9.24.26 | Italian parliament votes for nuclear energy, Claude discovers new enzyme system, Portobello Police Station Clock fixed

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 24, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:14) - Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

(01:39) - Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

(02:48) - Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

(03:44) - Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

(05:03) - Meta VR Glasses

(06:17) - Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

(07:50) - Tokens too cheap to meter

(09:21) - VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

(10:39) - ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit

(11:52) - Making Tailscale Faster

(13:14) - Outro

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819221Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820134 Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817469 Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823582 Meta VR Glasses https://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824268 Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817615 Tokens too cheap to meter https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813482 VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822555 ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823664 Making Tailscale Faster https://tailscale.com/blog/making-tailscale-faster https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819880