Hacker News Daily — September 17, 2026
30 stories · September 17, 2026
In this issue
- 1
Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA
global.fujitsu · 449 points · Discussion
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How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
z.ai · 331 points · Discussion
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One year of sponsored Servo development
servo.org · 330 points · Discussion
Looking back on Servo's first donation-funded role. Posted 2026-09-15 Last September, the Servo project announced that long-time maintainer Josh Bowman-Matthews (@jdm) would work part-time on…
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Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
github.com · 319 points · Discussion
Your own search engine Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface,…
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CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3
events.ccc.de · 299 points · Discussion
The word is on the street: the Chaos Computer Club is hosting 40C3 from 27 to 30 December 2026 – Europe’s biggest hacker party, conference and platform for technology, society and civil liberties. We…
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Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
gowers.wordpress.com · 170 points · Discussion
[ This post has been cross-posted to Terence Tao’s blog. ] When I was around 11 I heard for the first time about Fermat’s Last Theorem. I was immediately captivated by the problem statement, as well…
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The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind
gcaptain.com · 164 points · Discussion
For more than a century, commercial shipping steadily moved away from sails. Now they are coming back. Across the global fleet, shipowners are installing towering rotor sails, rigid wings and…
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Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others
mysetup.ai · 149 points · Discussion
I kept seeing engineers share what they were building with AI; however, I was always more curious about how they worked. Which agents did they use? What skills and tools had stuck or been thrown out…
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The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
newyorker.com · 144 points · Discussion
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Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
about.gitlab.com · 121 points · Discussion
GitLab.com hosts millions of projects for teams of every size that need a platform they can rely on. Demand is climbing quickly, and we expect platform load to grow several times over this year.…
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Wax motor
en.wikipedia.org · 110 points · Discussion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A wax motor manufactured by iSwell A wax motor is a linear actuator device that converts thermal energy into mechanical energy by exploiting the phase-change…
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CrowdSec Source Code Leak
crowdsec.net · 103 points · Discussion
On September 16, CrowdSec was informed of a source code leak involving our GitHub repository, which occurred in May 2026. Our team verified and confirmed the report. CrowdSec source code consists of…
- 13
Everybody's Lost Their Minds
netmeister.org · 98 points · Discussion
September 16th, 2026 Men. Some would rather vomit up a rambling blog post wall of text that nobody's going to read than go to therapy. So here we are. I've seen my share of stupid over the years, but…
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LLM Classification Is Feature Engineering
minimallysufficient.com · 81 points · Discussion
LLMs-as-classifiers, prompts applied to a context and returning a label, suck to work with. This is especially painful because they often perform pretty decently. But let’s consider some of the things…
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Vinix – A modern operating system written in V
vinix-os.org · 80 points · Discussion
100 MB RAM usage on boot ≈1 GB of disk space after install Official support of Apple Silicon Macs Compatible with Alpine Linux binaries M3, M4, M5 support coming soon. Alpha software. Vinix is under…
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Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data
arxiv.org · 71 points · Discussion
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: The scaling laws hold that a language model grows more capable with more parameters and more training data, and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have…
- 18
Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown
blog.johnnovak.net · 70 points · Discussion
2023 Mar 5 audio gaming midi ms-dos Table of contents Introduction Meet the contestants Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 Roland Sound Canvas VA Yamaha MU80 Yamaha S-YXG50 Recording process Capturing MIDI…
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Towards Self-Driving Codebases
blog.detail.dev · 69 points · Discussion
Agents can oneshot games that are actually fun. With the right guardrails, agents can execute incredibly impressive migrations in complex codebases, even rewrites in new languages. But basically all…
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TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node
iedm26.mapyourshow.com · 54 points · Discussion
Abstract at IEDM website below ABSTRACT A14 NanoFlexTM Pro platform technology features the world’s smallest SRAM with a cell size <0.017μm2 and highest SRAM macro density to date through dimensional…
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Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet
vhaudiquet.fr · 48 points · Discussion
I own a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook, a ChromeOS 2-in-1 ARM64 tablet. I had been running ChromeOS, then postmarketOS, which suddenly broke. Time for some firmware hacking to try and get Ubuntu to…
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Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating?
joecmarshall.com · 45 points · Discussion
Cast your mind back to the early 2000s… Dating was very different. For those living pre-iPhone there was no Tinder (2012), Hinge (2013), or Bumble (2014). Primarily desktop-driven apps like OKCupid…
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T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees
nytimes.com · 37 points · Discussion
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/science/trex-dinosaur-tem... paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb7653
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How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy?
mathoverflow.net · 32 points · Discussion
Medieval mathematics was a highly personal craft, with knowledge of mathematics and methods being treated as a liability (for better and for worse) and having that knowledge was treated as secret…
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Bend
bend-lang.com · 32 points · Discussion
~/bend hub bender get Bend × 1. Install curl -fsSL https://bend-lang.com/install.sh | sh 2. Add this to your AGENTS.md When using Bend: - run `bend guide` to learn it - use `LAWS.bend` to keep…
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Launch HN: Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made portable across agents
30 points · Discussion
Hey HN, we're Nars & Nishant, founders of Skillsync ( https://skillsync.com ) Skillsync lets you move your AI chats across every coding agent. Most of our work exists as conversations, which are…
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Don't Make Job Referrals Public
blog.melashri.net · 19 points · Discussion
I am currently in the job market, so I receive some recruiter emails. Recently, I started seeing a slightly different kind of message. I posted in Hacker News' "Who wants to be hired?" thread with a…
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André Weil and the Hodge Conjecture
jiahao116.github.io · 17 points · Discussion
Articles Jiahao Cao, Munich It is said that OpenAI may very possibly have constructed a counterexample to the Hodge conjecture.André Weil was one of the earliest mathematicians to doubt the Hodge…
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Canto: A speech model built for the real world
wisprflow.ai · 14 points · Discussion
Speech recognition models have become remarkably good at transcribing clean audio recorded under controlled conditions. But real dictation rarely happens under those conditions. Millions of people use…
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Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring ASIC/FPGA Engineers to Build Chips for ASI
zscc.ai · Discussion
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