Trending on 2026-09-16 — HN, Reddit, Google Trends & YouTube Archive

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Hacker News

50 items

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US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
443 points · 313 comments
2
Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device
175 points · 31 comments
3
Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Engineer (Remote/US)
1 points · 0 comments
4
Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go
27 points · 2 comments
5
Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background
30 points · 13 comments
6
Let's make quality the norm again
302 points · 313 comments
7
German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
125 points · 39 comments
8
A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
450 points · 158 comments
9
Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up
34 points · 0 comments
10
Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
279 points · 118 comments
11
Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
153 points · 89 comments
12
The Beauty of Roundabouts
5 points · 5 comments
13
Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA
14 points · 1 comments
14
Saving Jet Fuel
24 points · 13 comments
15
We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes
211 points · 112 comments
16
Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
294 points · 187 comments
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Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
430 points · 394 comments
18
Chopping up books when they're physically too big
116 points · 116 comments
19
Jean-Pierre Serre is 100 years old today
85 points · 13 comments
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Sierra digital cameras on the Apple II
17 points · 0 comments
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WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages
104 points · 42 comments
22
Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
137 points · 100 comments
23
An Update on Wayback Machine Access
377 points · 209 comments
24
Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
1293 points · 180 comments
25
Introducing System One Models and Jev
736 points · 248 comments
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GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview
106 points · 59 comments
27
The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped
125 points · 67 comments
28
Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design
86 points · 72 comments
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Most people prefer traditional architecture
246 points · 196 comments
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Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating?
29 points · 42 comments
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XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis
7 points · 3 comments
32
I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
1004 points · 415 comments
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The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026
92 points · 9 comments
34
Giving up on smart rings
77 points · 123 comments
35
Java 27
292 points · 263 comments
36
How much oil-market buffer is left?
69 points · 100 comments
37
The Two MMLU Scores: What a Benchmark Name Does Not Fix
5 points · 0 comments
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America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
195 points · 125 comments
39
25 years of mass surveillance is enough
688 points · 248 comments
40
Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920)
14 points · 0 comments
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Archiving pirate radio station Kool FM
83 points · 24 comments
42
CSS-Tricks in Limbo
236 points · 104 comments
43
Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]
44 points · 6 comments
44
Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it
89 points · 31 comments
45
Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
216 points · 86 comments
46
Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit
54 points · 5 comments
47
Tracking the slide into authoritarianism wihin the United States of America
30 points · 0 comments
48
Rat and Mouse Gazette: Nursing Care (1996)
11 points · 1 comments
49
Sony's First Computer – The SMC-70 from 1982 [video]
49 points · 10 comments
50
Show HN: Panel – A research workspace where the agent can build its own panes
39 points · 7 comments

50 items

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Practice what you preach or change your speech.r/PoursTea
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Final Destination-esque scene outside of Final Destination
r/TopCharacterTropes
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China unveils autonomous robotic fish for underwater surveillance.
r/Damnthatsinteresting
4
Marvel’s Wolverine Gets Glowing Player Reviews Despite Mixed Critic Scoresr/PS5
5
My bestfriend is getting married on the worst day of my life
r/GirlDinnerDiaries
6
Kash Patel struggles to explain why bestiality was dropped as FBI disqualificationr/nottheonion
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Is anybody else surprised by the resurgence of Limp Bizkit in recent years?r/Millennials
8
Cabin ceiling falls apart onboard a Sepehran Airlines Boeing 737 after a tire reportedly burst shortly after takeoff from Mashhad Airport causing engine damage and severe vibrations.r/Wellthatsucks
9
In Obsession (2026), why didn't bear just wish "I wish I had a loving and healthy relationship with nikki"? Am I stupid?
r/shittymoviedetails
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Travis, a writer, being acknowledged in public, seems it made his dayr/MadeMeSmile
11
New passport is fading in less than 3 weeks
r/mildlyinfuriating
12
Beoga, Ed Sheeran’s band, withdraw from the tour in support of Palestiner/popculturechat
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Am I overreacting? My mom wants to wear my prom dress to my weddingr/AmIOverreacting
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Ed Sheeran's spineless "response" to Macklemorer/Fauxmoi
15
Lukas Graham pulls out of Ed Sheeran concertsr/Music
16
What’s the worst case you’ve seen of a grown adult having absolutely no basic knowledge of hygiene, biology, everyday life etc?r/AskReddit
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👇👇👇r/funComunitty
18
Ms Rachel Calls Out Ed Sheeran Over Macklemore Tour Drop: 'Silence During a Genocide Is Not Neutral'r/Music
19
Four supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran’s tour after Macklemore is dropped over Palestine commentsr/news
20
She still got itr/HolUp
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She has a pointr/SipsTea
22
Woman Assaults a Minor Then Starts Crying When He Hits Her Back. What do you think about it?r/WhatIsTheTea
23
Morality of breaking up with a gf/fiance over their support for this woman?r/MoralityScaling
24
Ed Sheeran responds to the recent Macklemore departure from his showr/popculturechat
25
Mitch McConnell is back and better than ever!r/SipsTea
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Erin Brockovich has entered the chat...r/antiai
27
Meirlr/meirl
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Lucas Graham drops out of Ed Sheeran’s tour following Aaron Row and Ed’s bandr/Fauxmoi
29
In 2008, two brothers accidentally created one of the most iconic dance videos of the electro era, which later turned into an internet classic.
r/interestingasfuck
30
TIL that The Lion King was originally called “King of the Jungle”... until the Disney team remembered that lions don’t live in the jungle.r/todayilearned
31
Anthropic CEO warns of AI-driven botnet 'swarm' taking over the entire internet — 'In 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet'r/technology
32
Wolverine Developer Insomniac Promises to 'Further Refine the Player Experience'r/gaming
33
FINNEAS withdraws from Ed Sheeran tour datesr/Music
34
Irish singer, Aaron Rowe, has decided to pull out of being an opening act for Ed Sheerans tour with a powerful statementr/Fauxmoi
35
Pass the trannybill. They deserve rights too.r/BrandNewSentence
36
Watching Ed Sheeran's career end in real-time.r/SipsTea
37
It really was a sprint against timer/Millennials
38
Pip, high as a kite after bladder stone removal (he's recovering just fine)r/aww
39
Can't stop thinking about thisr/Adulting
40
F-22 Raptor retracts the gear just milliseconds after lifting off the runway.
r/interestingasfuck
41
It is time to build the United States of Europer/europe
42
Anesthesiologist, what's the strangest thing you've heard from a patient when putting them under/waking up from sedation?r/AskReddit
43
54 year old streamer ‘DarkSydePhil’ dies within seconds of playing Wolveriner/LivestreamFail
44
No need to do anything in the Wolverine bike chase sequencer/videogames
45
Is it actually normal for Americans to eat dinner very early?
r/NoStupidQuestions
46
Back with a vengeance against poor peopler/MurderedByWords
47
Have this man give a speech to assure us of his cognition..r/AdviceAnimals
48
My dad keeps a running list of the dogs he meets on his beach walks.r/MadeMeSmile
49
McConnell returns to Senate for first time in 3 months in a wheelchair. Reporters were barred from recording video.r/antiwork
50
House to Vote on Impeaching Hegseth Over Iran Warr/law

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