top 50% hacker news stories for today

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

Thought-Terminating Cliché

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

2 hours ago

12 upvotes – 4 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

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

OpenAI fires three workers over mishandling 'sensitive information'

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

51 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

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

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

52 minutes ago

★ 1k Python CC-BY-SA-4.0
5 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

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

Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-k2-streams/

12 hours ago

204 upvotes – 83 comments

FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/ftc-ai-probe-openai-anthropic.html

13 hours ago

200 upvotes – 149 comments

Red Hat being phased out of existence?

https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/01/Red_Hat_Being_Phased_Out_of_Existence_Like_Many_Other_Companies.shtml

11 hours ago

1 change
180 upvotes – 103 comments

Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/various-projects-independently-find-hidden-sdr-capabilities-in-esp32-microcontrollers/

11 hours ago

176 upvotes – 27 comments

Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi

https://twitter.com/GayaniFigma/status/2105295629941350454

11 hours ago

174 upvotes – 98 comments

The death of web development education

https://molily.de/web-dev-education/

5 hours ago

173 upvotes – 129 comments

GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design

https://news.synopsys.com/2026-09-30-OpenAI-and-Synopsys-Announce-GPT-Synopsys-Frontier-Intelligence-to-Revolutionize-Chip-Design

16 hours ago

172 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922569

11 hours ago

161 upvotes – 165 comments

Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles

https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/index.html

6 hours ago

1 change
144 upvotes – 139 comments

SvelteKit 3

https://svelte.dev/blog/sveltekit-3-is-here

6 hours ago

1 change
136 upvotes – 52 comments

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/

3 hours ago

129 upvotes – 71 comments

RacketCon Is Saturday

https://con.racket-lang.org/

11 hours ago

126 upvotes – 36 comments

10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/surging-yields-bring-the-bond-market-back-to-the-turn-of-the-century-2b74773f

1 day ago

120 upvotes – 179 comments

Context Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37725

11 hours ago

114 upvotes – 26 comments

SlutCon

https://www.thenewcritic.com/p/safe-at-slutcon

9 hours ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922568

11 hours ago

98 upvotes – 283 comments

Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

https://stoppels.ch/goalposts/

9 hours ago

1 change
97 upvotes – 112 comments

Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program

https://www.404media.co/how-cities-are-forced-to-funnel-license-plate-data-to-a-massive-federal-surveillance-program-hidta/

1 day ago

91 upvotes – 35 comments

Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests

https://tangled.org/burrito.space/bez

8 hours ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism

https://www.ft.com/content/bc178357-793b-45d8-ae3b-d5929159c243

13 hours ago

88 upvotes – 60 comments

Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026AV002570

7 hours ago

1 change
87 upvotes – 4 comments

Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/using-opus-55-to-discover-a-new-eyewitness

6 hours ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6rm9mnn0w3eo

1 day ago

82 upvotes – 133 comments

Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes

https://devz.cl/posts/the-lost-tech-in-contemporary-clothing/

21 hours ago

82 upvotes – 168 comments

Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence

https://apnews.com/article/alberta-canada-carney-pipeline-68539133d6e0245fad3622263afd4aeb

10 hours ago

78 upvotes – 83 comments

ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/

6 hours ago

73 upvotes – 34 comments

Lightweight PDF parser with layout, tables, formulas and bounding boxes

https://github.com/beatrizalmeidaf/papero-pdf-text-extractor

10 hours ago

★ 131 Python MIT
72 upvotes – 7 comments

Identity Management for Agentic AI [pdf] (2025)

https://openid.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Identity-Management-for-Agentic-AI.pdf

11 hours ago

2 changes
70 upvotes – 23 comments

How to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain

https://mailfully.com/blog/spf-dkim-dmarc-setup

12 hours ago

67 upvotes – 26 comments

CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development

https://www.cssbed.com

5 hours ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

ParadeDB Search Performance Improvements

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/opening-a-closed-tin

9 hours ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

Effect 4.0

https://effect.website/blog/releases/effect/40

7 hours ago

52 upvotes – 33 comments

Polyedergarten: Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models

https://www.polyedergarten.de/e_index.htm

11 hours ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia

https://github.com/Vibra-Ingenn/Janus

6 hours ago

★ 35 Go MIT
52 upvotes – 8 comments
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