Trending 2026-10-16: Hacker News, Reddit, Google Trends

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Hacker News

50 items
  1. 1
    Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter
    11 points · 6 comments
  2. 2
    Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary
    186 points · 146 comments
  3. 3
    AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
    401 points · 568 comments
  4. 4
    BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox
    31 points · 9 comments
  5. 5
    Jev meets the Trolley Problem
    328 points · 154 comments
  6. 6
    Speculative Sauropods
    11 points · 0 comments
  7. 7
    Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale
    259 points · 84 comments
  8. 8
    Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
    256 points · 117 comments
  9. 9
    Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
    526 points · 206 comments
  10. 10
    New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing
    180 points · 141 comments
  11. 11
    E Ink Kaleido 4
    140 points · 81 comments
  12. 12
    Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat
    64 points · 36 comments
  13. 13
    Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia
    6 points · 0 comments
  14. 14
    Major ICQ security hole (1998)
    49 points · 26 comments
  15. 15
    Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
    256 points · 159 comments
  16. 16
    Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran
    226 points · 98 comments
  17. 17
    What I Self-Host
    300 points · 197 comments
  18. 18
    Tesla Roadster
    218 points · 231 comments
  19. 19
    Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia
    26 points · 20 comments
  20. 20
    Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)
    117 points · 48 comments
  21. 21
    Neural networks are clean
    526 points · 202 comments
  22. 22
    Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad
    16 points · 3 comments
  23. 23
    Business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites Starting Oct. 30
    62 points · 17 comments
  24. 24
    RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes
    51 points · 18 comments
  25. 25
    Muse Spark Open
    653 points · 361 comments
  26. 26
    The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend
    77 points · 38 comments
  27. 27
    Thank You, Deno
    5 points · 0 comments
  28. 28
    Using AI to reverse engineer hardware
    122 points · 112 comments
  29. 29
    Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land
    265 points · 183 comments
  30. 30
    U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering
    16 points · 3 comments
  31. 31
    The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain
    48 points · 35 comments
  32. 32
    An Apology
    108 points · 122 comments
  33. 33
    Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
    282 points · 281 comments
  34. 34
    Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit
    354 points · 172 comments
  35. 35
    Show HN: Flipflop – Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing
    106 points · 60 comments
  36. 36
    Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
    224 points · 181 comments
  37. 37
    Show HN: Proa – A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering
    87 points · 24 comments
  38. 38
    C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions
    123 points · 111 comments
  39. 39
    Rediscovering the Romance of Travel Clocks
    24 points · 5 comments
  40. 40
    Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI
    33 points · 38 comments
  41. 41
    FastH3-Omni: The best open-source H3 model
    12 points · 2 comments
  42. 42
    We are entering a period of overlapping crises
    59 points · 59 comments
  43. 43
    The technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC
    85 points · 38 comments
  44. 44
    Why are we even doing all this?
    110 points · 45 comments
  45. 45
    Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally
    29 points · 8 comments
  46. 46
    I know why the mathematicians weep
    307 points · 488 comments
  47. 47
    Show HN: My Terminal Themes Web App
    24 points · 14 comments
  48. 48
    Why We're Banning AI
    181 points · 137 comments
  49. 49
    2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits
    8 points · 0 comments
  50. 50
    An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online ads
    221 points · 10 comments

