Hacker News Highlights

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

(02:02) - How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

(03:21) - Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

(04:37) - The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

(06:04) - Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS

(07:03) - Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga

(08:05) - The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

(09:15) - True Rate of Unemployment

(10:42) - FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

(11:56) - Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s

(13:20) - Outro

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525378How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
https://danluu.com/zitron/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526069
Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ad-blocker-on-ios/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521973
The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396
Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS
https://ambientcss.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523387
Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga
https://moviescenemap.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524320
The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
https://ersc.io/blog/martin-joins-ersc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525297
True Rate of Unemployment
https://www.lisep.org/tru
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530989
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621
Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s
https://github.com/carloslfu/slotstream
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524447

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Playa Phone

(01:23) - I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

(02:38) - Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

(03:44) - Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

(05:07) - Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

(06:42) - Fastpotify

(07:49) - I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

(09:11) - A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

(10:23) - Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

(11:26) - GPU World

(12:50) - Outro

Playa Phone
https://playaphone.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510514I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-system-with-birdnet-go/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511856
Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx2BHHWtE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503521
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortress-is-getting-the-mother-of-all-magic-updates-extending-to-the-fundamental-cosmological-makeup-of-the-universe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467636
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508982
Fastpotify
https://fastpotify.rocks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517448
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508506
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512975
Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
https://datacolada.org/138
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516199
GPU World
https://www.gpuworld.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517584

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 31, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Creepy Crawlies

(02:06) - “I just chose words carefully”

(03:19) - Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

(04:27) - Hacking IKEA Furniture

(05:39) - Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

(07:02) - Understanding ChatGPT Work

(08:29) - It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell

(09:36) - A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

(11:03) - Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

(12:15) - My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures

(13:13) - Outro

Creepy Crawlies
https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791“I just chose words carefully”
https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503601
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499867
Hacking IKEA Furniture
https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497810
Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496918
Understanding ChatGPT Work
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
https://blog.vghaisas.com/rube-goldberg-doorbell/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480091
A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506182
Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU
https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478426
My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures
https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/tiny-cafe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481141