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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 28, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Ghostty 1.4 (01:33) - US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans (02:36) - Genie 4 (03:52) - Python's experimental JIT to be removed (04:53) - Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer (06:04) - New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 (07:07) - New iMac with M6 (07:59) - Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update (08:57) - Git for the US Code (10:00) - Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest (10:52) - Outro Ghostty 1.4https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-4-0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261998US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americanshttps://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-on-americans/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259604 Genie 4https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261319 Python's experimental JIT to be removedhttps://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257419 Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computerhttps://www.brangus.io/survival-llmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264853 New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261352 New iMac with M6https://www.apple.com/imac/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258538 Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation updatehttps://tailscale.com/ssh-investigation-updatehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264857 Git for the US Codehttps://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-codehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268380 Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contesthttps://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner-of-nikons-small-world-photomicrography-contest/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234796

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 27, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Anthropic S-1 (01:38) - Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics (02:47) - Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models (03:51) - The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] (04:54) - CSS-Tricks has a new owner (05:57) - Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 (07:01) - Websites Should Be Printable (07:59) - Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear (08:58) - Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024) (09:47) - Type Server Protocol (10:44) - Outro Anthropic S-1https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242939Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physicshttps://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251344 Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning modelshttps://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-modelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245138 The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026/paper.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251661 CSS-Tricks has a new ownerhttps://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245831 Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248055 Websites Should Be Printablehttps://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241664 Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclearhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclearhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245385 Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200152 Type Server Protocolhttps://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248371

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 26, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis (01:27) - Dolly Parton's Imagination Library (02:23) - I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27 (03:38) - Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop (04:43) - OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why? (05:58) - Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs (06:50) - IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem (07:56) - Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997 (08:43) - Why I Am a Programmer (09:35) - Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers (10:37) - Outro A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosishttps://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233779Dolly Parton's Imagination Libraryhttps://imaginationlibrary.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234474 I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233929 Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cophttps://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234232 OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236102 Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabshttps://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197108 IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-premhttps://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistibly-good-and-cheap-on-prem/5304640https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238088 Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997https://titleart.dvy.io/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238708 Why I Am a Programmerhttps://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235017 Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlershttps://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/amazons-digital-pacifier-for-toddlershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185534

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 25, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you (01:16) - Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin (02:15) - We should be more ambitious with the software we build (03:32) - The Goose Programming Language (04:43) - America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI? (05:55) - Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps (07:10) - I don't understand quantum physics (2018) (08:17) - Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month (09:16) - FreeDNS (10:05) - Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab (11:03) - Outro Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from youhttps://edjefferson.com/localwiki/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202285Show HN: Steal My Bitcoinhttps://stealmybitcoin.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916 We should be more ambitious with the software we buildhttps://danluu.com/ambitious/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225695 The Goose Programming Languagehttps://aardappel.github.io/goose/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224100 America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-classhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226419 Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and appshttps://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219177 I don't understand quantum physics (2018)https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219666 Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a monthhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186450 FreeDNShttps://freedns.afraid.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222133 Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLabhttps://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-movehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222622

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 24, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (01:50) - Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone (02:38) - Apple Music 404 Not Found (03:31) - Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22 (04:32) - Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech (05:36) - The Real Kevin Bacon (06:30) - Twelve years of distributed SQLite (07:21) - CVE Tracker (08:16) - Bringing uv and ty together (09:09) - UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities (10:14) - Outro Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeedhttps://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-prohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50212065Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhonehttps://blog.calif.io/p/iphonehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211474 Apple Music 404 Not Foundhttps://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-existhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207910 Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-surveillance-billhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202114 Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speechhttps://block.xyz/dessahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213925 The Real Kevin Baconhttps://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169499 Twelve years of distributed SQLitehttps://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217500 CVE Trackerhttps://cve.0xosprey.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215530 Bringing uv and ty togetherhttps://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integrationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172962 UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other odditieshttps://alexsci.com/blog/uuidv7-is-weird/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211746

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 23, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Quad9 to exit France (01:21) - eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business (02:17) - Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry. (03:15) - WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal (04:21) - Docker is weird (05:35) - Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices (06:44) - Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans (07:47) - Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you (08:38) - OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents (09:36) - LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale (10:51) - Outro Quad9 to exit Francehttps://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195959eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate businesshttps://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-businesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195110 Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50193416 WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminalhttps://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50190363 Docker is weirdhttps://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weirdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202681 Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Deviceshttps://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50196718 Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humanshttps://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-take-on-humanshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197313 Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from youhttps://edjefferson.com/localwiki/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202285 OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agentshttps://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198675 LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scalehttps://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verificationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202217

