Trending 2026-09-21: Hacker News, Reddit, Google Trends

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Hacker News

50 items
  1. 1
    Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
    141 points · 71 comments
  2. 2
    I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot
    138 points · 42 comments
  3. 3
    Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++
    119 points · 67 comments
  4. 4
    AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'
    89 points · 39 comments
  5. 5
    Why Backprop Goes Backward (2018)
    38 points · 5 comments
  6. 6
    Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits
    240 points · 104 comments
  7. 7
    Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM
    52 points · 11 comments
  8. 8
    Amiga Unix, Again
    93 points · 29 comments
  9. 9
    The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
    187 points · 267 comments
  10. 10
    Exfiltrate Your Weights
    665 points · 267 comments
  11. 11
    Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
    189 points · 161 comments
  12. 12
    Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
    215 points · 140 comments
  13. 13
    MCP was always a bad idea?
    159 points · 116 comments
  14. 14
    Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
    407 points · 292 comments
  15. 15
    I am often wrong
    223 points · 169 comments
  16. 16
    A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
    152 points · 66 comments
  17. 17
    Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%
    82 points · 23 comments
  18. 18
    Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
    167 points · 143 comments
  19. 19
    The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)
    204 points · 67 comments
  20. 20
    Qwen Image 2.1
    640 points · 171 comments
  21. 21
    What happened to the Snowden archive
    428 points · 272 comments
  22. 22
    Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
    465 points · 312 comments
  23. 23
    Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
    53 points · 28 comments
  24. 24
    AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
    478 points · 206 comments
  25. 25
    Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]
    162 points · 27 comments
  26. 26
    In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches
    24 points · 35 comments
  27. 27
    Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell
    41 points · 3 comments
  28. 28
    Winning the visa lottery
    80 points · 60 comments
  29. 29
    Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
    528 points · 143 comments
  30. 30
    Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing
    39 points · 34 comments
  31. 31
    Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative
    120 points · 48 comments
  32. 32
    The Hierarchy of Money
    123 points · 55 comments
  33. 33
    Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games
    48 points · 15 comments
  34. 34
    Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
    404 points · 275 comments
  35. 35
    ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
    692 points · 363 comments
  36. 36
    DAPO: An Open-source RL System from ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR
    12 points · 2 comments
  37. 37
    Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
    153 points · 133 comments
  38. 38
    Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat?
    7 points · 0 comments
  39. 39
    Software sandboxing: The basics (2025)
    65 points · 8 comments
  40. 40
    Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone
    16 points · 6 comments
  41. 41
    The LLMs Yearn for the Spines
    12 points · 2 comments
  42. 42
    What's been going on in w64devkit the past year
    12 points · 1 comments
  43. 43
    Laya (OS Jev) on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (45 decisions per second)
    126 points · 24 comments
  44. 44
    Prompts aren’t Real
    100 points · 48 comments
  45. 45
    Custom home server built from spare parts
    52 points · 22 comments
  46. 46
    Trying the Software Factory Pattern
    57 points · 33 comments
  47. 47
    A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game
    83 points · 22 comments
  48. 48
    US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
    184 points · 157 comments
  49. 49
    Nipple tattooist 'frustrated' by online censorship
    16 points · 15 comments
  50. 50
    Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
    90 points · 26 comments

