Trending 2026-09-18: Hacker News, Reddit, Google Trends

Snapshot of what trended on 2026-09-18, archived automatically by NoobClaw.

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Hacker News

50 items

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Show HN: Jev vs. GPT-5.6 and Claude Haiku at Pong
9 points · 0 comments
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ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history
231 points · 53 comments
3
Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
295 points · 105 comments
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Second Circuit Allows Government to Search Electronic Devices at the Border
36 points · 23 comments
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Jemalloc 5.4.0
265 points · 65 comments
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
634 points · 540 comments
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Show HN: Rickub – The Smartest Git in the Universe
10 points · 1 comments
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Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap
269 points · 189 comments
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BeanShell3 in Development
11 points · 5 comments
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Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring
1 points · 0 comments
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The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands
38 points · 7 comments
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OpenJev
328 points · 189 comments
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Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him
189 points · 126 comments
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GrassLobster: AI Agentic Generation of Parametric Geometry Workflows
4 points · 0 comments
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I don't like passkeys
397 points · 369 comments
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Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
523 points · 172 comments
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Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich
9 points · 0 comments
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NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September
17 points · 9 comments
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Build Faster Feedback Loops Using Qualitative User Research
5 points · 0 comments
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The scourge of x86 emulation
228 points · 59 comments
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Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
559 points · 283 comments
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North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes
31 points · 19 comments
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C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
34 points · 33 comments
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An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents
124 points · 21 comments
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Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
60 points · 27 comments
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Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
101 points · 56 comments
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I Vibed a Proof of Conway's Conjecture
65 points · 59 comments
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Astra for Law
553 points · 647 comments
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AI Protest in Montreal
36 points · 29 comments
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Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive on Intel processors
53 points · 40 comments
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Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
676 points · 179 comments
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Wax motor
482 points · 89 comments
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Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA
617 points · 242 comments
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When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader
78 points · 12 comments
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Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams
3 points · 0 comments
36
Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek
122 points · 57 comments
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AI chatbots becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?
34 points · 35 comments
38
How to Write with an LLM
239 points · 166 comments
39
Show HN: Navier-Stokes Visualized as 1kB i386 demos
43 points · 3 comments
40
If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious
22 points · 38 comments
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A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
386 points · 165 comments
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Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera
17 points · 0 comments
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Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM)
83 points · 19 comments
44
Ask A Monk – A digital wilderness for thoughts with no immediate answer
50 points · 27 comments
45
Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python
135 points · 68 comments
46
Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006
68 points · 29 comments
47
Google illegally retains customer data,and I am taking legal action against them
40 points · 7 comments
48
Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain
74 points · 45 comments
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Speeding up gearhash on ARM64
23 points · 0 comments
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How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy?
135 points · 115 comments

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Rumors that there is absolutely no diesel left in Southeast Michiganr/oil
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Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expertr/gaming
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Most Americans had no idea who he was. Republicans are making sure you know Hasan Piker’s name.r/politics
4
Earth update: new cat.
r/NonPoliticalTwitter
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Can we conclude that the hipster movement is done?r/Millennials
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Max Verstappen wins per year so farr/formula1
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US chip fabs face massive 157,000 worker shortfall, mere 3% of US engineering grads enter chipmaking — despite six-figure salaries, US chip manufacturers are in dire need of engineers and techniciansr/technology
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Am I attractive? I lost 70r/amiuglytruth
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Michigan gas prices are insane right now. (oc)r/pics
10
i am 21 and have won £700,000. what do i do?r/FIREUK
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Members of right‑leaning parties prefer leaders with ‘dark triad’ personality traits - narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy, suggests a new UK study.r/science
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I died of cringe so you must toor/TikTokCringe
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Dog stops a tiger and lion from fightingr/interesting
14
Trump does love the poorly educated.r/MurderedByWords
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Morality of doing this to guy who’s pulling a prank on you?r/MoralityScaling
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Mom's reaction to learning her missing 16-year-old son was foundr/interesting
17
Russian military jets violate Lithuanian airspace, Italian fighters scrambledr/worldnews
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The verdict was made before the trial started.r/SipsTea
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"What's the statute of limitations on the Joe Biden blame game?"r/SipsTea
20
13-year-old Long Island boy with a 168 IQ will soon pursue his master's at NYU.
r/interestingasfuck
21
Failed Breakout Character
r/TopCharacterTropes
22
$6.69 regular and $8.69 diesel. Are we winning yet?
r/mildlyinfuriating
23
My cat (17) will be euthanized next week and I‘m in shambles. Can you guys post your cats as well so she can make friends on the rainbow road?r/cats
24
Ed Sheeran's tour is now on track to be cancelled after losing nearly all his opening acts and the official musical band.
r/whoathatsinteresting
25
You get $1 million but you have to watch every episode of a TV show 10 times, what show are you picking?r/AskReddit
26
Joe Rogan Calls Trump Fans 'F**king Nuts' And Says He's Been 'Left-Wing My Whole Life'r/politics
27
Which favorite pair fits this?
r/FavoriteCharacter
28
Happy birthday to the greatest teaser of all timer/okbuddycinephile
29
My Venus fly trap tried to eat my cat.
r/mildlyinteresting
30
ITAPPH of my simple birthday celebration as a bread winner of a struggling family.r/ITookAPicturePH
31
If you suddenly had enough money to quit working tomorrow, what would you actually do with your time?r/AskReddit
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What are you choosing?r/whatsyourchoice
33
Well...my baby Luna today learned she can jump on and reach the kitchen counters 🤢🤢🤢...any tips on keeping her off? I've only ever had dogs. I always thought inside cats were disgusting because of this...she better be glad she is cute💖💚💜🩵r/blackcats
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Morality of disciplining a child without ever laying a hand on them.r/MoralityScaling
35
Stranded for days w/out food in remote northern Canada, a desperate boater used an axe to chop down 4 power poles. He anticipated that the resulting blackout would prompt utility crews to investigate the area by helicopter. The tactic led to his location, and a repair crew successfully rescued him.
r/interestingasfuck
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Epsteins Clients 😆r/MurderedByWords
37
Meirlr/meirl
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A 1700-year-old Roman object that archaeologists still can't agree on the purpose of
r/interestingasfuck
39
Supportive Parents During a Difficult Timer/MadeMeSmile
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Mitch McConnell can’t stop giving peace signs as he is rolled into his van for the next Senate voter/Fauxmoi
41
Pentagon weighs pulling nearly a third of U.S. forces from Europe | The potentially drastic drawdown of 25,000 or more U.S. troops comes amid warnings from NATO allies about a growing threat posed by Russia.r/worldnews
42
TIL that Chris Hemsworth was reportedly paid just $150,000 for Thor (2011).r/todayilearned
43
I can see how those casinos went bankrupt.r/PoursTea
44
Cleaning crew never actually cleans, they finally cleaned the coffee area and left this note.
r/mildlyinfuriating
45
never had him aspire to be himr/memes
46
German tourist Faycal Manz sued taqueria Los Tacos No. 1 for $100,000 because their salsa was too spicy. The case was dismissed.r/interesting
47
When you have to use Bugs Bunny logic.r/GuysBeingDudes
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He survived the fire. Then he owned the spotlight.r/BeAmazed
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🔥 A wild deer and rabbit form an unusual bond
r/NatureIsFuckingLit
50
Dear Americans, this week's compromised type of FOOD is *spins the wheel* ICE CREAM that has been contaminated with *spins the wheel* STONESr/BrandNewSentence

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