Trending 2026-10-20: Hacker News, Reddit, Google Trends

Snapshot of what trended on 2026-10-20, archived automatically by NoobClaw.

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Hacker News

50 items
  1. 1
    “bonsoir, Elliot”: How abliterated models can get you pwned
    44 points · 25 comments
  2. 2
    It's still ok to enjoy programming
    471 points · 434 comments
  3. 3
    How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?
    9 points · 1 comments
  4. 4
    Developing Taste
    7 points · 6 comments
  5. 5
    WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
    61 points · 9 comments
  6. 6
    RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]
    166 points · 64 comments
  7. 7
    Weball: Play Katamari on Websites
    90 points · 5 comments
  8. 8
    Android apps running native on macOS
    272 points · 144 comments
  9. 9
    What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out
    13 points · 5 comments
  10. 10
    Wine ported to OpenBSD
    517 points · 172 comments
  11. 11
    Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
    292 points · 433 comments
  12. 12
    Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account
    195 points · 89 comments
  13. 13
    Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
    145 points · 112 comments
  14. 14
    An ad-free Android TV
    46 points · 13 comments
  15. 15
    France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
    66 points · 64 comments
  16. 16
    The ovary doesn't retire after menopause
    31 points · 4 comments
  17. 17
    Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off
    324 points · 97 comments
  18. 18
    Starcraft: Ashfall
    342 points · 112 comments
  19. 19
    OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18
    103 points · 22 comments
  20. 20
    One Hash Bloom Filters
    61 points · 8 comments
  21. 21
    The fire retardant in the seafood chain
    119 points · 36 comments
  22. 22
    I built a drone with only one motor [video]
    419 points · 91 comments
  23. 23
    Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD
    20 points · 6 comments
  24. 24
    MiniMax M3.1 Flash
    396 points · 172 comments
  25. 25
    Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'
    173 points · 83 comments
  26. 26
    Evidence (YC S21) Is Hiring Software Engineers
    1 points · 0 comments
  27. 27
    Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
    560 points · 104 comments
  28. 28
    The End of Rationing
    30 points · 26 comments
  29. 29
    Credit where credit is due
    63 points · 41 comments
  30. 30
    Agentic Monitoring
    44 points · 3 comments
  31. 31
    Vortex Code: one prompt, an AI software team that ships
    3 points · 0 comments
  32. 32
    The reverts will continue until morale improves
    195 points · 36 comments
  33. 33
    Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation
    23 points · 32 comments
  34. 34
    Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus
    33 points · 32 comments
  35. 35
    Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas
    109 points · 86 comments
  36. 36
    Let's Encrypt is adding two additional remote perspectives for domain validation
    241 points · 76 comments
  37. 37
    Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – RL-trained model that finds errors in agent traces
    45 points · 22 comments
  38. 38
    Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
    136 points · 62 comments
  39. 39
    Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale
    210 points · 82 comments
  40. 40
    Detecting model weight tampering in GPU memory (Rome attacks)
    13 points · 1 comments
  41. 41
    Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
    73 points · 9 comments
  42. 42
    Honey, I shrunk the TV
    4 points · 1 comments
  43. 43
    Code is clay now
    4 points · 1 comments
  44. 44
    My Neighbor, Me, and a Grand Principle
    4 points · 0 comments
  45. 45
    Diablo 2 Survivors
    23 points · 10 comments
  46. 46
    Coconuts in Medieval Britain (2015)
    26 points · 6 comments
  47. 47
    The Annotated VT100 Firmware (2022)
    53 points · 2 comments
  48. 48
    Integer to String Conversion (2014)
    23 points · 0 comments
  49. 49
    Germany's far-right AfD: half a million internal documents leaked
    66 points · 21 comments
  50. 50
    The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO
    118 points · 78 comments

