Trending 2026-09-26: Hacker News, Reddit, Google Trends

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Hacker News

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  1. 1
    An airport cooled by natural ventilation
    61 points · 34 comments
  2. 2
    First Principles Thinking
    244 points · 104 comments
  3. 3
    Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale
    30 points · 4 comments
  4. 4
    TiddlyInstall: A universal, reusable, install system
    11 points · 11 comments
  5. 5
    Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
    137 points · 101 comments
  6. 6
    One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
    111 points · 33 comments
  7. 7
    Remembering Johannes Doerfert
    68 points · 2 comments
  8. 8
    Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles
    17 points · 0 comments
  9. 9
    Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
    128 points · 23 comments
  10. 10
    I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck
    55 points · 13 comments
  11. 11
    Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about
    29 points · 8 comments
  12. 12
    Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy
    83 points · 24 comments
  13. 13
    Two and a half years without a gallbladder
    13 points · 10 comments
  14. 14
    U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
    419 points · 734 comments
  15. 15
    Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
    148 points · 149 comments
  16. 16
    Show HN: A game about fake news and memes
    13 points · 9 comments
  17. 17
    Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin
    29 points · 5 comments
  18. 18
    The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
    8 points · 0 comments
  19. 19
    How video games inspire great UX (2019)
    113 points · 16 comments
  20. 20
    Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red
    175 points · 76 comments
  21. 21
    What even is an OS now?
    129 points · 226 comments
  22. 22
    We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
    42 points · 26 comments
  23. 23
    Plan mode is dead
    188 points · 182 comments
  24. 24
    Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
    381 points · 105 comments
  25. 25
    Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
    326 points · 187 comments
  26. 26
    How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
    159 points · 94 comments
  27. 27
    The Failed "Hostage Theory" of Nikole Hannah-Jones
    8 points · 2 comments
  28. 28
    Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    105 points · 80 comments
  29. 29
    What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?
    47 points · 25 comments
  30. 30
    Why didn't anybody tell me about Redis hash slots?
    31 points · 9 comments
  31. 31
    Platform-independent SIMD in Go
    369 points · 136 comments
  32. 32
    Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
    322 points · 106 comments
  33. 33
    Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)
    9 points · 2 comments
  34. 34
    Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot
    83 points · 75 comments
  35. 35
    Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]
    125 points · 24 comments
  36. 36
    Ink and Switch interactive homepage
    230 points · 25 comments
  37. 37
    Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]
    63 points · 66 comments
  38. 38
    Brazil Bans Online Betting
    35 points · 5 comments
  39. 39
    Teaching a World Model to Play Pokemon
    5 points · 8 comments
  40. 40
    Loopjacking in A2A Implementations: Hijacking Human-in-the-Loop Approvals
    4 points · 0 comments
  41. 41
    Initial DIY cleanroom experimentation
    15 points · 4 comments
  42. 42
    Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin
    21 points · 14 comments
  43. 43
    Issues with Codex – Identified – Full Outage
    27 points · 13 comments
  44. 44
    Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
    265 points · 115 comments
  45. 45
    Amiga Screens: A Primer
    126 points · 36 comments
  46. 46
    Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special
    95 points · 42 comments
  47. 47
    Show HN: I discovered roads in the US across > 1000 themes
    7 points · 4 comments
  48. 48
    Factorio that you can touch
    287 points · 85 comments
  49. 49
    Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview
    45 points · 39 comments
  50. 50
    Show HN: Jevgpt – reinventing the wheel with another wheel
    6 points · 0 comments

