top 20 hacker news stories for today

Robot seized by German police after allegedly groping teenage girl

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck9dzj40nzj5o

45 minutes ago

How to Radicalize Your Friends into NixOS

https://squirrel.talosvault.net/blog/nix-radicalize/

59 minutes ago

It's 21 days until the US midterms: This is How We Win

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/09/its-21-days-until-the-us-midterms-this-is-how-we-win

55 minutes ago

Gemini 4 Argon

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/

8 hours ago

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11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250

14 hours ago

★ 119.9k Rust Apache-2.0

Apple HomeView

https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/

11 hours ago

Firefox Enterprise

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/

12 hours ago

1 change

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control

9 hours ago

1 change

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspicious-oil-trades-on-iran

14 hours ago

We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model

https://eg2.haku.sh/

13 hours ago

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OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/13/openai-engineer-arrested-alleged-bugging-executive-conference-room/

4 hours ago

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Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107

18 hours ago

Thunderbird for iOS

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-app-in-development/

9 hours ago

Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

https://blog.character.ai/an-update-on-character-ai/

17 hours ago

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New Apple TV 4K

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/

11 hours ago

1 change

AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13928

22 hours ago

1 change

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

https://guitoro.com/

5 hours ago

1 change

I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic

9 hours ago

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A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms

https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms

22 hours ago

2 changes

A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud

12 hours ago

1 change
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