Trending on 2026-10-04 — HN, Reddit, Google Trends & YouTube Archive

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Hacker News

50 items

1
Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)
126 points · 25 comments
2
Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016)
24 points · 17 comments
3
Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
334 points · 208 comments
4
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
211 points · 114 comments
5
Bob Cringely Has Died
154 points · 25 comments
6
Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
244 points · 61 comments
7
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
96 points · 48 comments
8
The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
158 points · 21 comments
9
Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
67 points · 51 comments
10
Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web
9 points · 0 comments
11
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
531 points · 303 comments
12
Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server
79 points · 30 comments
13
Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager
152 points · 40 comments
14
Your body of work thinks back at you
24 points · 1 comments
15
New York City should carefully measure a new tree
53 points · 10 comments
16
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
173 points · 125 comments
17
So You Think You Could Be an Electrician?
28 points · 14 comments
18
Memory-Safe WebP Decoding
42 points · 14 comments
19
Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
109 points · 52 comments
20
RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring
1 points · 0 comments
21
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'
200 points · 143 comments
22
Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video]
14 points · 6 comments
23
Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?
37 points · 11 comments
24
FTL: A new operating system for clouds
152 points · 61 comments
25
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
48 points · 24 comments
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RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)
41 points · 8 comments
27
Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers
57 points · 18 comments
28
How to hack time, with C2PA
21 points · 3 comments
29
We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
100 points · 91 comments
30
Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
15 points · 9 comments
31
Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)
15 points · 10 comments
32
Gboard Conveyor Belt Version
17 points · 3 comments
33
The Softmax function and its derivative
11 points · 0 comments
34
Vx – One Language, Every Chip
58 points · 29 comments
35
LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
66 points · 65 comments
36
What Meta got right with Muse
30 points · 38 comments
37
Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
62 points · 8 comments
38
Haunted by the ghosts of materialism
15 points · 3 comments
39
Writing code by hand is over, forever
12 points · 9 comments
40
Show HN: Factorio but with unreliable components
12 points · 1 comments
41
Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program
5 points · 3 comments
42
Show HN: Local pretrained classifiers, GPU not needed
6 points · 1 comments
43
C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler
127 points · 26 comments
44
Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent
22 points · 7 comments
45
Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror
8 points · 0 comments
46
Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
429 points · 126 comments
47
Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux
59 points · 26 comments
48
MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today
31 points · 9 comments
49
Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
647 points · 158 comments
50
Holes (1996-2025)
41 points · 11 comments

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This is honestly one of the coolest things Iowa does. Everyone in the stadium turns around and waves to the kids at the hospital. Small gesture but you can see why it means so much.r/sportsgossips
2
meirlr/meirl
3
Pizza delivery guy gets insulted, internet gets revenge
r/interestingasfuck
4
Angelina Jolie: “You can now open Google Earth and see what was done to Gaza…As winter approaches, 1.98 million people or 94% of Gaza's population need shelter assistance and essential items…The destruction is visible. The needs are known. What matters now is whether they are met.”r/Fauxmoi
5
In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Why did Voldemort try to use a highly complex, soul-splitting magical curse on a baby instead of just dropping it out of a second-story window ? Is he stupid ?
r/shittymoviedetails
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I think that's valid
r/NonPoliticalTwitter
7
Would you vote for an Atheist?r/askanything
8
Carrot Unravelingr/oddlysatisfying
9
What I asked for vs. what I got
r/ExpectationVsReality
10
The Shirtless Warriors!r/aislop
11
TIL Napoleon III escaped from a fortress where he was serving a life sentence by disguising himself as a laborer and walking through the main gates carrying a large plank over his shoulder to hide his face. Six years later, he became Emperor of France.r/todayilearned
12
This is my friend’s average daily screen time for CHATGPT despite being against data centres
r/mildlyinfuriating
13
My dad’s cat is obsessed with him, and is only happy when dads holding him.r/cats
14
What in the Midwest Hell is thisr/cringereels
15
US and Russia are negotiating multibillion-dollar deal on Lukoil assets, says NYTr/worldnews
16
Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he losesr/technology
17
Picture posted by President Obama on their anniversary (10/03/26)r/pics
18
German streamer Benjamool pelted with rocks by kids in Cairor/LivestreamFail
19
Forever the best F&Fr/SipsTea
20
Women who didn't grow up with guys around, what genuinely surprised you about living with a man?r/AskReddit
21
Members of ICE, while in plain clothes, abducted someone at the LA airport.
r/ImmigrationPathways
22
[Postgame Thread] Minnesota Defeats Michigan 20-14r/CFB
23
This is Fruit Stripe Gum. He's a foster cat who doesn't really care if he ever gets adopted.r/aww
24
Pro wrestler comes out on TV and crowd is overwhelmingly supportiver/MadeMeSmile
25
My mom texted my cousin for his birthday. This is his response. She thinks he's 'just joking'. I don't.r/whatdoIdo
26
AITAH for refusing to babysit even though my aunt is getting married?r/aitaweddings
27
What am I missing here?
r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
28
Exactly.r/PoursTea
29
Information or Disinformation?
r/AmericansInCanada
30
Sophie Cunningham pretty much just said Aja soft as f** stop cryingr/sportsgossips
31
It gets better, I hope.r/memes
32
This was $50 worth of pizza and cheese sticks.
r/mildlyinfuriating
33
Guess everything can be a Dönerr/StupidFood
34
Bro pulled out the neutral walk to neutralize his opponentr/nextfuckinglevel
35
Sam Altman's sister have just released footage of her deposition in lawsuit against Sam, who she alleges abused her for almost 9 years in their youthr/videos
36
me_irlr/me_irl
37
This boy packed a Christmas gift for a girl in the Philippines and 14 years later she found him on Facebook. They fell in love and got married.r/MadeMeSmile
38
The omission of the Bloody Monday raid from Black Hawk Down is such a devious piece of propagandar/movies
39
A century of human progress, frozen in a single frame.
r/Damnthatsinteresting
40
Wolverine is already running in-game on PC using KytyPS5 emulatorr/pcmasterrace
41
Who do you think is the most naturally, effortlessly attractive person?r/AskReddit
42
Summer Wolverine vs Winter Wolveriner/marvelmemes
43
Cats orbiting his human like a tiny fluffy satellite
r/AnimalsBeingDerps
44
Do you buy books from Barnes & Noble?r/books
45
I need to understand why I hate thisr/hatethissmug
46
This Redfin listing’s “virtual staging”
r/mildlyinfuriating
47
Please......r/Millennials
48
I made scenic brownie stacksr/Baking
49
Black people really need to unpack their transphobia (and homophobia)
r/BlackPeopleofReddit
50
Found at a titanium plantr/whatisit

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