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  1. 16h ago

    10.20.26 | Programming remains enjoyable, Wine ported to OpenBSD, One motor drone built

    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

  2. 1d ago

    10.19.26 | People behind software, Agents reason in latent space, RepRapMicron

    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

  3. 2d ago

    10.18.26 | DeepSeek releases v4.1 Flash, Solar surpasses nuclear globally, Bleached corals thrive touching neighbours

    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

  4. 3d ago

    10.17.26 | Tesla Roadster, Claude reveals ECDSA origins, 90% US tasks lack AI benchmarks

    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

  5. 4d ago

    10.16.26 | Muse Spark Open, Clean neural networks, Skeuomorphic Wayland Linux desktop

    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

  6. 5d ago

    10.15.26 | Cancer diagnosis advice, AI hacking blamed on failures, Amazon raises Internet prices

    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

  7. 6d ago

    10.14.26 | Gemini 4 Argon, Anthropic redesigns source control, Apple HomeView

    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

  8. Oct 13

    10.13.26 | Hackers trigger European fridge defrosting, Modern Web App in C, GLM-Legal

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe (01:18) - A Modern Web App in C (02:39) - GLM-Legal (03:39) - AI is a tool and using it well takes skill (04:38) - Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (05:51) - Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (07:00) - The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) (08:02) - Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X (09:14) - 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker (10:15) - Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (11:23) - Outro Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europehttps://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supermarket-fridges-across-europe-as-hackers-activate-automatic-defrosting-delivery-and-store-prices-also-impacted-by-incidenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304A Modern Web App in Chttps://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-chttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058528 GLM-Legalhttps://z.ai/blog/glm-legalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058507 AI is a tool and using it well takes skillhttps://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063427 Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiverhttps://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055593 Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric agehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055220 The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041866 Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5Xhttps://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/d-series.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063365 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checkerhttps://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069499 Making big downloads resumable in Firefoxhttps://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061791

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