The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2026
We track 10,993 stories from October 2026, averaging 17 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 1,232 stories. Together they drew 103,031 comments, 9 per story on average. The fastest riser we measured gained 207 points in a single hour.
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Margaret Hamilton has died
news.mit.edu · muglug · 7 Oct 2026
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2.1k pts
257 comments
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Triple-A Minesweeper
minesweeper.mikelacher.com · robin_reala · 9 Oct 2026
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1.4k pts
285 comments
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Cloudflare acquires Deno
deno.com · ilreb · 9 Oct 2026
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1.4k pts
713 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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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
985 comments
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Claude Haiku 5.5
anthropic.com · sfkgtbor · 7 Oct 2026
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1k pts
488 comments
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Sorry, I'm in a meeting
iminafleeting.com · splintersio · 9 Oct 2026
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1k pts
285 comments
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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
cactuscompute.com · gmays · 8 Oct 2026
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952 pts
183 comments
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Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
dexerto.com · ck2 · 7 Oct 2026
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951 pts
573 comments
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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
paveworld · 4 Oct 2026
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945 pts
221 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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940 pts
1.6k 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
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936 pts
421 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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927 pts
206 comments
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Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
techspot.com · emptybits · 5 Oct 2026
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836 pts
674 comments
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Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
eff.org · hn_acker · 1 Oct 2026
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812 pts
418 comments
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Passkeys are a trap
nonfunctional.substack.com · laurex · 11 Oct 2026
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789 pts
428 comments
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REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
rea.tools · modinfo · 10 Oct 2026
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775 pts
327 comments
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Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
github.com · privacyisntdead · 4 Oct 2026
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773 pts
559 comments
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Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
tanzaniaeducationproject.org · lukehandcool · 8 Oct 2026
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771 pts
244 comments
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GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
openai.com · joshuawright11 · 7 Oct 2026
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756 pts
458 comments
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Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app
bigwords.page · SpeakingOfBrad · 7 Oct 2026
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723 pts
166 comments
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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
aleph-alpha.com · bastitx · 3 Oct 2026
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711 pts
336 comments
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Our $445M Series D
oxide.computer · ahlCVA · 9 Oct 2026
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697 pts
330 comments
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YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
gizmodo.com · gumby · 9 Oct 2026
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696 pts
360 comments
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Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
nytimes.com · CoryOndrejka · 1 Oct 2026
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679 pts
177 comments
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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
simonwillison.net · elffjs · 4 Oct 2026
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650 pts
313 comments
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Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
blog.cloudflare.com · jasondavies · 1 Oct 2026
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641 pts
218 comments
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StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
github.com · Snowly · 1 Oct 2026
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633 pts
178 comments
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Bot traffic from Yandex
radar.cloudflare.com · walrus01 · 11 Oct 2026
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632 pts
251 comments
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“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
mathstodon.xyz · ent101 · 8 Oct 2026
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611 pts
652 comments
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Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees
classaction.org · DeepLogin · 7 Oct 2026
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603 pts
448 comments
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3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
status.yandex.cloud · defly · 11 Oct 2026
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600 pts
737 comments
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JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
helgilibrary.com · thw_9a83c · 6 Oct 2026
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595 pts
565 comments
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Web Search API
developers.cloudflare.com · tosh · 5 Oct 2026
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593 pts
285 comments
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Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
frogandtoad.ai · supermdguy · 1 Oct 2026
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591 pts
136 comments
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The Lightbulb Computer
lightbulbcomputer.com · oskarth · 10 Oct 2026
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587 pts
95 comments
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
nobelprize.org · solarist · 6 Oct 2026
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582 pts
213 comments
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Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
blog.gitbutler.com · chmaynard · 1 Oct 2026
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581 pts
536 comments
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
lwn.net · luispa · 1 Oct 2026
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581 pts
410 comments
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Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
nanolathe.gg · jttnr · 11 Oct 2026
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581 pts
221 comments
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Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
developer.chrome.com · AshleysBrain · 7 Oct 2026
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574 pts
407 comments
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Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
IvanK_net · 6 Oct 2026
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572 pts
343 comments
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Apple Pass Designer
developer.apple.com · soheilpro · 2 Oct 2026
88/h peak
571 pts
340 comments
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Theranos.world
theranos.world · kbyatnal · 8 Oct 2026
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567 pts
205 comments
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
niemanlab.org · rdmuser · 5 Oct 2026
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558 pts
426 comments
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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
reflection.ai · Philpax · 5 Oct 2026
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554 pts
174 comments
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The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
twitter.com · albertzeyer · 11 Oct 2026
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543 pts
785 comments
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A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
housing.over.pizza · JumpCrisscross · 10 Oct 2026
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539 pts
192 comments
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Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
1011now.com · sensanaty · 4 Oct 2026
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528 pts
716 comments
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NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
nyc.gov · gregsadetsky · 11 Oct 2026
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527 pts
261 comments
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Extra Big Ass Intelligence
extrabigassintelligence.com · 34679 · 3 Oct 2026
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524 pts
128 comments
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Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"
mistral.ai · j-bu · 6 Oct 2026
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522 pts
5 comments
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Lobbying is corruption
carette.xyz · LucidLynx · 10 Oct 2026
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521 pts
290 comments
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US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
reuters.com · poly2it · 9 Oct 2026
157/h peak
519 pts
523 comments
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Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
cpr.dk · clan · 5 Oct 2026
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509 pts
352 comments
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