Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

(01:44) - Keep Our Servers Running

(02:40) - Asahi Linux on M3

(04:03) - An Alien Mind

(05:07) - GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

(06:38) - It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

(07:46) - Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

(09:16) - Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

(10:26) - Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?

(11:43) - LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

(12:58) - Outro

Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5b2673438e5fb39fcc4a3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588988Keep Our Servers Running
https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this-september/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593563
Asahi Linux on M3
https://asahilinux.org/2026/09/m2-episode-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586698
An Alien Mind
https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588080
GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225539756835649
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590512
It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2026/anubis-wasm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590611
Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591876
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587217
Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577129
LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-audio-with-screen-off-and-snooping-on-local-devices.1391214.0.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594878

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:15) - Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

(01:27) - Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

(03:02) - Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

(04:11) - Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

(05:30) - The revolt of the reader

(06:53) - The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

(08:08) - LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

(09:33) - Learn Programming with OCaml

(10:43) - GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

(12:08) - Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

(13:38) - Outro

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-andoya-spaceport-spectrum-rocket
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580369
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581870
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582000
The revolt of the reader
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580939
The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576386
LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580164
Learn Programming with OCaml
https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/lpo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578280
GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
https://openai.robocurve.org/gpt-6-astra/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582582
Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory
https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/visualizing-rusts-vtables-how-dyn-trait-works-in-memory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576343

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

(01:56) - Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

(03:15) - Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

(04:33) - Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

(06:05) - Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

(07:23) - Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

(08:12) - Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

(09:27) - IBM Bob

(10:45) - Can AI design circuit boards yet?

(12:12) - GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

(13:28) - Outro

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
https://collusion.wiki/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506
Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570669
Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
https://news.gallup.com/poll/713933/record-high-say-government-corruption-widespread.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570772
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579
Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
https://opentrailpaper.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567437
Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
https://www.statichost.eu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569896
IBM Bob
https://bob.ibm.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563851
Can AI design circuit boards yet?
https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569366
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570545

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - .name Termination

(01:46) - GPT-6 Astra

(03:33) - Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

(04:50) - Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

(06:06) - The browser's main thread is expensive

(07:32) - The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

(08:57) - Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

(10:14) - K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

(11:46) - Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

(13:11) - Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

(14:23) - Outro

.name Termination
https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550772GPT-6 Astra
https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554643
Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
https://anyhumanever.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550698
Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554520
The browser's main thread is expensive
https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522137
The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526453
Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544762
K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551760
Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
https://babyloniantwins.com/blog/porting-a-1993-amiga-game-to-godot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550375
Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552572

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

(02:05) - Muse Spark 1.3

(03:25) - Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

(04:38) - Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

(06:12) - Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

(07:39) - Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

(08:44) - Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them

(10:08) - Exit the Cave

(11:22) - Fable 5.1 World Modeling

(12:42) - Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

(13:51) - Outro

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537553Muse Spark 1.3
https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541256
Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-for-training
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535284
Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536375
Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537131
Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-particle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536079
Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them
https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535548
Exit the Cave
https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536606
Fable 5.1 World Modeling
https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541458
Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508608