Hacker News Highlights

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  Episode #602

  9.15.26 | Steam Frame starts at 1059, XCancel service suspended, iOS 27 iPadOS 27 macOS 27

  Sep 15, 202614 min

  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 agent designed to run any company autonomously (07:36) - Distributed Systems Classics (2017) (08:40) - Charts built for Chat (10:07) - A beginning for mathematics (11:17) - Principles for Fast Tokio Applications (12:36) - I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea (13:52) - Outro Steam Frame starts at $1059 https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steamframe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700661 XCancel service is suspended until further notice https://xcancel.com/# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694296 iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/major-updates-for-apples-software-platforms-are-now-available/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701004 OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695876 Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700477 Distributed Systems Classics (2017) https://nvartolomei.com/dist-sys-classics/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699158 Charts built for Chat https://dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-built-for-chat/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704246 A beginning for mathematics https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/13/a-beginning-for-mathematics/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49698699 Principles for Fast Tokio Applications https://dial9-rs.github.io/blog/principles-for-fast-tokio-applications/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49698607 I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea https://notnottalmud.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-stop-thinking-about-papua https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708431

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  Episode #601

  9.14.26 | Fable 5.1 solves a 370-year-old cipher, Google still serves dodgy ads, Astra and Fable work on alignment evals from 2025

  Sep 14, 202613 min

  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 collected by cars and sold to third parties (05:37) - Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (06:41) - Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) (07:51) - Julia 1.13 highlights (09:00) - Apple's Dimensional Drawings (10:29) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) (11:41) - The case against JPEG XL (13:08) - Outro Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688695 Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686445 Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-of-alignment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684393 Data collected by cars and sold to third parties https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683953 Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689048 Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) https://spaceships.treybastian.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638510 Julia 1.13 highlights https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642645 Apple's Dimensional Drawings https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690174 Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686380 The case against JPEG XL https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690554

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  Episode #600

  9.13.26 | Pacing the frontier, LG denies TV spying claims, slowing AI development debated

  Sep 13, 202614 min

  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 AI (05:58) - Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap (07:05) - Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (08:29) - Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (10:03) - Apple iPod Engraver (2019) (11:07) - Stabilizing Rust's Never Type (12:39) - Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine (14:02) - Outro We must pace the frontier https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510 LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/lg-strongly-denies-tv-security-claims-says-tracking-and-snooping-concerns-not-true-online-investigation-claims-216-000-000-spy-tvs-record-audio https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645480 Everyone should slow down AI development except for me https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/everyone-slowdown-but-me/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678683 Nvidia is the central bank of AI https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/09/03/nvidia-is-the-central-bank-of-ai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673098 Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674050 Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases https://withspecific.com/benchmarks/real-swe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676820 Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678969 Apple iPod Engraver (2019) https://dunstanorchard.com/apple-ipod-engraver/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619848 Stabilizing Rust's Never Type https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1091015/d9e48318ed242b41/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49625056 Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine https://eiln.github.io/posts/ane-dma.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636479

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  Episode #599

  9.12.26 | A misalignment of AI in mathematics, OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems, Claude available to over 18s

  Sep 12, 202614 min

  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 the installs were robots (05:57) - The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution (07:16) - google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update (08:39) - Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants (09:56) - Logo Programming (11:07) - A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await (12:18) - GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released (13:27) - Outro A misalignment of AI in mathematics https://mathandai.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662371 OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems https://www.rubyhack.ai/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666735 Claude is only available to people over 18 years https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15171100-age-assurance-on-claude https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656225 I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots https://dayzlegame.com/blog/google-ads-bot-farm/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662990 The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution https://capitalbnews.org/data-centers-permit-rules-epa/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662672 google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668386 Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r6y4me2g6o https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652105 Logo Programming https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/logo_programming.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622406 A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-space-async-await/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626718 GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Messaging/releases/tag/13 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663373

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  Episode #598

  9.11.26 | Shopify switches from React Native to Swift and Kotlin, questions arise about trusting OpenAI with unpublished math, Rust becomes tier-1 language at Microsoft

  Sep 11, 202614 min

  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 anyone take away your big box of cables (05:48) - Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra (07:19) - Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025) (08:39) - Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? (10:05) - OpenAI Agents API (11:26) - Neki – Sharded Postgres (13:00) - Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom (14:13) - Outro Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643982 More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240535270608201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639408 Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft https://rustfoundation.org/media/guest-post-rust-is-tier-1-language-at-microsoft/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643546 Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/hands-off-my-cables/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645393 Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645443 Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025) https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Manipulating_Satellite_Photos_Now_Reveals_Ancient_Images https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645437 Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra-why/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654229 OpenAI Agents API https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649213 Neki – Sharded Postgres https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-neki https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645686 Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647134

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