Hacker News top 30 - 2026-10-06
- ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons www.niemanlab.org - 352 comments 481 points
- Beam: Reflection’s 501B open-weight model reflection.ai - 155 comments 480 points
- Pixel 11 doesn’t yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped discuss.grapheneos.org - 296 comments 419 points
- Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates www.vals.ai - 267 comments 394 points
- OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects diff.wikimedia.org - 186 comments 287 points
- Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades www.debugbear.com - 164 comments 259 points
- The lamps in my house arslan.io - 102 comments 240 points
- Find the flattest route between any two points in SF flattensf.com - 79 comments 235 points
- Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation qlabs.sh - 61 comments 227 points
- Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language www.vivienhenz.com - 285 comments 226 points
- US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia www.theguardian.com - 233 comments 217 points
- Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend dbushell.com - 129 comments 213 points
- Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage arstechnica.com - 32 comments 198 points
- Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have deadparrotbbs.com - 110 comments 196 points
- Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen www.nobelprize.org - 52 comments 182 points
- Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses www.barrons.com - 93 comments 166 points
- Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 floreal.tech - 46 comments 165 points
- The future of independence is interdependence onlys.ky - 106 comments 141 points
- High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days www.thedrive.com - 142 comments 139 points
- Picard 3.0 blog.metabrainz.org - 46 comments 133 points
- Linux containers in 500 lines of code - 2016 blog.lizzie.io - 34 comments 128 points
- Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project github.com - 80 comments 127 points
- “I’m Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry” blog.jim-nielsen.com - 125 comments 115 points
- The Future of Mathematics terrytao.wordpress.com - 71 comments 115 points
- Borland Turbo Basic dosdays.co.uk - 60 comments 105 points
- One person can now be a quorum at the SEC www.ft.com - 58 comments 103 points
- Incident with Actions www.githubstatus.com - 63 comments 100 points
- Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners news.ycombinator.com - 59 comments 100 points
- We are going to kill “unalive” www.anildash.com - 98 comments 97 points
- Open Source as We Know It Is Dead jross.me - 56 comments 88 points
October 6, 2026 ∙