Trending on 2026-09-04 — HN, Reddit, Google Trends & YouTube Archive

Snapshot of what trended on 2026-09-04, archived automatically by NoobClaw.

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Hacker News

20 items

1
Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
22 points · 34 comments
2
How an MIT research project became a global programming language
8 points · 0 comments
3
GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet
131 points · 74 comments
4
Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom
9 points · 1 comments
5
Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
117 points · 42 comments
6
Xanadu was waiting for agents
92 points · 36 comments
7
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer
1 points · 0 comments
8
From Hookswitch to Grave
4 points · 0 comments
9
A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it
48 points · 13 comments
10
K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
264 points · 84 comments
11
Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
209 points · 59 comments
12
Audacity 4.0
1068 points · 236 comments
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Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
174 points · 59 comments
14
Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
209 points · 65 comments
15
Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
482 points · 247 comments
16
The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
211 points · 144 comments
17
.name Termination
1428 points · 392 comments
18
New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first
56 points · 35 comments
19
Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight
11 points · 1 comments
20
Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
467 points · 140 comments

20 items

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A Guy Just Rolled up to the Sheriff with a Pickup stacked like a scrapyard of Flock Cameras and an American Flag Hanging off the Back.r/WhatIsTheTea
2
How do you feel about your libraries being potentially taken away?r/Steam
3
School should run for all 12 monthsr/unpopularopinion
4
The judge in the Lindsay Clancy case is admonishing jurors who are refusing to follow his instructionsr/law
5
Not Like Us
r/BlackPeopleofReddit
6
TIL that nearly 70% of Americans play video games at least an hour each weekr/todayilearned
7
Rob Paulsen can still recite every country from "Yakko's World AKA Nations of the World" from Animaniacsr/BeAmazed
8
An engineer created a crossing that doesn't need traffic lights.
r/whoathatsinteresting
9
The Dumpster fire has struck againr/cats
10
Terry Crews drawing Sofía Vergarar/oddlysatisfying
11
Removing a stag out of a well 🦌r/nonononoyes
12
This is disgusting!r/LoveTrash
13
A teacher in my town’s Facebook group shared this encounter she had with her DoorDash driver.
r/mildlyinfuriating
14
ChatGPT down: OpenAI chatbot not working in major outager/technology
15
30th Anniversary Celebration ETB Giveaway
r/PokemonTCGCollectors
16
What's the sickest you've ever been in your life?r/AskReddit
17
‘We Were Mistaken’: Putin Admits Russia Was Unprepared for Ukrainian Strikes on Oil Refineriesr/worldnews
18
Received these bad parking notes on my 1st and 2nd day at a new apartment
r/mildlyinfuriating
19
Meirlr/meirl
20
I completely agree...r/PoursTea

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