top 50% hacker news stories for today

Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, dies aged 90

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv0ldjzg9xppo

1 hour ago

In China, the AI bubble has already burst

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ai-bubble-has-already-burst-2026-10-26/

51 minutes ago

Anthropic S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm

12 hours ago

Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-offers-mass-buyouts-for-roughly-a-quarter-of-its-workforce/

10 hours ago

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models

10 hours ago

Lula wins election after final votes tallied

https://www.reuters.com/live/brazil-election-live-lula-bolsonaro-face-off-presidential-runoff-2026-10-25/

1 day ago

GPT-6.1 Terra

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/

7 hours ago

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Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale

https://blocks.manifold3d.ch/

16 hours ago

Announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics

https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/

3 hours ago

2 changes

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistibly-good-and-cheap-on-prem/5304640

23 hours ago

1 change

Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

https://titleart.dvy.io/

22 hours ago

CSS-Tricks has a new owner

https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/

9 hours ago

Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections

https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-employees-denounce-interference

7 hours ago

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/

7 hours ago

In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real

https://www.404media.co/in-leaked-audio-flock-ceo-tells-cops-backlash-to-the-company-isnt-real/

7 hours ago

Websites Should Be Printable

https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/

15 hours ago

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026/paper.pdf

3 hours ago

★ 15.6k Lean Apache-2.01 change

Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model

https://cohere.com/blog/concerning-behaviour-popular-open-weight-ai-model

8 hours ago

Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez/browse/next-computer-inc?per_page=96&sort=pub_year_isi+asc%2C+title_sort+asc&view=masonry

22 hours ago

Pharo 14

https://pharo.org/news/2026-10-26-Pharo14Release.html

14 hours ago

The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/10/epa-online-archive-deletion-zeldin-camp-lejeune-trump-clean-power/

6 hours ago

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot

22 hours ago

★ 581 Rust

ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems

https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-keeps-telling-people-404-media-can-solve-their-tech-support-problems/

8 hours ago

Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category

https://korindiehacker.bloffy.blog/en/removing-nextjs-got-my-blog-to-100-on-every-lighthouse-category

1 day ago

Type Server Protocol

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md

7 hours ago

★ 2.1k Python CC-BY-4.01 change

CorridorKey 2.0

https://corridorkey.com/

4 hours ago

DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/doj-says-presidents-should-be-able-to-sell-secrets-on-ebay/

11 hours ago

US designates helium as a critical material

https://apnews.com/article/energy-critical-materials-minerals-helium-43da160adc1bad389fba0b9ffbd14c3c

7 hours ago

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Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-10-26/ai-data-workers

12 hours ago

Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC

https://github.com/KillaBoi/StealMyBitcoin-PoC

1 day ago

★ 848 Python

OLED iPad Mini

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-mini

11 hours ago

Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/fixing-tool-call-accuracy-in-vllm

12 hours ago

Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-10-25/peter-thiel-the-tech-oligarch-who-believes-in-the-antichrist.html

12 hours ago

US Wages Share of GDI at 75 Year Low

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA

21 hours ago

iPhone Duo Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/News/119895/iphone-duo-teardown

1 day ago

New iPad mini

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-gives-ipad-mini-its-biggest-update-ever/

12 hours ago

1 change

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear

10 hours ago

1 change

Nietzschian Debugger

https://github.com/DilawarShafiq/nietzschian-debugger

8 hours ago

★ 160 Python MIT

Somebody please stop the spam texts

https://notes.npilk.com/stop-the-spam-texts

5 hours ago

A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-man-from-future-why-johnny-cant.html

7 hours ago

Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/hob

9 hours ago

★ 118 TypeScript MIT

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce

https://www.kuow.org/technology/2026-10-26/microsoft-offers-voluntary-buyouts-to-a-quarter-of-its-workforce

4 hours ago

Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits

https://electrek.co/2026/10/23/tesla-cancels-cybertruck-australia-new-zealand/

20 hours ago

Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/cognitive-mercantilism

21 hours ago

Brazil elections: Lula secures fourth term after dramatic comeback

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmvg7p001qj9o

22 hours ago

Lula Wins Brazilian Election

https://resultados.tse.jus.br/oficial/app/index.html#/eleicao/6258/uf/br/cargo/1/vis/nominal/resultados

1 day ago

Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained

https://shattered.io/microsoft-decision-1-qwen3-5-9b-model-2026/

22 hours ago

Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/writing-is-closer-to-thought-than-code

13 hours ago

Skydance offers buyouts, orders return to office

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/skydance-voluntary-buyouts-layoffs-5-days-per-week-in-office-policy-1236931402/

6 hours ago

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