Trending 2026-09-25: Hacker News, Reddit, Google Trends

Snapshot of what trended on 2026-09-25, archived automatically by NoobClaw.

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Hacker News

50 items
  1. 1
    Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
    321 points · 119 comments
  2. 2
    My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
    345 points · 157 comments
  3. 3
    Writing Parquet files using Haskell
    69 points · 18 comments
  4. 4
    Special Projects (2016)
    25 points · 8 comments
  5. 5
    2DWillNeverDie
    253 points · 56 comments
  6. 6
    Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?
    127 points · 57 comments
  7. 7
    Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
    344 points · 374 comments
  8. 8
    What About Rails?
    70 points · 30 comments
  9. 9
    Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
    423 points · 217 comments
  10. 10
    Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
    341 points · 613 comments
  11. 11
    Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
    191 points · 384 comments
  12. 12
    Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
    12 points · 5 comments
  13. 13
    Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
    284 points · 142 comments
  14. 14
    Fearless SIMD v1.0
    266 points · 37 comments
  15. 15
    Amiga Screens: A Primer
    10 points · 1 comments
  16. 16
    Two-tier encryption in the UK
    465 points · 410 comments
  17. 17
    Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
    17 points · 9 comments
  18. 18
    Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
    137 points · 30 comments
  19. 19
    Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
    717 points · 95 comments
  20. 20
    F-Droid 2.0
    1265 points · 364 comments
  21. 21
    CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
    56 points · 14 comments
  22. 22
    Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
    76 points · 27 comments
  23. 23
    Ink and Switch Interactive Homepage
    31 points · 3 comments
  24. 24
    The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
    25 points · 6 comments
  25. 25
    Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
    260 points · 106 comments
  26. 26
    Tech Needs Humanists More
    62 points · 74 comments
  27. 27
    Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)
    121 points · 23 comments
  28. 28
    The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)
    90 points · 48 comments
  29. 29
    Running local LLMs on your Mac: what fits, what's free, and what's overkill
    6 points · 0 comments
  30. 30
    The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors
    34 points · 12 comments
  31. 31
    Jev Based Code Review
    38 points · 39 comments
  32. 32
    Nokia Design Archive (2025)
    236 points · 127 comments
  33. 33
    The last day of the dinosaurs, as an interactive painting
    11 points · 8 comments
  34. 34
    California is chasing wealth that has feet
    234 points · 643 comments
  35. 35
    Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page
    68 points · 22 comments
  36. 36
    The forgotten battle of East Lansing
    98 points · 17 comments
  37. 37
    Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI
    88 points · 13 comments
  38. 38
    WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations
    108 points · 20 comments
  39. 39
    The Efficiency-Throughput Gap with GitHub Copilot
    5 points · 6 comments
  40. 40
    Geothermal heat map of US hot springs
    100 points · 39 comments
  41. 41
    Goodbye Google
    164 points · 172 comments
  42. 42
    Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
    174 points · 42 comments
  43. 43
    Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf]
    59 points · 9 comments
  44. 44
    Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers
    1 points · 0 comments
  45. 45
    Jev and System One Models: Calibration Beats Accuracy
    10 points · 4 comments
  46. 46
    Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
    248 points · 247 comments
  47. 47
    Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless
    87 points · 81 comments
  48. 48
    Motor Characterization for Small Running Robots (2016)
    28 points · 1 comments
  49. 49
    GitLab Outage
    51 points · 22 comments
  50. 50
    International observers to investigate Swedish election fraud
    28 points · 12 comments

