--- title: "Archived daily edition · Daily Diff" --- [Daily edition](/?appearance=dark)[Hot now](/hot?appearance=dark) # Archived daily edition [Archive](/archive?limit=20&appearance=dark) / 2026-11-01 [Top 10](/archive/edition?date=2026-11-01&limit=10&q=&appearance=dark)[Top 20](/archive/edition?date=2026-11-01&limit=20&q=&appearance=dark)[Above median](/archive/edition?date=2026-11-01&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=dark) Daily ranking · strictly above median 1. 2026-11-01 2. [1](https://programming.dev/post/58794522)9 [You can’t find 10x developers, but you can build 10x organizations](https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/you-cant-find-10x-developers) PDnewsletter.getdx.com3 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=dark) 3. [0](https://programming.dev/post/58798877)5 [Developer builds a complete Intel 486 PC emulator in a browser — 100% pure-JavaScript Retro486 includes modular tabs for screen, motherboard, storage, expansion cards, and more](https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/developer-builds-a-complete-intel-486-pc-emulator-in-a-browser-100-percent-pure-javascript-retro486-includes-modular-tabs-for-screen-motherboard-storage-expansion-cards-and-more) PDtomshardware.com57 minutes ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=dark) 4. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321462)10 [Smear Campaign Towards GrapheneOS](https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117537776055163844) HNgrapheneos.social1 hour ago 5. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/1abkzu)5 [Speeding up GPU copies by permuting iteration spaces, or, optimising the identity function](https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-10-31-faster-copying.html) LBfuthark-lang.org8 hours ago[compilers](/search?q=compilers&appearance=dark) 6. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321310)5 [OpenAI's blow to mathematicians: They have annihilated my field of research](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2026/10/12/openai-s-latest-blow-to-mathematicians-they-have-annihilated-my-field-of-research_6758515_10.html) HNlemonde.fr2 hours ago 7. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321499)5 [Donnie Darko: A Mind-Twisting Cult Classic Turns 25](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/movies/donnie-darko-oral-history-25-year-anniversary.html) HNnytimes.com1 hour ago 8. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321629)5 [Wikimedia Foundation Tries to Save Itself by Brokering AI Copyright Deal](https://gizmodo.com/wikimedia-foundation-tries-to-save-itself-from-oblivion-by-brokering-ai-copyright-deal-2000833099) HNgizmodo.com1 hour ago 9. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321373)5 [Work Requirements for Trick-or-Treaters](https://morewrong.lol/?post=work-requirements-trick-or-treaters) HNmorewrong.lol2 hours ago 10. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311045)20 [Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020](https://maketecheasier.com/arecibo-zinc-creep-collapse/) HNmaketecheasier.com1 day ago 11. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313542)5 [Language Models Need Sleep: Learning to Self-Modify and Consolidate Memories](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03979) HNarxiv.org19 hours ago 12. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312408)6 [Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault](http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html) HNrhaas.blogspot.com1 day ago 13. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312228)5 [PFsense at 20. Plus and CE unified. Offline upgrades free.](https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-at-20) HNnetgate.com1 day ago 14. [3](https://lobste.rs/s/vfllme)13 [Nim version 2.4.0 released](https://nim-lang.org/blog/2026/10/28/nim-240.html) LBnim-lang.org2 days ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=dark) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 5 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276055 "12 points") 15. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311672)7 [Googling Firebase got me a phishing page hosted by Google](https://volodymyr.smirnov.im/writing/google-firebase-phishing/) HNvolodymyr.smirnov.im1 day ago 16. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309847)5 [Is There More to Cold Fusion Than Failure and Fraud?](https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-there-more-to-cold-fusion-than-failure-and-fraud-20261030/) HNquantamagazine.org1 day ago 17. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312074)5 [Arcan: A Farewell to Hubs](https://arcan-fe.com/2026/10/23/a-farewell-to-hubs/) HNarcan-fe.com1 day ago 18. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/paqtgw)5 [Smart audio for the smart home (2021)](https://computer.rip/2021-11-06-smart-audio-for-the-smart-home.html) LBcomputer.rip1 day ago[historical](/search?q=historical&appearance=dark) 19. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301178)18 [5 years of OqtaDrive: Microdrive emulation to Sinclair Network over the internet](https://oqtadrive.org/10.other/5-years/) HNoqtadrive.org1 day ago 20. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310929)5 [Google's $500B bloodbath reflects the danger it faces from AI](https://www.economist.com/business/2026/10/29/googles-500bn-bloodbath-reflects-the-danger-it-faces-from-ai) HNeconomist.com1 day ago 21. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312426)5 [The Harness and Memory Architecture Behind Self-Updating Docs](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/harness-and-memory-architecture-behind-self-updating-docs) HNmintlify.com1 day ago 22. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311844)6 [Black October: At least nine AI developer platforms breached this month](https://www.wiz.io/blog/black-october-for-ai-developer-platforms) HNwiz.io1 day ago 23. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306292)5 [Dan Bailey of Father John Misty Talks about Patrick Stewart](https://www.threads.com/@drichardbailey/post/DfGyTA3G9MS) HNthreads.com1 day ago 24. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311188)5 [The N64's GPU Is a Technical Marvel \[video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEoRgQH08MA) HNyoutube.com1 day ago 25. