top 50% hacker news stories for today

SpaceX revenue soars 161% as AI business grows

https://abcnews.com/Business/spacex-revenue-soars-161-ai-business-grows/story?id=137408509

1 hour ago

14 upvotes – 0 comments

People sick of being spied on by their smart TV

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/20/smart-tv-television-dumb-wifi-techies-privacy

59 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 0 comments

Microagi: Accelerating Embodied AGI

https://www.microagi.ai/

1 hour ago

8 upvotes – 7 comments

Good type against all odds

https://unsung.aresluna.org/good-type-against-all-odds/

14 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

Xbox CTO teases Halo 3 in WebAssembly

https://twitter.com/scottvanvliet/status/2112671760131010982

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

Secret trigger words could make AI-powered robots dangerous

https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/6544/secret-trigger-words-could-make-ai-powered-robots-dangerous-and-these-researchers-developed-a-defense

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Why Is Israel Running TV Ads in Iowa Ahead of the Midterms?

https://zeteo.com/p/why-is-israel-running-tv-ads-in-iowa

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 3 comments

DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer

16 hours ago

★ 12.8k Python Apache-2.02 changes
2139 upvotes – 835 comments

EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

12 hours ago

646 upvotes – 339 comments

SimCity, but with Permits

https://permit.petercai.com/

7 hours ago

568 upvotes – 289 comments

Voxtral 3

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/

9 hours ago

531 upvotes – 143 comments

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

https://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/

13 hours ago

496 upvotes – 250 comments

OpenBSD 8.0

https://www.openbsd.org/80.html

23 hours ago

467 upvotes – 154 comments

Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@AshleyGullen/117473851565913919

10 hours ago

1 change
419 upvotes – 379 comments

MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki

19 hours ago

★ 14.9k Java Apache-2.0
383 upvotes – 109 comments

AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

https://www.heistberlin.com/news/afd-leak-what-421-179-hacked-emails-show-about-the-german-far-right/

16 hours ago

369 upvotes – 531 comments

Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

https://blog.cloudflare.com/typescript-rust-port/

12 hours ago

344 upvotes – 169 comments

Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-cloud-outage-takes-down-hsbc-revolut-bank-of-scotland-llyods-equifax-more/

15 hours ago

1 change
339 upvotes – 171 comments

Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/

11 hours ago

1 change
331 upvotes – 253 comments

Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

https://peec.ai/blog/publish-stats-get-cited-the-tactic-that-put-my-data-all-over-the-web

12 hours ago

323 upvotes – 187 comments

How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed

https://kaba.cx/posts/20261020_Tor/

12 hours ago

322 upvotes – 78 comments

Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'

https://efe.com/english/latest-news/2026-10-20/lula-supporters-protest-against-meta-to-denounce-its-electoral-interference/

1 day ago

289 upvotes – 182 comments

What shall I teach my son?

https://stevekrouse.com/ends

8 hours ago

1 change
268 upvotes – 329 comments

Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs

https://github.com/google-pytorch/torch_tpu

9 hours ago

★ 323 C++
265 upvotes – 64 comments

France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

https://ipinfo.io/blog/france-fridges-hack

1 day ago

2 changes
237 upvotes – 218 comments

Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/deepwater-horizon-deep-sea-recovery

10 hours ago

196 upvotes – 115 comments

My Friend Bob Cringely

https://tyma.com/my-cringe-story/

11 hours ago

171 upvotes – 47 comments

Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest

https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-fans-are-begging-for-a-no-ai-filter-as-steam-next-fest-is-filled-with-slop

10 hours ago

169 upvotes – 195 comments

2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)

https://yoyo-code.com/2026-is-exciting-year-for-rust-compiler-and-me/

12 hours ago

168 upvotes – 83 comments

NixOS is making me less afraid

https://entropicthoughts.com/nixos-is-making-me-less-afraid

13 hours ago

168 upvotes – 112 comments

IKEA – 3D Guide

https://sael.net/flatpack/

10 hours ago

142 upvotes – 51 comments

Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/82345

22 hours ago

★ 139.3k Go BSD-3-Clause
135 upvotes – 78 comments

Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/10/19/academics-have-a-duty-to-defend-open-knowledge-systems-like-wikipedia/

7 hours ago

134 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph

https://github.com/KatrielMoses/voidaccess

11 hours ago

★ 881 Python MIT
127 upvotes – 13 comments

Anthropic logged net loss of over $80B in first half of 2026

https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-recorded-net-loss-over-80-billion-first-half-this-year-wsj-reports-2026-10-20/

5 hours ago

109 upvotes – 53 comments

Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/feds-suspect-ransom-negotiator-ran-shinyhunters-extortion-site/

3 hours ago

1 change
99 upvotes – 34 comments

Why do we have so many meetings?

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35706

10 hours ago

94 upvotes – 135 comments

Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs

https://deathplanswitch.com/

21 hours ago

93 upvotes – 62 comments

Revolut down as users report app not working

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxdd8mm6qy4mo

16 hours ago

93 upvotes – 85 comments

Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins

https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-scorpion-toxin-binder-design

8 hours ago

93 upvotes – 63 comments

There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository

https://github.com/xscreensaver-official/xscreensaver

17 hours ago

★ 1k
89 upvotes – 66 comments

On AI writing

https://www.bolkunov.com/p/on-ai-writing

6 hours ago

79 upvotes – 55 comments

Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167754

10 hours ago

2 changes
71 upvotes – 13 comments

Subaru is killing off gas cars and will only sell EVs in Europe

https://electrek.co/2026/10/20/subaru-killing-off-gas-cars-europe-will-only-sell-evs/

6 hours ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

UK Defence Startups Are Being Denied Banking Services Under ESG Rules

https://foxandlion.pub/analysis/uk-defence-start-ups-are-being-denied-banking-services-under-esg-rules

16 hours ago

68 upvotes – 56 comments

U.S. Supreme Court to review 1868 federal ban on home distilling of liquor

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2026/10/19/breaking-news/u-s-supreme-court-to-review-1868-federal-ban-on-home-distilling-of-liquor/

21 hours ago

67 upvotes – 105 comments

Demographic "doomsday" misses the mark

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ael8752

13 hours ago

1 change
66 upvotes – 134 comments

Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD

https://trial.medpath.com/news/novo-nordisk-and-eli-lilly-report-glp-1-signals-of-slowed-biological-aging-at-ardd

1 day ago

66 upvotes – 78 comments

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines

https://www.thebeliever.net/the-other-epidemic/

2 hours ago

1 change
61 upvotes – 41 comments

Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine

https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-starlink-elon-musk-trump-dbc49193

5 hours ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

How Corruption Got This Bad

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/constitution-trump-doj-supreme-court-corruption/689042/

10 hours ago

58 upvotes – 14 comments

Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release

https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php

6 hours ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz?

https://jevcards.com

10 hours ago

1 change
57 upvotes – 48 comments
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