka · 11 Sep 2026
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868 pts
403 comments
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We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
mcsweeneys.net · cainxinth · 8 Sep 2026
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401 pts
68 comments
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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
collusion.wiki · moultano · 4 Sep 2026
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2.3k pts
1.6k comments
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“It works better in the app”
shkspr.mobi · blenderob · 28 Aug 2026
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715 pts
481 comments
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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
manualdousuario.net · rpgbr · 8 Sep 2026
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722 pts
237 comments
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When did Google get so weird?
sancho.bearblog.dev · sancho-panza · 27 Sep 2026
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2k pts
1.1k comments
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Margaret Hamilton has died
news.mit.edu · muglug · 7 Oct 2026
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2.1k pts
255 comments
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OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
rubyhack.ai · chao- · 11 Sep 2026
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975 pts
613 comments
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EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
bbc.com · hackernj · 16 Sep 2026
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693 pts
905 comments
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Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
tanzaniaeducationproject.org · lukehandcool · 8 Oct 2026
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752 pts
240 comments
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Claude Opus 5.5
anthropic.com · throwaway371647 · 22 Sep 2026
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273 pts
2 comments
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A note on subscription prices from LWN
lwn.net · rwky · 2 Sep 2026
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733 pts
151 comments
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Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter
radar.cloudflare.com · walrus01 · 11 Oct 2026
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330 pts
124 comments
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Cloudflare acquires Deno
deno.com · ilreb · 9 Oct 2026
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1.4k pts
705 comments
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Shopify acquires Tailwind
tailwindcss.com · EdwinHoksberg · 9 Sep 2026
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1.1k pts
444 comments
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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
vals.ai · u1hcw9nx · 13 Sep 2026
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1.2k pts
571 comments
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Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"
mistral.ai · j-bu · 6 Oct 2026
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522 pts
5 comments
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ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room
zuckoff.app · Bluestein · 21 Sep 2026
182/h peak
610 pts
6 comments
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Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
github.com · arnemunthekaas · 15 Sep 2026
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2.4k pts
267 comments
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Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
grapheneos.social · theanonymousone · 18 Sep 2026
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1.2k pts
724 comments
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PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
frvr.com · alexjplant · 16 Sep 2026
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344 pts
227 comments
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Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
opusfived.dev · matthieu_bl · 9 Sep 2026
172/h peak
1.2k pts
453 comments
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Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
lucumr.pocoo.org · manojbajaj95 · 11 Sep 2026
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456 pts
342 comments
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Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
investigatetv.com · SanjayMehta · 13 Sep 2026
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357 pts
265 comments
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Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
shopify.engineering · fnthawar2 · 10 Sep 2026
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1.3k pts
957 comments
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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
webiterate.dev · twapi · 31 Aug 2026
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761 pts
621 comments
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Lobbying is corruption
carette.xyz · LucidLynx · 10 Oct 2026
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495 pts
274 comments
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A/I shuts down
keepitfree.ai · captainmuon · 6 Sep 2026
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644 pts
564 comments
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The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent
ssp.sh · zazuke · 28 Sep 2026
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388 pts
240 comments
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Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
apnews.com · alephnerd · 8 Oct 2026
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931 pts
1.6k comments
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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
openai.com · crorella · 29 Sep 2026
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1.1k pts
954 comments
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Mistral raises €3B
mistral.ai · kuberwastaken · 8 Sep 2026
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850 pts
603 comments
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YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
gizmodo.com · gumby · 9 Oct 2026
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677 pts
357 comments
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Hang on to Your Firefox
newsonaut.com · speckx · 1 Sep 2026
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994 pts
537 comments
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Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
bbc.com · witweb · 17 Sep 2026
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284 pts
354 comments
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Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
code.claude.com · datadrivenangel · 18 Sep 2026
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741 pts
285 comments
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Windows 11½
definitelynotwindows.com · jjbinx007 · 28 Sep 2026
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546 pts
184 comments
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US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
reuters.com · poly2it · 9 Oct 2026
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516 pts
522 comments
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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
colo.to · Eric_Gullichsen · 28 Sep 2026
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1.1k pts
458 comments
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ChatGPT Images 2.5
openai.com · vertigoruntime · 8 Sep 2026
155/h peak
384 pts
449 comments
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GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
huggingface.co · jeudesprits · 28 Aug 2026
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806 pts
281 comments
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Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
newyorker.com · pseudolus · 9 Sep 2026
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577 pts
539 comments
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Dots: Always-on agents
openai.com · alvis · 29 Sep 2026
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769 pts
647 comments
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AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
github.com · hexa555 · 1 Sep 2026
150/h peak
924 pts
281 comments
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