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8.31.26 | Creepy crawlies, careful word choice, Haiku R1/beta6 release

Episode 587

Monday, August 31, 2026 • Duration 13:23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 31, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Creepy Crawlies
(02:06) - “I just chose words carefully”
(03:19) - Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
(04:27) - Hacking IKEA Furniture
(05:39) - Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
(07:02) - Understanding ChatGPT Work
(08:29) - It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
(09:36) - A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
(11:03) - Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU
(12:15) - My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures
(13:13) - Outro

Creepy Crawlies
https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791

“I just chose words carefully”
https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503601

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499867

Hacking IKEA Furniture
https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497810

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496918

Understanding ChatGPT Work
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625

It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
https://blog.vghaisas.com/rube-goldberg-doorbell/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480091

A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506182

Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU
https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478426

My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures
https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/tiny-cafe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481141

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8.30.26 | Tether enables messaging on Linux, EVE Online transitions to Python 3, lawmakers fund Flock cameras with car insurance increase

Episode 586

Sunday, August 30, 2026 • Duration 13:43

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:15) - Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux
(01:54) - EVE Online moves to Python 3
(03:07) - Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
(04:33) - California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
(06:09) - Hy4 preview
(07:38) - Glacier Mice
(08:53) - Bug Blindness
(09:49) - SQLite as a Document Database (2020)
(11:14) - Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
(12:36) - RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython
(13:38) - Outro

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux
https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49415386

EVE Online moves to Python 3
https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433328

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/

8.29.26 | GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven, GLM-5.3 is now open-weight, Htmx 4.0

Episode 585

Saturday, August 29, 2026 • Duration 13:36

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 29, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
(01:46) - GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
(02:54) - Htmx 4.0
(03:54) - U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
(05:16) - Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
(06:39) - Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
(07:44) - Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
(09:03) - Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework
(10:31) - The Twelve-Factor App (2025)
(11:50) - Migrating to HTTPX2
(13:30) - Outro

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479837

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479878

Htmx 4.0
https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478178

8.28.26 | Saving memory through DNS cache optimization, Microduck, emergence of small models

Episode 583

Friday, August 28, 2026 • Duration 13:44

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 28, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
(01:36) - Microduck
(02:48) - Small Models Have Arrived
(04:17) - 507 Mechanical Movements
(05:13) - Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
(06:30) - The turbulent AI era is here
(07:42) - Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
(09:18) - Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
(10:48) - We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
(12:11) - Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
(13:39) - Outro

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468083

Microduck
https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462763

Small Models Have Arrived
https://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466917

507 Mechanical Movements

8.27.26 | Nvidia acquires Hugging Face, GLM-5.3-Flash, CEO fires developers for AI progress

Episode 581

Thursday, August 27, 2026 • Duration 14:04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 27, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
(01:31) - GLM-5.3-Flash
(02:48) - CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
(04:01) - Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
(05:27) - U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
(06:49) - Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
(08:04) - Nebula Sans
(09:25) - An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
(11:01) - Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
(12:15) - Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
(13:59) - Outro

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458161

GLM-5.3-Flash
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449507

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive

8.26.26 | Dolly Parton has died, Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra, Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

Episode 580

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 • Duration 14:02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 26, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Dolly Parton has died
(01:33) - Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
(02:52) - Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
(04:09) - New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
(05:39) - My Friend Aaron
(06:53) - New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
(08:22) - OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
(10:03) - FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
(11:26) - Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
(12:56) - Don't Wordle
(13:56) - Outro

Dolly Parton has died
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438052

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433292

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442

8.25.26 | Europe harming makers, Xiaomi's CPU performance, MS Paint and Photos watermarking

Episode 579

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 • Duration 13:32

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 25, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
(01:58) - Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
(03:16) - MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
(04:34) - The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
(05:42) - iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
(07:02) - Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
(08:12) - Where did all the public bathrooms go?
(09:40) - SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64
(11:07) - Moon (2024)
(12:10) - Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
(13:27) - Outro

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49419237

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420873

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

8.24.26 | Reading to improve writing, Python thinking, Texas student's AI hack whistleblower

Episode 578

Monday, August 24, 2026 • Duration 13:47

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 24, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - To become a better writer, read as much as you can
(01:30) - Thinking in Python
(02:52) - How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt
(04:13) - ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
(05:44) - I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
(07:05) - MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust
(08:10) - The End of an Athlon
(09:27) - NetBSD and my life (2005)
(10:58) - The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)
(12:07) - NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
(13:37) - Outro

To become a better writer, read as much as you can
https://nappertime.com/the-golden-rule-of-becoming-a-better-writer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405870

Thinking in Python
https://thinkinginpython.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402202

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt
https://www.reuters.com/world/how-texas-student-blew-whistle-rogue-ai-hacking-attempt-2026-08-20/

8.23.26 | Canada matches US tariffs, Scrap from 2006, ElevenLabs TwelveLabs ThirteenLabs

Episode 577

Sunday, August 23, 2026 • Duration 12:57

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 23, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
(01:47) - Scrap (2006)
(03:10) - ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
(04:24) - Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
(05:34) - Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
(06:53) - Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
(07:59) - typ.ing
(08:59) - A Friendly Introduction to Racket
(10:08) - New MCP Roadmap
(11:36) - RF Cafe
(12:52) - Outro

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvyy4x2mvo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49397074

Scrap (2006)
https://twitter.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402189

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
https://quantumi.sh/public/labs.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49400408

Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

8.22.26 | Kagi adds setting for paywalled links, citizen faces felony charges for deleting phone data at US Border, Felony Bench

Episode 576

Saturday, August 22, 2026 • Duration 14:32

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 22, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
(01:35) - Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
(02:50) - Felony Bench
(04:07) - I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
(05:58) - Kobo can run apps now
(07:25) - I'm becoming AI-blind
(09:02) - AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
(10:19) - There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
(11:32) - Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
(12:58) - New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
(14:27) - Outro

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386895

Felony Bench
https://www.felonybench.com/

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