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The AI stories the engineering audience actually upvoted. · ranked by Hacker News points · pulled 6d ago

6 Leading in each categoryThe top entry from every group, so you can scan the shape of it before the detail

35 Labs

K#2
Claude Opus 5.5Hacker News
1806 points1134 comments23d ago
B#4
Gemini 4 ArgonHacker News

See also: Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914236

1704 points1190 comments15d ago
S#7
Claude Haiku 5.5Hacker News
1042 points485 comments8d ago
D#9
Sonnet 5.5Hacker News
884 points613 comments17d ago
E#10
Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony chargeHacker News
836 points674 comments10d ago
R#11
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeatsHacker News
780 points805 comments22d ago
S#13
Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging FaceHacker News
755 points472 comments20d ago
S#15
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005Hacker News
738 points448 comments23d ago
P#18
Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAIHacker News
632 points625 comments18d ago
C#24
U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain riskHacker News
499 points901 comments20d ago
B#26
I quit OpenAI because its culture is brokenHacker News

https://archive.ph/5GQx8 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-sa...

494 points817 comments12d ago
P#28
Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]Hacker News
486 points284 comments22d ago
M#34
OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalledHacker News
421 points296 comments7d ago
S#45
OpenAI withdraws three mathematical resultsHacker News
367 points604 comments7d ago
T#51
OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math PapersHacker News
342 points3 comments7d ago
T#52
Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)Hacker News
333 points106 comments23d ago
S#53
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speechHacker News
331 points154 comments22d ago
J#54
OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow JevHacker News
328 points233 comments23d ago
B#58
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projectsHacker News
305 points202 comments10d ago
T#63
OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"Hacker News

Later: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/09/openai-fired-researchers-ai-...

279 points182 comments6d ago
T#64
Claude Opus 5.5Hacker News
273 points2 comments23d ago
Z#65
Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the modelHacker News
269 points153 comments9d ago
P#68
I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find itHacker News
260 points126 comments7d ago
J#69
OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese revealsHacker News
256 points257 comments22d ago
R#70
OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM saysHacker News
256 points198 comments21d ago
P#71
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilitiesHacker News
256 points241 comments16d ago
S#72
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude CodeHacker News
250 points162 comments12d ago
M#79
Once Claude can measure something, it can make it fasterHacker News
231 points154 comments22d ago
M#81
Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News postsHacker News

Hi HN, I’m Per, founder of Scrimba (YC S20). We’ve spent the last decade teaching people how to code with an HTML-based video format. We’ve now plugged an LLM into it, so that people can create explainer videos about anything. It’s called “Scrimba Explain”. To

225 points97 comments17d ago
C#83
OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'Hacker News
221 points209 comments22d ago
D#85
FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risksHacker News
211 points162 comments14d ago
M#86
Prompting Claude Opus 5.5Hacker News
207 points227 comments17d ago
C#89
SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]Hacker News
197 points106 comments18d ago
M#91
OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and MathematicsHacker News
192 points291 comments7d ago
S#97
Claude partial outageHacker News
171 points152 comments16d ago

30 General

E#1
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horribleHacker News
1902 points962 comments26d ago
O#5
Sharing AI progress in mathematicsHacker News

https://github.com/openai/math https://github.com/openai/math/tree/main/preprints

1334 points1519 comments9d ago
D#8
Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran schoolHacker News
974 points553 comments23d ago
P#17
Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at MetaHacker News
632 points395 comments21d ago
I#19
It's Time to Investigate the AI LabsHacker News
630 points277 comments17d ago
P#21
DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblersHacker News
571 points432 comments16d ago
L#29
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanityHacker News
442 points400 comments17d ago
D#30
A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]Hacker News
426 points140 comments16d ago
A#33
LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidentsHacker News
423 points847 comments12d ago
A#35
The AI Race Just Got AwkwardHacker News
413 points465 comments15d ago
N#37
Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"Hacker News
396 points457 comments22d ago
Z#38
There are no "rogue" AI agentsHacker News
396 points269 comments18d ago
D#39
AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will YouHacker News
388 points554 comments23d ago
Z#40
The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intentHacker News
388 points240 comments17d ago
S#43
Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AIHacker News
374 points383 comments8d ago
E#46
I think you should almost never use AI to writeHacker News
363 points177 comments26d ago
F#48
Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screenHacker News
346 points147 comments6d ago
F#49
OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AIHacker News
345 points401 comments9d ago
J#55
AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep upHacker News
317 points408 comments24d ago
A#57
How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignmentsHacker News
305 points288 comments21d ago
P#60
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until nowHacker News

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11036-y https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07312

289 points154 comments13d ago
J#66
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'Hacker News
268 points3 comments12d ago
S#67
Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.netHacker News
267 points313 comments21d ago
K#74
Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AIHacker News
240 points185 comments9d ago
A#75
macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storageHacker News
240 points123 comments24d ago
A#76
US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cutHacker News
239 points150 comments24d ago
R#77
AI and the Destruction of the Creative CommonsHacker News
236 points282 comments25d ago
J#80
Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agentHacker News
230 points299 comments17d ago
B#82
AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boomHacker News
222 points335 comments16d ago
Y#84
'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells usHacker News
216 points324 comments21d ago

Ten AI-related searches over the last three weeks, filtered to stories above fifteen points, de-duplicated and ranked by score.