Reddit

50 items
  1. 1
    What’s a dead video game franchise that deserves a comeback?r/AskReddit
  2. 2
    WIBTA if I declined my MILs $600 Venmo request and got a hotel after she put us in the bunk room with 7 kids?r/WouldIBeTheAhole
  3. 3
    Lawyers for Rep. Ilhan Omar say authorities ignored judge's restrictions on home search, failed to provide copy of warrant, and did not notify House Office of General Counsel before raidr/law
  4. 4
    Angelina Jolie’s foundation has protected 150,720 acres of Cambodian forest for 20 years, where elephants and pangolins still roam; its rangers removed more than 4.8 miles of illegal snares in 2025, helping keep the forest safe for wildlife.r/UpliftingNews
  5. 5
    Clinton on the war in Ukraine.r/PoursTea
  6. 6
    How do you sleep?r/funComunitty
  7. 7
    Trump says New Mexico should 'immediately' change to New Americar/politics
  8. 8
    meirlr/meirl
  9. 9
    🔥 bat eared fox upclose
    r/NatureIsFuckingLit
  10. 10
    Black Trump-supporting TikTok creator Thelma Louise emotionally shares how Ken Paxton had her kicked out of his rally in San Antonio for no reason: “I CANNOT BELIEVE THE DISRESPECT.”
    r/BlackPeopleofReddit
  11. 11
    😭😭😭😭r/meme
  12. 12
    82340
    r/countwithchickenlady
  13. 13
    Beavers stop chewing every few seconds to listen for cracking sounds in the tree so they don't get crushed
    r/interestingasfuck
  14. 14
    Tourists lost in the protestsr/Wellthatsucks
  15. 15
    I want to see everyone’s sleepy kitty cats pleaser/cats
  16. 16
    DeSantis pledges to legalize Tesla’s flying Roadster in Floridar/nottheonion
  17. 17
    Did not know my jeans had this brown stain on them all day
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  18. 18
    Japan's Princess Mako saying goodbye to her family as she gives up her royal status by marrying a 'commoner' (2021)r/interesting
  19. 19
    Man Apologizes for Ordering Food Just Before Closing and Receives a Heartwarming Surprise.r/MadeMeSmile
  20. 20
    Remember when Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump Putin's puppet? Remember how many people said she was wrong? Well... turns out she was right.r/videos
  21. 21
    Tuskegee airman James Flowers, born in 1915, is still alive at age 110 and is the oldest man in the United States. He will be 111 on Christmas Day.r/OldSchoolCool
  22. 22
    New card policy at my favorite empanada spot
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  23. 23
    More hypocrisy...r/SipsTea
  24. 24
    Florida Man's Range Rover Joyride Ends in Chaos.r/dashcams
  25. 25
    [OC] Nation (Paris protests)r/pics
  26. 26
    A protester standing directly behind Vance stood up and shouted, "Release the Epstein files!" during a political rally in Hendersonville.r/Fauxmoi
  27. 27
    me_irlr/me_irl
  28. 28
    China's largest furry convention
    r/interestingasfuck
  29. 29
    Ramaswamy Fraudr/Ohio
  30. 30
    'Office Space' Star Richard Riehle Dead at 78r/movies
  31. 31
    Human Decencyr/PoursTea
  32. 32
    Elizabeth Warren outlines what she envisions about instituting a wealth tax: "For those of you who have a lot of money. Your first $50 million is free, but your $50 millionth and first, you pay two cents and pay two cents on every dollar over that. Which it actually turns out to be a lot of money."r/videos
  33. 33
    [OC] doing our bitr/comics
  34. 34
    Elon promising free shares? What could possibly go wrong?r/SpaceXBets
  35. 35
    "A giraffe photobombing the most epic sunset ever"r/BeAmazed
  36. 36
    Store owner's store kept getting broken into so he built an entry-only trap at the rear of his shop.
    r/whoathatsinteresting
  37. 37
    I shaved off my eyebrows and my kitten doesn’t like it
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  38. 38
    When money is worse than debt to a sellerr/Snorkblot
  39. 39
    Looking at the queer rep of Deadlock is so funny. What a weird group of charactersr/DeadlockTheGame
  40. 40
    What Russia's doing to Ukraine is 'fine,' Trump saysr/worldnews
  41. 41
    Why is it so hard to ever feel satisfiedr/adhdmeme
  42. 42
    Trump Tries to Ban Jack Smith Testimony as BBC Lawsuit Implodesr/politics
  43. 43
    How do adults wake up every morning really early, work for hours, and still have the energy to do personal things such as gym, hobbies, cooking dinner etc?r/AskReddit
  44. 44
    I shaved off my eyebrows and now my kitten always looking at me like thisr/cats
  45. 45
    F19 Do I look good enough to be ona a relationship?r/amiuglytruth
  46. 46
    Gotta be productive (20 characters)r/antiwork
  47. 47
    My boyfriend is ashamed of my past
    r/GirlDinnerDiaries
  48. 48
    Sometimes the smartest tool isn't a tool at all It's physics
    r/interestingasfuck
  49. 49
    😂💯r/Funnymemes
  50. 50
    AITA for restricting grandchildren sleepovers to 2 at a timer/AmItheAsshole

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