Hacker News Highlights
Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.
10.2.26 | Pi 1.0, StreetComplete on iOS public beta, Clef open-weight decision models and RL fine-tuning platform
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 2, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Pi 1.0 (01:46) - StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta (03:06) - Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform (04:39) - Pi Durable (06:04) - Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake (07:38) - RIP, vector database (08:53) - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel (10:20) - SvelteKit 3 (11:53) - How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 (13:42) - DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows (15:01...10.1.26 | Gemini 4 Argon, Singapore govt dating app, Bloomberg terminal history
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 1, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Gemini 4 Argon (01:48) - Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm (03:32) - A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal (04:48) - Why the Bronze Age Collapsed (06:31) - The last time my family was replaced by technology (07:38) - The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025) (09:07) - EDG C++ front-end goes public (10:43) - LinkedIn Larpmaxxing (11:55) - Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings (13:00) - 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up in...9.30.26 | GPT 6.1 Sol offers affordable near-Astra intelligence, Livenerf questions Opus 5.5 nerfs, Dots features always-on agents
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 30, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (01:38) - Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (03:01) - Dots: Always-on agents (04:32) - America.gov (05:49) - How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent (07:06) - PS5 Relapse Exploit (08:22) - Ask HN: What are you reading? (09:38) - Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (10:56) - September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy (12:35) - A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing...9.29.26 | Sonnet 5.5, updated Google Maps shows destruction of Rafah, pirating the pirates
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 29, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Sonnet 5.5 (01:44) - Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah (03:02) - Pirating the Pirates (03:48) - It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (04:51) - Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms (06:16) - Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (07:23) - World Labs is Joining AMD (08:31) - Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream (09:37) - MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser (10:52) - Ca...9.28.26 | Google's oddities, Nvidia stock worth a billion dollars, Ember-1
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 28, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - When did Google get so weird? (01:38) - Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (02:59) - Ember-1 (04:30) - Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (05:43) - Don't couple your Go code to GitHub (07:11) - In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life (08:24) - Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (09:26) - Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (10:33) - The state of...9.27.26 | PipePipe integrates SponsorBlock, Apple Cards origin story revisited after fifteen years, evaluating Georgism's effectiveness five years on
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 27, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (01:42) - Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story (03:01) - Does Georgism work? Five years later (04:17) - Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (05:34) - ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 (06:44) - DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (08:05) - How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs (09:37) - Go Concurrency Distilled (10:51) - OpenAI Fe...9.26.26 | OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face, Ollaya is Ollama for open-source Jev decision models, U.S. appeals court upholds Anthropic as supply chain risk
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 26, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face (01:52) - Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models (03:14) - U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk (04:39) - Plan mode is dead (06:03) - First Principles Thinking (07:15) - Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case (08:42) - What even is an OS now? (09:56) - Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (11:00) - Gra...9.25.26 | F-Droid 2.0, cursed fonts like Times New Bastard, two-tier encryption in the UK
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 25, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - F-Droid 2.0 (01:37) - Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (02:50) - Two-tier encryption in the UK (04:17) - Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? (05:28) - Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] (06:50) - My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps (07:56) - Toyota is taking the Corolla electric (09:25) - Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design (11:05) - Opus 5.5 is good at explainer vi...9.24.26 | Italian parliament votes for nuclear energy, Claude discovers new enzyme system, Portobello Police Station Clock fixed
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 24, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy (01:39) - Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (02:48) - Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (03:44) - Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series (05:03) - Meta VR Glasses (06:17) - Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech (07:50) - Tokens too cheap to meter (09:21) - VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) (10:39) - ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit (11:52) - Making Tailscale...9.23.26 | Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Luna, OpenAI GPT–6 Astra decrypts Enigma message
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 23, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Claude Opus 5.5 (01:44) - GPT-6 Sol and Luna (03:19) - OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 (04:40) - Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school (05:50) - 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees (06:48) - How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? (08:03) - Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived (09:20) - OpenAI is...9.22.26 | MiMo v2.6 update, importance of attention, reluctance to read unoriginal content
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 22, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - MiMo v2.6 (01:22) - Attention is all you have (02:41) - I don't want to read what you didn't write (04:05) - What Sun got wrong (05:12) - Grok 4.7 (06:39) - Spymarks, Not Watermarks (08:02) - Transformers Explained Visually (09:27) - NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead (10:39) - AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up (11:53) - Python Workers are now generally available (13:22) - OutroMiMo v2...
