top 20 hacker news stories for today

California Legalizes Balcony Solar

https://www.kqed.org/science/2002120/california-officially-legalizes-balcony-solar-opening-the-market-to-the-new-technology

59 minutes ago

Gemini 4 Argon

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/

5 hours ago

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You said no MCP

https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/

15 hours ago

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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/september-2026-the-world-today/

18 hours ago

The AI Race Just Got Awkward

https://insufferable.dev/posts/the-ai-race-just-got-awkward/

9 hours ago

Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/artificial-intelligence-agents-openai-microsoft-sam-altman-greg-brockman-ah-nice/

18 hours ago

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal

11 hours ago

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Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

https://twitter.com/tuakdotsol/status/2105105417760391258

16 hours ago

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Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use

https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/30/data-centers-refusing-say-much-water-electricity-use

14 hours ago

The last time my family was replaced by technology

https://manuel.darcemont.fr/posts/the-last-time-my-family-was-replaced-by-technology/

12 hours ago

EDG C++ front-end goes public

https://edgcpp.org/#transition

6 hours ago

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Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability

https://electrek.co/2026/09/29/tesla-takes-on-30-billion-in-credit-as-it-approaches-unprofitability/

21 hours ago

What TLA+ can and can't check

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/what-tla-can-and-cant-check/

11 hours ago

LinkedIn Larpmaxxing

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/linkedin-larpmaxxing/

21 hours ago

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

https://alphapixeldev.com/sdf-vs-msdf-vs-slug-vs-rive-gpu-text-rendering/

11 hours ago

The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4951/1

3 hours ago

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude

8 hours ago

★ 5.7k Rust Apache-2.02 changes

RSS Feeds for Last.fm

https://lfm.xiffy.nl/

22 hours ago

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-microvms/

7 hours ago

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings

https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/

6 hours ago

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