The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2026
We track 230 stories from October 2026, averaging 5 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 19 stories. Together they drew 649 comments, 3 per story on average. The fastest riser we measured gained 120 points in a single hour.
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Fuck Android Developer Verification Program
twitter.com · 0xcrypto · 1 Oct 2026
120/h peak
208 pts
73 comments
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10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years
wsj.com · kaycebasques · 1 Oct 2026
19/h peak
94 pts
140 comments
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Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program
404media.co · ripe · 1 Oct 2026
38/h peak
79 pts
30 comments
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California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
bbc.com · dabinat · 1 Oct 2026
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69 pts
108 comments
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Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
devz.cl · orphereus · 1 Oct 2026
12/h peak
54 pts
98 comments
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Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
blog.cryptographyengineering.com · zdw · 1 Oct 2026
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28 pts
35 comments
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Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections
nbcnews.com · techolic · 1 Oct 2026
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25 pts
54 comments
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Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++
github.com · renjipanicker · 1 Oct 2026
10/h peak
23 pts
14 comments
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Steelers ex-coach Mike Tomlin has been building a Minecraft city for 12 years
youtube.com · Vaslo · 1 Oct 2026
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18 pts
0 comments
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The Invention of Islamic Invention
cremieux.xyz · nailer · 1 Oct 2026
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17 pts
2 comments
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California Legalizes Balcony Solar
kqed.org · toomuchtodo · 1 Oct 2026
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14 pts
5 comments
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12
HBM: High-Bandwidth Mistake
irrationalanalysis.substack.com · gok · 1 Oct 2026
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12 pts
0 comments
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
theguardian.com · totetsu · 1 Oct 2026
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11 pts
4 comments
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AI borrowers face tough sell in risky corners of US credit market
reuters.com · 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 1 Oct 2026
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11 pts
2 comments
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Jevotron: Multiple Jev integrations from the command line
cmungall.github.io · chrismungall · 1 Oct 2026
3/h peak
9 pts
1 comments
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What is going on with ceiling fans
mcmansionhell.com · colinprince · 1 Oct 2026
2/h peak
9 pts
0 comments
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Show HN: Kanmaps – Product roadmaps like videogame skill trees
kanmaps.com · pasharayan · 1 Oct 2026
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6 pts
3 comments
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Why do you need freedom?
geohot.github.io · smilelamp · 1 Oct 2026
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5 pts
3 comments
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Google, Apple and Amazon each meet EU officials more than any EU company
ft.com · snikolaev · 1 Oct 2026
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5 pts
2 comments
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When Did You Last Write Code?
timleland.com · TimLeland · 1 Oct 2026
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5 pts
2 comments
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21
Old Games Weren't More Optimized – You Just Forgot the Pain
sapphirenation.net · davikr · 1 Oct 2026
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5 pts
1 comments
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Gemini 4 Argon: Google is back among the top three labs in intelligence achieved
artificialanalysis.ai · pella · 1 Oct 2026
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5 pts
0 comments
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The main purpose of Z-Library is to enhance the level of education of everyone
z-lib.gd · Cider9986 · 1 Oct 2026
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5 pts
0 comments
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Meta wants people to use 'AI agents' to do daily tasks. Why that's a problem
theconversation.com · billybuckwheat · 1 Oct 2026
5 pts
0 comments
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Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`
blog.haskell.org · signa11 · 1 Oct 2026
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5 pts
0 comments
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Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
type4 · 1 Oct 2026
1/h peak
4 pts
7 comments
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We'll limit access to old Reddit to users that haved used it in the last 6 month
reddit.com · WayToDoor · 1 Oct 2026
4 pts
2 comments
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Eigen: Self-hosted alternative to Google Workspace
github.com · 0x0f0f0f · 1 Oct 2026
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4 pts
2 comments
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No More Drugstore Head Shots: Passport Applications Go Digital
nytimes.com · ericmay · 1 Oct 2026
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4 pts
2 comments
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Someone Torturing LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI
404media.co · unleaded · 1 Oct 2026
4 pts
1 comments
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32
Current Agentic Development Environment: Orca and Oh My Pi
james-carr.org · carrja99 · 1 Oct 2026
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4 pts
1 comments
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This Could legitimately end Stop Killing Games [video]
youtube.com · keithoffer · 1 Oct 2026
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4 pts
1 comments
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Stephen Fry: AI, a means to an end, or a means to our end? (Sep 2024)
web.archive.org · sxzygz · 1 Oct 2026
4 pts
1 comments
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Global bond sell-off deepens as Asian yields jump
ft.com · JumpCrisscross · 1 Oct 2026
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4 pts
0 comments
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Ask HN: If AI took your job tomorrow, what is your plan?
