Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

(01:18) - A Modern Web App in C

(02:39) - GLM-Legal

(03:39) - AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

(04:38) - Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

(05:51) - Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

(07:00) - The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)

(08:02) - Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X

(09:14) - 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

(10:15) - Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

(11:23) - Outro

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supermarket-fridges-across-europe-as-hackers-activate-automatic-defrosting-delivery-and-store-prices-also-impacted-by-incident
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304A Modern Web App in C
https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058528
GLM-Legal
https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058507
AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063427
Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver
https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055593
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055220
The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)
https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041866
Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/d-series.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063365
11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069499
Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061791

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:16) - Passkeys are a trap

(01:20) - Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

(02:29) - The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

(03:47) - NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

(04:50) - Fingerprints are the new cookies

(06:00) - Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

(07:22) - Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth

(08:34) - So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion?

(09:24) - Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

(10:18) - Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

(11:34) - Outro

Passkeys are a trap
https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048312Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
https://nanolathe.gg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045984
The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047422
NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
https://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045946
Fingerprints are the new cookies
https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048642
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043026
Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c64g1l5389kvo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054207
So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion?
https://theonion.com/archivehunt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047055
Cartographers of North Korea (2019)
https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047091
Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/linux-phones-alternative/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051530

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - 2D Vehicles

(01:18) - The Lightbulb Computer

(02:25) - A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

(03:21) - Build your own decision model

(04:32) - Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

(05:49) - 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

(06:44) - Nix wrote half of my debugger

(07:46) - Knuth reward check

(08:42) - Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

(09:56) - Unikernels were hard. key word: were

(11:12) - Outro

2D Vehicles
https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991852The Lightbulb Computer
https://lightbulbcomputer.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029487
A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
https://housing.over.pizza/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036864
Build your own decision model
https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037949
Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier
https://github.com/rociiu/talorys
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031614
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
https://status.yandex.cloud/en/incidents/2136
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50040547
Nix wrote half of my debugger
https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/07/nix-wrote-half-of-my-debugger
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017247
Knuth reward check
https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034081
Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/10/07/microsoft-execution-containers-policy-driven-containment-for-ai-agents/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016956
Unikernels were hard. key word: were
https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033357

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

(00:00) - Intro

(00:15) - Cloudflare acquires Deno

(01:25) - Triple-A Minesweeper

(02:36) - Sorry, I'm in a meeting

(03:44) - Our $445M Series D

(05:04) - YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

(06:23) - REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

(07:35) - Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

(09:01) - Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

(10:11) - 'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone

(11:16) - Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

(12:41) - Outro

Cloudflare acquires Deno
https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019911Triple-A Minesweeper
https://minesweeper.mikelacher.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50022292
Sorry, I'm in a meeting
https://iminafleeting.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018088
Our $445M Series D
https://oxide.computer/blog/our-445m-series-d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50020014
YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
https://gizmodo.com/youtuber-says-cops-paid-him-a-visit-after-he-built-flock-style-camera-to-track-cops-2000824306
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026555
REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
https://rea.tools/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028275
Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
https://typesafe.ai/blog/series-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023450
Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
https://carrierexplode.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024499
'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-and-gromit-90-alone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50020533
Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
https://beaksec.github.io/posts/telegram-desktop-one-click-account-takeover/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029123

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

(01:55) - Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

(03:16) - Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

(04:44) - I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

(06:04) - Yes, and

(07:16) - Theranos.world

(08:15) - ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)

(09:25) - OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

(10:55) - Beauty in DVD Menus

(12:17) - Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

(13:36) - Outro

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000488Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008427
Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-in-10-days-3416399/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49995495
I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49986882
Yes, and
https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003796
Theranos.world
https://www.theranos.world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50009295
ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1697900/full
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011928
OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002650
Beauty in DVD Menus
https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005527
Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985548