Hacker News Highlights

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 23, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Claude Opus 5.5

(01:44) - GPT-6 Sol and Luna

(03:19) - OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

(04:40) - Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

(05:50) - 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

(06:48) - How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

(08:03) - Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

(09:20) - OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev

(10:48) - Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

(12:07) - SAML: A fractal of bad design

(13:19) - Outro

Claude Opus 5.5
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803892GPT-6 Sol and Luna
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801324
Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806430
'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805278
How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/18/how-did-amd-ryzen-get-50-faster-in-two-years/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758709
Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
https://foxscript.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808023
OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
https://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2026/09/21/will-openai-eat-jevs-lunch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802161
Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804316
SAML: A fractal of bad design
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/21/saml-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806335

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 22, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - MiMo v2.6

(01:22) - Attention is all you have

(02:41) - I don't want to read what you didn't write

(04:05) - What Sun got wrong

(05:12) - Grok 4.7

(06:39) - Spymarks, Not Watermarks

(08:02) - Transformers Explained Visually

(09:27) - NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

(10:39) - AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

(11:53) - Python Workers are now generally available

(13:22) - Outro

MiMo v2.6
https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792730Attention is all you have
https://alicegg.tech/2026/09/21/attention
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787726
I don't want to read what you didn't write
https://blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-to-read-what-you-didnt-write/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794330
What Sun got wrong
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/what-sun-got-wrong/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787436
Grok 4.7
https://x.ai/news/grok-4-7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49788838
Spymarks, Not Watermarks
https://brand.io/article/spymarks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794615
Transformers Explained Visually
https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792342
NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-return-mission-dead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791939
AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
https://linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck-reworked
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792067
Python Workers are now generally available
https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-ga/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787142

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 21, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:23) - Qwen Image 2.1

(01:38) - AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

(02:50) - Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

(04:42) - What happened to the Snowden archive

(06:14) - Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors

(07:29) - Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

(09:06) - I am often wrong

(10:20) - The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)

(11:40) - Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

(13:05) - Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?

(14:26) - Outro

Qwen Image 2.1
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775499AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
https://agentexecutor.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780797
Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778029
What happened to the Snowden archive
https://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archive
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780820
Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
https://reclaimthenet.org/spain-blocks-archive-today-and-mirrors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772961
Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits
https://www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is-paying-people-to-put-down-their-phones-and-read-books
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776717
I am often wrong
https://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777467
The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)
https://datagubbe.se/crt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768336
Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
https://toolguyd.com/sherline-tools-shutting-down-usa-production/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776627
Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/why-do-we-need-human-mathematicians-anymore/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774521