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Hacker News on October 26, 2026

On October 26, 2026, Trendoday checked Hacker News 95 times and recorded 129 different entries. “Dolly Parton's Imagination Library” ranked highest over the day: on the list in 78% of checks, best #2, average #3.4. “Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs” and “We should be more ambitious with the software we build” followed. 0 entries were on the list at every check. 100 entries made their first appearance, led by “Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997”.

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    Why I Am a Programmer↗
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    Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard↗
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    Anthropic S-1↗
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    F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS↗
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    Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC↗
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    Pharo 14↗
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    Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM↗
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    CSS-Tricks has a new owner↗
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    Websites Should Be Printable↗
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    GPT-6.1 Terra↗
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    Root shell on Samsung TV↗
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    Colorfigures↗
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Also on the list that day (79)

Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part · US designates helium as a critical material · Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI · The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive · iPhone Duo Teardown · Eunice is almost here · A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting · Partyline: A group voice application for Reticulum, built on LXST · OLED iPad Mini · VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video] · Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and… · An incremental approach to JIT construction · Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener [video] · Proton Flock Camera Map · Reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker · World Wars I and II Military Aviation Museum Collection · Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork… · JetBrains Thinkrail · Two Million Hornets · PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025) · Show HN: Glider 4.0 Unofficial Web Edition (Mac game port) · The new iPad mini · UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms · Should Police Wipe a Criminal's Cellphone Before Returning It?–U.S.… · The U.S. Power Grid · Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism · The Curse of Soldered RAM · Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student… · Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer · Who killed the EV cert? A browser whodunit for Halloween · The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration · Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding · Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code · AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading… · The result of the C++26 DIS ballot · Show HN: Proc-CLI – An agent-friendly CLI tool for process and port… · Focused Company Operating Principles · CorridorKey 2.0 · The Fall of Scientific American · Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write? · Skydance offers buyouts, orders return to office · Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera · Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx · Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository · DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay · Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf] · Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce · If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay · Brazil elections: Lula secures fourth term after dramatic comeback · Somebody please stop the spam texts · AmiJa, a cycle-exact Amiga emulator written in Java · Everything · NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket · US Wages Share of GDI at 75 Year Low · The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] · Chip Builder is a puzzle and strategy game that teaches you chip… · Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist · Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor · Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155… · GPT 6.1 Terra · Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections · Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet · Vegemite is not a human right · A Printer Printing onto Paper · Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models · Vazhaipoo Vadai – Banana Flower Recipe · A mathematician reads the AI future · 'It's offensively cheap': Solar power is quietly becoming bigger… · Just Imagining a Workout Can Make You Stronger · Is PHP Running on Your ColdFusion Server? How to Check, and Remove It · What Security Teams Need to Know About Agents Using Abliterated Models · Don't Be a Tech Bro · Anthropic rushing IPO before AI bubble bursts · Peta releases video showing experiments on infant monkeys at Univ of… · Anthropic S-1 · Init – a Rust agent harness that recompiles and hot-swaps its own… · US fired over 600 missile interceptors defending Israel in three years · LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core · Show HN: RainbowSay – Learn, teach, research languages live with…

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Part of week 44 and October 2026.