Top Hacker News Stories – September 22, 2026 (Summarized)

Recent top tech stories on Hacker News include Xiaomi's release of the MiMo v2.6, which garnered 278 points and 119 comments, highlighting its latest features. The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission was officially canceled, attracting 207 points and 150 comments amid discussions on space exploration priorities. Additionally, Google was fined €403 million by the Data Protection Commission for mishandling location data, while the U.S. Customs and Border Protection suspended all personal prescription importation starting October 22. Other notable discussions include a visual explanation of Transformers, critiques of Sun's recent claims, and insights into how AI coding is impacting continuous integration workflows.

#10

Divide by depth for instant 3D

89 pts, 9 comments

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#11

Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0

26 pts, 7 comments

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#12

The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

91 pts, 43 comments

91 points · 43 comments · Add your take →

#13

First Shader from Zero in Godot 4

30 pts, 3 comments

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#14

How do Traffic Signals Work (2019)

39 pts, 46 comments

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#15

Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?

111 pts, 31 comments

111 points · 31 comments · Add your take →

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Top Hacker News Stories – September 22, 2026 (Summarized)

Xiaomi MiMo v2.6

Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models

Spymarks, Not Watermarks

I don't want to read what you didn't write

Transformers Explained Visually

What Sun got wrong

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

Attention is all you have

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

Divide by depth for instant 3D

Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0

The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

First Shader from Zero in Godot 4

How do Traffic Signals Work (2019)

Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?

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Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware

Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac

Grok 4.7

Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser

The agents, they just want to talk

Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame'

This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World’s Remotest Locations

Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions?

Python Workers are now generally available

TXR: An Original, New Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging

US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut

Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)

Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization

Foremerge – Catch intent conflicts between parallel coding agents

The Journey of a Migratory Shorebird

People Hooked on Vapes Try a New Way to Quit: Cigarettes

Exfiltrate Your Weights

Heretic removes restrictions from language models

Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less

Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM

A restored PDP-11/83 serving this page on 211BSD Unix

M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review

Avoiding the babbling-idiot failure in a time-triggered communication system

macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage

Gravity Linux Alpha Release: Linux on the M4 Mac Mini with GPU and DCP Support

Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips

What happened to the Snowden archive

Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books

Amiga Unix, Again

Sublime Text Build 4213

ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You

Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

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