9.14.26 | Fable 5.1 solves a 370-year-old cipher, Google still serves dodgy ads, Astra and Fable work on alignment evals from 2025
Hacker News Highlights · Sep 14, 2026 · 13:19
Hacker News Highlights · Sep 14, 2026 · 13:19
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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686445
Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-of-alignment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684393
Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683953
Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689048
Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
https://spaceships.treybastian.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638510
Julia 1.13 highlights
https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642645
Apple's Dimensional Drawings
https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690174
Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686380
The case against JPEG XL
https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690554
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