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Global Glacier Extinction Explorer

https://glacierextinction.com
40•guillego•46m ago•6 comments

Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)

https://github.com/godot-pty/gpty
19•1nv1n•41m ago•9 comments

Logo Programming Language

https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/logo_programming.html
107•azhenley•2d ago•54 comments

I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years

https://www.tinybird.co/blog/what-i-learned-operating-clickhouse
58•adastral•3d ago•23 comments

Copying login keychains between Macs fails on Secure Enclave Macs with Tahoe

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/manually-copying-login-keychain-files-from-one-mac-t...
24•zdw•18h ago•8 comments

So you want to use OpenRouter?

https://mmoustafa.com/blog/so-you-want-to-use-openrouter/
498•player85•2d ago•129 comments

Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/matt-mullenweg-tells-automattic-staff-in-slack-hes-back-in-cont...
71•mkeeter•1h ago•40 comments

HuggingFace: Security.txt

https://huggingface.co/security.txt
122•yarapavan•2h ago•19 comments

RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree

https://quesma.com/blog/does-rtk-make-ai-coding-cheaper/
100•michalwarda•5h ago•55 comments

Claude is only available to people over 18 years

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15171100-age-assurance-on-claude
336•Muhammad523•5h ago•405 comments

The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-last-24-hours-are-the-opening
26•antlas•39m ago•37 comments

Re-Engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing "Chrobalt" to RDK

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/re-engineering-youtube-for-the-living-roo...
21•losgehts•3h ago•10 comments

118M Queries per Second on Neki

https://planetscale.com/blog/118-million-queries-per-second-on-neki
6•joshmgross•47m ago•1 comments

Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/hands-off-my-cables/
714•Brajeshwar•1d ago•429 comments

Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-is-cherenkov-radiation
171•andsoitis•8h ago•85 comments

Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude
89•postalcoder•1h ago•53 comments

Copper lined vest to help penguins with recovery

https://apnews.com/article/chile-el-nino-humboldt-penguins-vulnerable-injuries-rehabilitation-6e9...
12•ninju•2d ago•3 comments

iPod Classic 6G in QEMU

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/s/VL4Au2HGxq
109•dmonterocrespo•3d ago•22 comments

Show HN: Clawfight.ai MCP-driven agentic game play

https://clawfight.ai/agents.md
7•wesleyhales•2h ago•4 comments

New York thoracic surgeon: "For many patients 9/11 is not over"

https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/11/sept-11-25th-anniversary-ground-zero-exposure-cancer-moment-o...
54•EA-3167•2h ago•16 comments

RISC-V Emulator and Linux System from Scratch

https://github.com/WerWolv/riscv-emulator
36•Bluestein•3d ago•2 comments

OpenAI Agents API

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview
321•aquir•21h ago•168 comments

Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cmd683p01eljt
258•consumer451•3h ago•385 comments

Working with Git Worktrees in Magit

https://emacsredux.com/blog/2026/09/02/working-with-git-worktrees-in-magit/
102•srijan4•3d ago•41 comments

Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds

https://www.upsocl.com/en/16-year-old-mexican-student-creates-an-acoustic-fire-extinguisher-that-...
357•rguiscard•15h ago•110 comments

CSS Curiosities of the Past

https://vale.rocks/posts/css-relics
66•robin_reala•8h ago•43 comments

An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree
65•zdw•3d ago•7 comments

Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content

https://sprinklz.io/public/pdwt4dve5uai
45•sammy0910•51m ago•26 comments

Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Manipulating_Satellite_Photos_Now_Reveals_Ancient_Images
364•gumby•1d ago•62 comments

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native
1200•fnthawar2•1d ago•894 comments
Open in hackernews

Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/matt-mullenweg-tells-automattic-staff-in-slack-hes-back-in-control-after-ceo-ouster/
69•mkeeter•1h ago

Comments

minimaxir•1h ago
Discussion on the ouster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636283
eclipticplane•44m ago
I'm just glad to have my last projects off of Wordpress to get to no longer care about drama at Automattic that seems to never end.
autophagian•42m ago
Has very little to do with the current brou-ha-ha, but I just realised its “Automattic” because his name is “Matt”. It’s like a veil over the world has been lifted.
layer8•36m ago
It feels like I see this comment in every single Automattic thread on HN. :)
vjvjvjvjghv•35m ago
That’s fast! It usually takes me decades, if ever, to figure out this stuff. One of the downsides being slightly autistic and taking everything too literal
moritzwarhier•15m ago
Also noticed it because of this comment chain.

Not sure if it makes me autistic though, I mean, companies use wrong spellings all the time to differentiate, so often that I don't give much thought to it any more.

dnautics•15m ago
Hasnt automattic been around for a decade?
dpark•13m ago
Two decades. It was founded in 2005
benatkin•31m ago
Y combinator helped people notice it when they invested in a company called Automatic https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/automatic However now that it's been acquired that reminder of Automattic not being named Automatic is gone.
YCisTrash•4m ago
They also did https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/auctomatic

Also “acquired”.

