Top Tech News on Friday, 16 October 2026

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

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  1. 1

    Tesla Roadster

    tesla.com Hacker News ▲ 1,570 2,844 comments
  2. 2

    Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

    anthropic.com Hacker News ▲ 976 355 comments
  3. 3

    You could have invented transformers from memory

    alexwang.ai Hacker News ▲ 584 131 comments
  4. 4

    Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

    nature.com Hacker News ▲ 487 105 comments
  5. 5

    Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

    github.com Hacker News ▲ 354 83 comments
  6. 6

    Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

    machinelearning.apple.com Hacker News ▲ 346 185 comments
  7. 7

    JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

    jakearchibald.com Hacker News ▲ 304 195 comments
  8. 8

    Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States

    smithsonianmag.com Hacker News ▲ 303 76 comments
  9. 9

    eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

    arrl.org Hacker News ▲ 255 229 comments
  10. 10

    FLUX 3 Image Klein

    bfl.ai Hacker News ▲ 193 56 comments

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  1. 11
    Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude
    anthropic.com Hacker News ▲ 163
  2. 12
    Lean now ships with verified kernels
    leodemoura.github.io Hacker News ▲ 161
  3. 13
    "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
    nytimes.com Hacker News ▲ 107
  4. 14
    The DNS Museum
    dns.museum Hacker News ▲ 101
  5. 15
    Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game
    frozenfractal.com Hacker News ▲ 100
  6. 16
    A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip
    adepts.of0x.cc Hacker News ▲ 75
  7. 17
    Dev Opportunity Radar #21: $500K Y Combinator Funding, Bolt Builders Week, and AI Safety Research Residency
    dev.to DEV Community ▲ 72
  8. 18
    Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua
    teal-language.org Hacker News ▲ 66
  9. 19
    What if the scoreboard had no delay?
    dev.to DEV Community ▲ 59
  10. 20
    The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)
    softpanorama.org Hacker News ▲ 57
  11. 21
    One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux
    quentinkaiser.be Hacker News ▲ 55
  12. 22
    The First Candid
    newyorker.com Hacker News ▲ 48
  13. 23
    Gdynia and the Dream of a Maritime Poland
    engelsbergideas.com Hacker News ▲ 41
  14. 24
    Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator
    purplesyringa.moe Hacker News ▲ 37
  15. 25
    Regex visualized as 3D marble run
    regexmarblerun.com Hacker News ▲ 31

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