Trending 2026-10-18: Hacker News, Reddit, Google Trends

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Hacker News

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  1. 1
    Processing My Father's Death by Climbing in His Footsteps
    3 points · 0 comments
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    Gold is now the top U.S. export
    257 points · 131 comments
  3. 3
    Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser
    130 points · 13 comments
  4. 4
    Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Enterprise AES and Senior Engineers
    1 points · 0 comments
  5. 5
    Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition
    49 points · 14 comments
  6. 6
    Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps
    86 points · 33 comments
  7. 7
    NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing
    93 points · 19 comments
  8. 8
    Types of types: Haskell's Kind system
    60 points · 32 comments
  9. 9
    Custom server to revive neato bots
    15 points · 1 comments
  10. 10
    Source code of the Estonian online voting system
    176 points · 144 comments
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    Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust
    263 points · 68 comments
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    Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not
    97 points · 100 comments
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    You could have invented transformers from memory
    511 points · 119 comments
  14. 14
    The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results
    152 points · 24 comments
  15. 15
    Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer
    95 points · 24 comments
  16. 16
    Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
    499 points · 314 comments
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    Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG
    267 points · 27 comments
  18. 18
    A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)
    93 points · 53 comments
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    I Became a Citizen of Japan
    158 points · 76 comments
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    Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States
    218 points · 57 comments
  21. 21
    DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
    728 points · 601 comments
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    Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana
    286 points · 59 comments
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    Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour
    342 points · 75 comments
  24. 24
    Lean Now Ships with Verified Kernels
    26 points · 0 comments
  25. 25
    Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day
    357 points · 177 comments
  26. 26
    Each step of decoding a PNG (2022)
    19 points · 4 comments
  27. 27
    Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware
    256 points · 77 comments
  28. 28
    Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game
    130 points · 9 comments
  29. 29
    JDK 28
    66 points · 29 comments
  30. 30
    Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang
    46 points · 8 comments
  31. 31
    OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
    769 points · 132 comments
  32. 32
    Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010
    49 points · 8 comments
  33. 33
    An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling
    138 points · 88 comments
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    Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot
    38 points · 35 comments
  35. 35
    Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers
    53 points · 63 comments
  36. 36
    Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel
    121 points · 97 comments
  37. 37
    Pattern Matching Beats Narrative Reasoning
    36 points · 19 comments
  38. 38
    Almost every dumbphone worth knowing about
    6 points · 3 comments
  39. 39
    Show HN: Things to Do API
    23 points · 6 comments
  40. 40
    Tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript
    37 points · 38 comments
  41. 41
    AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It?
    20 points · 38 comments
  42. 42
    A Tudor life in the time of plague (2020)
    41 points · 3 comments
  43. 43
    Owner of Former UWS Barbecue Restaurant Indicted for Wage Theft: Manhattan DA
    4 points · 0 comments
  44. 44
    Espresso machine can run Doom
    14 points · 4 comments
  45. 45
    Show HN: MirrorMD – An AI second opinion from a facial cosmetic surgeon
    6 points · 5 comments
  46. 46
    Ultramarine 1 Flash
    362 points · 104 comments
  47. 47
    Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw)
    27 points · 7 comments
  48. 48
    OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents
    94 points · 83 comments
  49. 49
    The future of programming (1982)
    17 points · 2 comments
  50. 50
    MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood
    209 points · 29 comments

