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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Gallup News▲ 315

Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

Perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. hit a record high in 2026, with broad agreement across partisan lines.

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• NIST NVLAP▲ 390

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

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• OpenRouter▲ 174

GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's flagship model for demanding end-to-end work. $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output tokens. 1,050,000 token context window, maximum output of 128,000 tokens. Higher uptime with 2 providers. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.

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• Eebench▲ 218

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

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• Statichost▲ 214

Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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• Artificial Analysis Intelligence▲ 94

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2

We are accelerating elements of our upcoming v5 release with interim updates to keep pace with the frontier. Index v4.2 has more complex and realistic tasks, and more private test sets to…

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• Codeberg▲ 84

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.

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• Charles Petzold▲ 55

Can guitar frets perform multiplication?

I’m sure that some pictures are worth a thousand words, but others trigger a whole lot of puzzlement. Such was the case with the cover of a book I recently bought entitled Calculating with…

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• Coderabbit AI▲ 6

GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost

CodeRabbit’s early GPT-6 Astra evaluation covers cross-file bug detection, customer data protection, public API pricing, and building NIGHTSHIFT.

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HN — Best of the Week

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• Codeberg.org▲ 659

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.

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• Space▲ 474

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

Isar Aerospace

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• Feld Thoughts▲ 466

The Real Luxuries In Life

Labor Day weekend has always been the back to school marker for me. I

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• Sylvainkalache▲ 373

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

AI-assisted incident response can lower MTTR while leaving engineers less prepared for the complex incidents automation cannot solve.

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• Reason Magazine▲ 355

Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop

A lawsuit claims the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office used the cameras in retaliation against the vet for exercising his First Amendment right.

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• Abc▲ 350

Netherlands pulls gold out of the US

The central bank of the Netherlands has moved dozens of tonnes of its gold out of the United States and Canada to boost the country's "crisis preparedness" amid "increasing geopolitical…

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• Pushin.eu▲ 330

Git hosting that never leaves Europe

Sovereign, GDPR-native git hosting — code, issues, and CI, all on European soil.

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• PBS News▲ 315

Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. So now…

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• ProPublica▲ 302

How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

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• Devquasar▲ 324

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

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• Wikiworkersunited▲ 272

Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA

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• Lapcatsoftware▲ 248

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

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• Dtrace▲ 244

The revolt of the reader

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