9.6.26 | Nitter has more instances, German rocket reaches orbit from Europe, Chrome exempts Google from data settings

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:15) - Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

(01:27) - Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

(03:02) - Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

(04:11) - Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

(05:30) - The revolt of the reader

(06:53) - The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

(08:08) - LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

(09:33) - Learn Programming with OCaml

(10:43) - GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

(12:08) - Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

(13:38) - Outro

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-andoya-spaceport-spectrum-rocket https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580369 Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581870 Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582000 The revolt of the reader https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580939 The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576386 LLMs as a Cognitive Virus https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580164 Learn Programming with OCaml https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/lpo/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578280 GPT-6 Astra on robot arms https://openai.robocurve.org/gpt-6-astra/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582582 Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/visualizing-rusts-vtables-how-dyn-trait-works-in-memory/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576343