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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-10-09

  1. Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program apnews.com - 1506 comments 887 points
  2. Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB cactuscompute.com - 162 comments 808 points
  3. Tell HN: I’ve been paying for a rural Tanzanian’s education for 10 years news.ycombinator.com - 220 comments 713 points
  4. Theranos.world www.theranos.world - 168 comments 479 points
  5. OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled www.cnbc.com - 276 comments 405 points
  6. I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities quesma.com - 192 comments 393 points
  7. ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy - 2025 www.frontiersin.org - 212 comments 337 points
  8. Beauty in DVD Menus vale.rocks - 167 comments 315 points
  9. 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe www.solarpowerworldonline.com - 145 comments 248 points
  10. Bevy 0.20 bevy.org - 45 comments 201 points
  11. Orkut.com orkut.com - 146 comments 200 points
  12. Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs unsung.aresluna.org - 163 comments 188 points
  13. The value of not getting to the point - 2015 ken.arneson.name - 63 comments 187 points
  14. Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser quake-srp.pages.dev - 145 comments 184 points
  15. Show HN: Making a flexible “neon” t-shirt with LED filaments scottbezek.blogspot.com - 32 comments 184 points
  16. Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 www.theguardian.com - 44 comments 173 points
  17. Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem “NAVI” Pillay www.nobelprize.org - 61 comments 142 points
  18. OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics karagila.org - 216 comments 139 points
  19. Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter openrouter.ai - 32 comments 133 points
  20. AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment biohub.org - 19 comments 133 points
  21. What should we tell our students? terrytao.wordpress.com - 181 comments 130 points
  22. New gTLD Application for .lan newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org - 149 comments 130 points
  23. Reducing undefined behavior in the C language lwn.net - 128 comments 120 points
  24. US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program www.reuters.com - 2 comments 118 points
  25. Telnet BBS Guide www.telnetbbsguide.com - 36 comments 103 points
  26. Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen github.com - 33 comments 92 points
  27. Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization github.com - 23 comments 86 points
  28. I’m in a Meeting iminafleeting.com - 29 comments 82 points
  29. Fort Hood attacker’s execution by firing squad will be livestreamed www.bbc.com - 35 comments 78 points
  30. Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude www.theverge.com - 168 comments 73 points