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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 31, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Creepy Crawlies (02:06) - “I just chose words carefully” (03:19) - Haiku R1/beta6 has been released (04:27) - Hacking IKEA Furniture (05:39) - Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel (07:02) - Understanding ChatGPT Work (08:29) - It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell (09:36) - A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (11:03) - Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU (12:15) - My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures (13:13) - Outro Creepy Crawlieshttps://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791“I just chose words carefully”https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503601Haiku R1/beta6 has been releasedhttps://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499867Hacking IKEA Furniturehttps://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497810Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannelhttps://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496918Understanding ChatGPT Workhttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-work/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbellhttps://blog.vghaisas.com/rube-goldberg-doorbell/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480091A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming historyhttps://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506182Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCUhttps://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478426My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictureshttps://sandyuraz.com/blogs/tiny-cafe/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481141 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.