top 50% 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/

1 hour 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

1 change

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

2 changes

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

1 change

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

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The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electricity-generation-per-person-in-the-united-kingdom-has-fallen-by-a-third-from-its-early-2000s-peak

9 hours ago

1 change

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

https://developers.googleblog.com/gemini-4-argon-for-robotics/

8 hours ago

1 change

Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/12/apples-new-switch-to-safari-campaign-details-why-you-should-ditch-chrome/

10 hours ago

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Leaving Tech

https://ryanbigg.com/2026/10/leaving-tech

22 hours ago

Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/

14 hours ago

China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/science/20260908-347742/

22 hours ago

Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany

https://ua.news/en/world/kiberataka-zupinila-budivnitstvo-tuneliu-mizh-daniieiu-ta-nimechchinoiu-rmf24

8 hours ago

Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-disney

13 hours ago

Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)

https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft

1 day ago

★ 1.8k Rust Apache-2.0

How to engineer an AI harness for game development

https://kylekukshtel.com/ai-harness-engineering-game-development-claude-code

10 hours ago

A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers

https://photonlines.substack.com/p/a-visual-intro-to-complex-numbers

13 hours ago

Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/13/ai-share-crash-risk-global-imf-debt-corrowing-cyber-attacks

19 hours ago

Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Crypto-thieves-sell-hardware-wallets-with-secret-eSIM-11485188.html

16 hours ago

AWS Lambda Web Functions

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-lambda-web-functions-for-fast-consistent-web-app-performance-anywhere/

14 hours ago

The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/macos-dock-icons-over-time/

22 hours ago

NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/12/naza-netanyahu-orders-identification-prosecution-interviewees-documentary-film

22 hours ago

Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?

https://ptrbrynt.com/posts/were-we-blue-collar-workers-all-along

15 hours ago

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DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?

https://github.com/composo-ai/DishwasherBench

16 hours ago

★ 53 TypeScript MIT

OpenAI finds recording device in one of their offices

https://twitter.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132

5 hours ago

Worlds more habitable than Earth?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/science/inhabitable-planets-solar-system.html

12 hours ago

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A plea not to use uv-build

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/12/a-plea-not-to-use-uv-build/

6 hours ago

Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/10/10/denmark-set-to-allow-the-return-of-physical-force-to-maintain-order-in-schools_6758443_4.html

18 hours ago

Show HN: How Random Are You?

https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/

8 hours ago

BB(10) > Graham's Number

https://github.com/jeff87654/busy-beaver/blob/main/BB10/1RB0RA_1LC1LF_1RD0LB_1RA1LE_1LI0LC_0RG1LD_1RH1LG_1LC0RG_0LJ0LI_1RZ0LC.md

12 hours ago

★ 4 Rocq Prover

Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post

https://www.patreon.com/vihart/posts/vi-harts-big-171939430

19 hours ago

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