The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2026
We track 31,476 stories from October 2026, averaging 18 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 3,451 stories. Together they drew 312,116 comments, 10 per story on average. The fastest riser we measured gained 736 points in a single hour.
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Patrick Stewart has died
nytimes.com · j4mie · 29 Oct 2026
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3.3k pts
769 comments
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HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
karpathy.bearblog.dev · karpathy · 31 Oct 2026
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2.9k pts
646 comments
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DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
github.com · ggcr · 20 Oct 2026
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2.4k pts
892 comments
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Margaret Hamilton has died
news.mit.edu · muglug · 7 Oct 2026
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2.1k pts
259 comments
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Things to know when you get cancer
jjmaxwell4.com · jjmaxwell4 · 14 Oct 2026
253/h peak
2k pts
479 comments
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Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
arkm.com · Tiberium · 29 Oct 2026
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1.8k pts
1.3k comments
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We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
mistral.ai · kuberwastaken · 29 Oct 2026
286/h peak
1.7k pts
441 comments
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Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
edjefferson.com · sohkamyung · 22 Oct 2026
142/h peak
1.7k pts
256 comments
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Tesla Roadster
tesla.com · shekhar101 · 16 Oct 2026
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1.6k pts
3.2k comments
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Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
nullpt.rs · hazebooth · 28 Oct 2026
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1.6k pts
310 comments
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Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
php.net · xd · 20 Oct 2026
141/h peak
1.6k pts
659 comments
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Gemini 4 Argon
deepmind.google · 737max · 13 Oct 2026
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1.5k pts
1k comments
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Triple-A Minesweeper
minesweeper.mikelacher.com · robin_reala · 9 Oct 2026
109/h peak
1.4k pts
289 comments
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Cloudflare acquires Deno
deno.com · ilreb · 9 Oct 2026
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1.4k pts
728 comments
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Quad9 to exit France
quad9.net · farrokhi · 22 Oct 2026
156/h peak
1.4k pts
481 comments
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Sharing AI progress in mathematics
openai.com · OfficialTurkey · 6 Oct 2026
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1.4k pts
1.5k comments
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eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com · galadran · 20 Oct 2026
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1.3k pts
504 comments
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Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com · galadran · 28 Oct 2026
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1.2k pts
414 comments
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Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
wired.com · zzzeek · 28 Oct 2026
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1.2k pts
1.1k comments
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Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
openai.com · jonluca · 26 Oct 2026
128/h peak
1.2k pts
715 comments
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eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
emudhra.com · bo0tzz · 22 Oct 2026
177/h peak
1.2k pts
745 comments
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Passkeys are a trap
nonfunctional.substack.com · laurex · 11 Oct 2026
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1.2k pts
577 comments
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Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
dgt.is · jonotime · 8 Oct 2026
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1.1k pts
990 comments
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Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
blog.calif.io · pavel_lishin · 23 Oct 2026
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1.1k pts
733 comments
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US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
wired.com · helterskelter2 · 27 Oct 2026
149/h peak
1.1k pts
465 comments
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Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
kimi.ai · Jowsey · 23 Oct 2026
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1.1k pts
682 comments
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Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
seattletimes.com · doctorzook · 26 Oct 2026
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1.1k pts
1.2k comments
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Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
anthropic.com · ahlCVA · 16 Oct 2026
166/h peak
1.1k pts
391 comments
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Sorry, I'm in a meeting
iminafleeting.com · splintersio · 9 Oct 2026
83/h peak
1.1k pts
289 comments
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Claude Haiku 5.5
anthropic.com · sfkgtbor · 7 Oct 2026
112/h peak
1k pts
489 comments
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Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
phorion.io · _chall · 30 Oct 2026
161/h peak
1k pts
553 comments
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Do dentists know what they're doing?
mapwriting.substack.com · doitLP · 12 Oct 2026
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990 pts
707 comments
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OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
twitter.com · pranshuchittora · 17 Oct 2026
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977 pts
185 comments
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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
cactuscompute.com · gmays · 8 Oct 2026
95/h peak
964 pts
185 comments
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Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
dexerto.com · ck2 · 7 Oct 2026
64/h peak
962 pts
575 comments
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DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
huggingface.co · theykk · 17 Oct 2026
109/h peak
959 pts
727 comments
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Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
scotthelme.co.uk · hkc · 21 Oct 2026
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957 pts
461 comments
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How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
not-ship.com · sighborg · 14 Oct 2026
91/h peak
954 pts
768 comments
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Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
csoonline.com · latexr · 14 Oct 2026
266/h peak
952 pts
630 comments
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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
paveworld · 4 Oct 2026
88/h peak
947 pts
222 comments
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Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
apnews.com · alephnerd · 8 Oct 2026
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945 pts
1.6k comments
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Apple Music 404 Not Found
music.apple.com · frizlab · 23 Oct 2026
115/h peak
945 pts
278 comments
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Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
permit.petercai.com · pcai · 20 Oct 2026
151/h peak
941 pts
428 comments
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I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
antonfrolov.substack.com · soheilpro · 7 Oct 2026
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941 pts
209 comments
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Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
github.com · snehesht · 4 Oct 2026
80/h peak
940 pts
420 comments
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Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
science.org · input_sh · 31 Oct 2026
130/h peak
926 pts
526 comments
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Muse Spark Open
research.meta.ai · bigwheels · 15 Oct 2026
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922 pts
479 comments
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We should be more ambitious with the software we build
danluu.com · ltratt · 24 Oct 2026
70/h peak
919 pts
780 comments
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Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
tomshardware.com · Zeekaas · 12 Oct 2026
67/h peak
918 pts
1k comments
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Redesigning source control at Anthropic
anthropic.com · Philpax · 13 Oct 2026
86/h peak
900 pts
1k comments
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Docker is weird
codeandcake.dev · psxuaw · 22 Oct 2026
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887 pts
370 comments
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Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]
youtube.com · johnnyApplePRNG · 13 Oct 2026
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877 pts
259 comments
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