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 · 13m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 14, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

(01:34) - Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

(02:53) - Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

(04:17) - Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

(05:37) - Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

(06:41) - Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

(07:51) - Julia 1.13 highlights…