top 50% hacker news stories for today

Things That Apparently Cause Cancer

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

1 hour ago

29 upvotes – 8 comments

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

7 upvotes – 0 comments

Where Is the Planet

http://whereistheplanet.com

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

The Rise of the Meritocracy (satirical novel)

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

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

Introversion DEFCON 20th anniversary edition

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1520/view/685264724715111073

27 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

The Fastest Growing Market in Tech Isn't AI – Tomasz Tunguz

https://tomtunguz.com/allium-bloomberg-rwa/

52 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

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

22 hours ago

2 changes
383 upvotes – 207 comments

Apple Pass Designer

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

6 hours ago

319 upvotes – 215 comments

Shimano Bicycle Museum Review

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

20 hours ago

284 upvotes – 72 comments

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

246 upvotes – 339 comments

The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

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

12 hours ago

1 change
244 upvotes – 140 comments

Zig v0.17.0

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

4 hours ago

212 upvotes – 133 comments

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

204 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

https://stillwet.art/

1 day ago

199 upvotes – 63 comments

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

196 upvotes – 145 comments

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

196 upvotes – 44 comments

Supabase is acquiring Turso

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

10 hours ago

1 change
191 upvotes – 101 comments

AI Makes Me Sad

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

10 hours ago

180 upvotes – 215 comments

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

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

22 hours ago

178 upvotes – 46 comments

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
178 upvotes – 85 comments

On social reality in China

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

14 hours ago

1 change
156 upvotes – 152 comments

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

https://dwarfstar.sh/

7 hours ago

150 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor

https://github.com/kvoltmer/Audionaut

17 hours ago

★ 149 C++
131 upvotes – 45 comments

Muse Gadgets

https://gadgets.muse.ai

6 hours ago

129 upvotes – 66 comments

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=p6zjojqw

6 hours ago

125 upvotes – 69 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 day ago

124 upvotes – 98 comments

One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash

https://wagtail.org/blog/one-month-on-glm-53-flash/

10 hours ago

110 upvotes – 84 comments

The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding

https://distantprovince.substack.com/p/the-four-horsemen-of-agentic-coding

10 hours ago

106 upvotes – 80 comments

The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)

https://yuka.dev/blog-2026-10-02-linux-m4.html

11 hours ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/42511-grapheneos-has-fixed-the-massive-android-17-qpr1-kernel-performance-regression

6 hours ago

101 upvotes – 35 comments

Dutch computer museums (2022)

https://aresluna.org/dutch-computer-museums/

8 hours ago

1 change
100 upvotes – 26 comments

Everyone's Packing Up

https://widdershins.verja.net/everyones-packing-up/

5 hours ago

99 upvotes – 90 comments

Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model

https://blog.sshh.io/p/the-harness-is-the-company

4 hours ago

1 change
96 upvotes – 71 comments

US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-tells-france-germany-release-diesel-stocks-or-face-us-export-ban-sources-say-2026-10-01/

20 hours ago

92 upvotes – 134 comments

Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35655

7 hours ago

1 change
86 upvotes – 32 comments

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos into a Palantir Database

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-has-been-dumping-protester-photos-into-a-palantir-database/

4 hours ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1wvr096/wan_show_topic_redditor_buys_used_cpu_turns_out/

13 hours ago

78 upvotes – 65 comments

Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-seeks-offload-8-billion-nvidia-chips-investors-ft-reports-2026-10-02/

11 hours ago

74 upvotes – 91 comments

Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market

https://bigthink.com/books/a-fabulous-debt/

12 hours ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow

https://agent-wow.sh/gpt-6-astra-plays-world-of-warcraft-for-the-first-time-with-agent-wow/

12 hours ago

70 upvotes – 55 comments

Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/02/physical-media-fans-streaming-algorithms-cds-dvds-vinyl

15 hours ago

68 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator

https://github.com/anteloc/ldraw-nova

5 hours ago

★ 81 Python AGPL-3.01 change
68 upvotes – 41 comments

F.02 Decommission

https://www.figure.ai/news/f-02-decommission

14 hours ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

Alarm Grows over 'Clearly Illegal' US Election Meddling in Brazil

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-election-interference-brazil

15 hours ago

64 upvotes – 29 comments

Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1145639/dont-be-fooled-llms-dont-reason/

12 hours ago

63 upvotes – 142 comments

European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/1001/1593639-european-payments-group/

14 hours ago

61 upvotes – 83 comments

Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping

https://sigh.dev/posts/metas-muse-is-fantastic-for-web-scraping/

20 hours ago

59 upvotes – 74 comments

Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc

https://byzantine-systems.github.io/blogging-with-gleam-org-mode-and-pandoc/

14 hours ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

<input type="password" maxlength="20"> prevents me from logging into Vanguard

https://tanin.nanakorn.com/input-type-password-maxlength-20-is-considered-harmful-and-why-i-couldnt-login-into-vanguard/

2 hours ago

49 upvotes – 71 comments

Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/02/power-approval-set-to-delay-oracles-wisconsin-ai-datacenter/5300832

10 hours ago

48 upvotes – 23 comments

Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit

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

14 hours ago

47 upvotes – 50 comments

Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude

https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1wvin77/harvard_particle_physicist_matthew_schwartz_drops/

13 hours ago

47 upvotes – 73 comments

How accurately calibrated is Jev?

https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/jev-is-poorly-calibrated

10 hours ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202610/america-gov-launches-with-privacy-pledge-as-login-gov-code-raises-tracking-questions

10 hours ago

43 upvotes – 26 comments

The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/fine-printed-books-manuscripts-science/carrier-pigeon-internet-protocol-150/325216

13 hours ago

42 upvotes – 11 comments
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