Hacker News Highlights

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 stock
https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872723
Ember-1
https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868830
Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
https://loficities.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869574
Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868404
In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866951
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870295
Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
https://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 2026
https://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.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849409

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 SponsorBlock
https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842764Fifteen 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.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 Face
https://swarmtraces.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985Ollaya – 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.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 2.0
https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831968Show 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.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 energy
https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819221Claude 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