Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-09-07.

Showing top 30 of 80 distinct stories after deduping (2 appeared in more than one source).

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 204 points, 108 comments (discussion)

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 157 points, 60 comments (discussion)

An Alien Mind

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 373 points, 330 comments (discussion)

One of my favorite things to do with these blog posts is to imagine an Alien Museum on the Remains of Humanity, and wonder what the little text flyouts and commentary on the screenshot of this one might say. Some ideas: "Despite a nuanced view of the complexities of what lay ahead, humanity found it...

The purpose of DNS is to spread scams

Sources: Bubbles (Terence Eden)

Python Iceberg

Sources: Lobsters

Roku's 24/7 AI Slop Channel Is Even Worse Than Expected

Sources: Slashdot

Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds

Sources: The Register

NES Radar Tracks Flights at 9600 Baud

Sources: Hackaday

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 238 points, 180 comments (discussion)

Ctrl+f clipboard, no results. What does "Secure Clipboard" in the title refer to? The release seems to be only the SMS/RCS app, rest is future: > We're also going to be overhauling or fully replacing the rest of the AOSP apps in the near future. AOSP Gallery is incredibly outdated and is being entir...

The 50th Anniversary of The Muppet Show

Sources: Bubbles (A Shroud of Thoughts)

"Simple Made Easy" (2011)

Sources: Lobsters

US Military Disables Ad Trackers On Devices To Protect Troops

Sources: Slashdot

Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals

Sources: The Register

How Charged Water Drops Induce Corrosion

Sources: Hackaday

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 147 points, 94 comments (discussion)

MicroMacro: Crime City – A Board Game Review

Sources: Bubbles (crossexaminingcrime)

Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go

Sources: Lobsters

Where a Massive Solar Storm Could Take Down the US Power Grid for Millions

Sources: Slashdot

CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Links: September 6, 2026

Sources: Hackaday

Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This September

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 134 points, 32 comments (discussion)

Right said fred

Sources: Bubbles (Bez Lightyear)

Who said a tech addict can't be comfortable far from home?

Sources: Lobsters

TiVo Will Start Charging Fees For Its Automatic Commercial Break-Skipping Feature 'SkipMode'

Sources: Slashdot

Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users

Sources: The Register

Saturn’s South Pole is Apparently Decagon-Shaped

Sources: Hackaday

Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 124 points, 68 comments (discussion)

Guys, we really, really suck at this!

Sources: Bubbles (Unattributed)

The Ironies of Automation (1983)

Sources: Lobsters

Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast

Sources: The Register