top 50% hacker news stories for today

EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials' request

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/trump-eu-disinformation-conference

58 minutes ago

Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc)

https://github.com/pingdotgg/ts-rust

32 minutes ago

★ 454 Rust MIT

Amazon employees hit by fresh job cuts across several teams

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-layoffs-hit-hundreds-of-employees-across-multiple-teams-2026-10

1 hour ago

100 days later: Microsoft still steers Windows and Copilot users to Edge

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/over-the-edge-2-100-days-later/

1 hour ago

Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/software-is-over-bold-ai-developer-takes-aim-at-adobe-with-open-source-clones/

1 hour ago

2/3rds of MiMo v2.6's Coding Tasks Leak the Answer. Is Exploiting It Cheating?

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/mimo-reward-hacking

33 minutes ago

Why Isn't the Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/

1 hour ago

AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/ahm-statement-on-openais-october-6-release-of-mathematical-documents/

1 hour ago

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5

7 hours ago

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

4 hours ago

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GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/

7 hours ago

Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees

https://www.classaction.org/news/visa-mastercard-major-banks-facing-new-litigation-over-anticompetitive-merchant-credit-card-transaction-fees

10 hours ago

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Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome

13 hours ago

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/

16 hours ago

★ 480 Python CC0-1.0

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

https://bigwords.page/

9 hours ago

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

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

15 hours ago

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/

10 hours ago

Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model

https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-decider/

23 hours ago

Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

https://www.rswebsols.com/news/meta-and-microsoft-take-steps-to-reduce-employee-usage-of-claude-ai/

6 hours ago

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Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144

9 hours ago

Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7

10 hours ago

1 change

Anti-patterns in software blogging

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/anti-patterns-software-blogging/

12 hours ago

1 change

ESP32-C3 Adblock

https://github.com/M-Abozaid/esp32-c3-adblock

23 hours ago

★ 2.2k C++ MIT

The Mathocalypse

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169

5 hours ago

Docker Agent

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent

7 hours ago

★ 3.6k Go Apache-2.02 changes

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26612080.house-15m-underground-tunnels-sale-300k/

12 hours ago

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God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

https://github.com/snuri00/psp-web-recomp

13 hours ago

★ 91 C++ MIT

Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia

https://artmuseum.artfrompixels.com/

12 hours ago

Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/10/01/across-the-globe-people-increasingly-say-social-media-is-harming-democracy/

9 hours ago

Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/milwaukee-swatting-couple-9.7370118

23 hours ago

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Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/hackers-obtain-counterfeit-tls-certificates-for-google-and-other-large-services/

20 hours ago

Google Playground: Create and play custom games

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/playground-experimental-gaming-platform/

12 hours ago

1 change

Google Playground

https://labs.google/playground

11 hours ago

The art of defusing a second world war bomb

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/06/it-could-knock-a-whole-street-down-the-art-of-defusing-a-second-world-war-bomb

21 hours ago

AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares

https://github.com/Queuingtheorydotcom/11SquaresFormalized

11 hours ago

★ 21 Lean

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

https://debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-up-fors-down/

6 hours ago

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PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/10/ps5-jailbreaks-are-escalating-at-an-unprecedented-pace-and-sony-must-be-sweating

14 hours ago

Why were Victorian elites so effective?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-seven-vices-of-highly-effective-victorians/

10 hours ago

1 change

SynthID Detector

https://synthid.com/

11 hours ago

1 change

Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-10-07/study-claude-chatgpt-ai-bots-offer-different-shopping-prices-based-on-wealth

9 hours ago

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my

23 hours ago

Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese

https://fiveminutesforward.com/post/2026-10-04-telegraph-test/

13 hours ago

Photograph 49 is the key to understanding Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7

5 hours ago

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Account bans on Reddit

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

1 day ago

1 change

Calling It Quits on ServerFault

https://sysadmin1138.net/mt/blog/2026/10/calling-it-quits-on-serverfault.shtml

20 hours ago

La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)

https://nanochess.org/la_cueva_bbs.html

22 hours ago

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/shinyhunters-extorted-boeing-spin-off-prior-to-arrests/

10 hours ago

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-in-10-days-3416399/

8 hours ago

Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you

https://tech.criteo.com/blog/human-skills-ai-cant-develop-junior-engineers/

17 hours ago

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Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware

https://github.com/AL-255/FM-1-RE

9 hours ago

★ 76 Assembly WTFPL

Reasons to Dislike AI Coding

https://www.sicpers.info/2026/10/reasons-to-dislike-ai-coding/

16 hours ago

Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer

https://github.com/shader-effects-inc/shaders

19 hours ago

★ 2.4k TypeScript MIT

It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/30/it-may-soon-be-possible-to-create-mirror-life

14 hours ago

Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer

https://github.com/nano-muse/nanoMuse

21 hours ago

★ 221 Swift GPL-3.0

Open source 160 sound visualization experiments

https://www.kagan.in/iwrzwr/visual-archive/

9 hours ago

Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector

https://github.com/akawashiro/procinsh

12 hours ago

★ 37 Rust MIT

Paramount, Warner Bros Formally Merge, Form Giant Mountain of Disastrous Debt

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/07/paramount-warner-bros-formally-merge-form-giant-mountain-of-disastrous-debt/

9 hours ago

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