SimCity, but with Permits
59 pts, 227 comments
59 points · 227 comments · Add your take →
Top Hacker News Stories – October 21, 2026 (Summarized)
Recent top stories on Hacker News include the open-sourcing of DeepSeek's inference engine, which garnered 191 points and over 800 comments, highlighting significant interest in AI tools. Google also released TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend optimized for TPUs, receiving 34 points and 53 comments. Additionally, SimCity with a permit system attracted 59 points and 227 comments, indicating ongoing discussions around game development and simulation. Other notable posts include Voxtral 3 with 84 points and the SlopCodeBench benchmark update, reflecting active engagement in software performance and AI research.
Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site
7 pts, 0 comments
7 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
191 pts, 812 comments
191 points · 812 comments · Add your take →
Voxtral 3
84 pts, 130 comments
84 points · 130 comments · Add your take →
The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
13 pts, 3 comments
13 points · 3 comments · Add your take →
Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs
34 pts, 53 comments
34 points · 53 comments · Add your take →
What shall I teach my son?
46 pts, 269 comments
46 points · 269 comments · Add your take →
SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful
32 pts, 51 comments
32 points · 51 comments · Add your take →
Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia
3 pts, 0 comments
3 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
103 pts, 243 comments
103 points · 243 comments · Add your take →
EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
61 pts, 228 comments
61 points · 228 comments · Add your take →
Ofcom Concedes Defeat in the 4chan Case
53 pts, 156 comments
53 points · 156 comments · Add your take →
Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery
22 pts, 37 comments
22 points · 37 comments · Add your take →
Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video]
10 pts, 2 comments
10 points · 2 comments · Add your take →
Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
62 pts, 124 comments
62 points · 124 comments · Add your take →
What the heck is /pkg?
9 points · 13 comments · Add your take →
Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026
4 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
Google cloud outage takes down banks
14 points · 125 comments · Add your take →
Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF?
3 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
39 points · 62 comments · Add your take →
IKEA – 3D Guide
23 points · 23 comments · Add your take →
Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins
2 points · 14 comments · Add your take →
MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space
12 points · 70 comments · Add your take →
Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster
8 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
My Friend Bob Cringely
38 points · 37 comments · Add your take →
JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission
18 points · 14 comments · Add your take →
'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs
8 points · 47 comments · Add your take →
Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month
135 points · 323 comments · Add your take →
2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
18 points · 3 comments · Add your take →
Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring
1 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs
35 points · 163 comments · Add your take →
Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins
6 points · 17 comments · Add your take →
Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2
10 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release
13 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
SCOTUS couldn't take up a copyright case because four justices have book deals
6 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
NixOS is making me less afraid
52 points · 95 comments · Add your take →
Archive of Our Own
20 points · 13 comments · Add your take →
Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer (2024)
4 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
Rouler – Steer Windows traffic per app or IP across multiple interfaces
9 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
Why do we have so many meetings?
22 points · 112 comments · Add your take →
Victory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is Unlawful
6 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
Subaru is killing off gas cars and will only sell EVs in Europe
19 points · 2 comments · Add your take →
Triplet of 'Ghostly' Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is – and Isn't
2 points · 2 comments · Add your take →
Judge Orders Meta to Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting
13 points · 3 comments · Add your take →
Anthropic logged net loss of over $80B in first half of 2026
16 points · 4 comments · Add your take →
An ad-free Android TV
4 points · 162 comments · Add your take →
Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher
14 points · 2 comments · Add your take →
Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick
9 points · 1 comments · Add your take →
Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release
28 points · 7 comments · Add your take →
Anthropic recorded a staggering $80B net loss in the first half of 2026
13 points · 8 comments · Add your take →
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