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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(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 canvas

(09:34) - Sites in ChatGPT

(10:57) - Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers

(12:11) - Outro

Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927754Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7648198/2026/10/01/mike-tomlin-minecraft-nfl-coach/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925184 Apple Pass Designer https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937276 FLUX 3 Image https://bfl.ai/models/flux-3-image https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925974 Extra Big Ass Intelligence https://www.extrabigassintelligence.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941114 A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932147 The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf] https://gwern.net/doc/math/1973-halmos.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933235 Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas https://stillwet.art/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928566 Sites in ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/features/sites/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927747 Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers https://erictopol.substack.com/p/loss-of-cell-identity-drives-human https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926411