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304437)8 [Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era](https://www.404media.co/apple-is-entering-its-slop-era/) HN404media.co1 day ago 26. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310311)5 [OpenAI's latest discoveries spark a backlash and Help My kid hates AI](https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6022556) HNtext.npr.org1 day ago 27. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307196)5 [Chasing the Karpathy Peak (and Falling Off Slop Cliff)](https://thomasjiralerspong.substack.com/p/chasing-the-karpathy-peak) HNthomasjiralerspong.substack.com1 day ago 28. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307005)6 [Show HN: Deckdrill – Pimsleur-style audio drills from Anki decks, in your voice](https://www.deckdrill.app/) HNdeckdrill.app1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 29. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301723)18 [Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/scientists-recreate-the-1600-year-old-recipe-of-lycurgus-cup/) HNarstechnica.com1 day ago 30. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301636)8 [Europe plans to squeeze out Starlink](https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-telecom-giants-team-up-against-starlink/) HNpolitico.eu1 day ago 31. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309258)5 [3D-printed, alcohol-powered, Einstein-Szilard absorption refrigerator \[video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZ5e4YVdEs) HNyoutube.com1 day ago 32. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307568)5 [Show HN: Prompt – A New, Beautiful Terminal](https://github.com/paul-oms/prompt) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 33. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304314)5 [Legal exploits may emerge at scale](https://www.felixringe.com/legal-exploits/) HNfelixringe.com1 day ago 34. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308935)5 [Show HN: Rust based window switcher for macOS](https://alt-tabr.com/) HNalt-tabr.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 35. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307060)5 [Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307060) HNnews.ycombinator.com1 day ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=dark) 36. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300049)13 [Radio-in-a-box: Self-hosted internet radio with Icecast, Liquidsoap and Rust CLI](https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/radio-in-a-box) HNgithub.com1 day ago 37. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308262)5 [Hamburg 1:1 in Minecraft](https://github.com/lukad/hamburg-in-minecraft) HNgithub.com1 day ago 38. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304393)8 [Ghostly Cat's Head Nebula Lurks Within Sight of NASA's Hubble, Webb](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/ghostly-cats-head-nebula-lurks-within-sight-of-nasas-hubble-webb/) HNscience.nasa.gov1 day ago 39. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300097)9 [A Claude Code agent's test escaped into my Mac. I only noticed because it talked](https://www.marutpandya.com/posts/2026/10/my-mac-started-reading-json-aloud/) HNmarutpandya.com1 day ago 40. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307885)5 [Giant eagles once ruled the skies](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261028-predatory-birds-the-size-of-a-small-aircraft-once-flocked-the-skies-some-of-them-ate-humans) HNbbc.com1 day ago 41. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307597)5 [MecAgent (AI agent for SolidWorks) scans drives for CAD files and uploads them](https://www.reddit.com/r/SolidWorks/comments/1xjhrvz/psa_mecagent_ai_agent_for_solidworks_scans_your/) HNreddit.com1 day ago 42. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297787)10 [Reddit shares drop and it plans login requirement as search traffic sinks](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/29/reddit-rddt-q3-2026.html) HNcnbc.com2 days ago 43. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303279)6 [Show HN: What research is your code standing on?](https://lacuna.tiptreesystems.com/standing-on) HNlacuna.tiptreesystems.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 44. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303280)6 [Show HN: Showbuild – Hacker News but only for builders](https://showbuild.co/) HNshowbuild.co1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 45. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304187)5 [Autonomous drone chases a person through a forest without GPS, maps, or cloud](https://www.techspot.com/news/114361-watch-autonomous-drone-chase-person-through-forest-without.html) HNtechspot.com1 day ago 46. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304435)6 [A computer scientist breaks through a limit that stood since 1996](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261029072146.htm) HNsciencedaily.com1 day ago 47. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299578)16 [Rhind Mathematical Papyrus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus) HNen.wikipedia.org1 day ago 48. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301410)5 [Is it possible to build a direct democracy for one's country using GitHub?](https://github.com/jaenyf/odd) HNgithub.com1 day ago 49. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303971)6 [Top House Democrats demand Trump preserve conversations with Grok](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/29/trump-democrats-grok-oversight-01140089) HNpolitico.com1 day ago 50. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301822)6 [Simon Tatham: I often find typos cognitively fascinating](https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/117529047077355923) HNhachyderm.io1 day ago 51. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298799)8 [Six popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261028234238.htm) HNsciencedaily.com2 days ago 52. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299285)9 [Reddit to Transition to Logged in Only](https://www.axios.com/2026/10/29/reddit-logged-in-ai-search-incognito) HNaxios.com1 day ago 53. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303105)6 [When Federico Faggin Left Intel](https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-federico-faggin-left-intel/) HNdfarq.homeip.net1 day ago 54. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303984)5 [Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother](https://blog.zamzar.com/2026/10/30/20-years-766-million-files-two-chameleons/) HNblog.zamzar.com1 day ago 55. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302236)7 [India Saved Its Tigers](https://altermag.com/articles/how-india-actually-saved-its-tigers) HNaltermag.com1 day ago 56. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302575)5 [Google Faces Criminal Probe over 816 Acres Cleared for Finnish AI Data Center](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/criminal-investigation-launched-into-googles-ai-data-center-deforestation-in-finland-local-police-act-over-multiple-complaints-about-breaches-of-environmental-law) HNtomshardware.com1 day ago 57. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303013)5 [AI is letting anyone reverse engineer anything. We talked to the developer](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-exclusive-conversation-with-the-developer-of-rea-the-viral-ai-reverse-engineering-tool/) HNscientificamerican.com1 day ago 58. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302330)6 [The Authoritarian Stack](https://authoritarian-stack.info/) HNauthoritarian-stack.info1 day ago 59. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302257)6 [Dockworkers at more than 100 ports worldwide strike against arms shipments](https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/dockworkers-more-than-100-ports-strike-against-arms-shipments-friday-2026-10-29/) HNreuters.com1 day ago 60. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302703)5 [Ginux: Independent rust based Linux implementation](https://github.com/gmkurtzer/ginux) HNgithub.com1 day ago 61. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302688)5 [Senators Demand Meta Answer for 'Pervert Glasses'](https://www.404media.co/senators-wyden-markey-letter-to-meta-smart-glasses/) HN404media.co1 day ago 62. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302503)5 [Babies Are Catching Measles in Utero for the First Time in Decades](https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/10/congenital-measles-birth-pennsylvania/689214/) HNtheatlantic.com1 day ago 63. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296688)14 [The Illusion of Thinking: Models Don't Actually Reason](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06941) HNarxiv.org2 days ago 64. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300569)7 [Electrocutions, disease, no pay: workers risk exploitation in Europe datacentres](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/30/electrocutions-disease-and-no-pay-how-workers-risk-exploitation-in-europes-datacentres) HNtheguardian.com1 day ago 65. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301537)5 [Mistral 4 had a release, makes it comparable to Chinese open-weight models](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/mistral-ceo-says-new-ai-model-beats-chinese-ones-some-areas-2026-10-06/) HNreuters.com1 day ago 66. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298988)9 [Show HN: Tiberava – My Game is growing](https://tiberava.online/) HNtiberava.online1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 67. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300979)7 [Binance hot wallet signed 50 EIP-7702 delegations 3 minutes before the drain](https://808bits.com/articles/binance-hot-wallet-eip-7702-delegations/) HN808bits.com1 day ago 68. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298738)12 [Show HN: Arken – Passwordless auth middleware using secp256k1 keys](https://github.com/zacharybenson/arken-protocol) HNgithub.com2 days ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=dark) 69. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289991)21 [Configure a UPS on Linux with NUT](https://linuxjunkies.org/guides/configure-a-ups-with-nut) HNlinuxjunkies.org2 days ago 70. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298017)10 [Meta discussed 'whisper strategy' against social media critic Jonathan Haidt](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/29/meta-staff-us-social-media-critic-jonathan-haidt-court-documents) HNtheguardian.com2 days ago 71. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298397)9 [Sudo](https://sudo.com/) HNsudo.com2 days ago 72. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299796)5 [Sam Altman: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/boucetta-abderahmane_sam-altman-local-inference-is-a-terrible-activity-7521718579914981376-WZzP) HNlinkedin.com1 day ago 73. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298677)8 [34% of U.S. women under age 50 have iron deficiency under new guidelines](https://www.empirical.health/blog/ferritin-thresholds-iron-deficiency/) HNempirical.health2 days ago 74. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300277)7 [Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute](https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/27/anthropic-now-lets-claude-users-jump-out-of-plane-without-parachute/5305807) HNtheregister.com1 day ago 75. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300687)6 [40-year mystery solved: Common gut virus infects bacteria, not human cells](https://medicine.washu.edu/news/40-year-mystery-solved-common-gut-virus-infects-bacteria-not-human-cells/) HNmedicine.washu.edu1 day ago 76. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298900)6 [New federal rule will require prescription drug middlemen to share payment data](https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/29/prescription-drug-price-reform-pbm-disclosure-rules-face-challenge/) HNstatnews.com2 days ago 77. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300797)5 [Making DNS\_Erlang Fast: Binary Tricks for the Beam](https://blog.dnsimple.com/2026/10/making-dns-erlang-fast/) HNblog.dnsimple.com1 day ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 5 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/p3pruv "26 points") 78. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/i1xogy)5 [QSYRUPWD, Part 2: Correcting the Rijndael Key Builder](https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2026/10/29/qsyrupwd-part-2-correcting-the-rijndael-key-builder/) LBblog.silentsignal.eu2 days ago[cryptography](/search?q=cryptography&appearance=dark)