It's 2026-10-08. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program | comment
Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB | comment
Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? | comment
OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled | comment
Theranos.world | comment
4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe | comment
Yes, and | comment
Margaret Hamilton has died | comment
Claude Haiku 5.5 | comment
Mistral Large 4 | comment
GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone | comment
Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees | comment
“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically | comment
Sharing AI progress in mathematics | comment
Extra Big Ass Intelligence | comment
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back | comment
Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app | comment
Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art | comment
DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows | comment
Apple Pass Designer | comment
Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model | comment
JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history | comment
Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' | comment
Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data | comment
Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages | comment
Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen | comment
Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI | comment
OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers | comment
Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch | comment
Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Gemini 4 Argon | comment
Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock | comment
When did Google get so weird? | comment
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price | comment
Pi 1.0 | comment
Margaret Hamilton has died | comment
Claude Haiku 5.5 | comment
Sonnet 5.5 | comment
Mistral Large 4 | comment
DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers | comment
GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone | comment
Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees | comment
Dots: Always-on agents | comment
Windows 11½ | comment
Sharing AI progress in mathematics | comment
Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform | comment
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy | comment
Pirating the Pirates | comment
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner | comment
Extra Big Ass Intelligence | comment
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back | comment
Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app | comment
America.gov | comment
The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent | comment
Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art | comment
Pi.dev: You Said No MCP | comment
DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows | comment
MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta | comment
Apple Pass Designer | comment
Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model | comment
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