Trending on 2026-09-30 — HN, Reddit, Google Trends & YouTube Archive

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Hacker News

50 items

1
PS5 Relapse Exploit
240 points · 132 comments
2
Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev
41 points · 1 comments
3
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
448 points · 263 comments
4
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
810 points · 747 comments
5
Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
131 points · 32 comments
6
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
199 points · 41 comments
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We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
69 points · 49 comments
8
Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)
137 points · 80 comments
9
Dots: Always-on agents
476 points · 357 comments
10
Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
745 points · 675 comments
11
Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
232 points · 88 comments
12
Tcl/Tk 9.1
247 points · 90 comments
13
Commodore 64: Mercenary
33 points · 6 comments
14
Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization
35 points · 6 comments
15
Ask HN: What are you reading?
157 points · 403 comments
16
Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
91 points · 65 comments
17
Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine
40 points · 3 comments
18
Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
105 points · 91 comments
19
NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates
112 points · 61 comments
20
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
264 points · 45 comments
21
America.gov
393 points · 318 comments
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U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
181 points · 107 comments
23
Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
93 points · 16 comments
24
Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language
39 points · 9 comments
25
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
294 points · 129 comments
26
When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
45 points · 38 comments
27
How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it
76 points · 43 comments
28
Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)
41 points · 4 comments
29
I Turned a DirecTV HR54-700 into a Standalone Jellyfin Box
13 points · 1 comments
30
A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
409 points · 130 comments
31
UnoDOS
15 points · 11 comments
32
NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
61 points · 58 comments
33
Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It
80 points · 31 comments
34
Show HN: Corral – Kill every command your agent starts
12 points · 1 comments
35
Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT
30 points · 13 comments
36
Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
25 points · 7 comments
37
Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s
41 points · 5 comments
38
'Pink Slime' Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms
8 points · 1 comments
39
ChatGPT Pro 500
178 points · 196 comments
40
Galaxy Game
12 points · 1 comments
41
Walking Men
71 points · 25 comments
42
Using any C++ library in Godot
154 points · 53 comments
43
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
155 points · 123 comments
44
DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
500 points · 344 comments
45
Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)
112 points · 76 comments
46
Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market
73 points · 48 comments
47
AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
144 points · 155 comments
48
DevDay 2026 Recap
71 points · 28 comments
49
The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging
56 points · 54 comments
50
Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper
48 points · 15 comments

49 items

1
Miss Rachel is the richest woman in the worldr/MadeMeSmile
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The Boy From Venus 15r/comics
3
My 14 year old son agreed to watch ONE black and white film with mer/movies
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Elon Musk’s strange shaper/rareinsults
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Ah yes, the "American Dream" package deal!r/SipsTea
6
Being told my tea steeper is unprofessional
r/mildlyinfuriating
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“Pressure testing the pants” or “the spider man method”r/MadeMeSmile
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A new penguin species has been identified for the first time in more than 100 years.
r/Damnthatsinteresting
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Companies - What's your opinion on Steam (Valve)r/TierlistFills
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Woman solves 27 letter puzzle on Wheel of Fortune with just one letterr/interesting
11
What's an obsure item you own that you're sure 99.99% of the population does not have?r/AskReddit
12
President Trump meets with AI executives at the White Houser/pics
13
Giveaway time! CONTROL Resonant Launch Megathread + Custom Wrapped GeForce RTX 5080 GPU Giveaway and game keys! Comment on this post to win!r/pcmasterrace
14
LeBron’s helicopter leaving Sixers practice, bound for New York where LeBron is now living during the seasonr/nba
15
TIL Robert Rodriguez had to work to convince studio backers to let him make the family in Spy Kids Hispanic. Backers said the movie would attract a limited audience and asked, "Why don't you just make them American?" Rodriguez said, "They are American."r/todayilearned
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What I asked for, color palette, and what I got
r/ExpectationVsReality
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Maybe we should cut back on senator pay so that we can afford to pay others better.r/SipsTea
18
Gabe Newell's Mega Yachtr/Steam
19
WATCH: Schmitt suggested Jack Smith perjured himself about a basketball game, but mixed up 2 teamsr/law
20
Clearing old messages, and found this exchange from two months ago lol. I spoke to her over the course of 10 days, and these are some highlights. I am 24M(23 at the time) and she is 21F. I just can’t do ppl that stay quiet or expect me to constantly lead a convo lolr/texts
21
McDonald's Is Reportedly Using AI To "Dynamically" Price Its Burgersr/technology
22
Baloon gone wrong - Sao Paolo, SP, Brazil
r/interestingasfuck
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My dad’s reaction to this was “nice” and then walked away to watch soccer
r/mildlyinfuriating
24
When Botox is lifer/LoveTrash
25
Naked in the locker room, a generational shift?
r/NoStupidQuestions
26
How do I professionally refuse to train a new hire making $22k more than me after my boss claimed promotions were "budget frozen"?r/careerguidance
27
Petah, am I stupid or something?
r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
28
In Japan, a new trend called JUCY BOOK RAVE has people going to nightclubs just to sit quietly and read books while a DJ plays ambient music.
r/interestingasfuck
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Arrived home to this. I don’t own a cat.r/cats
30
My cat's nose glitters in direct sunlight
r/mildlyinteresting
31
White House’s New AI-powered America.gov Website Confirms U.S President Lost the 2020 Presidential Electionr/technology
32
I'm hoping for a four letter grandma-esque namer/NameMyCat
33
Meirlr/meirl
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White House’s New AI Website Confirms Trump Lost the 2020 Presidential Electionr/politics
35
This right here. Ain't it something?
r/BlackPeopleofReddit
36
Never seen this error before.r/funny
37
This dad agreesr/MadeMeSmile
38
Taylor Swift fans lower climate concerns to justify her carbon footprint. When confronted with news about the excessive pollution generated by her private jet, highly identified fans tend to rationalize the behavior, with a decrease in their personal intentions to engage in climate-friendly actions.r/science
39
straight people, when did you realize you werent gay?r/AskReddit
40
Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaulr/politics
41
TIL that William Whipple, one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, freed his slave after signing it because he believed one cannot simultaneously fight for freedom and hold another person in bondager/todayilearned
42
He does look like he knows all of my secretsr/cats
43
Woman in male fields - SD series [OC]r/comics
44
A employee uno reversed a new Director by holding a meeting with HR then inviting his managers to itr/managers
45
Premier League Statement: Manchester City FCr/PremierLeague
46
The sheer amount of people who believe that they do...🤦r/PoursTea
47
John Wardogs Claims “The Failure Was Us Not Hosting Official Infantry And Level Capped Servers”r/WarDogs
48
CONTROL Resonant Launch Megathread + Custom Wrapped GeForce RTX 5080 GPU Giveawayr/controlgame
49
The wheel of this $800 Briggs and Riley suitcase fell off on our first trip, middle of the city, three week trip.
r/mildlyinfuriating

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