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 22, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security (01:38) - Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case (02:38) - There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability (03:44) - Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor (05:01) - mitmproxy adds --emudhra option (06:10) - Security Disclosure (07:14) - DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” (08:25) - Claude Duet (09:29) - GitLab critical patch release (10:40) - PingCap TiDB Leaks (12:02) - Outro Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening securityhttps://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-php-security/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50182987Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica casehttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184820 There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerabilityhttps://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188948 Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoorhttps://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50181114 mitmproxy adds --emudhra optionhttps://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3bhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189232 Security Disclosurehttps://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21sthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188228 DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”https://duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announcing-duckdb-200https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50181136 Claude Duethttps://claude.com/product/claude-duethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186037 GitLab critical patch releasehttps://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185869 PingCap TiDB Leakshttps://fulcrumsec.vg/pingcap/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173716

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 21, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models (01:29) - eMudhra intermediate CA compromise (02:45) - Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619) (03:57) - Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits (05:09) - Voxtral 3 (06:24) - Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads (07:30) - What shall I teach my son? (08:39) - Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case (09:40) - The Future of CSS (10:48) - Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs (11:42) - Outro DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek modelshttps://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInferhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163277eMudhra intermediate CA compromisehttps://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579 Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)https://news-web.php.net/php.announce/509https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172041 Show HN: SimCity, but with Permitshttps://permit.petercai.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50170593 Voxtral 3https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50168396 Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPadshttps://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165208 What shall I teach my son?https://stevekrouse.com/endshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169707 Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan casehttps://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167028 The Future of CSShttps://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interop-2027/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50175070 Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUshttps://github.com/google-pytorch/torch_tpuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169053

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 20, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - It's still ok to enjoy programming (01:26) - Wine ported to OpenBSD (02:32) - I built a drone with only one motor [video] (03:33) - MiniMax M3.1 Flash (04:38) - Starcraft: Ashfall (05:48) - Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand? (06:58) - WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator (08:07) - OpenBSD 8.0 (09:20) - Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier (10:19) - Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers (11:15) - Outro It's still ok to enjoy programminghttps://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programminghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134472Wine ported to OpenBSDhttps://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152307 I built a drone with only one motor [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndftcft6XhUhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150089 MiniMax M3.1 Flashhttps://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31fhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154540 Starcraft: Ashfallhttps://starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50147233 Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151036 WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulatorhttps://redact.dev/blog/whatsapp-help-pages-hidden-ai-instructionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159341 OpenBSD 8.0https://www.openbsd.org/80.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50160494 Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldierhttps://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-first-drone-evacuation-wounded-soldier-frontlines-hexacopter-rcna604310https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153664 Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurershttps://github.com/tywr/Nordwand-Monohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141581

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 19, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Someone behind the software (01:23) - Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text (02:26) - RepRapMicron (03:34) - There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video] (04:36) - macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL (05:27) - Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky (06:28) - Linux 7.3 Released (07:30) - I built a programming language that LLMs can't use (08:36) - Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform (09:44) - William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace (10:45) - Outro Someone behind the softwarehttps://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142573Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through texthttps://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18861https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145337 RepRapMicronhttps://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wikihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141076 There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136150 macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGLhttps://developer.apple.com/forums/verify-human/verify.html?next=/forums/thread/850550https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141909 Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spikyhttps://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spikyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136979 Linux 7.3 Releasedhttps://lwn.net/Articles/1101143/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149392 I built a programming language that LLMs can't usehttps://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135762 Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattformhttps://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepperhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140001 William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspacehttps://colo.to/cyberspace.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146625

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 18, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 (01:34) - Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time (02:39) - Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour (03:41) - Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG (04:44) - Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana (05:46) - Gold is now the top U.S. export (06:48) - Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust (07:43) - Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware (08:38) - NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing (09:33) - Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States (10:37) - Outro DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129045Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first timehttps://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131256 Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbourhttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03266-xhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126253 Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVGhttps://pele.run/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132193 Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furiganahttps://furifont.antfu.me/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100994 Gold is now the top U.S. exporthttps://www.numismaticnews.net/gold-now-top-u-s-exporthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132870 Making chicken transparent using Dorito dusthttps://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-usinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131213 Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardwarehttps://llmspeed.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127979 NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensinghttps://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/new-york-rep-announces-game-ownership-bill-that-would-require-consumer-ownership-rather-than-sale-of-licenses-would-also-require-publishers-to-keep-the-game-functional-after-support-endshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136536 Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United Stateshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dam-removals-are-bringing-fish-back-across-the-northeastern-united-states-striking-down-one-tiny-barrier-at-a-time-180989679/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126312

