top 20 hacker news stories for today

Thought-Terminating Cliché

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché

2 hours ago

12 upvotes – 4 comments

Reddit is ending RSS support on November 13

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/continuing_our_infrastructure_updates_whats/

1 hour ago

12 upvotes – 2 comments

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

https://www.science.org/content/article/nazi-germany-had-no-hope-making-atomic-bomb-uranium-cubes-reveal

1 hour ago

11 upvotes – 0 comments

OpenAI fires three workers over mishandling 'sensitive information'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6y9z9r4ejzwo

52 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/nasa-has-a-dragon-dilemma-and-there-appear-to-be-no-good-answers/

2 hours ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/project-suncatcher-prototype/

2 hours ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Best-of-Agent-Harnesses – Ranked list of 167 AI agent harnesses, rescored weekly

https://github.com/ryanalberts/best-of-agent-harnesses

53 minutes ago

★ 1k Python CC-BY-SA-4.0
5 upvotes – 0 comments

Pi 1.0

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/

7 hours ago

1 change
808 upvotes – 285 comments

StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421

15 hours ago

★ 4.9k Kotlin GPL-3.0
529 upvotes – 134 comments

Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models/

10 hours ago

3 changes
444 upvotes – 163 comments

Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/immigration-advocate-sues-border-agents-for-demanding-his-cell-phone/

15 hours ago

356 upvotes – 327 comments

Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks

https://www.osnews.com/story/146052/google-breaks-promise-to-provide-10-years-of-updates-to-chromebooks/

13 hours ago

343 upvotes – 154 comments

Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026

https://www.techpowerup.com/353296/micron-ceo-says-memory-supply-will-be-much-tighter-in-2027-and-2028-than-in-2026

14 hours ago

333 upvotes – 384 comments

Fuck Android Developer Verification Program

https://twitter.com/0xcrypto/status/2105515822643114182

22 hours ago

311 upvotes – 131 comments

RIP, vector database

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/rip-vector-database

10 hours ago

286 upvotes – 78 comments

Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/meta-ai-data-centers-taxes.html

13 hours ago

249 upvotes – 235 comments

Pi Durable

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable/

7 hours ago

1 change
246 upvotes – 27 comments

Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones

https://www.404media.co/cops-can-bypass-iphone-automatic-inactivity-reboot-graykey/

12 hours ago

246 upvotes – 201 comments

How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026

https://nnethercote.github.io/2026/09/30/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-september-2026.html

14 hours ago

233 upvotes – 118 comments

Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

https://blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256

9 hours ago

231 upvotes – 236 comments
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