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  1. 21h ago

    9.29.26 | Sonnet 5.5, updated Google Maps shows destruction of Rafah, pirating the pirates

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 29, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Sonnet 5.5 (01:44) - Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah (03:02) - Pirating the Pirates (03:48) - It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (04:51) - Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms (06:16) - Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (07:23) - World Labs is Joining AMD (08:31) - Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream (09:37) - MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser (10:52) - California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops (12:19) - Outro Sonnet 5.5https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881850Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafahhttps://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879645 Pirating the Pirateshttps://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880036 It's Time to Investigate the AI Labshttps://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883471 Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 mshttps://github.com/firelex/jeffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883844 Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chathttps://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcripthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879697 World Labs is Joining AMDhttps://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcementhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883760 Hijacking the PS5's RTMP streamhttps://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879702 MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browserhttps://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882781 California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine dropshttps://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for-wine-dropshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883539

  2. 1d ago

    9.28.26 | Google's oddities, Nvidia stock worth a billion dollars, Ember-1

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 28, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - When did Google get so weird? (01:38) - Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (02:59) - Ember-1 (04:30) - Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (05:43) - Don't couple your Go code to GitHub (07:11) - In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life (08:24) - Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (09:26) - Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (10:33) - The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 (11:58) - Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013) (13:12) - Outro When did Google get so weird?https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stockhttps://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872723 Ember-1https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868830 Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofihttps://loficities.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869574 Don't couple your Go code to GitHubhttps://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-githubhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868404 In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of lifehttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866951 Self-Hosting on the Dark Webhttps://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870295 Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lightshttps://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866515 The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844629 Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.phphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849409

  3. 2d ago

    9.27.26 | PipePipe integrates SponsorBlock, Apple Cards origin story revisited after fifteen years, evaluating Georgism's effectiveness five years on

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 27, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (01:42) - Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story (03:01) - Does Georgism work? Five years later (04:17) - Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (05:34) - ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 (06:44) - DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (08:05) - How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs (09:37) - Go Concurrency Distilled (10:51) - OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News (12:01) - How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments (13:14) - Outro PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlockhttps://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842764Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin storyhttps://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-storyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854693 Does Georgism work? Five years laterhttps://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-laterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844657 Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place thingshttps://github.com/reladraw/reladrawhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858513 ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-in-europe-calls-on-eu-to-help-create-demandhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844663 DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859112 How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMshttps://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854875 Go Concurrency Distilledhttps://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856988 OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker Newshttps://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863864 How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignmentshttps://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836579

  4. 3d ago

    9.26.26 | OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face, Ollaya is Ollama for open-source Jev decision models, U.S. appeals court upholds Anthropic as supply chain risk

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 26, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face (01:52) - Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models (03:14) - U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk (04:39) - Plan mode is dead (06:03) - First Principles Thinking (07:15) - Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case (08:42) - What even is an OS now? (09:56) - Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (11:00) - Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality? (12:17) - Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell (13:22) - Outro Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Facehttps://swarmtraces.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision modelshttps://ollaya.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848269 U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain riskhttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845977 Plan mode is deadhttps://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840054 First Principles Thinkinghttps://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844736 Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica casehttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852302 What even is an OS now?https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850305 Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Redhttps://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845172 Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845998 Excel now supports multiple values in a single cellhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/put-multiple-values-in-one-cell-with-lists-and-arrays-in-excel/4559395https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849832

  5. 4d ago

    9.25.26 | F-Droid 2.0, cursed fonts like Times New Bastard, two-tier encryption in the UK

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 25, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - F-Droid 2.0 (01:37) - Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (02:50) - Two-tier encryption in the UK (04:17) - Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? (05:28) - Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] (06:50) - My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps (07:56) - Toyota is taking the Corolla electric (09:25) - Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design (11:05) - Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos (12:13) - Fearless SIMD v1.0 (13:34) - Outro F-Droid 2.0https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831968Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastardhttps://bastardica.mitpit.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823738 Two-tier encryption in the UKhttps://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828731 Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832938 Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817680 My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Mapshttps://ahmedhossamdev.com/writing/my-weird-new-hobby-wandering-around-tokyo/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805344 Toyota is taking the Corolla electrichttps://electrek.co/2026/09/23/toyota-best-selling-corolla-electric/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823568 Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software designhttps://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833867 Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videoshttps://launchvideo.iohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836374 Fearless SIMD v1.0https://linebender.org/blog/fearless-simd-1-0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800085

  6. 5d 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

  7. 6d 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

  8. Sep 22

    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

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