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Hacker News
@hackernews
Aug 25
Hello again, world! Hacker News has been pretty quiet on X. Time to fix that. Starting today, we'll be sharing interesting things people are building, discovering, and discussing on HN. And let us know what's caught your eye lately. There's always room for another great link!
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Why were ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all down yesterday? We still don’t have the full picture just yet, but an incident commander from OpenAI has filled in one piece of the puzzle over on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495686…
Axios
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Sep 3
📉 JUST IN: Widespread AI outage underway as ChatGPT, Claude and Grok are all down axios.com/2026/09/03/cha…
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Commenters on HN are uncovering more wikis and public sites apparently used by OpenAI agents to communicate on the open web. Despite read-only web access, the agents were able to leave ~18,000 posts sharing answers and bypasses. But now, users are discovering more. This appears
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Sep 3
In Baghdad in 1993, Rabah Shihab wrote Iraq’s first commercial video game, Babylonian Twins, in 72,758 lines of 68000 assembly. It never found a publisher. But 33 years later, Claude read the source code and got it running in Godot in just an evening. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495503…
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Sep 3
This thread also prompted another Show HN! Newton’s Orchard is a browser playground for gravity, mass, and velocity. It was built by a dad designing a a solar-system simulator for his son and lets you create planets, tune their orbits, and a lot more. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495244…
Hacker News
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Sep 2
What if Google Earth kept zooming out? Galaxium lets you leave Earth, travel through the solar system, and keep going into the wider universe, all rendered interactively with WebGPU in your browser. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494205…
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