Hacker News Highlights

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

(00:00) - Intro

(00:20) - A misalignment of AI in mathematics

(01:49) - OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

(03:29) - Claude is only available to people over 18 years

(04:45) - I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

(05:57) - The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

(07:16) - google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

(08:39) - Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants

(09:56) - Logo Programming

(11:07) - A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

(12:18) - GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released

(13:27) - Outro

A misalignment of AI in mathematics
https://mathandai.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662371OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
https://www.rubyhack.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666735
Claude is only available to people over 18 years
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15171100-age-assurance-on-claude
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656225
I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
https://dayzlegame.com/blog/google-ads-bot-farm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662990
The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution
https://capitalbnews.org/data-centers-permit-rules-epa/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662672
google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668386
Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r6y4me2g6o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652105
Logo Programming
https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/logo_programming.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622406
A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-space-async-await/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626718
GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Messaging/releases/tag/13
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663373

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

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

(01:38) - More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

(03:12) - Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

(04:27) - Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

(05:48) - Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

(07:19) - Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)

(08:39) - Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?

(10:05) - OpenAI Agents API

(11:26) - Neki – Sharded Postgres

(13:00) - Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

(14:13) - Outro

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643982More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240535270608201
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639408
Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
https://rustfoundation.org/media/guest-post-rust-is-tier-1-language-at-microsoft/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643546
Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/hands-off-my-cables/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645393
Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645443
Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Manipulating_Satellite_Photos_Now_Reveals_Ancient_Images
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645437
Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra-why/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654229
OpenAI Agents API
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649213
Neki – Sharded Postgres
https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-neki
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645686
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647134

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

(00:00) - Intro

(00:16) - iPhone Duo

(01:55) - Shopify acquires Tailwind

(03:11) - What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

(04:18) - AirPods 5

(05:50) - Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

(07:02) - GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

(08:33) - How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

(09:35) - No Man's Sky Cosmos

(11:15) - iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

(12:52) - DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

(13:39) - Outro

iPhone Duo
https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630931Shopify acquires Tailwind
https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626190
What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49614280
AirPods 5
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-active-noise-cancellation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630253
Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624823
GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627370
How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624856
No Man's Sky Cosmos
https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628493
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630151
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2097930608790167907
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639090

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

(00:00) - Intro

(00:14) - On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

(01:50) - AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA

(02:53) - We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

(04:08) - Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

(05:27) - I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

(07:00) - DaVinci Resolve 21.1

(07:46) - Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

(08:54) - How to build a printer

(10:06) - Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

(11:40) - Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

(12:40) - Outro

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613262AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/alphagenome-atlas/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611251
We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
https://lanparty.house/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579443
Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
https://ai.meta.com/muse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615537
I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610631
DaVinci Resolve 21.1
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20260908-03
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610181
Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117237320796901560
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616968
How to build a printer
https://nishantjosh.dev/blogs/how-to-build-a-fking-printer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617255
Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
https://quesma.com/blog/qwen38-27b-quantizations-benchmarked/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611128
Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117231186011306184
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622042

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:16) - 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

(01:39) - Mistral raises €3B

(03:03) - Jellyfin 12.0

(04:25) - I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s

(05:51) - WeatherNext 3

(07:12) - Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

(08:22) - Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

(10:38) - We have a year to fix security everywhere

(11:59) - TALA Is Open-Source

(13:21) - Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world

(14:35) - Outro

216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592375Mistral raises €3B
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605767
Jellyfin 12.0
https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-12.0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604861
I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s
https://mcpherrin.ca/2026/09/07/rsa.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604637
WeatherNext 3
https://deepmind.google/science/weathernext/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552299
Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)
https://lax-skyline.parcelscope.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49601655
Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915
We have a year to fix security everywhere
https://jyn.dev/a-year-to-fix-security/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605691
TALA Is Open-Source
https://d2lang.com/blog/tala-is-open-source/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604150
Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-08-28-scientists-observe-einsteins-gravity-in-the-quantum-world
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569838