top 50% hacker news stories for today

Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive

https://morewrong.lol/?post=overdose-offsets-why-every-bag-of-fentanyl-i-sell-is-net-life-positive

44 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-security-basics.html

8 hours ago

1 change
837 upvotes – 445 comments

Things to know when you get cancer – 2026 Edition

https://jjmaxwell4.com/writing/things-to-know-when-you-get-cancer/

6 hours ago

1 change
798 upvotes – 205 comments

How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/

16 hours ago

1 change
716 upvotes – 593 comments

Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

17 hours ago

1 change
704 upvotes – 287 comments

Passkeys are not a trap

https://scotthelme.co.uk/passkeys-are-not-a-trap/

10 hours ago

1 change
490 upvotes – 655 comments

ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

https://prospect.org/2026/10/14/ice-planning-nightmare-domestic-spy-program-ero-one/

9 hours ago

489 upvotes – 295 comments

AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs

https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/2260

19 hours ago

★ 2.3k
485 upvotes – 236 comments

Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/

9 hours ago

384 upvotes – 97 comments

OpenCode 2.0

https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/

5 hours ago

306 upvotes – 127 comments

Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland

https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:261014-930-839530/

7 hours ago

286 upvotes – 204 comments

Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

https://startupfortune.com/banks-are-now-trying-to-offload-the-ai-data-center-debt-they-just-underwrote/

7 hours ago

285 upvotes – 213 comments

Felix Rieseberg Homepage

https://felixrieseberg.com/

21 hours ago

272 upvotes – 104 comments

Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/13/suicide-rates-highest-ever-among-middle-aged-men/

6 hours ago

263 upvotes – 349 comments

Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke

https://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke/

5 hours ago

255 upvotes – 112 comments

Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors

https://www.admin.ch/en/newnsb/NMn5s24l8NjQ

12 hours ago

238 upvotes – 145 comments

Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/9/29/americans-social-activity-has-steeply-declined-in-the-past-30-years

9 hours ago

1 change
218 upvotes – 261 comments

Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved

https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/

5 hours ago

213 upvotes – 70 comments

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?

https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-10-13-long.html

19 hours ago

200 upvotes – 148 comments

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reuse

9 hours ago

198 upvotes – 30 comments

Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

https://github.com/timescale/pg_vectorsearch

14 hours ago

★ 280 C PostgreSQL
192 upvotes – 49 comments

We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers

https://typesafe.ai/blog/jev-1-14

4 hours ago

187 upvotes – 60 comments

ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam

https://www.reuters.com/business/asml-forecasts-q4-sales-above-expectations-ai-chip-demand-2026-10-14/

11 hours ago

168 upvotes – 168 comments

How the Military Will Hack the Election

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/how-the-military-will-hack-the-election

7 hours ago

163 upvotes – 75 comments

Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/10/14/politie-amsterdam-neemt-op-amerikaans-verzoek-server-in-beslag-van-italiaanse-internetdienstverlener-a-i-a4938960

9 hours ago

1 change
157 upvotes – 118 comments

America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/america-didn-t-lose-its-rare-earth-industry.-it-sold-it

8 hours ago

1 change
156 upvotes – 83 comments

Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones

https://defence24.com/geopolitics/starlink-limit-hits-ukraines-drones-the-battlefield-depends-on-spacex

16 hours ago

1 change
153 upvotes – 152 comments

Why do LLM pelicans look like this?

https://arcfu.com/post/the-emperor-pelican-has-no-clothes/

9 hours ago

1 change
153 upvotes – 132 comments

Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI

https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/117436264149891011

12 hours ago

143 upvotes – 159 comments

Tiny Little Office

https://tinylittleoffice.com/

3 hours ago

142 upvotes – 21 comments

TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material

https://swedenherald.com/article/tv4-postpones-the-challenge-until-2027-after-technical-failure-erases-edited-footage

15 hours ago

139 upvotes – 79 comments

Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges

https://www.extremetech.com/cars/teslas-robotaxis-blow-through-school-zones-nhtsa-petition-alleges

9 hours ago

130 upvotes – 93 comments

Submarine cable resilience

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/14/submarine-cable-resilience/

10 hours ago

1 change
130 upvotes – 49 comments

Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/who-is-planting-backdoors-in-ledger-crypto-wallets/

16 hours ago

126 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change

https://blumify.io/people

1 day ago

1 change
115 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free

https://petal.live/

7 hours ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series

https://lwn.net/Articles/1100449/

8 hours ago

113 upvotes – 95 comments

Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord

https://strafe.chat/

22 hours ago

105 upvotes – 78 comments

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary

https://popcar.bearblog.dev/ai-is-mass-decompiling-games-thats-both-awesome-and-scary/

11 hours ago

95 upvotes – 148 comments

Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)

https://sive.rs/ss

13 hours ago

1 change
95 upvotes – 126 comments

RIP Eric Binnion

https://ma.tt/2026/10/rip-eric/

12 hours ago

2 changes
85 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code

https://museumofages.org/w/vinci

15 hours ago

85 upvotes – 34 comments

Fancy Curl Sites

https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2026-03-18

6 hours ago

84 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox

https://clova.email/

8 hours ago

84 upvotes – 60 comments

Details Leak from Meeting Where Weiss's 'Handpicked' Editor Threatened CBS Staff

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/details-leak-from-explosive-meeting-where-bari-weisss-handpicked-editor-threatened-cbs-staff-legal-grounds-for-firing/

12 hours ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs

https://www.qawolf.com/blog/how-we-solved-windows-desktop-automation

10 hours ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Has AI tells

https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/10/14/has-ai-tells.html?focus=1

8 hours ago

1 change
80 upvotes – 74 comments

Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-attention-the-essence-of-intelligence-20261012/

22 hours ago

78 upvotes – 89 comments

Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/container-ship-sinks-strait-hormuz-as-iran-war-attacks.html

7 hours ago

77 upvotes – 104 comments

Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)

https://blog.lorenzano.eu/pulsar-at-esug-2026/

15 hours ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/13/anthropic-conjures-another-threat-that-doesnt-exist-yet-to-stoke-fears-of-ai-apocalypse/5302866

19 hours ago

74 upvotes – 88 comments

Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/why-sweden-abandoning-cashless-society-070000442.html

18 hours ago

73 upvotes – 160 comments

Topgolf saved over $11.3M after leaving VMware

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/10/topgolf-saved-over-11-3-million-after-leaving-vmware/

1 day ago

72 upvotes – 4 comments

Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack

https://oxide.computer/blog/voxel-labs

7 hours ago

72 upvotes – 7 comments

LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b

1 hour ago

1 change
70 upvotes – 18 comments

Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256

https://dfarq.homeip.net/nvidias-first-gpu-geforce-256/

13 hours ago

69 upvotes – 43 comments

What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa)

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/10/14/agentic-dev-and-rust/

17 hours ago

65 upvotes – 54 comments

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

https://www.404media.co/character-ais-bankruptcy-documents-show-the-economics-of-ai-dont-work/

10 hours ago

62 upvotes – 87 comments

Neckbeard – A DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent

https://github.com/bealesh/neckbeard

8 hours ago

★ 182 Go Apache-2.01 change
61 upvotes – 49 comments

Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?

https://brookslybrand.com/posts/do-frameworks-matter-anymore/

1 day ago

60 upvotes – 51 comments

Gaming on Linux without cheating

https://onlineservices.epicgames.com/news/introducing-easy-anti-cheat-linux-v2

11 hours ago

1 change
60 upvotes – 61 comments

I let an AI run my startup for a week

https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/221

15 hours ago

57 upvotes – 59 comments
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