Reddit

49 items
  1. 1
    Snake catcher in India calmly handles two massive cobras with his bare hands and a stickr/nextfuckinglevel
  2. 2
    Prototype, Dino Crisisr/videogames
  3. 3
    The babiest baby to ever babyr/cats
  4. 4
    Somebody in my family managed to break a Nokia.
    r/mildlyinteresting
  5. 5
    Don't know how was that supposed to end...r/cringereels
  6. 6
    We all know what this meanr/SipsTea
  7. 7
    TIL under Dutch law, when a car hits a cyclist or pedestrian the driver is liable for at least 50% of the damages regardless of who was at fault, and 100% if the person hit is under 14, because drivers are expected to anticipate that children behave unpredictably.r/todayilearned
  8. 8
    Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effectr/worldnews
  9. 9
    Lmao the standardsr/SipsTea
  10. 10
    What university degree is harder than people think?r/AskReddit
  11. 11
    Do you take the offer?r/funComunitty
  12. 12
    Wife frequently complains that our dryer is not drying properly.
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  13. 13
    ​The most majestic catwalk you'll see today
    r/interestingasfuck
  14. 14
    Happened several years ago, still funny ever time I find it againr/wow
  15. 15
    Congressman Cohen Introduces Comprehensive Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald Trumpr/law
  16. 16
    Lioness Comes to Face-to-Face with Tourist on Safarir/interesting
  17. 17
    Nolan Wells’ autopsy found no water in lungs; data was deleted from his phone the day he disappeared, experts sayr/news
  18. 18
    Clip of a woman at the Twins vs. Giants game goes viral after she’s seen carrying her child, a backpack and a handful of food while her presumed husband sits doing absolutely nothing. Commentators proceed to roast the husband on live television.r/Fauxmoi
  19. 19
    Drilling begins at ‘real site’ of Noah’s Ark as activists warn ‘Darwinism will be dismantled’r/nottheonion
  20. 20
    His wife understood the assignment.r/HolUp
  21. 21
    Hasan mentioned in United Nations General Assemblyr/LivestreamFail
  22. 22
    Random guy knocked on my door and asked how long I've been sleeping with his girlfriendr/BoyDinnerDiaries
  23. 23
    Lemme see the cats that are not named after dark or evil stuffr/blackcats
  24. 24
    My cat said he wants to fight your cat. Photo replies onlyr/cats
  25. 25
    What chain restaurant will be gone by the end of the decade?r/AskReddit
  26. 26
    me_irlr/me_irl
  27. 27
    🔥A sand cat with its kittens
    r/NatureIsFuckingLit
  28. 28
    No pressurer/LoveTrash
  29. 29
    Safe to say my guess was wrong…r/funny
  30. 30
    People are cancelling their Disney+ subscription after price rises to more than $21 a monthr/Anticonsumption
  31. 31
    Cubs player Ian Happ thanks fans in final home gamer/MadeMeSmile
  32. 32
    "Would you rather" posts where one option is absolutely garbage with an unimpactful twistr/lovethissmug
  33. 33
    Bros stopping a pickpocket from getting awayr/GuysBeingDudes
  34. 34
    CALOY DOUBLES ONCE AGAIN! Carlos Yulo makes it two golds for the Philippines at the 2026 Asian Games, winning the men's individual vault final with an average score of 14.599.r/Philippines
  35. 35
    Flock Wants The Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offliner/Futurology
  36. 36
    Almost all UN members walk out for Benjamin Netanyahu's speech. Netanyahu calls them 'moral cowards'r/videos
  37. 37
    I don't get it either...r/PoursTea
  38. 38
    Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" gets an R rating for graphic nudityr/movies
  39. 39
    Look at his silly facer/MadeMeSmile
  40. 40
    She found a much better way to get down
    r/Damnthatsinteresting
  41. 41
    Loving him at his worst is costing me my best.
    r/GirlDinnerDiaries
  42. 42
    Our cozy little gay homer/CozyPlaces
  43. 43
    Ebay seller hot glued a dime to my box of books
    r/mildlyinteresting
  44. 44
    Actors you know are die-hard Redditors, and who are right here among usr/okbuddycinephile
  45. 45
    Who's the lady? And what did she do? And what does any of it have to do with Jeffrey Epstien? Peter, help!
    r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
  46. 46
    TIL in Norway everyone's income, net wealth and tax paid are published online and anyone can search them. But you have to log in, the person you look up can see your name in their search history within the hour, and you're limited to 500 look-ups a monthr/todayilearned
  47. 47
    Saw this guy on Instagram 🫣r/Justfuckmyshitup
  48. 48
    Marjorie Taylor Greene says President Trump is the reason for hold on the resolution to release Epstein Files: "He had a 100% lock on, this was not going to be released. Shut it down. And he told me, "Marjorie, people you know will get hurt." And he's totally against releasing the Epstein files."r/videos
  49. 49
    [homemade] Poached Beef Medallions with a Tomato and Corn Syrup Reduction and topped with Vinegar Infused with Ground Mustard Seedr/food

Google Trends

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