Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-09-19

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending September 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• We must pace the frontier
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• Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
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• Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
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• Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
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• XCancel service is suspended until further notice
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• Steam Frame starts at $1059
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• iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
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• I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
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• 25 years of mass surveillance is enough
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• Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
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• Introducing System One Models and Jev
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• Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
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• Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
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• OpenJev
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• Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
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• I don't like passkeys
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• Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
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• Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
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• AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
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• I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-09-12

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending September 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
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• Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
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• 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
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• Keep Our Servers Running
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• LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
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• Mistral raises €3B
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• Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
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• On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
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• So you want to use OpenRouter?
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• Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
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• Shopify acquires Tailwind
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• iPhone Duo
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• DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
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• More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
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• Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
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• Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
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• Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
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• A misalignment of AI in mathematics
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• I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
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• OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-09-05

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending September 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Creepy Crawlies
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• California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
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• “I just chose words carefully”
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• Playa Phone
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• Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
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• Fastpotify
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• AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
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• Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
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• How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
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• Hang on to Your Firefox
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• A note on subscription prices from LWN
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• Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
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• Muse Spark 1.3
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• Audacity 4.0
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• .name Termination
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• Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
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• GPT-6 Astra
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• Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
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• Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
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• Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-08-29

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
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• Everything I own, owned
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• How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
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• Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
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• MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
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• Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
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• New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
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• Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
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• Dolly Parton has died
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• AWS Acquires DuckLabs
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• GLM-5.3-Flash
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• U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
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• Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
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• CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
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• Small Models Have Arrived
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• Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
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• Htmx 4.0
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• GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
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• GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
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• Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-08-22

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Claude: System Prompts
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• Being ambitious and being a dad
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• Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
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• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
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• Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
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• AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
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• Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
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• The Amazon tax
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• I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
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• OpenLogi
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• A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
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• HTML Can Do That
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• OpenRouter is joining Stripe
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• Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
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• Don't paste the AI, please
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• AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
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• Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
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• Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
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• Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
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• Felony Bench
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