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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-10-08

  1. Margaret Hamilton has died news.mit.edu - 183 comments 1746 points
  2. Claude Haiku 5.5 www.anthropic.com - 442 comments 937 points
  3. GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone openai.com - 397 comments 677 points
  4. Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over ‘anticompetitive’ fees www.classaction.org - 413 comments 559 points
  5. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app bigwords.page - 143 comments 558 points
  6. “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically mathstodon.xyz - 385 comments 394 points
  7. Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages ascii.rest - 69 comments 388 points
  8. Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI www.rswebsols.com - 350 comments 348 points
  9. Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation arxiv.org - 196 comments 322 points
  10. Anti-patterns in software blogging refactoringenglish.com - 142 comments 294 points
  11. The Mathocalypse scottaaronson.blog - 301 comments 287 points
  12. Docker Agent github.com - 121 comments 263 points
  13. Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved www.githubstatus.com - 180 comments 226 points
  14. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k www.readingchronicle.co.uk - 202 comments 214 points
  15. ‘Jonathan’ is the oldest land animal on Earth www.404media.co - 101 comments 187 points
  16. Why were Victorian elites so effective? worksinprogress.co - 311 comments 186 points
  17. Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits debasishg.github.io - 73 comments 161 points
  18. Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy www.pewresearch.org - 121 comments 160 points
  19. Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia artmuseum.artfrompixels.com - 62 comments 157 points
  20. Google Playground: Create and play custom games blog.google - 224 comments 150 points
  21. The people holding up the internet sheets.works - 53 comments 136 points
  22. In Vienna and Beijing, the first - thorium nuclear clocks begin to tick www.nytimes.com - 37 comments 120 points
  23. SynthID Detector synthid.com - 94 comments 119 points
  24. AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares github.com - 53 comments 116 points
  25. Google Playground labs.google - 2 comments 115 points
  26. Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser treylorswift.github.io - 92 comments 105 points
  27. Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth www.bloomberg.com - 36 comments 96 points
  28. A 100x faster alternative to homebrew github.com - 74 comments 95 points
  29. Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days www.dexerto.com - 43 comments 94 points
  30. OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers github.com - 62 comments 91 points