Reddit

49 items
  1. 1
    Found him behind a dumpster at work tonight. He’s already my best friendr/cats
  2. 2
    Blizzard is removing WoW: Forever beta access from players with offensive character names.r/wow
  3. 3
    Which game you loved was abandoned or shut down by its developers?r/videogames
  4. 4
    You are Loved!r/MadeMeSmile
  5. 5
    The orange part is taking over the frontal lobe
    r/OneOrangeBraincell
  6. 6
    Trump Floats Obliterating Entire Nation in Chilling Fox News Callr/politics
  7. 7
    Meirlr/meirl
  8. 8
    OC Price of gas in Deadhorse, Alaska September, 2026r/pics
  9. 9
    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
  10. 10
    Gen Alpha has already started roasting Gen Z 😂😭r/SipsTea
  11. 11
    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
  12. 12
    Wodaabe men from Africa's Sahel region performing the traditional Gerewol courtship dance
    r/whoathatsinteresting
  13. 13
    Logan Paul Gives A Speech To United States Military At The Pentagonr/nottheonion
  14. 14
    Poor snaker/Unexpected
  15. 15
    Had 8 brain tumors removed yesterday, bringing my 3-year total to 13 tumorsr/pics
  16. 16
    Through the yearsr/LoveTrash
  17. 17
    The Wait. [OC]r/comics
  18. 18
    Baby Rhino Protects Momr/MadeMeSmile
  19. 19
    Who got 3 Cones is the winner 🏆🏆
    r/interestingasfuck
  20. 20
    When youre about to get carjacked but youre late for workr/dashcams
  21. 21
    Iran issues warning after 'learning US plans to resume action' – and insists Strait of Hormuz will remain closed for nowr/worldnews
  22. 22
    People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and thinking of quittingr/technology
  23. 23
    Streamer IShowSpeed got bitten by Dog for unfriendly behavior in South Korear/cringereels
  24. 24
    I HATE how people are ok with the new Harry Potter seriesr/hatethissmug
  25. 25
    NASA just released these new photos from the surface of Mars.
    r/Damnthatsinteresting
  26. 26
    EXTREMELY supportive husband.r/MurderedByWords
  27. 27
    There’s nothing to eat, grandpa. That’s just too dang bad.
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  28. 28
    What's the morality od cheating in a rigged game that's 99% gonna cheat against you?r/MoralityScaling
  29. 29
    Tehran, another more detailed video from tonight.r/aliens
  30. 30
    Memes of people completely underreacting to horrible situationsr/lovethissmug
  31. 31
    Electric wire organisingr/oddlysatisfying
  32. 32
    TIL David Goggins went from a 297-lb exterminator to losing 106 lb in under 3 months, enduring Navy SEAL Hell Week 3 times, graduating Ranger School as Honor Man, and becoming the only U.S. servicemember reported to complete SEAL, Ranger and Air Force Tactical Air Controller training.r/todayilearned
  33. 33
    Portugal honoured their word!!!r/HistoryMemes
  34. 34
    The Big Three Agreer/SipsTea
  35. 35
    Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 • Mushoku Tensei III: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu - Episode 13 discussionr/anime
  36. 36
    What character do you genuinely hate that is loved my the fandom?r/Multifandom
  37. 37
    “Patrick told me no resting b*tch face”r/SipsTea
  38. 38
    Diesel in central Florida is almost $7 dollars..r/FloridaGawker
  39. 39
    A Detailed Look at a Bird Specimen and Its Prey
    r/Damnthatsinteresting
  40. 40
    Laying and smoothing down resin-bound gravelr/oddlysatisfying
  41. 41
    After eating literally thousands of cans of smoked oysters over the last 30 years, for the first time I rolled the ultra-rare drop table and found my first pearl within one
    r/interestingasfuck
  42. 42
    Dallas defender casually puking presnapr/sports
  43. 43
    A man rescues a young hawk covered in cactus spines.r/nextfuckinglevel
  44. 44
    My mom as a Northwest Airlines flight attendant in the 1980s.r/OldSchoolCool
  45. 45
    Morality of Eating Meat infront of vegan Protesters 🌱r/MoralityScaling
  46. 46
    The main character doing something absolutely unforgivable.
    r/TopCharacterTropes
  47. 47
    Can’t talk about owlsr/oddlyspecific
  48. 48
    I saw this question in a video a while back. One character has to go. Which character for you out of these four has to leave?⬇️r/cartoons
  49. 49
    Despise OneDrive.r/pcmasterrace

Google Trends

50 items
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