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13:32

10.5.26 | Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next RTX 4090 at 100T/s,...

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2026/10/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:20) - Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s (01:41) - Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back (02:58) - Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage (04:48) - What is going on with ceiling fans (05:58) - A browser-native classic

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12:59

10.4.26 | Bob Cringely obituary, budget caps for...

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2026/10/04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died (01:18) - We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (02:42) - The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux (04:16) - Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields (05:08) - So you think you could be an

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12:16

10.3.26 | Court rules Utah's VPN law impossible, Mike...

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2026/10/03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility (01:31) - Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city (02:25) - Apple Pass Designer (03:39) - FLUX 3 Image (05:02) - Extra Big Ass Intelligence (05:54) - A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets

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15:06

10.2.26 | Pi 1.0, StreetComplete on iOS public beta,...

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2026/10/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Pi 1.0 (01:46) - StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta (03:06) - Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform (04:39) - Pi Durable (06:04) - Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake (07:38) - RIP, vector database (08:53) - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered

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14:06

10.1.26 | Gemini 4 Argon, Singapore govt dating app,...

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2026/10/01

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Gemini 4 Argon (01:48) - Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm (03:32) - A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal (04:48) - Why the Bronze Age Collapsed (06:31) - The last time my family was replaced by technology (07:38) - The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites

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14:08

9.30.26 | GPT 6.1 Sol offers affordable near-Astra...

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2026/09/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 30, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (01:38) - Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (03:01) - Dots: Always-on agents (04:32) - America.gov (05:49) - How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent (07:06) - PS5 Relapse Exploit (08:22) - Ask HN: What are you reading? (09:38) -

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12:24

9.29.26 | Sonnet 5.5, updated Google Maps shows...

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2026/09/29

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

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13:22

9.28.26 | Google's oddities, Nvidia stock worth a...

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2026/09/28

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)

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13:19

9.27.26 | PipePipe integrates SponsorBlock, Apple...

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2026/09/27

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

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13:27

9.26.26 | OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face, Ollaya...

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2026/09/26

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

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13:39

9.25.26 | F-Droid 2.0, cursed fonts like Times New...

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2026/09/25

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

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13:19

9.24.26 | Italian parliament votes for nuclear...

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2026/09/24

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) -

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13:25

9.23.26 | Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Luna, OpenAI...

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2026/09/23

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

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13:27

9.22.26 | MiMo v2.6 update, importance of attention,...

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2026/09/22

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

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14:37

9.21.26 | Qwen Image 2.1, AX Google’s Open Agentic...

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2026/09/21

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

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13:53

9.20.26 | AI-generated posters improve,...

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2026/09/20

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

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14:28

9.19.26 | Android 17 adds new APIs without AOSP,...

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2026/09/19

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

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14:09

9.18.26 | Hister private search engine, Fujitsu's...

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2026/09/18

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

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13:14

9.17.26 | Nvidia announces native GPU programming in...

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2026/09/17

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) -

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14:41

9.16.26 | An e-ink frame drawing birds as 1800s...

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2026/09/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (01:42) - Introducing System One Models and Jev (03:13) - An update on Wayback Machine access (04:18) - Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption (05:39) - Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (07:18) -

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