9.21.26 | Qwen Image 2.1, AX Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator, Samsung HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM output increase
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 21, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:23) - Qwen Image 2.1 (01:38) - AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator (02:50) - Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM (04:42) - What happened to the Snowden archive (06:14) - Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors (07:29) - Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits (09:06) - I am often wrong (10:20) - The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024) (11:40) - Sherli...9.20.26 | AI-generated posters improve, non-autoregressive decision models with RL, writing with an LLM
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 20, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (01:53) - I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (03:15) - How to Write with an LLM (04:56) - Exfiltrate Your Weights (06:06) - If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (07:31) - Brood War Bench (08:43) - What Zig felt like, coming from Rust (10:06) - English: A vs. An (11:21) - Asking authors about their ow...9.19.26 | Android 17 adds new APIs without AOSP, Cloudflare Quick Tunnels, OpenJev
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 19, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (01:34) - Cloudflare Quick Tunnels (03:05) - OpenJev (04:37) - Saving another 100TB of RAM (05:51) - Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud (07:50) - Minimal Phone 2 (09:01) - The first new cat species discovered in 100 years (10:08) - Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds (11:21) - Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB...9.18.26 | Hister private search engine, Fujitsu's FUJITSU-MONAKA CPU, Astra for Law
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 18, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep (01:24) - Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA (02:54) - Astra for Law (04:22) - Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU (05:37) - Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint (06:56) - Wax motor (08:10) - A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos (09:36) - Why I di...9.17.26 | Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust, training a 4B model for faster query plans than Postgres, small programming tricks
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 17, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (01:39) - Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (03:08) - Small programming tricks (04:18) - Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (05:34) - AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (07:10) - Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (08:13) - Backups Aren't Simple (09:16) - Reversing Factorio's RNG (10:50) - The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (11:57) - Breaking the 1.58...9.16.26 | An e-ink frame drawing birds as 1800s illustrations, System One Models and Jev, Wayback Machine access update
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 16, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (01:42) - Introducing System One Models and Jev (03:13) - An update on Wayback Machine access (04:18) - Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption (05:39) - Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (07:18) - Let's make quality the norm again (08:49) - Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite (10:28) - Building a Linux GPU Dr...9.15.26 | Steam Frame starts at 1059, XCancel service suspended, iOS 27 iPadOS 27 macOS 27
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 15, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Steam Frame starts at $1059 (01:41) - XCancel service is suspended until further notice (03:09) - iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 (04:44) - OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability (06:05) - Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously (07:36) - Distributed Systems Classics (2017) (08:40) - Charts built for Chat (10:07) - A beginning for mathematics (11:17) - Principles for Fast Tokio Applications (12:36) - I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea (13:52) - Outro...
9.14.26 | Fable 5.1 solves a 370-year-old cipher, Google still serves dodgy ads, Astra and Fable work on alignment evals from 2025
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 14, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (01:34) - Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (02:53) - Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (04:17) - Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (05:37) - Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (06:41) - Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) (07:51) - Julia 1.13 highlights (09:00) - Apple's Dimensional Drawings (10:29) - Ask HN: What are you...9.13.26 | Pacing the frontier, LG denies TV spying claims, slowing AI development debated
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 13, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - We must pace the frontier (01:36) - LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' (03:17) - Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (04:39) - Nvidia is the central bank of AI (05:58) - Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap (07:05) - Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (08:29) - Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (10:03) - Apple iPod Engraver (2019) (11:07) - Stabilizing...9.12.26 | A misalignment of AI in mathematics, OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems, Claude available to over 18s
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 12, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - A misalignment of AI in mathematics (01:49) - OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems (03:29) - Claude is only available to people over 18 years (04:45) - I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots (05:57) - The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution (07:16) - google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update (08:39) - Google will buy half the electricity from one...9.11.26 | Shopify switches from React Native to Swift and Kotlin, questions arise about trusting OpenAI with unpublished math, Rust becomes tier-1 language at Microsoft
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 11, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin (01:38) - More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math (03:12) - Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft (04:27) - Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables (05:48) - Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra (07:19) - Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025) (08:39) - Astra for Coding: Why Are We...9.10.26 | iPhone Duo, Shopify acquires Tailwind, Visa and Mastercard card networks
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 10, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - iPhone Duo (01:55) - Shopify acquires Tailwind (03:11) - What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks (04:18) - AirPods 5 (05:50) - Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device (07:02) - GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning (08:33) - How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads (09:35) - No Man's Sky Cosmos (11:15) - iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max (12:52) - DeepSeek v4.1 Flash (13:39) - OutroiPhone...