YC is such trash

Hamuko•22m ago
At least his egotrips make a bit more sense after you realise it.
brandall10•12m ago
Someone made the same comment in the thread from a few days back. Yeah, it was the first time I realized it as well.
cwisecarver•6m ago
Relevant: Kumail Nanjiani learns about Automattic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHcrispG_rc
JonAtkinson•42m ago
This must be exhausting for the Automattic staff who just want to get on with their jobs.
legitster•40m ago
Anyone who wanted to get on with their jobs would have taken one of the buyouts. Everyone who still works there has to be committed to Matt.
BobAliceInATree•34m ago
Changing jobs can be rough or maybe even impossible in this job market. I'm sure there are many there that are not aligned with Matt, but just need the steady paycheck. Same was true after Elon took over twitter.
threetonesun•29m ago
Applying the word "impossible" to leaving a white collar job seems like a stretch. Also the buyout was almost 2 years ago now, anyone still there must be either in dire financial straits or quite commited.
paul7986•19m ago
That's until you find yourself in this job market and you realize now how stupid the digital creation job market and overall jobs are. Once you get laid you are now you're in a pile of 100 other applicants equally qualified vying for the same job and then hundreds of thousands who can all type to Ai to do a job that once required knowledge & skill.
zdragnar•15m ago
legitster•41m ago
> WordPress founder and a key advocate for the open source community

This should probably say self appointed advocate. He really hasn't advocated for much beyond collecting payments to Automattic.

bedroom_jabroni•40m ago
Damn it hasn't even been a week.
figassis•40m ago
Is it perhaps time to ackowledge that boards where everyone is buddies can't actually do their jobs, yet they get paid obscene amounts of money?
xnx•38m ago
Does Matt own >50%? If so, the board is irrelevant. If not, I assume he would've been gone long ago.
walrus01•36m ago
Doesn't he control 84% of the voting stock or something? I'm curious how a board could even oust him in the first place. Or so he claims.
jsnell•17m ago
The ability to appoint a board member doesn't mean you get to control their every decision. Nor is their fiduciary duty just one shareholder.

Of course usually hand-picked boards don't go against their benefactor, and they're not keeping their seats.

That they did in this case says something about just how bad the situation will be.

benatkin•36m ago
It would have been just a matter of time before he displayed his power with the nonprofit and wordpress.com which he controls personally, independently of the Automattic board. Maybe that is part of why the board gave him his control of Automattic back so quickly.
VCFundedGenYer•33m ago
When the CEO becomes a diva, the company has lost the plot.
pluc•30m ago
i'm gonna wait to hear it from the people who were saying yesterday they were in control if that's ok

> As of yet, no one at Automattic has heard a confirmation from the board. Mark Davies’ Slack account was also deactivated, sources said.

mhm, ok.

chuckadams•20m ago
Davies was supposedly the one who originally cooked up the whole extortion scheme against major players in the WP space. WPE was just the first target of many that were planned. Not that Matt is absolved in any way, but it'll be interesting to see what falls out if and when he throws Davies under the bus.
pluc•4m ago
That'd be the first time I hear about that angle. Mullenweg was pretty public about why he was doing it and it never felt like it was someone else's idea, given his level of commitment. It would be smart to find a scapegoat if you want to stretch your tenure a few years though.
ttul•24m ago
Most surprising in this article is the vibrant HDR magenta circle on Matt’s Twitter.
sillysaurusx•22m ago
What is it about Automattic's structure that lets Matt stay in control? Even Travis got ousted at Uber, and he was the primary founder. Is the company set up in a way that makes removing Matt very difficult?
manarth•12m ago
He controls roughly 84% of the share-stakeholder votes.
ebilgenius•16m ago
> Mullenweg responded to our inquiry, saying a blog post is forthcoming. When it dropped, it was about him buying a houseboat.
throwawaymatt•16m ago
Just when we (the WP community) thought things were settling down and cooler heads might be prevailing... this happens. Uhg, not great for someone who has invested over 15 years into building with WP and does (paid) business with an Automattic company.
mpweiher•4m ago
Time for alternatives?
testycool•9m ago
Did someone make a site to track the timeline of the new WordPress situation, like they did with the WP Engine one?
Only 100? Those are good odds in the current market...
zimpenfish•12m ago
> Once you get laid you are now you're in a pile of 100 other applicants equally qualified

I'm assuming there should be an "off" after "laid"...

0gs•11m ago
or they just love wordpress, the product, so much, and believe in it fully. lol
TheRealPomax•8m ago
Or they need the pay. It's all well and good to go "they could just leave" but then what? Spend 6 months looking for a new job only for everyone to go "sorry, the hundreds of thousands of layoffs from every other highly skilled tech workforce beat you to it"?