Reddit

50 items
  1. 1
    Two hikers filmed an unusual phenomenon: an electric current can be heard in the air Sometimes this happens in open terrain just before a lightning strike.
    r/interestingasfuck
  2. 2
    Does this snork your blot?r/Snorkblot
  3. 3
    [X] Catholicism and sciencer/GetNoted
  4. 4
    Data center next to homes in Loudoun County, Virginia, USA (photo credit: Stephen Voss)r/pics
  5. 5
    My dad reads notes before calling mer/BoyDinnerDiaries
  6. 6
    A Group of Good Men Help Stop a Kidnapping in Progress
    r/whoathatsinteresting
  7. 7
    Feds seize Ilhan Omar’s cellphone, passport in home raid as plot to deport congresswoman revealedr/anticapitalism
  8. 8
    TIL that the South Park episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft" which aired in 2006 had Butters say that he frequently plays a game titled Hello Kitty Island Adventure, but 17 years later in 2023, an actual game with that exact title was released with no association or tie-in to South Parkr/todayilearned
  9. 9
    [Highlight] GARRETT MITCHELL! THE BREWERS HAVE COME ALL THE WAY BACK TO TAKE THE LEAD!r/baseball
  10. 10
    Cannonball vs watermelonr/oddlysatisfying
  11. 11
    The ultimate side quests
    r/JustGuysBeingDudes
  12. 12
    Reignited: An Update From Mod Ryanr/runescape
  13. 13
    Which actor is currently going towards their downfall??r/AskReddit
  14. 14
    Former U.S. congressman Matt Gaetz accused of sex trafficking in lawsuitr/news
  15. 15
    They sold us a lie 😅r/TikTokCringe
  16. 16
    TIL Michael Jordan would often bet on Jumbotron cartoon races with a Bulls security guard during games, but nearly always won because he got the winners from arena staffers in advance.r/todayilearned
  17. 17
    In the entire world! Wow! She's going far; I wish Dorthy the best:
    r/BlackPeopleofReddit
  18. 18
    She was proven completely correct.r/PoursTea
  19. 19
    Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources sayr/worldnews
  20. 20
    [@PeteThamel] Sources: The College Football Playoff is nearing a deal to expand to 24 teams, per sources. The new format will start in 2027 and is expected to come together in the near future, pending final approvals.r/CFB
  21. 21
    Kangaroor/SipsTea
  22. 22
    Goooood! Stay out of LAr/joebuddennetwork
  23. 23
    The overwhelming majority of people should just own a small sedanr/unpopularopinion
  24. 24
    'Time for Zelensky to go': Elon Musk calls for Ukrainian president to step down amid Starlink disputer/worldnews
  25. 25
    Report of active shooter at Silver Rail Elementaryr/news
  26. 26
    MAGA actually believes this stuff ever happens
    r/stupidpeoplefacebook
  27. 27
    GTA 6 Launch Trailerr/GTA6
  28. 28
    Healed chicken by me (Mike Boyd) at Goor Luck NYC in New Yorkr/tattoos
  29. 29
    The cleaners threw out my 5 year collection of cat whiskers
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  30. 30
    Goat realizing she slept in through her herd leaving
    r/interestingasfuck
  31. 31
    of drained pusr/AbsoluteUnits
  32. 32
    WE WONNNNNNNNN.r/runescape
  33. 33
    I hate how people make fun of Eelon Musk for how he looks.r/hatethissmug
  34. 34
    Sounds like a good learning environment
    r/NonPoliticalTwitter
  35. 35
    Fox news tried to make fun of this democrat candidate/queen running for city council and it backfired as she is getting more support than ever online!!r/popculturechat
  36. 36
    This is why A-10 s Nose Wheel Off-Center
    r/Damnthatsinteresting
  37. 37
    For the MAGA men...r/humor
  38. 38
    Grand Theft Auto 6 Launch Trailerr/gaming
  39. 39
    Michael Jackson was performing in Seoul in 1996 when a fan climbed up a crane to reach him. MJ held onto the fan securely to prevent him from falling, all while continuing his performancer/interesting
  40. 40
    Buttholes, buttholes everywhere.r/SipsTea
  41. 41
    Michael Che getting asked about Shane Gillis this morning on Today Showr/LiveFromNewYork
  42. 42
    Meirlr/meirl
  43. 43
    Glória à Ucrânia!r/BeAmazed
  44. 44
    (Hated Trope) Endings so awful they completely destroy the legacy of the media.
    r/TopCharacterTropes
  45. 45
    Yup! This tracks!r/PoursTea
  46. 46
    🔥 This is why they call them fighting conch. Scientific name: Strombus alatus.
    r/NatureIsFuckingLit
  47. 47
    Can average guys beat a professional sprinter and a basketball player?
    r/justgalsbeingchicks
  48. 48
    TIL that in the 1800s the American dairy industry used to sell milk thinned with water. They recolored the resulting bluish-gray liquid with dyes, chalk, or plaster dust, and faked the look of cream using pureed calf brains. The milk was often filled with bacteria and preserved with embalming fluid.r/todayilearned
  49. 49
    Thoughts on this?r/SipsTea
  50. 50
    A realistic leaf I embroidered this weekr/Embroidery

Google Trends

50 items
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