Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W38

In recent tech developments, Fable 5.1 has successfully decoded the 370-year-old Cyphral Distich cipher, earning 331 points on Hacker News. Meanwhile, XCancel was suspended due to new legal proceedings, attracting 255 points and 220 comments. Additionally, Apple’s Siri AI can now be swapped with alternatives like Claude and ChatGPT, as demonstrated in new code releases, while a new $100,000 H-1B visa fee has prompted concerns over offshore tech jobs.

Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W38

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea

I don't like passkeys

25 years of mass surveillance is enough

XCancel service is suspended until further notice

OpenJev

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

Dario, Please

Small programming tricks

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs

A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

Astra for Law

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

Wax motor

An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes

Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons

Introducing System One Models and Jev

Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

Linux from Scratch

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

English: A vs. An

AI safety is mostly a sex cult

I am often wrong

Most people prefer traditional architecture

Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary

Minimal Phone 2

Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap

Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him

Laya the open source version of Jev

The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)

PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation

The scourge of x86 emulation

Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report

The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The case against JPEG XL

XCancel suspended "due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings"

An Update on Wayback Machine Access

US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

I Don't Like LLMs

Hacking OpenAI

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion

HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?

Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

Chopping up books when they're physically too big

RSA-896

How my e-reader lost its stripes

North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes

People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination

What happened to the Snowden archive

Measure internet censorship

Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

One Year of Sponsored Servo Development

Exfiltrate Your Weights

Doing Everyone Else's Job

Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device

Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill

Java 27 Released

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work