Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W42

In the latest week on Hacker News, a leaked internal ExxonMobil document has intensified discussions around climate deception, garnering 151 points and 72 comments. Meanwhile, Cloudflare experienced a notable drop in bot traffic following a strike on the Yandex data center, attracting 130 points. Updates from Nitter on October 10th revealed ongoing efforts to secure funding and legal support, while the IRCv3 protocol discussion drew significant attention with 112 points. Additionally, the release of LineageOS 24.0 and the modern remake of Total Annihilation sparked interest among tech enthusiasts.

#10

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

61 pts, 189 comments

61 points · 189 comments · Add your take →

#11

Cartographers of North Korea

60 pts, 38 comments

60 points · 38 comments · Add your take →

#12

3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

56 pts, 684 comments

56 points · 684 comments · Add your take →

#13

2D Vehicles

52 pts, 115 comments

52 points · 115 comments · Add your take →

#14

NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

50 pts, 196 comments

50 points · 196 comments · Add your take →

#15

Build your own decision model

43 pts, 102 comments

43 points · 102 comments · Add your take →

#16

500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter

41 pts, 127 comments

41 points · 127 comments · Add your take →

#17

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things

37 pts, 93 comments

37 points · 93 comments · Add your take →

#18

Whatever became of holography? (2011)

36 pts, 42 comments

36 points · 42 comments · Add your take →

#19

The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less

36 pts, 87 comments

36 points · 87 comments · Add your take →

#20

Fingerprints Are the New Cookies

32 pts, 75 comments

32 points · 75 comments · Add your take →

#21

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Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W42

Deno Is Joining Cloudflare

Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help

IRCv3

Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust

Be The Onion's Hero for Once

LineageOS 24.0

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

Cartographers of North Korea

3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

2D Vehicles

NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

Build your own decision model

500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things

Whatever became of holography? (2011)

The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less

Fingerprints Are the New Cookies

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her

BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

Elon Musk's PAC is spreading inaccurate voting info, election officials say

Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recreation

Tattoos you can turn on and off

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS

Sorry we made you grind LeetCode

I'm sorry, but you still have to think

Decade-old RAM is making a comeback

"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot

Rat's Register Allocator

Rightwing/Pro Trump bot traffic stop after Ukraine strikes on Russia datacenters

Calculus with Julia

HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo

SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 Released

Illustration Beyond Proof

Vectorized CLZ and CTZ

A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis

Linux on iPhone 11

Cognitive Decline or Sanity Incline?

Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal

Linus Torvalds Working on a Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement with Claude Code

How big is a Git commit?

Yes I Understand How LLMs Work

Doory – Open-Source Canva

Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence

I paid people to try and follow my README

Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers

Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage

X Is Bad, Though

Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos

Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R

American Academy of Pediatrics renews call for ban on raw milk

FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE

Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things

BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab

A Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused

Your IP Has Been Reset

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

Eye Cells May Have Been Rejuvenated for the First Time in People

I guess I'm using WebP now?

apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper

Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside

Multi-agent harnesses need separate message channels

Arena Allocators in C

Things that don't bother me as your manager

Pizza in North Korea

Xerox PARC chip shatters on command

Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era

ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol

Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs

Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests

Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twists

Do dentists know what they're doing?

Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait