Hacker News Top Stories Today
A live, ranked snapshot of the Hacker News front page for Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Pulled from news.ycombinator.com, deduplicated, and refreshed hourly — every story links straight to the article and its HN comment thread.
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Top 30 Hacker News stories — Tuesday, October 13, 2026
- 01Apple HomeView (www.apple.com)2026-10-13
- 02Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise (www.firefox.com)2026-10-13
- 03Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy (www.theverge.com)2026-10-13
- 04An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air (eg2.haku.sh)2026-10-13
- 0511 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker (github.com)2026-10-13
- 06CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades (www.bloomberg.com)2026-10-13
- 07Hittite royal archive found in Turkey (www.thehistoryblog.com)2026-10-13
- 08AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities (arxiv.org)2026-10-13
- 09A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms (www.argmin.net)2026-10-13
- 10Leaving Tech (ryanbigg.com)2026-10-13
- 11China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024 (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)2026-10-13
- 12The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) (jsomers.net)2026-10-13
- 13Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X (www.intel.com)2026-10-13
- 14AI is a tool and using it well takes skill (yyhh.org)2026-10-13
- 15'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey (www.linkedin.com)2026-10-13
- 16Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default (github.com)2026-10-13
- 17AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)2026-10-13
- 18Thinking will become a hobby (www.spinellis.gr)2026-10-13
- 19Muse Wonder (research.meta.ai)2026-10-13
- 20A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)2026-10-13
- 21Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com)2026-10-13
- 22GLM-Legal (z.ai)2026-10-13
- 23Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? (mortoray.com)2026-10-13
- 24Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe (www.tomshardware.com)2026-10-13
- 25Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (www.bbc.com)2026-10-13
- 26The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001) (pixelatron.com)2026-10-13
- 27QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions (github.com)2026-10-13
- 28Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search (www.sciencealert.com)2026-10-13
- 29Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth (www.bbc.com)2026-10-13
- 30Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly (github.com)2026-10-13
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Hacker News top stories — FAQ
- What are the top stories on Hacker News today?
- As of Tuesday, October 13, 2026, the #1 story on the Hacker News front page is “Apple HomeView (www.apple.com).” The full ranked list of today's top 30 HN stories is above, each linking to the original article and its HN comment thread.
- How often is this Hacker News list updated?
- Hourly. OrangeBot.AI re-fetches the Hacker News front page from news.ycombinator.com and re-ranks the top stories every hour, so this page always reflects today's HN.
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