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10.13.26 | Hackers trigger European fridge defrosting, Modern Web App in C, GLM-Legal

October 13, 2026 · 11 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket…
10.12.26 | Passkeys are a trap, Total Annihilation modernized, LLM capability understanding gap widens

October 12, 2026 · 12 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Passkeys are a trap (01:20) - Total Annihilation…
10.11.26 | 2D Vehicles, The Lightbulb Computer, City building game resists development

October 11, 2026 · 11 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - 2D Vehicles (01:18) - The Lightbulb Computer (02:25) - A…
10.10.26 | Cloudflare acquires Deno, Triple-A Minesweeper game, Sorry I'm in a meeting

October 10, 2026 · 13 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Cloudflare acquires Deno (01:25) - Triple-A…
10.9.26 | DeepSeek 4.1 Flash industry calm, Whistle speech to text compact, Man's parents coffee machine data usage

October 9, 2026 · 14 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1…

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10.8.26 | Margaret Hamilton's death, Claude Haiku 5.5, GPT‑6 and universal Intelligent UI

October 8, 2026 · 13 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Margaret Hamilton has died (01:20) - Claude Haiku…
10.7.26 | Mistral Large 4, sharing AI progress in mathematics, EmbeddingGemma 2

October 7, 2026 · 14 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Mistral Large 4 (01:41) - Sharing AI progress in…
10.6.26 | Web Search API, Beam open-weight model, Opus 5.5 agents find room-temperature magnetic semiconductors

October 6, 2026 · 13 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Web Search API (01:25) - Beam: Reflection's 501B…
10.5.26 | Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next RTX 4090 at 100T/s, turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 for disk space, improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

October 5, 2026 · 14 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX…
10.4.26 | Bob Cringely obituary, budget caps for everything, Valve's Timur Kristóf improves AMD GPUs on Linux

October 4, 2026 · 13 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died (01:18) - We're going to…
10.3.26 | Court rules Utah's VPN law impossible, Mike Tomlin built Minecraft city, Apple Pass Designer

October 3, 2026 · 12 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical…
10.2.26 | Pi 1.0, StreetComplete on iOS public beta, Clef open-weight decision models and RL fine-tuning platform

October 2, 2026 · 15 min

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Pi 1.0 (01:46) - StreetComplete on iOS is now in public…