Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 11, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (01:45) - QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (03:00) - New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (04:40) - GPT-5.6 Sol Ult...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 10, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (01:46) - GPT-5.6 (02:58) - Show HN: 18 Words (03:58) - Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (05:10) - Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Pos...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 9, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (01:33) - Chatto is now open source (02:55) - John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (04:03) - GPT‑Live (05:23) - Grok 4.5...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 8, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time (01:29) - Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained (02:46) - Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera (04:08) - 30papers....

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 7, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router (01:42) - Resetting Xbox (03:36) - CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps (04:54) - Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter (06:22) - GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin co...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 6, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Organic Maps (01:22) - OpenPrinter (02:33) - It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (04:03) - The future of Flipper Zero development (05:12) - Has_not_been_viewed_much (06:15) - GPT-5.6 Sol Ult...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 5, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (01:44) - GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (03:18) - If you're a button, you have one job (...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 4, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Costco is the anti-Amazon (01:37) - The bottleneck might be the air in the room (02:41) - Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (03:53) - Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (05:11) - Leanstral...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 3, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Virginia bans sale of geolocation data (01:35) - Podman v6.0.0 (03:12) - Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory (04:40) - Immich 3.0 (06:19) - CarPlay Is Additive (07:32) - An Ame...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 2, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides (01:35) - A new Android malware from Google (02:52) - ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2 (04:19) - FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder (05:49) - What to learn to be a graph...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 1, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Claude Code is steganographically marking requests (01:04) - Claude Sonnet 5 (02:53) - Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (04:03) - Claude Science (05:39) - Nano Banana 2 L...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 30, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development (01:29) - 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech (02:32) - .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting (03:...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 29, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks (01:48) - Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech (03:16) - HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88 (04:36)...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 28, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days (01:40) - OpenRA (02:57) - Fintech Engineering Handbook (04:19) - The case for physical media ownership (05:37) - Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep (06:38)...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 27, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (01:31) - U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations (02:59) - We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme (04:11) - Om (...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 26, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (01:38) - Om Malik has died (02:42) - The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (04:07) - Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 25, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom (01:40) - Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (03:31) - RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers (05:05) - Krea 2...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 24, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:22) - FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model (01:48) - Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI (03:02) - Jerry's Map (04:12) - In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (05:26) - Show HN:...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 23, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:12) - Steam Machine launches today (01:44) - Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed (02:58) - Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040 (04:22) - GLM-5.2 – How...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 22, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Identity verification on Claude (01:47) - Did my old job only exist because of fraud? (03:17) - Deno Desktop (04:59) - Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI (06:26) - Help I accidentally a wigglegram (07:40...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 21, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see (01:38) - SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (03:09) - DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (04:33) -...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 20, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics (01:54) - Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school (03:16) - Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28 (04:41) - There are no instances in ATProto (06:1...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 19, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware (01:56) - .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git (03:07) - CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020) (04:23) - Show HN:...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 18, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability (01:34) - Midjourney Medical (03:14) - Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users (04:26) - US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 17, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Running local models is good now (01:33) - SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (02:57) - GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 (03:57) - Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity (04:59) - TIL: You can make HTTP reque...