Top Tech News on Saturday, 17 October 2026

25 stories ranked by community votes that day. Each headline links to the original source.

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  1. 1

    DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

    huggingface.co Hacker News ▲ 895 671 comments
  2. 2

    Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time

    pv-magazine.com Hacker News ▲ 570 346 comments
  3. 3

    Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

    pele.run Hacker News ▲ 482 41 comments
  4. 4

    There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]

    youtube.com Hacker News ▲ 432 537 comments
  5. 5

    Gold is now the top U.S. export

    numismaticnews.net Hacker News ▲ 360 204 comments
  6. 6

    Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust

    chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com Hacker News ▲ 323 83 comments
  7. 7

    Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

    llmspeed.dev Hacker News ▲ 276 80 comments
  8. 8

    I built a programming language that LLMs can't use

    blog.picheta.me Hacker News ▲ 227 175 comments
  9. 9

    MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood

    engadget.com Hacker News ▲ 200 28 comments
  10. 10

    OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked

    twitter.com Hacker News ▲ 199 47 comments

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  1. 11
    Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser
    github.com Hacker News ▲ 183
  2. 12
    Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer
    celphase.github.io Hacker News ▲ 149
  3. 13
    Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps
    github.com Hacker News ▲ 144
  4. 14
    GLP-1 may slow biological aging
    universityofcalifornia.edu Hacker News ▲ 130
  5. 15
    Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death
    phys.org Hacker News ▲ 107
  6. 16
    Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses
    opendemocracy.net Hacker News ▲ 102
  7. 17
    Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel
    lwn.net Hacker News ▲ 94
  8. 18
    Super Intelligence
    si.gov Hacker News ▲ 86
  9. 19
    OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents
    fortune.com Hacker News ▲ 74
  10. 20
    Interactive Linear Programming in the Browser
    lpviz.net Hacker News ▲ 54
  11. 21
    "Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands
    nos.nl Hacker News ▲ 47
  12. 22
    Source code of the Estonian online voting system
    github.com Hacker News ▲ 44
  13. 23
    Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor
    lemonde.fr Hacker News ▲ 43
  14. 24
    A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)
    blog.davidv.dev Hacker News ▲ 36
  15. 25
    tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript
    github.com Hacker News ▲ 28

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