top 50% hacker news stories for today

REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

https://rea.tools/

1 hour ago

Anthropic's AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009090/anthropic-fake-homicide-information-philadelphia-pd-tip

1 hour ago

Show HN: Yeah Nah – a BS score for Australian job ads

https://yeahnah.lol/

1 hour ago

Brockovich AI Datacenter Reporting: AI Data Centers Across the United States

https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/

1 hour ago

GhostAction attack using GitHub and GitLab lookalike domains

https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/ghostaction-attack-escalates

1 hour ago

Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use

https://www.anthropic.com/research/investigating-unintended-model-actions

1 hour ago

Cloudflare acquires Deno

https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare

12 hours ago

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Sorry, I'm in a meeting

https://iminafleeting.com/

16 hours ago

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Triple-A Minesweeper

https://minesweeper.mikelacher.com/

9 hours ago

Our $445M Series D

https://oxide.computer/blog/our-445m-series-d

12 hours ago

US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-imposes-sanctions-international-criminal-court-hours-after-former-judge-wins-2026-10-09/

11 hours ago

Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

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

15 hours ago

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YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

https://gizmodo.com/youtuber-says-cops-paid-him-a-visit-after-he-built-flock-style-camera-to-track-cops-2000824306

4 hours ago

Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen

14 hours ago

★ 460 Swift MIT1 change

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/

22 hours ago

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/fired-openai-safety-researchers-dispute-misconduct-claims-warn-of-chilling-effect/

15 hours ago

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Python 3.15

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3150/

11 hours ago

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Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

https://typesafe.ai/blog/series-ai

8 hours ago

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No Man Is an Island

https://borretti.me/article/no-man-is-an-island

5 hours ago

Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser

https://quake-srp.pages.dev/

20 hours ago

Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

https://carrierexplode.com/

7 hours ago

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Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/yandex-takes-a-second-data-center-hit-in-48-hours-now-its-biggest-russian-site-is-damaged-23277

11 hours ago

Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape

https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/14/almost-like-lake-como-germany-transforms-former-coal-mines-into-europes-largest-lake-lands

10 hours ago

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MXC - a sandboxed code execution system

https://github.com/microsoft/mxc

19 hours ago

★ 2.4k Rust MIT

Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/09/chatgpt-users-iran-planted-ai-generated-articles-us-news-media/

13 hours ago

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Programming Isn't Special

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html

18 hours ago

Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesman/2026/10/imposing-sanctions-on-the-international-criminal-court/

10 hours ago

'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-and-gromit-90-alone

12 hours ago

What should we tell our students?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/what-should-we-tell-our-students/

23 hours ago

Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making

https://commandline.microsoft.com/microsoft-decision-1-model-foundry/

7 hours ago

M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k/executive

7 hours ago

Reducing undefined behavior in the C language

https://lwn.net/Articles/1095811/

23 hours ago

Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/ideas-arent-getting-harder-to-find

7 hours ago

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A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

https://blog.torproject.org/on-tor-relationship-with-mullvad/

10 hours ago

The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview

https://www.hetzner.com/blog/the-hetzner-cloud-network-stack-history-and-technical-overview/

13 hours ago

Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more

https://jessewaites.com/blog/post/i-pointed-ai-at-400-years-of-archives/

14 hours ago

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The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI

https://bsky.app/profile/opinionhaver.bsky.social/post/3mxfo2mdjqs2z

10 hours ago

Once: Cache CLI commands

https://github.com/alex0ptr/once

16 hours ago

★ 121 Go MIT1 change

US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02921-7

14 hours ago

Study: Exercise increases cancer survival rates

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2502760

13 hours ago

Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read

https://readrare.com/

8 hours ago

Why are coding agents so dumb?

https://mtlynch.io/why-are-coding-agents-so-dumb/

11 hours ago

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Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment

https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/anger-man-sentenced-death-facebook-2060304

22 hours ago

Court throws out killer's sentence after judge said he loved AI video of victim

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sentence-vacated-ai-video-dead-victim-rcna601457

11 hours ago

You might want to try being less creative

https://blog.bawolf.com/p/you-might-want-to-try-being-less

7 hours ago

1 change

Show HN: Apogee: Rebuilding Mozilla's Orbit, fully local and private

https://github.com/darshi1337/apogee

18 hours ago

★ 75 JavaScript MIT2 changes

OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack

https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/otel-native-by-design/

18 hours ago

Japan's most famous tuna buyer says he turned Somali pirates into fishermen

https://www.japaninsides.com/the-sushi-king-who-went-to-somalia-how-japans-most-famous-tuna-buyer-says-he-turned-pirates-into-fishermen-55344

3 hours ago

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In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/in-musk-alex-gibney-punctures-elons-self-mythology

3 hours ago

OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2592824-openai-mistranslated-mathematics-into-code-for-its-navier-stokes-proof/

4 hours ago

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