Trending 2026-09-20: Hacker News, Reddit, Google Trends

Snapshot of what trended on 2026-09-20, archived automatically by NoobClaw.

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Hacker News

50 items
  1. 1
    Prompts aren’t Real
    98 points · 47 comments
  2. 2
    Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
    167 points · 114 comments
  3. 3
    Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
    109 points · 59 comments
  4. 4
    What's been going on in w64devkit the past year
    6 points · 1 comments
  5. 5
    Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++
    77 points · 50 comments
  6. 6
    Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%
    16 points · 6 comments
  7. 7
    The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art
    64 points · 14 comments
  8. 8
    Exfiltrate Your Weights
    599 points · 248 comments
  9. 9
    I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot
    79 points · 26 comments
  10. 10
    Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
    412 points · 130 comments
  11. 11
    The Hierarchy of Money
    76 points · 27 comments
  12. 12
    Software Sandboxing: The Basics (2025)
    58 points · 8 comments
  13. 13
    A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
    85 points · 46 comments
  14. 14
    Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games
    20 points · 4 comments
  15. 15
    Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits
    172 points · 69 comments
  16. 16
    Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
    108 points · 57 comments
  17. 17
    Laya (OS Jev) on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (45 decisions per second)
    121 points · 21 comments
  18. 18
    Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative
    84 points · 35 comments
  19. 19
    Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
    94 points · 101 comments
  20. 20
    Qwen Image 2.1
    462 points · 148 comments
  21. 21
    ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
    527 points · 298 comments
  22. 22
    Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
    102 points · 69 comments
  23. 23
    What Happened to the Snowden Archive
    60 points · 12 comments
  24. 24
    Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
    316 points · 204 comments
  25. 25
    Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator
    69 points · 20 comments
  26. 26
    Custom home server built from spare parts
    52 points · 22 comments
  27. 27
    Trying the Software Factory Pattern
    57 points · 33 comments
  28. 28
    A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game
    83 points · 22 comments
  29. 29
    US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
    184 points · 157 comments
  30. 30
    Nipple tattooist 'frustrated' by online censorship
    16 points · 15 comments
  31. 31
    Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
    90 points · 26 comments
  32. 32
    OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week
    35 points · 39 comments
  33. 33
    I am often wrong
    96 points · 63 comments
  34. 34
    Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
    213 points · 149 comments
  35. 35
    Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI
    63 points · 28 comments
  36. 36
    So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news
    25 points · 4 comments
  37. 37
    Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea
    19 points · 32 comments
  38. 38
    FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS
    42 points · 5 comments
  39. 39
    Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io
    29 points · 2 comments
  40. 40
    The Millennium Problems for Biology
    104 points · 87 comments
  41. 41
    Show HN: Three genlocked RP2350B make a console – 3k sprite pixels per line)
    8 points · 3 comments
  42. 42
    Self-hosted inference orchestrators compared: LocalAI, exo, GPUStack, vLLM
    11 points · 2 comments
  43. 43
    People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and quitting
    101 points · 51 comments
  44. 44
    A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and City Churches [pdf]
    4 points · 0 comments
  45. 45
    Brood War Bench
    319 points · 141 comments
  46. 46
    Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier
    118 points · 32 comments
  47. 47
    Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong
    58 points · 12 comments
  48. 48
    The senior engineer death spiral
    78 points · 44 comments
  49. 49
    English: A vs. An
    329 points · 445 comments
  50. 50
    More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size (2001)
    3 points · 0 comments

