Hacker News Top Stories

  1. Gemini 4 Argon
    1063 points by bradleyg223 Sep 30, 2026, 8:04 PM | blog.google
  2. California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
    15 points by dabinat Oct 1, 2026, 2:43 AM | bbc.com
  3. The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)
    147 points by Bluestein Sep 30, 2026, 10:03 PM | thespacereview.com
  4. 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience
    84 points by adunk Sep 30, 2026, 10:08 PM | 56k.rip
  5. Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings
    132 points by ibobev Sep 30, 2026, 7:04 PM | quantamagazine.org
  6. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
    104 points by AnodicElegy Sep 29, 2026, 10:10 AM | worksinprogress.news
  7. Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++
    4 points by renjipanicker Oct 1, 2026, 2:30 AM | github.com
  8. Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents
    130 points by anerli Sep 30, 2026, 5:37 PM | github.com
  9. EDG C++ front-end goes public
    162 points by iandinwoodie Sep 30, 2026, 7:26 PM | edgcpp.org
  10. Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
    244 points by rzk Sep 30, 2026, 9:27 AM | twitter.com
  11. Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields
    84 points by luu Sep 30, 2026, 7:44 PM | mattkeeter.com
  12. What a Massive New 728-Foot-Wide Crater Means for Future Moon Bases
    20 points by bookofjoe Sep 29, 2026, 5:58 PM | nytimes.com
  13. 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs
    123 points by jbott Sep 30, 2026, 6:17 PM | netlify.com
  14. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
    232 points by rbanffy Sep 30, 2026, 2:34 PM | spectrum.ieee.org
  15. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
    59 points by leephillips Sep 30, 2026, 6:49 PM | unsung.aresluna.org
  16. CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software)
    48 points by lashkari Sep 30, 2026, 5:42 PM | chompiclub.com
  17. Jevotron: Multiple Jev integrations from the command line
    3 points by chrismungall Oct 1, 2026, 2:12 AM | cmungall.github.io
  18. Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program
    15 points by ripe Oct 1, 2026, 2:26 AM | 404media.co
  19. Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose
    37 points by thanouil1411 Sep 30, 2026, 2:38 PM | lathoa.ai
  20. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records
    261 points by luispa Sep 28, 2026, 8:32 PM | blog.faav.net
  21. What TLA+ can and can't check
    149 points by b-man Sep 30, 2026, 1:57 PM | buttondown.com
  22. Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan
    52 points by pwim Sep 30, 2026, 7:33 AM | tokyodev.com
  23. Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")
    44 points by cobbzilla Sep 30, 2026, 5:00 PM | software3d.com
  24. The last time my family was replaced by technology
    190 points by megalomanu Sep 30, 2026, 1:06 PM | manuel.darcemont.fr
  25. Coltrane's Tone Circle
    36 points by jtomschroeder Sep 30, 2026, 2:59 PM | jtomschroeder.com
  26. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer
    1 points by rooppal Sep 30, 2026, 5:00 PM | ycombinator.com
  27. Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
    109 points by viraj_shah Sep 28, 2026, 6:57 PM | ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com
  28. Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch
    29 points by pminimax Sep 30, 2026, 8:06 PM | neuroai.science
  29. Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics
    81 points by aureianimus Sep 30, 2026, 2:36 AM | agmai.org
  30. SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering
    139 points by ibobev Sep 30, 2026, 1:50 PM | alphapixeldev.com
  31. Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32
    14 points by adunk Sep 30, 2026, 10:07 PM | groundrun.io
  32. Parmiagiano and Financialisation: Cheese as Gold for the Gold of Cheese
    3 points by paimapi Sep 29, 2026, 9:47 PM | developingeconomics.org
  33. A Closer Look at Australopithecus Africanus
    12 points by dxs Sep 29, 2026, 7:27 PM | lflank.wordpress.com
  34. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987
    77 points by kmstout Sep 30, 2026, 2:36 PM | sdf.org
  35. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
    143 points by BurnerBurner Sep 30, 2026, 4:19 AM | hereticpleb.vercel.app
  36. pldb: programming languages papers
    20 points by matt_d Sep 30, 2026, 9:23 PM | pldb.kirancodes.me
  37. You said no MCP
    618 points by yarapavan Sep 30, 2026, 9:55 AM | earendil.com
  38. Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management
    57 points by croes Sep 30, 2026, 3:54 PM | advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
  39. Commit description as a thinking tool
    107 points by yedhukrishnan Sep 30, 2026, 5:18 PM | yedhu.me
  40. Mechanochemistry of Molecular Motors [video]
    11 points by surprisetalk Sep 29, 2026, 2:40 PM | youtube.com
  41. 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years
    72 points by kaycebasques Oct 1, 2026, 1:40 AM | wsj.com
  42. Solving Factorio Quality
    250 points by laurenth Sep 29, 2026, 2:27 AM | exyr.org
  43. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes
    79 points by dancablam Sep 29, 2026, 11:41 PM | ledge.sh
  44. Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry
    18 points by Levitating Sep 30, 2026, 12:17 PM | amutable.com
  45. Gitea 28.0
    67 points by porridgeraisin Sep 30, 2026, 8:32 PM | blog.gitea.com
  46. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot
    123 points by gvuksic Sep 29, 2026, 10:05 AM | projecthub.arduino.cc
  47. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
    124 points by papa-whisky Sep 29, 2026, 11:03 PM | gevernova.com
  48. Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A)
    72 points by mogrinz Sep 28, 2026, 9:06 PM | github.com
  49. Recursive `make` and `-j`
    22 points by ibobev Sep 30, 2026, 5:46 PM | quuxplusone.github.io
  50. Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
    92 points by theanonymousone Sep 30, 2026, 8:50 PM | artificialanalysis.ai