top 20 hacker news stories for today

Things That Apparently Cause Cancer

https://www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/things-that-apparently-cause-cancer

1 hour ago

VS Code style IDE in under 200kb and compatible with Windows XP

https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/1ww9dbp/vs_code_style_ide_in_under_200kb_and_compatible/

1 hour ago

The Rise of the Meritocracy (satirical novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

1 hour ago

Where Is the Planet

http://whereistheplanet.com

1 hour ago

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/

22 hours ago

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Apple Pass Designer

https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/

6 hours ago

Shimano Bicycle Museum Review

https://inrng.com/2026/10/shimano-bicycle-museum/

20 hours ago

How Singapore's government-run dating service works

https://www.singapore-samizdat.com/p/how-singapores-government-run-dating-service-firstdate-works

23 hours ago

The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/math/1973-halmos.pdf

12 hours ago

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Zig v0.17.0

https://ziglang.org/download/0.17.0/release-notes.html

4 hours ago

Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/10/02/big-tech-ruined-the-cloud-so-were-renaming-ours/

10 hours ago

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

https://stillwet.art/

1 day ago

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f

14 hours ago

ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5977815/trump-icc-sanctions-kimberly-prost

8 hours ago

Supabase is acquiring Turso

https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-is-acquiring-turso

10 hours ago

1 change

AI Makes Me Sad

https://mondobe.com/ai-makes-me-sad

10 hours ago

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/ai-finally-beat-the-best-stratego-player-in-history-and-did-it-on-a-budget/

11 hours ago

1 change

Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q

22 hours ago

On social reality in China

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/b5cSYh4emQb2qrGmK/on-social-reality-in-china

14 hours ago

1 change

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

https://dwarfstar.sh/

7 hours ago

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