Episode Details

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 27, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:20) - PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
• (01:42) - Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
• (03:01) - Does Georgism work? Five years later
• (04:17) - Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
• (05:34) - ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
• (06:44) - DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
• (08:05) - How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
• (09:37) - Go Concurrency Distilled
• (10:51) - OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
• (12:01) - How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
• (13:14) - Outro

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842764

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854693

Does Georgism work? Five years later
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844657

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858513

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-in-europe-calls-on-eu-to-help-create-demand
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844663

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859112

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854875

Go Concurrency Distilled
https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856988

OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863864

How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

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