--- 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. [211](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255)523 [Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model](https://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce) HNgist.github.com12 hours ago 3. [118](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418)464 [We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/) HNmistral.ai2 hours ago 4. [233](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288867)344 [‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html) HNnytimes.com2 hours ago 5. [208](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288019)268 [Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5](https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-carbon-new-number-1) HNartificialanalysis.ai3 hours ago 6. [138](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285452)253 [Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS](https://smsofdeath.com/) HNsmsofdeath.com9 hours ago 7. [141](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287001)221 [The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months](https://electrek.co/2026/08/31/the-us-added-a-record-20-2-gwh-of-battery-storage-in-just-3-months/) HNelectrek.co5 hours ago 8. [302](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287919)171 [DoorDash to Acquire Instacart](https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart) HNabout.doordash.com3 hours ago 9. [118](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287448)158 [Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)](https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html) HNpublicpolicy.googleblog.com4 hours ago 10. [127](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287775)137 [If IPv4 Were Land](https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land) HNiptrust.co4 hours ago 11. [98](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287359)116 [An Urgent Message on Artificial Intelligence from the Kogui People](https://sonidoselva.com/perspectiva-kogui) HNsonidoselva.com5 hours ago 12. [39](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287898)184 [Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees](https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6021497) HNtext.npr.org3 hours ago 13. [212](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285714)95 [Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027](https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-keeps-dst-until-nov-2027.html) HNtimeanddate.com8 hours ago 14. [59](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290170)103 [Finland investigate Google over destruction of 250k trees](https://yle.fi/a/74-20254086) HNyle.fi1 hour ago 15. [62](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286987)132 [Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers](https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers) HNdreamgroup.com5 hours ago 16. [82](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287599)94 [NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto](https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117518160563539748) HNmastodon.sdf.org4 hours ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 13 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/m6fw0x "16 points") 17. [48](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284089)97 [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.org13 hours ago 18. [56](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284329)87 [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.com12 hours ago 19. [66](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281826)87 [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.com18 hours ago 20. [106](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285154)58 [We Won't "Just Hang Out"](https://borretti.me/article/we-wont-just-hang-out) HNborretti.me10 hours ago 21. [8](https://lobste.rs/s/7qaac6)37 [What the fox say?](https://entropicthoughts.com/what-the-fox-say) LBentropicthoughts.com9 hours ago[games](/search?q=games&appearance=dark) 22. [59](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282538)72 [The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/xreal-aura/) HNblog.google16 hours ago 23. [104](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282766)56 [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.org16 hours ago 24. [71](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282865)55 [MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy](https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) HNgithub.com16 hours ago 25. [82](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286197)41 [Spain train crash: What we know after two trains crashed with dozens feared dead](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo) HNbbc.com7 hours ago 26. [44](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287255)38 [Show HN: UK Farming Simulator](https://butterbean.farm/) HNbutterbean.farm5 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 27. [15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290283)49 [Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from](https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats) HNtrakkr.ai1 hour ago 28. [16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284342)54 [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.com12 hours ago 29. [70](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282650)32 [Get Ready for Touch on Mac](https://developer.apple.com/touch-on-mac/) HNdeveloper.apple.com16 hours ago 30. [22](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286738)36 [I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here's What Happened](https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-generated-scientific-papers) HNspectrum.ieee.org6 hours ago 31. [9](https://lobste.rs/s/eccbci)9 [Shared password manager for families?](https://lobste.rs/s/eccbci) LBlobste.rs1 hour ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=dark) 32. [17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259697)83 [MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark](https://dmux.github.io/minilake/) HNdmux.github.io2 days ago 33. [2](https://lobste.rs/s/jmbjlu)17 [The Future Trait Has A Missing State](https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/the-future-trait-has-a-missing-state) LBblog.yoshuawuyts.com12 hours ago[rust](/search?q=rust&appearance=dark) 34. [16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289692)32 [Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning](https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/) HN404media.co2 hours ago 35. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283488)38 [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.com14 hours ago 36. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/brdwr2)16 [Redox Ring Buffers Project Summary](https://www.redox-os.org/news/nlnet-rb-summary/) LBredox-os.org14 hours ago[osdev](/search?q=osdev&appearance=dark) 37. [11](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289321)20 [US economy beats forecasts to grow at 3.4% rate in third quarter](https://www.ft.com/content/f2de9f3c-3290-4e87-bbc2-55430025f2ab) HNft.com2 hours ago 38. [8](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290042)16 [React.lazy, Suspense and the Hidden 300 ms Delay](https://tabwidgets.com/blog/react-lazy-suspense-delay) HNtabwidgets.com1 hour ago 39. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289590)21 [Keplearn: Extract Equations from Data in Seconds](https://github.com/owls-on-wires/keplearn) HNgithub.com2 hours ago 40. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289163)16 [Sorry Harvey! I Made a Free Open-Source Alternative to Your Overpriced Legal AI](https://sorryharvey.com/) HNsorryharvey.com2 hours ago 41. [13](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282504)20 [Low cholesterol targets cut cardiovascular events by 33%](https://www.empirical.health/blog/lower-ldl-target-ez-pave-trial/) HNempirical.health16 hours ago 42. [29](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285134)10 [Ask HN: I Need Advice](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285134) HNnews.ycombinator.com10 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=dark) 43. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286924)19 [Nvidia Chief Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-jensen-huang-trump.html) HNnytimes.com5 hours ago 44. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290324)11 [MIT professor says AI is taking over your brain](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/23/opinion/ai-impact-cognitive-ability-eric-so/) HNbostonglobe.com1 hour ago 45. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287638)12 [DoorDash to Buy Instacart for $17B, Uniting 2 Delivery Giants](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/technology/doordash-instacart-acquisition-delivery.html) HNnytimes.com4 hours ago 46. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289646)8 [US computer science enrollment drops 18% in two years](https://nscresearchcenter.org/prelim-fall-enrollment-trends/) HNnscresearchcenter.org2 hours ago 47. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287647)15 [CVE-2026-98432: 9.8 CVE affecting all Ubuntu versions](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-98432) HNubuntu.com4 hours ago 48. [8](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288662)5 [Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288662) HNnews.ycombinator.com3 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=dark) 49. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286737)16 [Residential proxy sourcing and consent: Q&A with Massive's CEO](https://www.reddit.com/r/WebScrapingInsider/comments/1xf9hdj/where_do_residential_proxies_really_come_from_ama/) HNreddit.com6 hours ago 50. [9](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271756)25 [TLP Is Not a Suggestion](https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/tlp-is-not-a-suggestion) HNakamai.com1 day ago 51. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291054)27 [H.264 Is Magic](https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/) HNsidbala.com37 minutes ago 52. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288172)10 [Show HN: Pidgeon – Email inboxes for AI agents](https://pidgeon.ai/) HNpidgeon.ai3 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 53. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286306)14 [Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286306) HNnews.ycombinator.com7 hours ago 54. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290912)10 [Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks](https://skypilot.ai/blog/grace-blackwell-needs-a-new-scheduler) HNskypilot.ai45 minutes ago 55. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289514)8 [Show, don't prompt: how QA Wolf turns a recording into a real test](https://www.qawolf.com/blog/how-qa-wolf-turns-a-recording-into-a-real-test) HNqawolf.com2 hours ago 56. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/ssp7ug)9 [Introducing the Accessible Components Library](https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/10/14/accessible-components-library/) LBtetralogical.com16 hours ago[a11y](/search?q=a11y&appearance=dark) 57. [11](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290668)31 [Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy in the U.S.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/10/27/i-saw-future-driving-mexico-its-off-limits-americans/) HNwashingtonpost.com1 hour ago 58. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287015)9 [FAT32 File-System Seeing as Much as 265x Improvement with Linux 7.4](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Faster-FAT32) HNphoronix.com5 hours ago 59. [33](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289162)35 [Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?](https://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/good-devs-wary.html) HNmartinfowler.com2 hours ago 60. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288716)5 [SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that's a problem for America's space agency](https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/spacex-no-longer-needs-nasa-and-thats-a-problem-for-americas-space-agency/) HNarstechnica.com3 hours ago 61. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286949)7 [Show HN: I got tired of travel spreadsheets so I made a travel planner app](https://www.wherewhen.cc/) HNwherewhen.cc5 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 62. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291116)8 [Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291116) HNnews.ycombinator.com34 minutes ago 63. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284849)7 [Ask HN: Why big LLMs use "it's not A, it is B" pattern? Shared dataset supplier?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284849) HNnews.ycombinator.com11 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=dark) 64. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288594)7 [A Subexponential Time Algorithm for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm](https://github.com/bochum-crypto/subexponential-ecdl) HNgithub.com3 hours ago 65. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288049)6 [Manufacturing the Great Replacement](https://twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/2115726760717238312) HNtwitter.com3 hours ago 66. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282826)14 [Elon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks with SpaceX boss](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c63djl148n3eo) HNbbc.com16 hours ago 67. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290043)5 [Speeding up eBPF filepath checks](https://neilnaveen.dev/posts/speeding-up-ebpf-filepath-checks/) HNneilnaveen.dev1 hour ago 68. [5](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.com15 hours ago 69. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287724)5 [AI recommends more expensive treatment than physicians, analysis suggests](https://www.bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026-101271) HNbmj.com4 hours ago 70. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287932)6 [HSBC Seeks to Hedge Data Center Debt with Credit Risk Insurance](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-29/hsbc-seeks-to-hedge-data-center-debt-with-credit-risk-insurance) HNbloomberg.com3 hours ago 71. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289017)5 [Trump administration will allow pharmacies to make popular peptides](https://www.npr.org/2026/10/28/nx-s1-6021030/peptides-compounding-enforcement) HNnpr.org2 hours ago 72. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284996)11 [Show HN: Uji – Gentoo of Coding Agents](https://github.com/uji-labs/uji) HNgithub.com10 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 73. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286789)5 [Em dashes on Reddit have become 10 times more popular in a few years](https://kissmypost.com/research/em-dash-chatgpt-reddit) HNkissmypost.com6 hours ago 74. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286844)7 [Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead](https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/28/anthropic-engineer-declares-the-coding-interview-dead/5306115) HNtheregister.com6 hours ago 75. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283738)13 [EU tells countries to make plans to cope with 3C of global warming](https://www.ft.com/content/9640cae1-98bb-4509-adb1-729ca6a5f2a8) HNft.com14 hours ago 76. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283667)12 [The Beleaguered Chip Sellers Getting Their Revenge on Apple](https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-memory-chips-ai-c0084cc9) HNwsj.com14 hours ago 77. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284628)9 [Point system Claude uses to ban accounts](https://twitter.com/make_claude/status/2115501814090969583) HNtwitter.com11 hours ago 78. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286438)5 [Logs Ingestion Benchmark: Loki, Elasticsearch, VictoriaLogs and ClickHouse](https://victoriametrics.com/blog/structured-log-ingestion-benchmark/index.html) HNvictoriametrics.com7 hours ago 79. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286340)5 [Billionaires shatter spending record to fight California wealth tax](https://www.politico.eu/article/billionaires-shatter-spending-record-to-fight-california-wealth-tax/) HNpolitico.eu7 hours ago 80. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285137)7 [Getting good at AI takes time and practice](https://www.seangoedecke.com/getting-good-at-ai-takes-time-and-practice/) HNseangoedecke.com10 hours ago 81. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284893)5 [Tech Giants Ramp Up Resistance to ICE in Bid to Avoid Democratic Scrutiny](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/google-meta-ice-midterms-e6f2a6c4) HNwsj.com11 hours ago 82. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281226)7 [Show HN: Full Python 3.15 Implemented in 25k LoC C11](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281226) HNnews.ycombinator.com18 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 83. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282693)6 [Maltese-flagged vessel is on route carrying Russian diesel to American ports](https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/2115453977579930062/photo/1) HNtwitter.com16 hours ago 84. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285197)6 [Show HN: A malleable and formally verified Web engine](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285197) HNnews.ycombinator.com10 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 85. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283932)6 [a](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/what-robinhoods-cfo-found-interesting-about-anthropics-ipo-prospectus-223910657.html) HNfinance.yahoo.com13 hours ago 86. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284856)5 [Show HN: Fabivo – Furniture design from a photo to a numbered cut list](https://www.fabivo.app/en) HNfabivo.app11 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 87. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284702)5 [AI Chatbots Are Building an 'Algorithmic Self-Portrait' of You](https://gizmodo.com/ai-chatbots-are-building-an-algorithmic-self-portrait-of-you-2000775529) HNgizmodo.com11 hours ago 88. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284080)5 [America waged war on drunk driving, now a new epidemic is taking hold](https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/drugged-driving-epidemic/) HNsfchronicle.com13 hours ago 89. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282648)7 [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.com16 hours ago 90. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284566)5 [Ultrasound creates a tube that guides matter through the air](https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/energy/ultrasound-creates-tube-guides-matter-through-air) HNhelsinki.fi12 hours ago 91. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280120)5 [Show HN: A visual map of related food dishes from around the world](https://tangledtaste.com/) HNtangledtaste.com20 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark)