top 50% hacker news stories for today

AI Tutoring with Khanmigo in a Two-Year School Experiment

https://edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1551

1 hour ago

High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days

https://www.thedrive.com/news/high-diesel-prices-bankrupted-16-trucking-companies-in-just-30-days

1 hour ago

Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's 'rogue' bots may be linked to a May outage

https://www.theverge.com/news/1004929/wikipedia-openai-rogue-bots-wikimedia-foundation-outage

1 hour ago

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html

20 hours ago

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/

15 hours ago

Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data

https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-oplysninger

17 hours ago

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Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-yet-meet-the-grapheneos-security-standards-and-may-be-skipped

12 hours ago

Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation

https://techfundingnews.com/europes-new-robotics-unicorn-germanys-robco-hits-1b-valuation/

14 hours ago

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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam

6 hours ago

Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/nearly-200-people-under-observation-after-irkutsk-lab-worker-dies-from-plague-a93857

23 hours ago

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Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horrible-totally-unacceptable-powerless-f1-drivers-frustrated-by-bahrain-f1-software-glitch/10861968/

1 day ago

OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/

8 hours ago

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/

3 hours ago

Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust

https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v3.0.0

14 hours ago

★ 17.4k Rust MIT

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors

4 hours ago

1 change

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/

15 hours ago

1 change

US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/russia-lab-worker-possibly-dies-of-plague-siberia-quarantine-measures-irkutsk

8 hours ago

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfolding-chip-tech

18 hours ago

6 changes

Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have

https://deadparrotbbs.com/why-plain-text-is-still-one-of-the-best-technologies-we-have/

7 hours ago

1 change

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/press-release/

15 hours ago

1 change

The future of independence is interdependence

https://onlys.ky/independence-is-interdependence/

10 hours ago

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/

11 hours ago

Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

https://www.barrons.com/news/norway-eyes-partial-ban-of-smart-glasses-e65dc239

7 hours ago

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/

11 hours ago

1 change

Picard 3.0

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/10/04/picard-3-0-released/

11 hours ago

1 change

2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/summary/

16 hours ago

1 change

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/

4 hours ago

A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap

https://frn.sh/go-gc/

1 day ago

"I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/embarrassed-by-tech/

11 hours ago

Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eng2.70108

20 hours ago

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Borland Turbo Basic

https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Software/borland_turbo_basic.php

10 hours ago

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust

4 hours ago

Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964045

13 hours ago

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Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/texas-city-demands-2m-for-public-records-on-flock-usage/

3 hours ago

The Future of Mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/the-future-of-mathematics/

6 hours ago

Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)

https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html

11 hours ago

1 change

One person can now be a quorum at the SEC

https://www.ft.com/content/3120782c-1ea0-4fdc-9462-0a4b4658f70f

6 hours ago

1 change

Incident with Actions

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/3q1yb5m7ltvb

5 hours ago

1 change

Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history

3 hours ago

Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold

https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/wave-of-affordable-electric-cars-is-boosting-consumers-choice-sales-of-sub-eur25-000-models-set-to-rise-sevenfold

18 hours ago

The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/10/02/the-era-of-software-quality-or-the-era-of-ostriches/

13 hours ago

1 change

Our approach to EU text provenance rules

https://openai.com/index/eu-text-provenance/

10 hours ago

Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland

https://www.ess-news.com/2026/09/25/greenvolt-begins-building-600-mw-2-4-gwh-bess-in-poland/

7 hours ago

AI Companies Are Parasites

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/ai-companies-are-parasites

6 hours ago

The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/the-mental-health-of-young-men-is-declining-experts-warn-it-could-get-worse-9.7361010

5 hours ago

Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/05/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-benefits-risks

13 hours ago

After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/02/nx-s1-5981420/kalshi-betting-prediction-markets-gambling-addiction

6 hours ago

1 change

Spending on AI is becoming almost impossible for businesses to budget

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ai-token-spending-businesses-431ee94a

12 hours ago

1 change

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/

3 hours ago

Gitframes

https://github.com/gatewai-dev/gitframes

12 hours ago

★ 208 TypeScript Apache-2.0
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