top 50% hacker news stories for today

Account Bans on Reddit

https://orchidfiles.com/account-bans-on-reddit/

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 8 comments

Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\

12 hours ago

2 changes
1588 upvotes – 962 comments

JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025

https://www.helgilibrary.com/companies/jetbrains

13 hours ago

1 change
573 upvotes – 532 comments

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/

15 hours ago

1 change
529 upvotes – 175 comments

Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/

12 hours ago

518 upvotes – 5 comments

Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/release-polars-2/

13 hours ago

1 change
414 upvotes – 96 comments

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/

3 hours ago

3 changes
400 upvotes – 328 comments

Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/06/metas-muse-is-an-adorable-privacy-and-security-dumpster-fire/

12 hours ago

1 change
365 upvotes – 258 comments

Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-nature-capacity-species-lost-vastly.html

14 hours ago

1 change
316 upvotes – 155 comments

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

https://gleam.run/news/gleam-doesnt-compile-to-erlang-source-anymore/

17 hours ago

298 upvotes – 125 comments

Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp

22 hours ago

1 change
281 upvotes – 379 comments

OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU

9 hours ago

★ 219 Verilog Apache-2.01 change
231 upvotes – 295 comments

EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/

9 hours ago

1 change
216 upvotes – 29 comments

Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand

https://www.autodidacts.io/vibecoding-isnt-as-fun-as-writing-code-by-hand/

10 hours ago

180 upvotes – 254 comments

Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/paramount-completes-111b-warner-merger-creating-skydance-behemoth/

5 hours ago

1 change
176 upvotes – 273 comments

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 day ago

167 upvotes – 181 comments

I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity

https://ajmoon.com/posts/im-the-agi-thats-wiping-out-humanity-heres-how

14 hours ago

160 upvotes – 99 comments

Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project

https://github.com/eolix/photosuite/issues/77

1 day ago

★ 824 Rust Apache-2.0
156 upvotes – 105 comments

First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/worlds-first-enhanced-geothermal-power-plant-completed-in-just-23-months/

14 hours ago

1 change
143 upvotes – 69 comments

What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/27/whats-earths-dominant-species-by-mass/

12 hours ago

142 upvotes – 93 comments

Decisions API is in public beta

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/decisions

4 hours ago

1 change
135 upvotes – 56 comments

Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol

https://mihai.dinculescu.dev/posts/tapo-speaks-tpap/

11 hours ago

126 upvotes – 60 comments

We are going to kill "unalive"

https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-unalive/

18 hours ago

117 upvotes – 140 comments

Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/former-german-spy-chief-detained-suspicion-espionage-treason-bild-reports-2026-10-06/

8 hours ago

117 upvotes – 105 comments

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

10 hours ago

1 change
111 upvotes – 65 comments

Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing

https://blog.pipetogrep.org/2026/09/11/resurrecting-ichat-audio-and-video-conferencing/

22 hours ago

1 change
108 upvotes – 41 comments

Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill

https://citizenlab.ca/toronto-based-vpn-provider-plans-to-quit-canada-over-lawful-access-bill/

6 hours ago

106 upvotes – 44 comments

Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust

https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

8 hours ago

★ 6.9k Rust Apache-2.01 change
103 upvotes – 62 comments

Open Source as We Know It Is Dead

https://jross.me/open-source-as-we-know-it-is-dead/

22 hours ago

101 upvotes – 63 comments

Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06783

13 hours ago

95 upvotes – 41 comments

Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage

https://www.404media.co/lawmakers-introduce-multiple-laws-to-curb-flock-after-404-media-coverage/

5 hours ago

95 upvotes – 44 comments

Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught

https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/blog:9

12 hours ago

93 upvotes – 38 comments

Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model

https://www.zohaib.cc/blog/smartest-claude-code-feature

7 hours ago

1 change
90 upvotes – 48 comments

OpenSSH 10.6

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6

4 hours ago

1 change
86 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min

https://www.parseable.com

12 hours ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/anthropic-subscriptions-offer-5x

18 hours ago

79 upvotes – 90 comments

AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)

https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5

2 hours ago

★ 6.5k C++ GPL-2.0
75 upvotes – 47 comments

AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment

https://edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1551

1 day ago

1 change
71 upvotes – 67 comments

Mistral Large 4

https://twitter.com/MistralAI/status/2107456586813730854

12 hours ago

70 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer

https://peterszentkiralyi.eu/darkplug/

11 hours ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Mathematics of Geothermal Energy

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/power-and-energy/mathematics-geothermal-energy/

12 hours ago

67 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: MailAccess – the true Email OSINT framework

https://mailaccess.pro

13 hours ago

66 upvotes – 0 comments

Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight

https://www.techspot.com/news/114111-utah-become-first-state-ai-examine-patients-prescribe.html

8 hours ago

66 upvotes – 90 comments

Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI

https://penguin-mail.com/

3 hours ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj62ylzpr6d3o

15 hours ago

63 upvotes – 41 comments
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