Reddit

50 items
  1. 1
    Found the guy who's never had to choose between rent and dinner.r/MurderedByWords
  2. 2
    I HATE how people are ok with the new Harry Potter seriesr/hatethissmug
  3. 3
    That kid was meant to get the foul ball but this guy took it and handed it to his partner instead. No courtesy or common sense. Some people really don’t care how their actions affect others.r/sportsgossips
  4. 4
    Diesel in central Florida is almost $7 dollars..r/FloridaGawker
  5. 5
    The main character doing something absolutely unforgivable.
    r/TopCharacterTropes
  6. 6
    My mom as a Northwest Airlines flight attendant in the 1980s.r/OldSchoolCool
  7. 7
    Something like a miracle!r/clevercomebacks
  8. 8
    Trump Floats Obliterating Entire Nation in Chilling Fox News Callr/politics
  9. 9
    I love the conceot of people reading the bible no spoilersr/lovethissmug
  10. 10
    Gen Alpha has already started roasting Gen Z 😂😭r/SipsTea
  11. 11
    AP Poll Week 3r/CFB
  12. 12
    Through the yearsr/LoveTrash
  13. 13
    Had 8 brain tumors removed yesterday, bringing my 3-year total to 13 tumorsr/pics
  14. 14
    Aww, that's precious
    r/JustGuysBeingDudes
  15. 15
    It’s refill day, my glutton’s most favorite dayr/cats
  16. 16
    NASA has released these new photos from the surface of Mars 🔭
    r/interestingasfuck
  17. 17
    Iran issues warning after 'learning US plans to resume action' – and insists Strait of Hormuz will remain closed for nowr/worldnews
  18. 18
    Peeeeetah?
    r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
  19. 19
    Streamer IShowSpeed got bitten by Dog for unfriendly behavior in South Korear/cringereels
  20. 20
    Uhmmm mine is a pic of myselfr/teenagers
  21. 21
    Logan Paul Gives A Speech To United States Military At The Pentagonr/nottheonion
  22. 22
    Idiocracy (2006)r/okbuddycinephile
  23. 23
    Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 • Mushoku Tensei III: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu - Episode 13 discussionr/anime
  24. 24
    MTG calls out MAGAr/PoursTea
  25. 25
    Morality of Eating Meat infront of vegan Protesters 🌱r/MoralityScaling
  26. 26
    Perfectly cut karma
    r/perfectlycutscreams
  27. 27
    A bit of perspective for the woman who was annoyed that the man mention his height in his first message.r/Bumble
  28. 28
    They're having the day they voted for...r/PoursTea
  29. 29
    You are Loved!r/MadeMeSmile
  30. 30
    SEPTEMBER GIVEAWAY - The Rules are Simple! (Like & Comment to Enter!)r/ChinaTime
  31. 31
    Who the hell designed this society anyways?!r/adhdmeme
  32. 32
    This is not a photograph, it's a painting by Leng Junr/interesting
  33. 33
    what happens when you don't pay attention to surroundings.r/Amazing
  34. 34
    I can't use the scanners at the airport because I'm missing a finger
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  35. 35
    Crew members film the moment the Panama-flagged bulk carrier First Margaux collides with the Chinese fishing vessel Luqing Yuanyu 108 near Singapore.
    r/interestingasfuck
  36. 36
    LeBron James continues to promote gambling on his social media. He is a Polymarket Partnerr/nba
  37. 37
    Meirlr/meirl
  38. 38
    5'6 Phil Collins strolling around in an office shirt singing and drumming one of the greatest songs ever made.r/Amazing
  39. 39
    Melting down RAM Sticks for the Gold!
    r/Damnthatsinteresting
  40. 40
    So apparently it's time for some middle-school science!r/clevercomebacks
  41. 41
    Joe's inconvenient truth.r/PoursTea
  42. 42
    TSA let me take a very sharp knife on a plane
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  43. 43
    of a Toddlerr/AbsoluteUnits
  44. 44
    The Favorite Character Who Has Its Ethnicity Being Mistaken By People
    r/FavoriteCharacter
  45. 45
    "They're not harmless with him in charge" — Fox panel splits on Canada and Carney
    r/AmericansInCanada
  46. 46
    wow guys it's just like that documentaryr/okbuddycinephile
  47. 47
    Spectrum Guy Locked Me Out of My Irrigation System
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  48. 48
    Guess men don't deserve them
    r/NonPoliticalTwitter
  49. 49
    Weird rumbling while closing eyes under very specific conditionr/whatisit
  50. 50
    "Subtotal"
    r/NonPoliticalTwitter

Google Trends

50 items
  1. 1
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