Reddit

50 items
  1. 1
    A Turkish woman is left baffled after experiencing Japan's infamous 'Butsukari otoko' (bumping man). She regretted not sticking right by her husband's side. Foreign women walking alone are the easiest targets. Even if you're just a little far from your partner, you can still become a target.
    r/whoathatsinteresting
  2. 2
    Ed Sheeran’s upcoming shows at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium have been cancelled due to bad weatherr/Fauxmoi
  3. 3
    Should I quit after my manager blocked my internal transfer because I'm "too valuable" to replace?r/careerguidance
  4. 4
    Texas pickup truck slams into freeway sign which caused the entire highway to be closedr/dashcams
  5. 5
    My friend spotted this whilst in Paris...r/pics
  6. 6
    My cat ate an entire hard boiled eggr/cats
  7. 7
    Man shares a photo of him and his daughter and a photo of him with his granddaughterr/MadeMeSmile
  8. 8
    ???r/nostalgiai
  9. 9
    What alcoholic beverage was a staple of your 20s that phased out in your 30s/40s?r/Millennials
  10. 10
    Hegseth Issues Veiled Order to Military to Vote Republican in Midtermsr/politics
  11. 11
    A new Core Memoryr/CuratedTumblr
  12. 12
    A Yelp reviewr/funny
  13. 13
    Appropriate for today...r/PoursTea
  14. 14
    How do you think Americans would react if Trump declared Martial Law during the midterms, as some of his advisors are urging him to do, as reported by The Atlantic ?r/AskReddit
  15. 15
    The last footage of Harry R. Truman, a WWI veteran who refused to evacuate his lodge before the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980, sealing his fate beneath the volcanic debris along with his 16 cats.
    r/interestingasfuck
  16. 16
    Hypocrisy 101r/SipsTea
  17. 17
    The staircase in my apartment
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  18. 18
    I felt the cringe soon as he brought up that analogy…r/cringereels
  19. 19
    Kids wrecked the hot tub
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  20. 20
    Xi Jinping at the White Houser/pics
  21. 21
    I left my wife last night after 2 years of trying to get past her sleeping with 6 men.r/whatdoIdo
  22. 22
    [David Ornstein] Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breachesr/PremierLeague
  23. 23
    Japan is trialing a drug that regrows human teeth by blocking USAG-1—a protein that keeps dormant tooth buds switched off. Phase I is done. Phase IIa in children with congenital tooth loss is next. If it works, dentures and implants could become obsolete.r/interesting
  24. 24
    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
  25. 25
    [Critical Scenario] Should flock cameras be banned
    r/CriticalStateGlobal
  26. 26
    Octopus Expertly Executes His Camouflage To Hide From Sea Eelr/nextfuckinglevel
  27. 27
    TikTok, Meta and YouTube All Won't Run Ads for Musk Docr/movies
  28. 28
    My elderly parents have tinfoil wrapped around their WIFI router. (I’m working up the emotional energy to ask about it)
    r/mildlyinteresting
  29. 29
    As it should be...r/PoursTea
  30. 30
    Any media like this?r/Multifandom
  31. 31
    Here's What I've Learned 2 Months After Leaving My Husband
    r/GirlDinnerDiaries
  32. 32
    The US has a giant floating SBX-1 Sea-based radar to track and discriminate nuclear ballistic missile warheads from decoys.
    r/Damnthatsinteresting
  33. 33
    A 392 year old Greenland Shark that was located in Arctic Ocean. He’s been wandering the ocean since 1627r/BeAmazed
  34. 34
    TIL In 1846, a dead snail was glued to an index card at the British Museum. 4 years later they discovered it was actually still alive. The museum gave the snail a bath and it lived the remaining 2 years in a jar eating cabbage.r/todayilearned
  35. 35
    Who else can't stop putting two spaces after periods?r/GenX
  36. 36
    Priorities checkedr/Anticonsumption
  37. 37
    UPDATE: top knot seppuku!r/bald
  38. 38
    Local ice cream shop has Lactaid pills for sale in a gumball machine
    r/mildlyinteresting
  39. 39
    Every Interaction the First Week of Colleger/comics
  40. 40
    Old but goldr/SipsTea
  41. 41
    Well.. Horde it is.r/classicwow
  42. 42
    Higher overall disgust sensitivity was associated with a greater likelihood of identifying as a Republican and holding a conservative ideology. A person with high disgust sensitivity and low bodily awareness had a 64.1% probability of identifying as a Republican.r/science
  43. 43
    Woman calmly PIT maneuvers the SUV that kept cutting her offr/interesting
  44. 44
    Sneaker reseller complains that he can’t upcharge customers anymorer/TikTokCringe
  45. 45
    Somebody in my family managed to break a Nokia.
    r/mildlyinteresting
  46. 46
    Props To This Manager Standing Up For His Employees Against These TikTok Degeneratesr/cringereels
  47. 47
    AITA for washing dog bowls in the dishwasher?r/AmItheAsshole
  48. 48
    Should Snow White be updated for the modern audience?r/okbuddycinephile
  49. 49
    My cat, Captain Tuna, and her one black beanr/aww
  50. 50
    Roaring Knight Unmask animation by @UltraWehr/Deltarune

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