Reddit

50 items
  1. 1
    Emimen Defends Kid Rock Collab: "Just Choosing to Make Music with My Old Friend"r/Music
  2. 2
    Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"r/SipsTea
  3. 3
    Karasu defended the flock from a hawk today.r/homestead
  4. 4
    Well that is one way how to deal with pickpockets
    r/interestingasfuck
  5. 5
    Kamala Harris calls to expand Supreme Court, add states if Dems take Congress - What are your thoughts?r/AskReddit
  6. 6
    My girlfriend insist on placing breadbox sideways.
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  7. 7
    I Know This Feeling ... And I Hate It!r/PoursTea
  8. 8
    Xaryu and Esfand promoting a $30 USD Wow Forever addon on the tournament livestreamr/classicwow
  9. 9
    Excuse me while I make myself comfortable
    r/AnimalsBeingDerps
  10. 10
    The "Hasanlu lovers" died around 800 B.C. and were discovered in 1972. They died in what seems to be an embrace or kiss, and remained that way for 2800 years. The skeletons were both later identified as male.
    r/Damnthatsinteresting
  11. 11
    The hill I will die on: Cinemas have been getting away with lies. Films should begin on timer/movies
  12. 12
    TikTok Permanently Bans the ‘Musk’ Film Account, Raising Suppression Fearsr/movies
  13. 13
    Russia and US May Announce Joint Data Center Projects, Kremlin Envoy Saysr/worldnews
  14. 14
    Officer received 2 years on probation for this, justice system is embarrassingr/Infuriating
  15. 15
    Claude made itr/whenthe
  16. 16
    Please don't leave any edibles out around your cat! Im usually very careful but slipped tonight.r/cats
  17. 17
    [Postgame Thread] Florida Defeats Texas 27-24r/CFB
  18. 18
    Is Poverty Simply a Lack of Discipline?r/PoursTea
  19. 19
    Russian Bot Activity Collapses by 84% After Strikes on Yandex Data Centersr/technology
  20. 20
    French video game shop owner trying to protect his shop during recent events
    r/interestingasfuck
  21. 21
    A Virginia man inadvertently left his phone recording while he was under anesthesia for a colonoscopy, which captured audio of the doctors: mocking him, instructing a medical assistant to lie to him, and discussing giving him a false diagnosis of hemorrhoids. In 2015, a jury awarded him $500,000.r/interesting
  22. 22
    Peaceful protests in France todayr/SipsTea
  23. 23
    ‘No Kings’ Says Meta Cut Off Access to Instagram Account on Key Protest Dayr/politics
  24. 24
    If Aliens Was Released Now, Would This Character Be Considered Woke???r/okbuddycinephile
  25. 25
    Wife got into an accidentr/dashcams
  26. 26
    Are we not going to address the atheist is also outside his cage?r/aislop
  27. 27
    A Darien Library Librarian plays with White children and ignores a black child
    r/BlackPeopleofReddit
  28. 28
    Believe what you want, but I feel it’s odd when the winning fighter spends all 90 seconds of their post-fight interview talking about God. It’s just one step away from those people who come to your door unannounced.r/ufc
  29. 29
    Trump: I do not want to lose $90 billion for the privilege of allowing Canada to have a healthcare system and other things that they shouldn't have. They spend our money!r/AlbertaNow
  30. 30
    Zack’s Finest Deli in Staten Island rewards neighborhood kids for getting good grades.r/MadeMeSmile
  31. 31
    Why is it worse/not better?
    r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
  32. 32
    One year of walking across China: Before and After
    r/interestingasfuck
  33. 33
    Aaahh!!! Real Millenials!r/Millennials
  34. 34
    My mom's Jack-o-lantern from the 60's. Dehydrated 60 years ago by being left out in the Santa Ana winds.r/mildyinteresting
  35. 35
    People think they found god and it is linear algebrar/BrandNewSentence
  36. 36
    Dakota Johnson, MGK and his shorts, spotted in LAr/popculturechat
  37. 37
    Swimmers enjoying the London Sky Pool which is believed to be the world’s first transparent pool built between two residential buildings at Embassy Gardens suspended 35 meters (115 feet) in the air.
    r/interestingasfuck
  38. 38
    Economic collapse in Afghanistan resulting in rising reported cases of child-marriages
    r/whoathatsinteresting
  39. 39
    Schrödinger's qualified: a person is always simultaneously over and under qualifiedr/recruitinghell
  40. 40
    He wasn't a Native Americanr/MurderedByWords
  41. 41
    Officers responding to ‘mass casualty incident’ at Wichita sports complex involving a vehicler/news
  42. 42
    Q: Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood? El-Sayed: Yes. Why are you asking the question? Do you assume that I wouldn’t? Q: Yes, because I have not heard you disavow them yet. El-Sayed: Have you disavowed them? I have not heard you disavow them yet.r/SipsTea
  43. 43
    Shackr/cats
  44. 44
    Howl at the moonr/MadeMeSmile
  45. 45
    Dementia Don forgot where he was goingr/PoursTea
  46. 46
    I testified in court (update)
    r/GirlDinnerDiaries
  47. 47
    The comeback writes itself.r/clevercomebacks
  48. 48
    Petah?
    r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
  49. 49
    Marie Wilcox realized she was the last person on Earth who could speak the Wukchumni language fluently, so at 82, she taught herself to use a computer and spent seven years typing a 6,000-word Wukchumni dictionary, the first written record of the language in history, to save it from extinction.r/interesting
  50. 50
    Just a casual sip of corporate toxicity!r/SipsTea

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