Top Tech News on Sunday, 18 October 2026

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

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  1. 1

    Someone behind the software

    karrisaarinen.com Hacker News ▲ 488 176 comments
  2. 2

    Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

    reddit.com Hacker News ▲ 456 220 comments
  3. 3

    Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

    arxiv.org Hacker News ▲ 447 217 comments
  4. 4

    RepRapMicron

    github.com Hacker News ▲ 414 66 comments
  5. 5

    NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

    tomshardware.com Hacker News ▲ 346 137 comments
  6. 6

    DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

    api-docs.deepseek.com Hacker News ▲ 303 142 comments
  7. 7

    Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

    sciencealert.com Hacker News ▲ 280 163 comments
  8. 8

    William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

    colo.to Hacker News ▲ 221 96 comments
  9. 9

    If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

    jrdsgl.com Hacker News ▲ 216 155 comments
  10. 10

    How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

    readtheprofile.com Hacker News ▲ 196 228 comments

More from that day

  1. 11
    Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching
    neilmadden.blog Hacker News ▲ 178
  2. 12
    Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform
    github.com Hacker News ▲ 177
  3. 13
    Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping
    sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app Hacker News ▲ 172
  4. 14
    Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages
    getlazarus.org Hacker News ▲ 171
  5. 15
    PalmOS Lemmings
    github.com Hacker News ▲ 138
  6. 16
    Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
    github.com Hacker News ▲ 125
  7. 17
    Promise Delivered: Welcome to the DEV Hall of Fame (65 Authors, 65 Masterpieces)
    dev.to DEV Community ▲ 111
  8. 18
    A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)
    verdagon.dev Hacker News ▲ 102
  9. 19
    How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
    csis.org Hacker News ▲ 97
  10. 20
    The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction
    righto.com Hacker News ▲ 92
  11. 21
    Parser Combinators
    t3.at Hacker News ▲ 79
  12. 22
    🐾 DEV Pet Corner #2: Show Us Your Pets!
    dev.to DEV Community ▲ 77
  13. 23
    A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias (2025)
    propublica.org Hacker News ▲ 67
  14. 24
    Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016)
    webmasters.stackexchange.com Hacker News ▲ 57
  15. 25
    I Built a New Tab Extension for DEV
    dev.to DEV Community ▲ 43

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