Hacker News Highlights

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 Rusthttps://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 Postgreshttps://rohanbansal.com/qorlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49731285Small programming trickshttps://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729000Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboardhttps://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732270AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iranhttps://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/aws-says-it-cant-restore-some-data-from-mideast-facilities-struck-by-iran-ddcb7e5dhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719249Performance Improvements in .NET 11https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711424Backups Aren't Simplehttps://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732513Reversing Factorio's RNGhttps://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674451The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reservehttps://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reservehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719596Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338https://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 illustrationshttps://github.com/arnegiacomo/fuglerammehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711544Introducing System One Models and Jevhttps://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jevhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717558An update on Wayback Machine accesshttps://blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/an-update-on-wayback-machine-access/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716176Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruptionhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ly49w9g1edohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710253Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinkinghttps://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=49715947Let's make quality the norm againhttps://www.forbrukerradet.no/short-life/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710109Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLitehttps://withcapsule.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712278Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Monthhttps://codyho.dev/blog/gpu-driver/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717638We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHubhttps://www.strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeoverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716476Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photographyhttps://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 $1059https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steamframehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700661XCancel service is suspended until further noticehttps://xcancel.com/#https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694296iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/major-updates-for-apples-software-platforms-are-now-available/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701004OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerabilityhttps://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695876Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomouslyhttps://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700477Distributed Systems Classics (2017)https://nvartolomei.com/dist-sys-classics/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699158Charts built for Chathttps://dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-built-for-chat/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704246A beginning for mathematicshttps://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/13/a-beginning-for-mathematics/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49698699Principles for Fast Tokio Applicationshttps://dial9-rs.github.io/blog/principles-for-fast-tokio-applications/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49698607I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guineahttps://notnottalmud.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-stop-thinking-about-papuahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708431

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (01:34) - Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (02:53) - Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (04:17) - Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (05:37) - Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (06:41) - Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) (07:51) - Julia 1.13 highlights (09:00) - Apple's Dimensional Drawings (10:29) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) (11:41) - The case against JPEG XL (13:08) - Outro Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipherhttps://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distichhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688695Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-adshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686445Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-of-alignmenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684393Data collected by cars and sold to third partieshttps://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-datahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683953Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofshttps://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689048Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)https://spaceships.treybastian.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638510Julia 1.13 highlightshttps://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642645Apple's Dimensional Drawingshttps://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690174Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686380The case against JPEG XLhttps://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690554

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - We must pace the frontier (01:36) - LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' (03:17) - Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (04:39) - Nvidia is the central bank of AI (05:58) - Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap (07:05) - Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (08:29) - Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (10:03) - Apple iPod Engraver (2019) (11:07) - Stabilizing Rust's Never Type (12:39) - Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine (14:02) - Outro We must pace the frontierhttps://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontierhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/lg-strongly-denies-tv-security-claims-says-tracking-and-snooping-concerns-not-true-online-investigation-claims-216-000-000-spy-tvs-record-audiohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645480Everyone should slow down AI development except for mehttps://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/everyone-slowdown-but-me/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678683Nvidia is the central bank of AIhttps://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/09/03/nvidia-is-the-central-bank-of-aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673098Make your first edit to OpenStreetMaphttps://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674050Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebaseshttps://withspecific.com/benchmarks/real-swehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676820Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinatinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678969Apple iPod Engraver (2019)https://dunstanorchard.com/apple-ipod-engraver/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619848Stabilizing Rust's Never Typehttps://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1091015/d9e48318ed242b41/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49625056Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Enginehttps://eiln.github.io/posts/ane-dma.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636479