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.

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• (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=49571634

Private 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