Hacker News Daily — September 23, 2026

26 stories · September 23, 2026

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In this issue

1

Jev in 25 Lines of Python

nobodywho.ai · 574 points · Discussion

Everyone and their mom is talking about Jev. Jev this, Jev that. Everyone on Twitter is all over Jev, how it's the next frontier of large language models and the AI paradigm. We don’t really think so.…
2

Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

blog.szypowi.cz · 421 points · Discussion

Claude Code 2.1.277 announced support for AGENTS.md. In a project with no CLAUDE.md, it is supposed to read AGENTS.md instead. I keep telemetry off in my shell, and in my repos the file never loaded.…
3

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

apnews.com · 369 points · Discussion

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4

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

pointinthecloud.com · 323 points · Discussion

Written on 11th April 2026 I got a message from a friend today which read along the lines of "I know we were going to meet in Edinburgh today, but do you fancy meeting in Portobello instead and trying…
5

I don't want the details

michaelheap.com · 295 points · Discussion

A few months ago I was dragged into a call with my engineering counterpart and their boss (who happens to be our SVP of engineering). Something had gone wrong that shouldn't have. Nothing…
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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

anthropic.com · 272 points · Discussion

We’re introducing a new life sciences research group and laboratory at Anthropic. Our focus is on fundamental biology research using Claude: exploring datasets of DNA to identify uncharacterized…
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Transit rewards

waymo.com · 243 points · Discussion

Today, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards…
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Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries

advocacy.consumerreports.org · 228 points · Discussion

If signed, Seattle will become the first city in the nation to prohibit the pricing tactic Seattle, Washington – The Seattle City Council today passed the Fair Pricing and Transparency Act (CB…
9

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

blog.google · 199 points · Discussion

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are our most expressive audio generation models yet. Generate custom character voices and direct scene dialogue across Google AI Studio, Gemini API,…
10

Tokens too cheap to meter

jyn.dev · 189 points · Discussion

The price of using machine learning intelligence is decreasing by several orders of magnitude a year and shows no signs of slowing. We are likely to see LLMs integrated into every part of computing as…
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28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

unlisted.careers · 170 points · Discussion

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Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

stripe.dev · 153 points · Discussion

[ B ]  Blog [ E ]  Events [ D ]  Docs [ Y ]  Youtube [ G ]  Github [ M ]  Meetups [ U ]  Community / Metadata Date: 2026.7.30 Authors: Anna Mason Sharadh…
13

Z80 REPL (2018)

abagames.github.io · 127 points · Discussion

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14

Strands Harness

strandsagents.com · 120 points · Discussion

We noticed builders often wished their Claude Code or Codex setup could run in the cloud because locally their agent idea just “worked” with those harnesses. But the moment you build your own agent,…
15

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told

bbc.com · 96 points · Discussion

Getty Images It comes as the UK unveils a new unit dedicated to defending the UK's satellites in space - named the Space Effects Squadron The British military has been jamming or blocking satellites…
16

Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol

radicle.dev · 95 points · Discussion

Radicle is a peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration stack built on Git. 23.09.2026 Summary What happened? Two critical security vulnerabilities in the network protocol used by Radicle nodes were…
17

How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks

claude.dev · 83 points · Discussion

This August, we made the core user experience of claude.ai and the Claude desktop app about 3x faster in a two-week sprint. Users had been telling us it was slow, and they were right. We ran…
18

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

devblogs.microsoft.com · 62 points · Discussion

For the two decades of Windows, the scroll bar control had just a few basic operations. (For expository purposes, let’s assume that the scroll bar is vertical.) There are five mouse targets: The…
19

Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963

github.com · 35 points · Discussion

Web-based emulator and operating environment for the IBM 1620 Model-2 computer system. The IBM 1620 was a 1960s transistorized, decimal, variable field-length, magnetic-core memory computer system…
20

LensVLM-9B by Apple

huggingface.co · 18 points · Discussion

Abstract Vision-Language Models can process text as rendered images, but accuracy degrades with compression; LensVLM addresses this by scanning compressed images and selectively expanding relevant…
21

Why Omarchy Exists

mikael.pika.page · 16 points · Discussion

Thank me, I just listened to a 5 hour interview with DHH so you don’t have to. I would sum it up as a never-ending serenade to the current love of his life: the large language model and the agentic…
22

Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in boot sector

github.com · 12 points · Discussion

Hello HN! On these weekends, I was sitting and thinking about where our industry is going, and how fun it was earlier, when we wrote more code than chat messages. The thoughts quickly turned into a…
23

Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS

blog.matthewbrunelle.com · 9 points · Discussion

I pulled this out of my non-obvious nixos config piece into its own post. Oh no, I'm going to talk about swap, zram, zswap... Whether to use swap is a perennial fight online. The conversation is often…
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Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes

forensicdbg.com · 9 points · Discussion

Hello HN! I've spent years debugging Windows crashes with tools that were either friendly but limited (e.g. Visual Studio) or powerful but archaic (e.g. WinDbg). I developed patterns and methods for…
25

Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams

atlas-sysdes.vercel.app · 6 points · Discussion

Designs 15 Worked problems, ranked by how often they come up. The first five cover most of what gets asked. 01 Twitter / Instagram Feed A home timeline serving 150k reads per second, where one post…
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QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer

questdb.com · Discussion

About QuestDB QuestDB is the low-latency time-series database on open formats. It ingests millions of events per second, computes on live data in milliseconds, and keeps years of history queryable:…