--- title: Hacker News Trending Tracker | Top HN front-page stories | Xquik description: Read Hacker News front-page stories. Data refreshes every 15 minutes. Explore fresh data with Xquik. Export results through the web app, REST API or MCP server. canonical: https://xquik.com/en/hacker-news-trending language: en last-updated: 2026-10-23 --- # Hacker News Trending Tracker | Top HN front-page stories Top stories on the Hacker News front page Turn trends into engagement Use these Radar results through the Xquik API or MCP server. [Docker is weird](https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird) ▲ 451 · 214 comments 10 hours ago [LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale](https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification) ▲ 342 · 201 comments 11 hours ago [Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you](https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/) ▲ 327 · 84 comments 10 hours ago [Quad9 to exit France](https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/) ▲ 1.2K · 404 comments 19 hours ago [The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)](https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html) ▲ 156 · 97 comments 9 hours ago [eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business](https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business) ▲ 1K · 680 comments 20 hours ago [OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents](https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell) ▲ 391 · 192 comments 16 hours ago [Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans](https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-take-on-humans) ▲ 406 · 415 comments 17 hours ago [Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices](https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel) ▲ 431 · 146 comments 18 hours ago [This I Believe (1952)](https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=468) ▲ 82 · 32 comments 7 hours ago [Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop](https://jank-lang.org/) ▲ 99 · 8 comments 10 hours ago [Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool](https://github.com/maxilevi/project-hedra/tree/pre-ai) ▲ 193 · 34 comments 15 hours ago Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies? ▲ 133 · 111 comments 12 hours ago [Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany](https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-13.html) ▲ 286 · 120 comments 17 hours ago [Railpass](https://train.samismith.com/) ▲ 100 · 23 comments 12 hours ago [How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WHEQps5PK8LrrcTAb/how-does-fable-5-1-hide-messages-in-images) ▲ 77 · 20 comments 12 hours ago Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry. ▲ 546 · 213 comments 23 hours ago [Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/xbox-wants-you-to-pay-24-to-40-cents-per-hour-to-stream-games-you-already-bought/) ▲ 296 · 267 comments 22 hours ago [The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/html-in-canvas-origin-trial) ▲ 38 · 16 comments 14 hours ago [I Did This Without Your Knowledge](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3375SZNGA5dKHQMie/i-did-this-without-your-knowledge) ▲ 13 · 2 comments 4 hours ago [Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key](https://github.com/dsmurrell/onkey) ▲ 48 · 26 comments 19 hours ago [The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01092) ▲ 47 · 4 comments 20 hours ago [Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart](https://github.com/anubhavmalhotra/r2d2-tv) ▲ 14 · 1 comments 9 hours ago [We have traits at home](https://www.axelmagn.com/blog/202610-zig-traits/) ▲ 14 · 2 comments 10 hours ago [Rule 30: one black cell](https://www.wolframcollatzmahler.com/rule30/index.html) ▲ 15 · 3 comments 11 hours ago ## How to use Browse Hacker News stories with points, authors & comment counts. 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