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.

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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 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=49927754

Mike 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