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Bot traffic from Yandex

2026-10-11T10:27:53Z

624 points by walrus01 | 248 comments

Article: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50041619
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041619

Passkeys are a trap

2026-10-11T21:59:48Z

583 points by laurex | 332 comments

Article: https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50048312
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048312

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

2026-10-11T18:04:47Z

491 points by jttnr | 196 comments

Article: https://nanolathe.gg
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50045984
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045984

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

2026-10-11T18:01:16Z

461 points by gregsadetsky | 217 comments

Article: https://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50045946
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045946

Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help

2026-10-11T10:37:55Z

451 points by ForHackernews | 235 comments

Article: https://nitter.net
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50041682
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041682

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

2026-10-11T20:20:52Z

443 points by albertzeyer | 626 comments

Article: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50047422
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047422

Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns

2026-10-11T22:33:30Z

421 points by heyimada | 126 comments

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/google-datacentres-finland-temporary-halt-environmental-impact-assessment
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50048638
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048638

Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil

2026-10-11T14:28:39Z

396 points by gumby | 214 comments

Article: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102026/exxonmobil-climate-deception-new-evidence/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50043682
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043682

I paid people to try and follow my README

2026-10-11T11:47:29Z

390 points by edent | 192 comments

Article: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/i-paid-people-to-try-and-follow-my-readme/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50042219
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042219

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

2026-10-11T13:16:45Z

385 points by Anon84 | 421 comments

Article: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50043026
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043026

IRCv3

2026-10-11T10:11:27Z

380 points by basilikum | 313 comments

Article: https://ircv3.net/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50041540
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041540

I'm sorry, but you still have to think

2026-10-11T14:29:07Z

374 points by drogus | 164 comments

Article: https://itsallaboutthebit.com/i-am-sorry-but-you-still-have-to-think/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50043689
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043689

Fingerprints are the new cookies

2026-10-11T22:33:39Z

344 points by royfish | 162 comments

Article: https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50048642
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048642

So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion?

2026-10-11T19:43:32Z

316 points by mooreds | 48 comments

Article: https://theonion.com/archivehunt/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50047055
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047055

Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

2026-10-11T19:46:40Z

249 points by edent | 46 comments

Article: https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50047091
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047091

The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

2026-10-11T12:13:13Z

239 points by arusekk | 151 comments

Article: https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50042425
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042425

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

2026-10-11T21:07:20Z

212 points by bhrlady | 160 comments

Article: https://www.inc.com/chloe-rosenberg/a-remote-employee-refused-160-webcam-photos-a-day-her-employer-fired-her/91415963
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50047825
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047825

Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack

2026-10-12T04:54:12Z

199 points by rooftopzen | 88 comments

Article: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d#bot-traffic
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50051532
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051532

Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

2026-10-11T12:01:28Z

194 points by kartik017 | 114 comments

Article: https://betterwispr.com/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50042333
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042333

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

2026-10-11T12:06:22Z

159 points by verdagon | 87 comments

Article: https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50042362
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042362

How to Build Wealth as a Career Person

2026-10-11T16:03:58Z

144 points by doppp | 148 comments

Article: https://asheradeniyi.com/2026/04/10/how-to-build-wealth-as-a-career-person/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50044715
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044715

Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

2026-10-12T04:54:00Z

130 points by amosbatto | 123 comments

Article: https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/linux-phones-alternative/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50051530
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051530

Whatever became of holography? (2011)

2026-10-11T23:50:34Z

126 points by cainxinth | 61 comments

Article: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/whatever-became-of-holography
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50049411
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049411

How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect

2026-10-11T15:21:58Z

117 points by epestr | 36 comments

Article: http://epestr.com/blog/reverse-engineering-a-commercial-spatial-audio-effect/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50044272
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044272

Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence

2026-10-11T22:22:10Z

111 points by hardmaru | 60 comments

Article: https://pub.sakana.ai/mass/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50048522
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048522

Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

2026-10-12T06:35:05Z

108 points by riffraff | 145 comments

Article: https://www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/10/9/attack-of-the-vibe-coded-photoshop-clones
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50052156
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052156

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

2026-10-11T18:26:24Z

108 points by rafael859 | 18 comments

Article: https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ch1
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50046241
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046241

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things

2026-10-11T10:47:21Z

104 points by giuliomagnifico | 107 comments

Article: https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/using-ai-just-10-minutes-erodes-your-ability-persist-hard-things
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50041765
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041765

Doory – Open-Source Canva

2026-10-12T00:48:27Z

101 points by acley | 34 comments

Article: https://github.com/shaongitbd/doory
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50049872
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049872

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

2026-10-12T05:02:34Z

100 points by lukaslalinsky | 38 comments

Article: https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50051573
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051573