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What the tech world is reading

The top developer and technology stories on Hacker News, ranked by community upvotes. A sharper, more technical cut than our general news feed.

Why Hacker News, specifically

Hacker News is where software engineers, security researchers, and startup founders post and vote on what actually matters that day — new vulnerabilities, major outages, tools shipping, and the industry gossip that ends up being relevant six months later. The ranking here is the community’s own upvote count and comment activity, not an algorithm trying to keep you scrolling.

It’s a different filter than mainstream tech news: less “new iPhone color,” more “this widely-used library has a critical bug” or “this cloud provider just changed its pricing.” A handful of these stories every month turn into something a small business owner should actually know about.

What this means for you: when a headline here is about a breach, an exploited vulnerability, or a piece of software you rely on, that’s exactly the kind of thing we watch for on behalf of clients — and it’s the same reasoning behind our authorized security testing and advisory work.

See current security advisories → Penetration testing

Top stories right now

Source: Hacker News · updated Sep 12, 2026, 7:31 AM.

Trending on GitHub

The most-starred repositories created in the last two weeks — what developers are building and adopting right now.

lnkiai/m3e-canvas

★ 6,208

Sketch Material 3 Expressive screens in the browser and turn them into vibe-coding prompts.

TypeScript

Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes, system layers, search, and exploded views.

TypeScript

Reference blueprint for building shopping and merchant agents with Claude. Examples in retail, commerce, telecom, and entertainment included.

Python

Open-source AI brand visibility and competitor reports. Official website: https://niubigeo.ai/ | Paid services: AI testing by real people and GEO optimization. Pricing: https://niubigeo.ai/pricing

TypeScript

Local-first WeChat intelligence system with a read-only CLI, Codex skills, searchable chat history, daily briefings, follow-ups and opportunity tracking.

Python

vinzdg/codenotch

★ 1,475

A macOS app that pins usage limits from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Antigravity to a screen edge.

Swift

Turn the user's description or uploaded reference into a finished, editable Blender card and an interactive Three.js page. Preserve the requested subject, style, typography and destination. This skill contains code and text only; generated artwork belongs in the user's output project.

Python

Developer deep-dives

Longer, hands-on writing from dev.to and Lobsters — tutorials, post-mortems, and how-it-works pieces.

lobste.rs · culture, linux

Power grab

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Sources: Hacker News · GitHub · dev.to · Lobsters · updated Sep 12, 2026, 7:31 AM.