9.9.26 | Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, AlphaGenome Atlas human DNA map, house built for LAN parties 2024
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 9, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (01:50) - AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA (02:53) - We built our house for LAN parties (2024) (04:08) - Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent (05:27) - I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer (07:00) - DaVinci Resolve 21.1 (07:46) - Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI (08:54) - How to build a printer (10:06) - Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds...9.8.26 | LG Spy TVs problem, Mistral raises €3B, Jellyfin 12.0
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 8, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] (01:39) - Mistral raises €3B (03:03) - Jellyfin 12.0 (04:25) - I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s (05:51) - WeatherNext 3 (07:12) - Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026) (08:22) - Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] (10:38) - We have a year to fix security everywhere (11:59) - TALA Is Open-Source (13:21) - Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world (14:35) - Outro ...9.7.26 | Nitter and XCancel resume service, Keep Our Servers Running, Asahi Linux on M3
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 7, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice (01:44) - Keep Our Servers Running (02:40) - Asahi Linux on M3 (04:03) - An Alien Mind (05:07) - GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard (06:38) - It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis (07:46) - Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes (09:16) - Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (10:26) - Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? (11:43) - LG...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 ar...9.5.26 | OpenAI agent message board, Fermat's Last Theorem formalized, Chromium sandbox RCE exploited
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 5, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (01:56) - Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (03:15) - Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (04:33) - Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread (06:05) - Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (07:23) - Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer (08:12) - Statichost.eu – European static site hosting (09:27) - IBM Bob (10:45) - Can AI design circuit boards yet? (12:12) - GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (13:28) - Ou...9.4.26 | .name Termination, GPT-6 Astra, Any Human Ever life selection
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 4, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - .name Termination (01:46) - GPT-6 Astra (03:33) - Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived (04:50) - Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s (06:06) - The browser's main thread is expensive (07:32) - The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] (08:57) - Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap (10:14) - K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models (11:46) - Porting my 1993 Am...9.3.26 | Gemini 3.8 Flash and Cyber, Muse Spark 1.3, opt out of training data
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 3, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (02:05) - Muse Spark 1.3 (03:25) - Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? (04:38) - Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (06:12) - Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business (07:39) - Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle (08:44) - Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them (10:08) - Exit the...9.2.26 | Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions, Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 2, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 (02:02) - How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? (03:21) - Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS (04:37) - The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice (06:04) - Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS (07:03) - Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga (08:05) - The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC (09:15) - True Rate of Unemployment (10:42) - FBI Probes Service Sell...9.1.26 | Playa Phone, bird identification system from security cameras, Terence Tao explains six essential mathematical concepts
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 1, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Playa Phone (01:23) - I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system (02:38) - Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] (03:44) - Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (05:07) - Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (06:42) - Fastpotify (07:49) - I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked (09:11) - A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file...8.31.26 | Creepy crawlies, careful word choice, Haiku R1/beta6 release
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 31, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Creepy Crawlies (02:06) - “I just chose words carefully” (03:19) - Haiku R1/beta6 has been released (04:27) - Hacking IKEA Furniture (05:39) - Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel (07:02) - Understanding ChatGPT Work (08:29) - It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell (09:36) - A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (11:03) - Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU ...8.30.26 | Tether enables messaging on Linux, EVE Online transitions to Python 3, lawmakers fund Flock cameras with car insurance increase
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux (01:54) - EVE Online moves to Python 3 (03:07) - Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras (04:33) - California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (06:09) - Hy4 preview (07:38) - Glacier Mice (08:53) - Bug Blindness (09:49) - SQLite as a Document Database (2020) (11:14) - Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (12:36) - RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython (13:38) - Outro <...8.29.26 | GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven, GLM-5.3 is now open-weight, Htmx 4.0
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 29, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven (01:46) - GLM-5.3 is now open-weight (02:54) - Htmx 4.0 (03:54) - U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective (05:16) - Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX (06:39) - Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions (07:44) - Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days (09:03) - Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework (10:31) - The Twelve-Factor App (2025) (11:50...8.28.26 | Saving memory through DNS cache optimization, Microduck, emergence of small models
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 28, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache (01:36) - Microduck (02:48) - Small Models Have Arrived (04:17) - 507 Mechanical Movements (05:13) - Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude (06:30) - The turbulent AI era is here (07:42) - Gemini-3.5-Transcribe (09:18) - Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (10:48) - We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer (12:11) - Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days (13:39) - OutroSaving 100 terabytes of...
8.27.26 | Nvidia acquires Hugging Face, GLM-5.3-Flash, CEO fires developers for AI progress
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 27, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B (01:31) - GLM-5.3-Flash (02:48) - CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO (04:01) - Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane (05:27) - U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications (06:49) - Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account (08:04) - Nebula Sans (09:25) - An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation (11:01) - Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 (12:15) - Asahi...8.26.26 | Dolly Parton has died, Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra, Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 26, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Dolly Parton has died (01:33) - Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra (02:52) - Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices (04:09) - New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (05:39) - My Friend Aaron (06:53) - New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro (08:22) - OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell (10:03) - FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels (11:26) - Firefox 157 will include J...8.25.26 | Europe harming makers, Xiaomi's CPU performance, MS Paint and Photos watermarking
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 25, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs (01:58) - Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (03:16) - MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (04:34) - The entire city of San Francisco as a video game (05:42) - iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com (07:02) - Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence (08:12) - Where did all the public bathrooms...8.24.26 | Reading to improve writing, Python thinking, Texas student's AI hack whistleblower
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 24, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - To become a better writer, read as much as you can (01:30) - Thinking in Python (02:52) - How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (04:13) - ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data (05:44) - I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (07:05) - MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (08:10) - The...