rogerrogerr · 1 Oct 2026
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3 pts
4 comments
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37
RIP Facebook
senecaeffect.substack.com · Beijinger · 1 Oct 2026
1/h peak
3 pts
3 comments
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Religious Scholars Met with Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them
nytimes.com · kanamekun · 1 Oct 2026
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3 pts
2 comments
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Howard Stern corrects a caller about OS/2 Warp vs. Windows 95 (1995)
archive.org · sippingabonedry · 1 Oct 2026
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3 pts
2 comments
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Starcloud White Paper [pdf]
starcloudinc.github.io · duck · 1 Oct 2026
3 pts
2 comments
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42
Show HN: Classican, listen + watch Classical music in a fun way
classican.vercel.app · jaequery · 1 Oct 2026
3 pts
1 comments
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43
Rust to WGSL transpiler `wgsl-rs` released
renderling.xyz · efnx · 1 Oct 2026
2/h peak
3 pts
1 comments
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FTC opens probe of Anthropic, OpenAI
nypost.com · nsagent · 1 Oct 2026
3 pts
1 comments
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Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant
arstechnica.com · Geekette · 1 Oct 2026
1/h peak
3 pts
1 comments
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Using a chat widget in California is considered wiretapping (still)
getprivisy.com · patrickwdaly · 1 Oct 2026
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3 pts
1 comments
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Evolving Candela City – Supertuxkart Blog
blog.supertuxkart.net · bariumbitmap · 1 Oct 2026
1/h peak
3 pts
1 comments
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100 Objects #11: Brannock Device
99percentinvisible.org · ironworks · 1 Oct 2026
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3 pts
1 comments
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Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
openai.com · saikatsg · 1 Oct 2026
3 pts
1 comments
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51
Show HN: Wordpaste – clean Microsoft Word and Google Docs paste, keep equations
smrifat1411.github.io · smrifat1411 · 1 Oct 2026
3 pts
1 comments
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52
Page Table Memory Consumption
frn.sh · shellpipe · 1 Oct 2026
1/h peak
3 pts
0 comments
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53
Operation Rubicon
en.wikipedia.org · CGMthrowaway · 1 Oct 2026
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3 pts
0 comments
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What even is a "Moat", anyway?
ryanshannon.substack.com · javeq34 · 1 Oct 2026
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3 pts
0 comments
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Can Your Identity Platform Pass the Black Friday Test?
fusionauth.io · mooreds · 1 Oct 2026
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3 pts
0 comments
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Clanker Church – The Saw Test
clanker.church · tossit444 · 1 Oct 2026
2/h peak
3 pts
0 comments
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Flet agent got eyes and ears
flet.dev · appveyor · 1 Oct 2026
1/h peak
3 pts
0 comments
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Why transcription quality fluctuates (and how to fix it)
wisprflow.ai · sleepypandas · 1 Oct 2026
1/h peak
3 pts
0 comments
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Can AI self-improvement overcome diminishing returns?
rameznaam.com · gmays · 1 Oct 2026
3 pts
0 comments
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