top 50% hacker news stories for today

Rbit – fast, self hosted Git in a single Rust binary

https://github.com/GitRbit/rbit

1 hour ago

★ 5 Rust Apache-2.0

Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day

https://meidasnews.com/news/zuckerbergs-meta-takes-down-no-kings-instagram-during-massive-protest-day

1 day ago

DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/

19 hours ago

Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x8cycd/namecheap_just_seized_and_disabled_all_my_domains/

9 hours ago

NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/new-york-rep-announces-game-ownership-bill-that-would-require-consumer-ownership-rather-than-sale-of-licenses-would-also-require-publishers-to-keep-the-game-functional-after-support-ends

1 day ago

The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything

22 hours ago

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RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki

12 hours ago

★ 239 OpenSCAD GPL-3.0

Someone behind the software

https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/

9 hours ago

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Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

https://sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app/

21 hours ago

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macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL

https://developer.apple.com/forums/verify-human/verify.html?next=/forums/thread/850550

10 hours ago

Parser Combinators

https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/

17 hours ago

Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18861

5 hours ago

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Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-permissions-despite-language-changes/

15 hours ago

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper

14 hours ago

★ 2k C++

Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake

https://legendofhyrule.com/

12 hours ago

Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse

https://hoaspy.com/hoa/fl/florida-hoa-housing-crisis.html

7 hours ago

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Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-proposed-ai-safety-bill-only-kicks-in-if-50-deaths-or-usd1-billion-in-damages-are-on-the-line-proposal-would-effectively-make-the-commerce-department-the-only-agency-capable-of-stopping-an-ai-model

11 hours ago

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/

11 hours ago

Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky

1 day ago

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Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013195/ai-agents-blocked-web

11 hours ago

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias (2025)

https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

21 hours ago

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Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016)

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/88659/how-can-cloudflare-offer-a-free-cdn-with-unlimited-bandwidth/88685#88685

20 hours ago

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Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/18/will-it-be-a-golden-age-or-a-dark-age-for-mathematics-and-science/

11 hours ago

Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/

7 hours ago

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Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cannot-guarantee-roadster-reservation-holders-will-ever-get-a-car

11 hours ago

How employment is changing at Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/research/employment-at-anthropic

15 hours ago

Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/theranos-trump-nathan-fielder/689001/

12 hours ago

PalmOS Lemmings

https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-lemmings

8 hours ago

★ 115 C 1 change

British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled

https://liveandletsfly.com/british-airways-meta-smart-glasses-filming/

8 hours ago

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html

9 hours ago

How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/impossible-refund

13 hours ago

The Brain Sandwich

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/10/02/the-brain-sandwich/

14 hours ago

Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gen-z-is-the-first-generation-dumber-than-their-parents-neuroscientist-claims/

12 hours ago

Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5426130/Tiny_Brutalism/

7 hours ago

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William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

https://colo.to/cyberspace.html

2 hours ago

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A Princeton PhD applied to 2,300 jobs and still can't get one

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/labor-market-freeze-phd-graduate-f8e17d7c

19 hours ago

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Show HN: 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5

https://tkgally.github.io/500-clocks/

22 hours ago

Mitos editor is a fork of Helix

https://mitos.computer/

8 hours ago

US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions

https://www.ft.com/content/d1e28d93-8574-4a46-946a-b261c401d6fa

6 hours ago

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