Trending on 2026-09-17 — HN, Reddit, Google Trends & YouTube Archive

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Hacker News

50 items

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Anatomy of a Texture
75 points · 14 comments
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I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app
23 points · 8 comments
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Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
180 points · 49 comments
4
Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU
136 points · 83 comments
5
Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores
60 points · 7 comments
6
Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
115 points · 42 comments
7
Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus
11 points · 0 comments
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The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind
11 points · 0 comments
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Why Does the Universe Expand?
28 points · 16 comments
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HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
38 points · 5 comments
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The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
105 points · 36 comments
12
Performance Improvements in .NET 11
171 points · 33 comments
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Small programming tricks
402 points · 181 comments
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Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
2088 points · 240 comments
15
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
96 points · 159 comments
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AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
239 points · 216 comments
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior
25 points · 15 comments
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OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework
65 points · 21 comments
19
Reverse-engineered Jev-like model
77 points · 11 comments
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Reversing Factorio's RNG
146 points · 19 comments
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Backups Aren't Simple
82 points · 34 comments
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Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs
143 points · 18 comments
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Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard
260 points · 65 comments
24
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
398 points · 84 comments
25
Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
285 points · 110 comments
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How good are frontier models at physics?
80 points · 40 comments
27
Destroy After Reading: photocopiers,cheap paper and DIY gave metal it's look
15 points · 3 comments
28
Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
535 points · 186 comments
29
Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster
32 points · 5 comments
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William Buckland's Theology of Geology
4 points · 0 comments
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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
453 points · 210 comments
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My website charged AI agents a penny per page. I watched Claude pay it
7 points · 1 comments
33
WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL
36 points · 5 comments
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Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022)
160 points · 25 comments
35
The DeepMind Institute
120 points · 41 comments
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macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
87 points · 91 comments
37
Tell the speakers that you liked their talks
260 points · 73 comments
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The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World
44 points · 4 comments
39
Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hardcoded creds
21 points · 2 comments
40
A warning about 'model welfare'
174 points · 464 comments
41
Show HN: Restarted – a 2026 remake of the classic 2015 startup generator
13 points · 3 comments
42
Show HN: AttaLambda: a language where types and data are made of untyped lambdas
28 points · 0 comments
43
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer
1 points · 0 comments
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How big are factorials?
70 points · 30 comments
45
Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
173 points · 182 comments
46
Randomized query complexity can beat certificate complexity
3 points · 0 comments
47
Tell HN: An inside view of Montana's new biotech law
26 points · 5 comments
48
Why a fast-growing German AI startup is moving its parent company from the US
37 points · 12 comments
49
The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
326 points · 314 comments
50
Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs
218 points · 167 comments

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Canada invited to become EU’s first ‘associate member’ as Trump trade war intensifiesr/worldnews
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Labor for thee, not for me
r/BikiniBottomTwitter
3
Trump Supporters Say We Have “Zero Empathy” for American Farmers
r/LeopardsAteMyFarm
4
Took the lid off of these flightless fruit flies and about 30 of them FLEW OUT and disappeared in my house.
r/mildlyinfuriating
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This is factsr/SipsTea
6
They really believe he’s gonna send anyone a single penny 😂
r/stupidpeoplefacebook
7
Robert Pattinson discusses the extreme lengths he goes to in order to land rolesr/okbuddycinephile
8
i honestly don’t like having a broke boyfriend..
r/GirlDinnerDiaries
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37 years ago today my parents were gifted this Pothos when I was bornr/houseplants
10
54 year old live streamer claims I made thousands of dollars by posting him on this subreddit yestarday. Labels me a thief and calls for my arrest.r/LivestreamFail
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I'd like to give away a *free* LED Slipmat Prototype if anyone is interestedr/vinyl
12
Titler/videogames
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NBC news helicopter crashes during live shot of bus crash in Los Angeles.
r/interestingasfuck
14
My GF got me arrested by accident.r/BoyDinnerDiaries
15
Thousands of Ed Sheeran Tickets Remain Unsold for Singer's Tour, With Prices Down to $65 Onliner/Music
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Macklemore pledges his $1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestiner/news
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Macklemore says he will donate $1 million of his net earnings from Ed Sheeran's "LOOP Tour" to six organizations supporting the Palestinian-peopler/Music
18
Oh, yeah!
r/DangerousNightsCrew
19
What 9/11 fact should people be more aware of?r/AskReddit
20
The Boy From Venus 12r/comics
21
Macklemore releases new statement saying his earnings from Ed Sheeran’s The Loop Tour will be donated to Palestinian organisationsr/Fauxmoi
22
Confused Mitch McConnell, 84, Has to Be Told How to Voter/politics
23
Casually smoking crack by the police station
r/mildlyinfuriating
24
Hey, look! Another reason to hate cops!r/dashcams
25
Lena Dunham has welcomed her first child with husband Luis Felber via Surrogater/popculturechat
26
Doctor brought a baby back to life after it appeared lifeless
r/interestingasfuck
27
Am I cooked, 36fr/amiuglytruth
28
Scientists found that the creatine supplement millions take for muscle gains is quietly raising brain energy levels and slowing early Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%r/interesting
29
Don't be silentr/comics
30
AIO Decided to cut off a friendr/AIO
31
Once the cop heard dash cam he knew he messed upr/dashcams
32
I gave proper notice to my job, they decided to be petty and screwed themselves.r/pettyrevenge
33
A delightful junkyard findr/notmycat
34
For the love of the game
r/NonPoliticalTwitter
35
Breakfast at Lake Ontario 💙r/pics
36
People just want to argue.r/memes
37
She was simply too cool for any of these guys.r/TikTokDiscuss
38
Bernie calling it outr/SipsTea
39
Petah? What's this mean?
r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
40
Husband invited his friends over and assumed I'd feed them
r/GirlDinnerDiaries
41
Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card - bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 promotionr/technology
42
Our rescue took Rodrick to the vet yesterday, and he talked to EVERYONE🤣r/blackcats
43
Spotify teasing GTA6 Collabsr/GTA6
44
“Here bro, this facebook meme explains it really well“r/HistoryMemes
45
Comedy is all about timingr/comedy
46
Ferrix Marching Band pulls out of Ed Sheeran tour amid Maclunky controversyr/andor
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New statement from Macklemorer/fantanoforever
48
North Texas Station out of Diesel.
r/mildlyinfuriating
49
Evolutionsr/memes
50
Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World Season 4 • Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Season 4 - Episode 17 discussionr/anime

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