top 50% hacker news stories for today

Tesla Roadster

https://www.tesla.com/roadster

1 day ago

2 changes
1187 upvotes – 2129 comments

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins

6 hours ago

1 change
670 upvotes – 269 comments

90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

https://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/

8 hours ago

397 upvotes – 333 comments

I Love Software Rendering

https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2026/10/13/i-love-software-rendering/

12 hours ago

289 upvotes – 189 comments

Waymo in Toronto

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/10/waymo-in-toronto/

10 hours ago

1 change
266 upvotes – 374 comments

Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inference

11 hours ago

266 upvotes – 121 comments

Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad

https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill

23 hours ago

★ 2.8k Swift Apache-2.0
248 upvotes – 74 comments

How the Claude Code team does code review

https://claude.dev/blog/solving-code-review-at-anthropic/

6 hours ago

1 change
233 upvotes – 221 comments

RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes

https://ipinfo.io/blog/rpki-protects-70-internet-routes

1 day ago

1 change
220 upvotes – 104 comments

Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June

https://www.ft.com/content/5a310aee-f555-4266-874c-b1b4db20186d

7 hours ago

1 change
212 upvotes – 70 comments

The Folders Programming Language

https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs/folders

20 hours ago

203 upvotes – 36 comments

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/

9 hours ago

198 upvotes – 143 comments

Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

https://github.com/cobanov/PS5LM

7 hours ago

★ 355 C++ GPL-3.0
195 upvotes – 49 comments

US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership

https://ritchietorres.house.gov/posts/rep-torres-announces-power-to-the-players-act-legislation-to-ensure-gamers-own-their-games

9 hours ago

190 upvotes – 108 comments

I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/issues/49314

5 hours ago

★ 9.9k HTML
188 upvotes – 140 comments

Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low

https://news.gallup.com/poll/708614/desire-migrate-drops-new-low.aspx

8 hours ago

186 upvotes – 190 comments

Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft

https://starskirmish.com/bench/v0-2/

11 hours ago

185 upvotes – 87 comments

Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix

https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/10/16/postgres-19-delayed-after-ai-reviewers-find-more-bugs-than-humans-can-fix/5303471

9 hours ago

177 upvotes – 68 comments

eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

https://www.arrl.org/arrlletterissue?issue=2026-10-15#eBay-Restricts-Listings-of-Radio-Equipment_-But-Exempts-Ham-Band-Only-Gear

7 hours ago

167 upvotes – 133 comments

Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD

https://calif.io/research/big-fish

10 hours ago

163 upvotes – 46 comments

You could have invented transformers from memory

https://alexwang.ai/posts/associative-memory/

6 hours ago

136 upvotes – 40 comments

/dev/null: social network for developers

https://dev-null.sh

8 hours ago

128 upvotes – 111 comments

What on Earth Is Dekton?

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/porcelain

11 hours ago

124 upvotes – 44 comments

Thank You, Deno

https://www.vlt.io/blog/competition-keeps-javascript-moving

1 day ago

123 upvotes – 34 comments

FLUX 3 Image Klein

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-image-klein

5 hours ago

1 change
114 upvotes – 26 comments

Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination

https://www.equator.org/articles/arundhati-roy-artificial-intelligence

13 hours ago

105 upvotes – 119 comments

RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop

https://anuragbhatia.com/post/2026/06/rfc8950-announce-ipv4-with-ipv6-next-hop/

11 hours ago

99 upvotes – 61 comments

Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/designing-efficient-quantum-circuits

7 hours ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

What was a Token Ring network?

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-was-a-token-ring-network/

11 hours ago

95 upvotes – 73 comments

Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program

https://www.readergrev.com/p/polymarket-paid-quote-retweet-esports-investigation

9 hours ago

1 change
90 upvotes – 59 comments

Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia

https://lwn.net/Articles/1094721/

23 hours ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121562

8 hours ago

86 upvotes – 33 comments

My old job feels distant now

https://www.pinecoder.dev/blog/2026-10-15/my-old-job-is-distant/

12 hours ago

77 upvotes – 81 comments

Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097760/

20 hours ago

75 upvotes – 76 comments

How to Formalize All of Mathematics

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/how-to-formalize-all-of-mathematics/

11 hours ago

74 upvotes – 73 comments

Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/teslas-new-roadster-makes-flying-debut-hitting-60-mph-under-second

15 hours ago

70 upvotes – 6 comments

Tesla makes cars that fly? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p5LxFdc-Qg

21 hours ago

69 upvotes – 2 comments

The insider trading you're allowed to do

https://coached.com/essays/the-insider-trading-youre-allowed-to-do/

18 hours ago

67 upvotes – 59 comments

Iran’s precision strikes picked apart Gulf infrastructure, blunting US war plans

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/iran-crisis-infrastructure-attacks/

1 day ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

C++26: The New Debugging Header

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/09/30/cpp26-debugging

6 hours ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

Tesla unveils 'flying' Roadster with SpaceX thrusters [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqOfmtTJD1A

11 hours ago

1 change
63 upvotes – 2 comments

Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia

https://6abc.com/post/woman-arrested-blocking-delivery-robot-center-city-philadelphia-confrontation/19941323/

23 hours ago

58 upvotes – 64 comments

GifCities

https://gifcities.org/

8 hours ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta-employees-said-lulas-accounts-were-hindered-during-brazil-election-folha-2026-10-16/

6 hours ago

51 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents

https://rstation.ai/

11 hours ago

1 change
50 upvotes – 19 comments

Seized server Autistici/Inventati (A/I) in Amsterdam for U.S. authorities

https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/14/amsterdam-server-seized-request-us-authorities-antifa-allegations

12 hours ago

49 upvotes – 29 comments

How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.70113

11 hours ago

48 upvotes – 24 comments

The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed

https://words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/

6 hours ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

Bark: The Toll-Free BBS for 90s Teens

https://blog.bityard.net/articles/2026/October/bark-the-toll-free-bbs-for-90s-teens

13 hours ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments

The Fatal Flaw of 911

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/16/911-book-policing-mental-health

6 hours ago

45 upvotes – 68 comments

Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists

https://www.wired.com/story/chicago-area-cops-helped-hsi-spy-on-minnesota-anti-ice-activists/

7 hours ago

44 upvotes – 0 comments
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