Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W35

In the latest tech news, Apple announced the M6 and M5 Ultra chips, promising significant improvements in performance and AI capabilities, with the new Mac Studio featuring the M5 Max and Ultra models also unveiled. Xiaomi released a new CPU that reportedly matches Apple's cores in single-threaded performance and surpasses them in multithreaded tasks, garnering considerable attention. Meanwhile, the Nitter project faced a cease and desist order, raising concerns about privacy-focused social media alternatives, and Firefox 157 will now include JPEG XL support by default across all platforms. Additionally, the passing of music legend Dolly Parton was widely noted on the platform.

#10

The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

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#11

507 Mechanical Movements

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#12

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

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#13

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

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#14

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

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#15

Get your Windows license refund

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#16

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

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#17

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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#18

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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#19

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

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#20

Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children

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Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W35

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

Dolly Parton has died

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

“I just chose words carefully”

Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

“It works better in the app”

The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

507 Mechanical Movements

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

Get your Windows license refund

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children

AWS Acquires DuckDB

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

Tim Curry has died

Nitter project received cease and desist

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

Htmx 4.0

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

Microduck

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

Bug Blindness

Trade (and Tariffs)

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

My Friend Aaron

The turbulent AI era is here

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

The turbulent AI era is here

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

What's new in Emacs 31.1

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules

Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache

Reverse engineering my ADHD test

Zohran and the Short Link

Small Models Have Arrived

France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

Kusama Yayoi has died

GLM-5.3-Flash

Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)

GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

Stripe acquires Clerky

A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV

Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda