--- title: "Archived daily edition · Daily Diff" --- [Daily edition](/?appearance=dark)[Hot now](/hot?appearance=dark) # Archived daily edition [Archive](/archive?limit=20&appearance=dark) / 2026-10-29 [Top 10](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-29&limit=10&q=&appearance=dark)[Top 20](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-29&limit=20&q=&appearance=dark)[Above median](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-29&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=dark) Daily ranking · strictly above median 1. 2026-10-29 2. [84](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282766)47 [New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled](https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/the-new-york-times-is-adding-more-ai-features-to-its-cooking-app-and-users-arent-thrilled/) HNniemanlab.org4 hours ago 3. [62](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282865)49 [MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy](https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) HNgithub.com3 hours ago 4. [47](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282538)51 [The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/xreal-aura/) HNblog.google4 hours ago 5. [64](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282650)29 [Get Ready for Touch on Mac](https://developer.apple.com/touch-on-mac/) HNdeveloper.apple.com4 hours ago 6. [20](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281826)38 [AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/ai-execs-may-be-too-out-of-touch-to-build-for-the-general-public/) HNtechcrunch.com5 hours ago 7. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283488)23 [Electronic fibers weave touchscreen into sleeve that survives machine washing](https://www.designboom.com/technology/electronic-fibers-touchscreen-sleeve-machine-washing-national-university-singapore-nus-tural-khudiyev/) HNdesignboom.com2 hours ago 8. [21](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284089)74 [Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B](https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ultra-rich-01-produce-more-carbon-pollution-nearly-half-humanity-while-cashing) HNoxfam.org1 hour ago 9. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282504)11 [Low cholesterol targets cut cardiovascular events by 33%](https://www.empirical.health/blog/lower-ldl-target-ez-pave-trial/) HNempirical.health4 hours ago 10. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283162)9 [Apple's New Touchscreen MacBook Pro Costs Up to $14,549](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/28/new-macbook-pro-maxed-out-cost/) HNmacrumors.com3 hours ago 11. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282826)10 [Elon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks with SpaceX boss](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c63djl148n3eo) HNbbc.com4 hours ago 12. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284329)15 [The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history](https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/28/sport/live-news/game-5-world-series) HNcnn.com43 minutes ago 13. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282693)5 [Maltese-flagged vessel is on route carrying Russian diesel to American ports](https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/2115453977579930062/photo/1) HNtwitter.com4 hours ago 14. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255)77 [Claude Code burns ~15–20% of your tokens on a 3-word status line](https://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce) HNgist.github.com53 minutes ago 15. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283738)8 [EU tells countries to make plans to cope with 3C of global warming](https://www.ft.com/content/9640cae1-98bb-4509-adb1-729ca6a5f2a8) HNft.com2 hours ago 16. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283932)5 [a](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/what-robinhoods-cfo-found-interesting-about-anthropics-ipo-prospectus-223910657.html) HNfinance.yahoo.com1 hour ago 17. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284342)5 [Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action for real estate venture](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/zillow-pay-2125-million-settle-class-action-over-failed-real-estate-venture-2026-10-28/) HNreuters.com39 minutes ago 18. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282648)6 [Trump's Russian Diesel Could End Up in Cuba Instead](https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/How-Trumps-Russian-Diesel-Could-End-Up-in-Cuba-Instead.html) HNoilprice.com4 hours ago 19. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283624)5 [The campaign to push the Northstar browser into Linux distributions](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102738/e124c97f934a717e/) HNlwn.net2 hours ago 20. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282786)5 [Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1018676/data-center-midterm-election-energy-water-texas) HNtheverge.com4 hours ago 21. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50278335)5 [Ask HN: What happened to our collective ethos?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50278335) HNnews.ycombinator.com10 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=dark) 22. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276913)5 [Show HN: Homi, open decision model for audio, near Flash on MMSU and 50x cheaper](https://github.com/egma-ai/homi/) HNgithub.com11 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 23. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267720)11 [OEIS sequence A400000: The city-building sequence](https://oeis.org/A400000) HNoeis.org1 day ago 24. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269260)9 [U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Confirms China's Spaceplane](https://www.twz.com/news-features/u-s-intel-confirms-this-is-chinas-secret-spaceplane) HNtwz.com1 day ago 25. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267368)11 [Zen: System-wide open source ad-blocker for Windows, macOS, and Linux](https://irbis.sh/zen) HNirbis.sh1 day ago 26. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269746)6 [Satellites show some of the strongest evidence the AMOC is weakening](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2595629-satellites-show-some-of-the-strongest-evidence-the-amoc-is-weakening/) HNnewscientist.com22 hours ago 27. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/wdibp8)5 [Precedence levels are dead; long live precedence sets](https://www.corsix.org/content/precedence-levels-are-dead) LBcorsix.org1 day ago[zig](/search?q=zig&appearance=dark) 28. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267680)7 [Show HN: Guess what frontier LLMs do in a repeated prisoner's dilemma](https://thenunchiproject.com/game/ai-decides) HNthenunchiproject.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 29. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269855)6 [Exiled Brazilian political opponent's desperate run for the US through Argentina](https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/27/americas/flavio-bolsonaro-brazil-passports-latam-intl) HNcnn.com22 hours ago 30. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265225)5 [Anduril Partners with Qualcomm to Build Laptops on US Soil](https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/military-drone-outfit-anduril-partners-with-qualcomm-to-build-laptops-on-us-soil-with-new-bluechip-venture-defense-contractor-targets-a-100-percent-domestic-supply-chain-in-the-future) HNtomshardware.com1 day ago 31. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268919)7 [Show HN: The New Way to Make AI UGC Ads in 2026](https://www.aivideosugc.com/ai-video-generation) HNaivideosugc.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 32. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268522)5 [Diary of a CEO: Mark Cuban Interview \[video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VTSAs4Rsck) HNyoutube.com1 day ago 33. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269272)6 [Harold Blauer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Blauer) HNen.wikipedia.org1 day ago 34. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269136)6 [Don't anthropomorphize big tech companies](https://www.seangoedecke.com/dont-anthropomorphize-big-tech-companies/) HNseangoedecke.com1 day ago 35. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267927)8 [Ukraine is arming war robots with grenade launchers to hit the Russians](https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-robots-use-grenade-launchers-to-fire-without-risking-soldiers-2026-10) HNbusinessinsider.com1 day ago 36. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268020)5 [Plex "laid off the player team" what is the industry doing to developers?](https://samueleast.co.uk/playground/laid-off-from-plex-60-days-in) HNsamueleast.co.uk1 day ago 37. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268662)5 [Writing AI agents in YAML instead of Python](https://codecut.ai/build-ai-agents-yaml-docker-agent/) HNcodecut.ai1 day ago 38. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264076)9 [Nook: A terminal Markdown editor where the cursor never moves](https://github.com/simone20a/Nook) HNgithub.com1 day ago 39. [13](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256342)7 [Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256342) HNnews.ycombinator.com1 day ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=dark) 40. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261492)6 [Show HN: Freightfloor. Have 3 minutes? Drive a forklift vs. AI](https://freightfloor.com/) HNfreightfloor.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 41. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266458)7 [DHS Rejects Oversight Recommendation for ICE Body Cam Auto-Activation](https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/27/dhs-rejects-oversight-recommendation-for-ice-body-cam-auto-activation/) HNtechdirt.com1 day ago 42. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267947)5 [A New Dwarf Planet (Probably) Spotted Beyond Pluto](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/science/space/new-dwarf-planet-beyond-pluto.html) HNnytimes.com1 day ago 43. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267802)6 [Nice Little Satellite You Got Here. Shame If Anything Were to Happen to It](https://streetwiseprofessor.com/nice-little-satellite-you-got-here-shame-if-anything-were-to-happen-to-it/) HNstreetwiseprofessor.com1 day ago 44. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266956)5 [An illustrated online book on Hewlett-Packard equipment](https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/27/an-illustrated-online-book-on-hewlett-packard-equipment/) HNblog.adafruit.com1 day ago 45. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240041)42 [Rosettes and Other Hidden Traces of Hamburg's Tram](https://alsterrunde.com/rosettes-and-other-hidden-traces-of-hamburgs-tram/) HNalsterrunde.com2 days ago 46. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264374)6 [Show HN: Tar-minefield shows where tar implementations disagree](https://stoppels.ch/tar/) HNstoppels.ch1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 47. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244929)26 [Nixpkgs for the Front End Impaired](https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/12/nixpkgs-for-the-frontend-impaired) HNfzakaria.com2 days ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 7 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/4jfegi "11 points") 48. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267380)5 [Historical Scientific Instruments](https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/historical-scientific-instruments) HNnealstephenson.substack.com1 day ago 49. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267373)5 [Show HN: Aqueous Archive Format](https://github.com/lifthrasiir/aqueous/) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 50. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266429)6 [Stripe Pay](https://docs.stripe.com/cli/pay) HNdocs.stripe.com1 day ago 51. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266408)6 [Linux 7.4 Introduces DMA-BUF Support to I/O Path with IO\_uring](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DMA-BUF-IO-uring-Linux-7.4) HNphoronix.com1 day ago 52. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50262753)7 [Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop](https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1019274/anduril-qualcomm-bluechip-laptops-american-made-military) HNtheverge.com1 day ago 53. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265147)5 [Hacking attempts against US Federal Election Commission system triggered outage](https://www.reuters.com/technology/hacker-trying-breach-us-federal-election-commission-system-email-shows-2026-10-27/) HNreuters.com1 day ago 54. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264920)5 [Anthropic IPO might kick off tech reset if the AI stock underperforms](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/anthropic-ipo-might-trigger-tech-reset-if-ipo-underperforms.html) HNcnbc.com1 day ago 55. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/n92yur)5 [Keyless Entry: Hacking SwitchBot Smart Locks](https://neodyme.io/en/blog/switchbot) LBneodyme.io1 day ago[cryptography](/search?q=cryptography&appearance=dark) 56. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261776)6 [Show HN: Duotone icon library with 2.5k+ icons and 250 flags, RTL aware](https://github.com/andrsrxn/icons) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 57. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50262407)8 [Show HN: Agent-relay for multi-vendor coding sessions](https://github.com/saranyan/agent-relay) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 58. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264716)6 [Single-File Web Apps](https://gods.art/articles/single_file_web_apps) HNgods.art1 day ago 59. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264163)6 [Necro-Economics Eyal Weizman](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264163) HNnews.ycombinator.com1 day ago 60. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258875)10 [Show HN: Markdown is 40× more token-efficient with SQLite](https://www.withnative.ai/research-and-posts/markdown-context-benchmark) HNwithnative.ai1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 61. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257116)5 [Ask HN: Has anyone used Phoenix, Langfuse, or OpenObserve?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257116) HNnews.ycombinator.com1 day ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=dark) 62. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/vqlcdk)8 [Cuis Smalltalk](https://cuis.st/) LBcuis.st2 days ago[plt](/search?q=plt&appearance=dark) 63. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256532)8 [Trump admin cuts to satellites will set back US weather forecasting by a decade](https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/weather/trump-satellites-extreme-weather-forecast-future-set-back) HNcnn.com1 day ago 64. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260323)6 [Anduril and Qualcomm Unveil BlueChip to Rebuild American Computer Manufacturing](https://www.anduril.com/news/anduril-and-qualcomm-unveil-bluechip-to-rebuild-american-computer-manufacturing) HNanduril.com1 day ago 65. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261372)5 [Infisical raises $40M Series B led by Elad Gil](https://infisical.com/blog/series-b) HNinfisical.com1 day ago 66. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253172)13 [Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, dies aged 90](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv0ldjzg9xppo) HNbbc.com2 days ago 67. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259567)6 [Show HN: Egres: A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads](https://manishrjain.com/egres/) HNmanishrjain.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 68. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261070)5 [GPT-6.1 Terra's price cut, recomputed for a cache-heavy agent session](https://theainewsreport.com/2026-10-27-gpt-6-1-terra-pricing-agent-cost-explained.html) HNtheainewsreport.com1 day ago 69. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256433)5 [Tell HN: Last night, I had a dream](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256433) HNnews.ycombinator.com1 day ago 70. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256421)6 [Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Reviewers found a race](https://thenewstack.io/torvalds-claude-code-kernel/) HNthenewstack.io1 day ago 71. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260969)5 [Show HN: Sectr – Serverless backend platform for easy deployment of AI agents](https://sectr.dev/) HNsectr.dev1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 72. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257997)7 [Show HN: Tiny Tube – A self hosted video sharing server in a single Go binary](https://github.com/spapas/tiny-tube) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark)