Trending 2026-10-21: Hacker News, Reddit, Google Trends

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Hacker News

50 items
  1. 1
    The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
    86 points · 59 comments
  2. 2
    Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
    355 points · 174 comments
  3. 3
    EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
    682 points · 345 comments
  4. 4
    Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe
    348 points · 175 comments
  5. 5
    Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release
    117 points · 26 comments
  6. 6
    Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026
    31 points · 1 comments
  7. 7
    Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video]
    46 points · 6 comments
  8. 8
    How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
    330 points · 79 comments
  9. 9
    To Make, or to Buy: The Economics of Decision Models
    8 points · 0 comments
  10. 10
    Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
    502 points · 263 comments
  11. 11
    What the heck is /pkg?
    66 points · 16 comments
  12. 12
    Voxtral 3
    544 points · 144 comments
  13. 13
    Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery
    212 points · 122 comments
  14. 14
    Good type against all odds
    25 points · 4 comments
  15. 15
    Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia
    158 points · 93 comments
  16. 16
    IKEA – 3D Guide
    150 points · 55 comments
  17. 17
    DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
    2153 points · 838 comments
  18. 18
    SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful
    189 points · 81 comments
  19. 19
    What shall I teach my son?
    292 points · 357 comments
  20. 20
    Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case
    342 points · 256 comments
  21. 21
    Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs
    276 points · 64 comments
  22. 22
    The Future of CSS
    29 points · 1 comments
  23. 23
    Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site
    117 points · 44 comments
  24. 24
    In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible
    15 points · 2 comments
  25. 25
    Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
    605 points · 308 comments
  26. 26
    Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF?
    17 points · 2 comments
  27. 27
    Learning to live with Waymos
    24 points · 40 comments
  28. 28
    GitHub package firewall
    7 points · 0 comments
  29. 29
    T3 Code now synced between GitHub and GitCafe
    6 points · 15 comments
  30. 30
    Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster
    62 points · 26 comments
  31. 31
    Shipping a LaTeX Compiler Behind an Edge App
    9 points · 4 comments
  32. 32
    Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins
    45 points · 18 comments
  33. 33
    JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission
    96 points · 19 comments
  34. 34
    Microagi: Accelerating Embodied AGI
    8 points · 6 comments
  35. 35
    My Friend Bob Cringely
    163 points · 47 comments
  36. 36
    LabRobotBench v0.1: Benchmarking wet lab robotics
    7 points · 0 comments
  37. 37
    MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space
    379 points · 99 comments
  38. 38
    Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins
    87 points · 57 comments
  39. 39
    'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs
    85 points · 51 comments
  40. 40
    Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
    399 points · 360 comments
  41. 41
    Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer (2024)
    4 points · 0 comments
  42. 42
    Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2
    48 points · 1 comments
  43. 43
    2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
    142 points · 66 comments
  44. 44
    On AI writing
    72 points · 36 comments
  45. 45
    Archive of Our Own
    85 points · 18 comments
  46. 46
    Third US aircraft carrier, 10k troops head to Middle East
    9 points · 0 comments
  47. 47
    Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring
    1 points · 0 comments
  48. 48
    Deepfake of Washington County, Oregon, Candidate Goes Viral Nationwide
    10 points · 4 comments
  49. 49
    Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't
    83 points · 51 comments
  50. 50
    Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch
    11 points · 0 comments

Reddit

50 items
  1. 1
    Grandson Special Needs
    r/oldpeoplefacebook
  2. 2
    Elon Musk ordered Starlink slowdown for Ukraine: Reportr/politics
  3. 3
    Meirlr/meirl
  4. 4
    Demands for AI Filter on Steam Grow as Next Fest Is Flooded with AI Slopr/pcmasterrace
  5. 5
    Sometimes he’s a loaf
    r/OneOrangeBraincell
  6. 6
    Musk and DOGE unlawfully accessed government personnel data, judge rulesr/law
  7. 7
    Trump Warns America Will Burn if Republicans Lose This Electionr/politics
  8. 8
    Vivek heckled at town hall over disgusting attack adr/Ohio
  9. 9
    Musk ordered Starlink slowdown for Ukraine: WSJr/worldnews
  10. 10
    Actor who successfully grifted a streaming company?r/okbuddycinephile
  11. 11
    Report: Next-Gen Xbox Project Helix Targets 2028 Release, $1,200 to $1,800 Pricer/xbox
  12. 12
    Trump was heckled back-to-back in Kansas after once again claiming protesters are being paid to disrupt his events. One heckler had a pretty direct response: “I do it for free, I don’t fucking like you!”r/SipsTea
  13. 13
    Hegseth's 'made up story'...r/PoursTea
  14. 14
    I didn’t realize this show had such talentr/memes
  15. 15
    Gucci male model in 1995 vs now,
    r/interestingasfuck
  16. 16
    Married men, what’s one thing unmarried men should know before getting married?r/AskReddit
  17. 17
    XBOX Next-Gen Console Set For Holidays 2028, Next-Gen Handheld Device Holidays 2027 | As it stands, the price of the Helix console has internally been projected to cost consumers between $1,200 and $1,800, unless Microsoft decides to subsidize the cost.r/gaming
  18. 18
    I got fined 50 dollars for parking on a ""painted"" spot
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  19. 19
    The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. I'm Filing for His Disbarment Today.r/LegalNews
  20. 20
    Mormons. Dude will never live this downr/TikTokCringe
  21. 21
    I woke up with this text from my landlord.
    r/mildlyinfuriating
  22. 22
    Who ever asked for a white Chun-Li?r/Gamingcirclejerk
  23. 23
    Camera man exposes Trump waving to invisible crowdr/SipsTea
  24. 24
    Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026r/technology
  25. 25
    Shoutout Katie Zachariar/StandUpComedy
  26. 26
    Trump: "Quiet! Quiet! What's wrong with you? Are you a sick person? Reporter: Not that I know of Trump: I actually think theres something wrong with you."r/PoursTea
  27. 27
    Do you believe we were persistent hunters in the past or is it a bunch of hogwash?r/HistoryMemes
  28. 28
    I want to quit this capitalist nightmare
    r/GirlDinnerDiaries
  29. 29
    The owner of the anime shop in France shared the security video showing how his 29 year old business was looted during the recent protests in Paris. The merchant explained that he couldn't do anything to stop them because there were too many, lamenting that the work of his entire life was destroyedr/Wellthatsucks
  30. 30
    meirlr/meirl
  31. 31
    Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directivesr/technology
  32. 32
    This industry needs to imploder/antiai
  33. 33
    Character wields a weapon that looks awesome but would be impractical to wield in real life
    r/TopCharacterTropes
  34. 34
    Bam Margera skating in a suit in front of NYSEr/nextfuckinglevel
  35. 35
    Mamdani Proposes Requiring One-Touch Option to Bypass AI Customer Service and Connect to Human Representativer/law
  36. 36
    PS5 firmware 14.10, the firmware GTA 6 requires, has been jailbrokenr/pcmasterrace
  37. 37
    PSG Fans Tonightr/soccercirclejerk
  38. 38
    Do NOT get complacent. Nothing is a 'for sure thing' unless you make it happen.r/PoursTea
  39. 39
    Exhausted and injured jaguar rescued by Brazilian soldiers in Rio Negro, near Manaus.
    r/interestingasfuck
  40. 40
    Adopted this angel fr the shelter about a month ago, his name is Andy and he’s around nine years old according to the vet, he’s settling in great!!r/cats
  41. 41
    Trump Announces $8B Relief Program for Farmersr/politics
  42. 42
    After 6 years of failed attempts, a photographer finally captured this rare alignment of the Moon, a mountain, and a basilica.
    r/Damnthatsinteresting
  43. 43
    I was on my first protest (against the afd)r/teenagers
  44. 44
    Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vaccine trial on babiesr/technology
  45. 45
    🔥 Beautiful fiddler crab emerging from its burrow.
    r/NatureIsFuckingLit
  46. 46
    Karen Attiah, who was fired from The Washington Post for criticizing the expectation that Americans mourn Charlie Kirk, on Twitter: "Channeling my inner Rihanna because I won my case against the @washingtonpost — and they owe me a year’s worth of back pay. 👊🏾💰"r/Fauxmoi
  47. 47
    [The Onion] LeBron James Squeezes Eyes Shut To Avoid Catching Glimpse Of Philadelphia During Commuter/nba
  48. 48
    Cat Person [OC]r/comics
  49. 49
    Seems we cant use paid addons for Foreverr/wowforever
  50. 50
    [Meta Trope] The Mandela Effect that most people aren't aware of
    r/TopCharacterTropes

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