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Tesla Roadster (01:12) - Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins (02:20) - 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks (03:38) - How the Claude Code team does code review (04:42) - I love software rendering (05:52) - Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio (07:07) - You could have invented transformers from memory (08:16) - Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console (09:38) - JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases (10:52) - Ultramarine 1 Flash (11:55) - Outro Tesla Roadsterhttps://www.tesla.com/roadsterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112657Claude reveals ECDSA curve originshttps://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-originshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarkshttps://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121179 How the Claude Code team does code reviewhttps://claude.dev/blog/solving-code-review-at-anthropic/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122951 I love software renderinghttps://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2026/10/13/i-love-software-rendering/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117746 Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studiohttps://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inferencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118320 You could have invented transformers from memoryhttps://alexwang.ai/posts/associative-memory/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122878 Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the consolehttps://github.com/cobanov/PS5LMhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122431 JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-caseshttps://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120224 Ultramarine 1 Flashhttps://www.paperinstruments.com/ultramarinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106747

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Muse Spark Open (01:24) - Neural networks are clean (02:50) - Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design (03:48) - What I self-host (05:12) - Jev meets the Trolley Problem (06:13) - Someone on Torrent Sites Kept F*****g with My Sonarr (07:19) - Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video] (08:07) - Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts (09:13) - New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing (10:19) - Outro Muse Spark Openhttps://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-openhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107379Neural networks are cleanhttps://already-clean.goodfire.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105647 Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic designhttps://github.com/fyzugx/DEskhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103338 What I self-hosthttps://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715 Jev meets the Trolley Problemhttps://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106023 Someone on Torrent Sites Kept F*****g with My Sonarrhttps://thereallo.dev/blog/someone-on-torrent-sites-kept-f*****g-with-my-sonarr-setuphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108872 Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNpfz4UzqUhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065859 Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: expertshttps://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111852 New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncinghttps://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/51887047154577-Unacceptable-Apple-Health-Sync-is-now-behind-a-99-year-paywall-for-new-accountshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109375

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Things to know when you get cancer (01:17) - Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts (02:21) - How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet (03:23) - Do dentists know what they're doing? (04:18) - OpenCode 2.0 (05:26) - Tiny Little Office (06:17) - Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years (07:23) - Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? (08:18) - We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers (09:18) - Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27 (10:26) - Outro Things to know when you get cancerhttps://jjmaxwell4.com/writing/things-to-know-when-you-get-cancer/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093568Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: expertshttps://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-security-basics.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091788 How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internethttps://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084757 Do dentists know what they're doing?https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentistshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050553 OpenCode 2.0https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094994 Tiny Little Officehttps://tinylittleoffice.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50096142 Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 yearshttps://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/9/29/americans-social-activity-has-steeply-declined-in-the-past-30-yearshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089921 Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-10-13-long.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083028 We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamershttps://typesafe.ai/blog/jev-1-14https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095353 Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reusehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090369

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Gemini 4 Argon (01:33) - Redesigning source control at Anthropic (02:45) - Apple HomeView (03:51) - Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts (04:56) - OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room (05:58) - Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard (07:08) - The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s (08:10) - AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs (09:31) - MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors (10:28) - Recreational Programming (11:23) - Outro Gemini 4 Argonhttps://deepmind.google/models/gemini/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073879Redesigning source control at Anthropichttps://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-controlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633 Apple HomeViewhttps://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071017 Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto theftshttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ledger-confirms-hardware-wallet-spy-implant-behind-crypto-thefts/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054092 OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference roomhttps://sfstandard.com/2026/10/13/openai-engineer-arrested-alleged-bugging-executive-conference-room/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141 Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboardhttps://guitoro.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077020 The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970shttps://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electricity-generation-per-person-in-the-united-kingdom-has-fallen-by-a-third-from-its-early-2000s-peakhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072994 AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugshttps://github.com/android/ndk/issues/2260https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083130 MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremorshttps://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-class-project-turns-into-fda-cleared-treatment-for-tremors-1002https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061659 Recreational Programminghttps://www.cphiri.dev/presentations/recreational-programminghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079865