Trending on 2026-10-12 — HN, Reddit, Google Trends & YouTube Archive

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Hacker News

50 items

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Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage
7 points · 0 comments
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Fingerprints Are the New Cookies
47 points · 18 comments
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Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger
70 points · 11 comments
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Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence
47 points · 16 comments
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Google Data Centers around the world
45 points · 38 comments
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The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
218 points · 354 comments
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IRCv3
346 points · 294 comments
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Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers
80 points · 8 comments
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Illustration Beyond Proof
15 points · 0 comments
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NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
336 points · 167 comments
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So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion?
238 points · 32 comments
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Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them
214 points · 118 comments
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Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
15 points · 21 comments
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I guess I'm using WebP now?
65 points · 66 comments
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Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside
26 points · 1 comments
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Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
310 points · 366 comments
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A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her
134 points · 98 comments
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500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter
148 points · 107 comments
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Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos
4 points · 0 comments
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Show HN: Plimsoll, a self-hosted sandbox for code your AI agent writes
5 points · 1 comments
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The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME
208 points · 140 comments
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Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis
35 points · 24 comments
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Cartographers of North Korea (2019)
171 points · 30 comments
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Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
343 points · 146 comments
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Whatever became of holography? (2011)
39 points · 8 comments
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apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper
57 points · 14 comments
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FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE
22 points · 7 comments
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Rubber Duck: An AI interviewer for the knowledge in your head
9 points · 3 comments
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Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers
1 points · 0 comments
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ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol
3 points · 0 comments
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Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac
140 points · 90 comments
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How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect
88 points · 31 comments
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JulianFlux: Electrodynamic vector retrieval and causal routing for AI
5 points · 0 comments
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Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
129 points · 80 comments
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS
43 points · 1 comments
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LineageOS 24
403 points · 164 comments
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Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
15 points · 9 comments
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SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 Released
16 points · 2 comments
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Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things
46 points · 9 comments
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How to Build Wealth as a Career Person
133 points · 125 comments
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Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs
52 points · 35 comments
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Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twists
21 points · 0 comments
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An AI agent's $20 Kalshi account, with an exact reward model
4 points · 2 comments
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A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
53 points · 23 comments
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The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4
262 points · 273 comments
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I'm sorry, but you still have to think
282 points · 119 comments
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Artificial Insanity
46 points · 38 comments
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I paid people to try and follow my README
347 points · 179 comments
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3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
520 points · 627 comments
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A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
522 points · 173 comments

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Yorkshire Wildlife Park Confirms Tiger will not be Euthanized Following Incidentr/interesting
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A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contact and it refused / Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to undue it.r/technology
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Uber driver refuses service to female passenger who won’t provide name. Who's at fault here?
r/whoathatsinteresting
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bruhr/cringereels
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Show off the most flattering and least flattering pic of your cat!r/cats
6
What's a canon event that almost every man goes through but nobody warns you about?r/AskReddit
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Which one feels more comfortable to your hands?r/videogames
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My best friend crossed to the other side today, and I wanted to put her picture out there.r/pics
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Me irlr/me_irl
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Bro is speaking in coder/SipsTea
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Genuinely, how is Dwight so good with women?r/DunderMifflin
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meirlr/meirl
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Bad faith debater/CuratedTumblr
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‘Musk’ Documentary Suggests DOGE’s Real Purpose Was Something Else Entirelyr/politics
15
This is the best apology in the history of sportsr/nextfuckinglevel
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AP Poll Week 6r/CFB
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A photographer captured this rare moment of a critically endangered sawfish swimming alongside a sea turtle in Western Australia.r/BeAmazed
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Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come nextr/technology
19
Dad goes viral dancing with his daughters at Olivia Rodrigo concert. Says he hopes it helps normalize actively supportive your daughter’s interests.r/Fauxmoi
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This is so sweet!!
r/justgalsbeingchicks
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Shane Gillis opening monologue on SNL “I didn’t know women just dress like whores now” | October 10, 2026r/popculturechat
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Clouds that kinda look like world map
r/mildlyinteresting
23
Native American Marine Showing True Colors at Powwow
r/interestingasfuck
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Suddenly there's less bot traffic on numerous sites.r/PoursTea
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Almost all charging cables stolen
r/mildlyinfuriating
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So now that we have seen em are we all satisfied?r/GTA6unmoderated
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80298
r/countwithchickenlady
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Due to border agreement, Indian and Chinese soldiers can't use firearms near borders, so every scrimmishes they have is fought melee, using sticks and batons and sometimes it's comes to pure hand to hand brawl between troops.
r/interestingasfuck
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I think my husband is sabatoging my WoW character
r/GirlDinnerDiaries
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Trump suggests renaming the Atlantic or Pacific to "Trump Ocean"r/politics
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Petahh??
r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
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Two photographers aimed their camera at a galaxy 2.5 million light-years away, went to sleep, and woke up to this.
r/Damnthatsinteresting
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I wonder who put the umbrella there to cover the catsr/MadeMeSmile
34
'Weird Al' Yankovic Reveals a Sequel to His Biopic ‘WEIRD’ is Written but is Struggling to Find a Studio; Daniel Radcliffe is Onboard to Returnr/movies
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Immersion blending bright purple mica powder into golden soap making oilsr/oddlysatisfying
36
Six senators call for Trump administration to ‘immediately reverse course’ on Russian diesel planr/politics
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Imagine having nothing better to do on a weekendr/TikTokCringe
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Abdul El-Sayed says Democrats must ‘win by massive numbers’ to fend off GOP election denialr/politics
39
Peetah what does the armband mean??
r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
40
Canadian YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to exclusively track police vehicles — officers visit his home to express privacy concernsr/technology
41
Testing out the new Scooby Doo setr/funnyvideos
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Petah I need your help
r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
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George R.R. Martin is a liar and does not deserve to be shielded from criticism.r/unpopularopinion
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Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clapr/SipsTea
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80229
r/countwithchickenlady
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Downgrade your PC.r/pcmasterrace
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Woof - the Gillis Monologuer/LiveFromNewYork
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Drifting is easyr/Unexpected
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Mitch sighting in DC, serving up some delicious seasonal energyr/SipsTea
50
SNL host Shane Gillis accidentally drops f-bomb on live TVr/LivestreamFail

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