Hacker News Highlights

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 tha...

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 you...

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 block...

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 (...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 16, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 Ne...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 15, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 14, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 collecte...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 13, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 A...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 12, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 11, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 10, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 A...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 9, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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-ha...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 8, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 L...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 7, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 6, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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) - C...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 5, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 Wi...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 4, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 threa...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 3, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 cite...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 2, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 Lib...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 1, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 31, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 backcha...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 Lin...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 29, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 28, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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:...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 27, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (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 dat...