10.3.26 | Court rules Utah's VPN law impossible, Mike Tomlin built Minecraft city, Apple Pass Designer

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 3, 2026 · 12m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 3, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

(01:31) - Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

(02:25) - Apple Pass Designer

(03:39) - FLUX 3 Image

(05:02) - Extra Big Ass Intelligence

(05:54) - A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

(07:00) - The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

(08:26) - Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint…