Hacker News Highlights

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 discovered in 100 years

(10:08) - Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

(11:21) - Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash

(12:56) - Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

(14:23) - Outro

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758736Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
https://try.cloudflare.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754785
OpenJev
https://openjev.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752041
Saving another 100TB of RAM
https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758580
Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud
https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750694
Minimal Phone 2
https://minimalcompany.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749369
The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-100-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744704
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763697
Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash
https://cactuscompute.com/needle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748553
Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug
https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757050

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 Smaller Footprint

(06:56) - Wax motor

(08:10) - A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos

(09:36) - Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter

(11:19) - Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash

(12:40) - How to Write with an LLM

(14:04) - Outro

Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
https://github.com/asciimoo/hister
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743097Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA
https://global.fujitsu/en-global/pr/news/2026/09/14-02
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715813
Astra for Law
https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745940
Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
https://bend-lang.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746163
Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-2-27b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746618
Wax motor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_motor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726007
A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749656
Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738091
Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-omni-flash
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747925
How to Write with an LLM
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747070

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) - Performance Improvements in .NET 11

(08:13) - Backups Aren't Simple

(09:16) - Reversing Factorio's RNG

(10:50) - The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

(11:57) - Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

(13:09) - Outro

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724881Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
https://rohanbansal.com/qorl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49731285
Small programming tricks
https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729000
Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard
https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732270
AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/aws-says-it-cant-restore-some-data-from-mideast-facilities-struck-by-iran-ddcb7e5d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719249
Performance Improvements in .NET 11
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711424
Backups Aren't Simple
https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732513
Reversing Factorio's RNG
https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674451
The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719596
Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732931

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) - Let's make quality the norm again

(08:49) - Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

(10:28) - Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

(11:49) - We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub

(13:08) - Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography

(14:36) - Outro

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711544Introducing System One Models and Jev
https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717558
An update on Wayback Machine access
https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/an-update-on-wayback-machine-access/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716176
Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ly49w9g1edo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710253
Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715947
Let's make quality the norm again
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/short-life/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710109
Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
https://withcapsule.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712278
Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
https://codyho.dev/blog/gpu-driver/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717638
We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub
https://www.strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeover
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716476
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
https://security.apple.com/blog/apple-reference-image/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721322

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Steam Frame starts at $1059

(01:41) - XCancel service is suspended until further notice

(03:09) - iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

(04:44) - OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability

(06:05) - Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

(07:36) - Distributed Systems Classics (2017)

(08:40) - Charts built for Chat

(10:07) - A beginning for mathematics

(11:17) - Principles for Fast Tokio Applications

(12:36) - I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea

(13:52) - Outro

Steam Frame starts at $1059
https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steamframe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700661XCancel service is suspended until further notice
https://xcancel.com/#
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694296
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/major-updates-for-apples-software-platforms-are-now-available/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701004
OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695876
Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700477
Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
https://nvartolomei.com/dist-sys-classics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699158
Charts built for Chat
https://dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-built-for-chat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704246
A beginning for mathematics
https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/13/a-beginning-for-mathematics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49698699
Principles for Fast Tokio Applications
https://dial9-rs.github.io/blog/principles-for-fast-tokio-applications/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49698607
I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
https://notnottalmud.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-stop-thinking-about-papua
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708431