--- title: "Archived daily edition · Daily Diff" --- [Daily edition](/?appearance=light)[Hot now](/hot?appearance=light) # Archived daily edition [Archive](/archive?limit=20&appearance=light) / 2026-10-28 [Top 10](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-28&limit=10&q=&appearance=light)[Top 20](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-28&limit=20&q=&appearance=light)[Above median](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-28&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=light) Daily ranking · strictly above median 1. 2026-10-28 2. [143](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268380)298 [Git for the US Code](https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code) HNlexifina.com9 hours ago 3. [164](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270764)221 [Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale](https://dreamagainusa.org/) HNdreamagainusa.org2 hours ago 4. [61](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266719)86 [Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers](https://felixrieseberg.com/hunger-beats-tenure-advice-for-junior-engineers/) HNfelixrieseberg.com13 hours ago 5. [8](https://lobste.rs/s/cpaibp)46 [This is not sustainable](https://www.netmeister.org/blog/defense-ddos.html) LBnetmeister.org7 hours ago[security](/search?q=security&appearance=light) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 2 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266602 "6 points") 6. [69](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268868)63 [Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5](https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index-v5) HNartificialanalysis.ai8 hours ago 7. [54](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271032)55 [Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision](https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/spain-train-crash-madrid-latest-deaths-victims-807kwv23l) HNthetimes.com2 hours ago 8. [16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267569)76 [Moxnox 1.0: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible OS Running Atop Btrfs](https://github.com/maharmstone/moxnox) HNgithub.com11 hours ago 9. [7](https://programming.dev/post/58621639)9 [Python's experimental JIT to be removed](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/489e41d80e4966aa/) PDlwn.net2 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=light) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 0 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246591 "8 points") 10. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269651)38 [Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0](https://artificialanalysis.ai/methodology/intelligence-benchmarking) HNartificialanalysis.ai6 hours ago 11. [33](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267890)21 ['Forced out': HOA fees to rise to $2,500 a month](https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/forced-out-hoa-fees-rise-7500-month/XCW2HIHUKNBMTNWVQSYXQZJCY4/) HNwsoctv.com11 hours ago 12. [20](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266880)28 [I've used WordPress for 20 years, and I've stopped recommending it](https://hatamoto.dev/post/wordpress-20-years-why-we-built-hatamoto) HNhatamoto.dev13 hours ago 13. [12](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266910)32 [Qwen has alter egos triggered by flipping a single neuron](https://qwen-neurons-site.vercel.app/) HNqwen-neurons-site.vercel.app12 hours ago 14. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/87iesc)15 [Reminder: Lobsters NYC Meetup Tomorrow 5:30 at Walker's](https://lobste.rs/s/87iesc) LBlobste.rs10 hours ago[event](/search?q=event&appearance=light) 15. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/f3jpq3)13 [The next circle of security hell](https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/27/the-next-circle-of-security-hell/) LBblogs.gentoo.org15 hours ago[linux](/search?q=linux&appearance=light) 16. [2](https://lobste.rs/s/smtpje)5 [The Benchmarking Crisis](http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-benchmarking-crisis.html) LBdatabasearchitects.blogspot.com3 hours ago[ai](/search?q=ai&appearance=light) 17. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/vekgyd)7 [Scalable Vector Grief](https://portswigger.net/research/scalable-vector-grief) LBportswigger.net4 hours ago[security](/search?q=security&appearance=light) 18. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268266)18 [Google can now use your Gmail data for ads: How to turn it off](https://proton.me/blog/gmail-ads) HNproton.me10 hours ago 19. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270229)15 [Show HN: A Lego-like composable Framework for RSI](https://rsi-gear.github.io/) HNrsi-gear.github.io4 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=light) 20. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268325)14 [Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++](https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/26/billion-query-per-second-lookup-tables-in-c/) HNlemire.me10 hours ago 21. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/ml4m9a)5 [Who’s 0xabadbabe and why? (2011)](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/10/28/whos-0xabadbabe-and-why/) LBdaniel.haxx.se3 hours ago[windows](/search?q=windows&appearance=light) 22. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269492)12 [碁の国: Play Chess as Town Building](https://gonokuni.plpl.town/) HNgonokuni.plpl.town6 hours ago 23. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271808)6 [Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271808) HNnews.ycombinator.com20 minutes ago 24. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268305)9 [Millions Use Antidepressants. We Still Don't Understand How They Work](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/science/how-antidepressants-ssri-work.html) HNnytimes.com10 hours ago 25. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268075)14 [Amazon defines the role of the developer in the age of AI](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-software-engineer-role-guideline-ai) HNaboutamazon.com10 hours ago 26. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267931)13 [New Agentic security tool detects shuts down hackers on autopilot](https://argusone.website/) HNargusone.website11 hours ago 27. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263967)20 [Popcorn 1.0 Released: Moving from AtomVM to Full Erlang VM](https://swmansion.com/blog/popcorn-1-0-moving-from-atom-vm-to-otp-beam/) HNswmansion.com16 hours ago 28. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267494)16 [Free daily JSON feed of Shanghai government subsidy notices](https://github.com/ZhongGheart/china-policy-data) HNgithub.com11 hours ago 29. [12](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271457)24 [Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok](https://theconversation.com/barcelona-unrest-how-to-fabricate-a-protest-in-the-age-of-tiktok-295263) HNtheconversation.com1 hour ago 30. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271271)11 [Microsoft and Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft](https://kotaku.com/now-that-the-shoe-is-on-the-other-foot-microsoft-and-epic-games-suddenly-agree-that-ai-is-theft-2000749316) HNkotaku.com1 hour ago 31. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270973)13 [Suffering as a Feature](https://blog.codinghorror.com/suffering-as-a-feature/) HNblog.codinghorror.com2 hours ago 32. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265697)17 [I used to be homeless. That experience shapes my science](https://www.science.org/content/article/i-used-be-homeless-experience-shapes-my-science) HNscience.org14 hours ago 33. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268548)12 [Emacs Turns 50](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/) HNtechnologyreview.com9 hours ago 34. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268783)7 [Wikipedia: Signs of AI Writing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing) HNen.wikipedia.org8 hours ago 35. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270781)6 [Elon Musk's AI Odyssey Review](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/27/elon-musk-ai-odyssey-movie-grok-christopher-nolan) HNtheguardian.com2 hours ago 36. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268907)10 [F](https://f.com/) HNf.com8 hours ago 37. [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.com7 hours ago 38. [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.com5 hours ago 39. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270723)5 [China's super-secret space plane visible in clearest photo yet](https://www.popsci.com/technology/china-space-plane-clear-photo/) HNpopsci.com3 hours ago 40. [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.org17 hours ago[zig](/search?q=zig&appearance=light) 41. [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.com15 hours ago 42. [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.com8 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=light) 43. [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.com9 hours ago 44. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267680)5 [Show HN: Guess what frontier LLMs do in a repeated prisoner's dilemma](https://thenunchiproject.com/game/ai-decides) HNthenunchiproject.com11 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=light) 45. [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.uk10 hours ago 46. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269272)5 [Harold Blauer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Blauer) HNen.wikipedia.org7 hours ago 47. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267368)8 [Zen: System-wide open source ad-blocker for Windows, macOS, and Linux](https://irbis.sh/zen) HNirbis.sh12 hours ago 48. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267720)8 [OEIS sequence A400000: The city-building sequence](https://oeis.org/A400000) HNoeis.org11 hours ago 49. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267927)7 [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.com11 hours ago 50. [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.com10 hours ago 51. [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.com11 hours ago 52. [10](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256342)6 [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=light) 53. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267380)5 [Historical Scientific Instruments](https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/historical-scientific-instruments) HNnealstephenson.substack.com12 hours ago 54. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261492)5 [Show HN: Freightfloor. Have 3 minutes? Drive a forklift vs. AI](https://freightfloor.com/) HNfreightfloor.com19 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=light) 55. [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.com18 hours ago 56. [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.com15 hours ago 57. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266458)5 [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.com13 hours ago 58. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266429)5 [Stripe Pay](https://docs.stripe.com/cli/pay) HNdocs.stripe.com13 hours ago 59. [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.com15 hours ago 60. [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=light) 61. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264076)6 [Nook: A terminal Markdown editor where the cursor never moves](https://github.com/simone20a/Nook) HNgithub.com16 hours ago 62. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50262407)7 [Show HN: Agent-relay for multi-vendor coding sessions](https://github.com/saranyan/agent-relay) HNgithub.com18 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=light) 63. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258875)8 [Show HN: Markdown is 40× more token-efficient with SQLite](https://www.withnative.ai/research-and-posts/markdown-context-benchmark) HNwithnative.ai22 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=light) 64. [4](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=light) 65. [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.com20 hours ago 66. [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.com19 hours ago 67. [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.com19 hours ago 68. [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 69. [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 70. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253172)12 [Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, dies aged 90](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv0ldjzg9xppo) HNbbc.com1 day ago 71. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258730)6 [The Cloudflare PHP Capture the Flag Challenge](https://blog.cloudflare.com/php-ctf/) HNblog.cloudflare.com22 hours ago 72. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259943)5 [Tare: K8s Rightsizer CO2 Aware](https://github.com/2listic/tare) HNgithub.com21 hours ago 73. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255798)5 [A 2^O(n) Time Algorithm for 3-SAT](https://github.com/anthropics/formal-math/tree/16a5ce41304fcdaea4e0be7c132e1c361dc26da5/eth) HNgithub.com1 day ago 74. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258343)6 [The Case for OpenTelemetry Maintainership](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/case-for-opentelemetry-maintainership/) HNopentelemetry.io22 hours ago 75. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256532)7 [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 76. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/vqlcdk)7 [Cuis Smalltalk](https://cuis.st/) LBcuis.st1 day ago[plt](/search?q=plt&appearance=light) 77. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256197)5 [Show HN: Software Hate Index (real-time ranking of SaaS complaints)](https://hissingkitty.com/predictions) HNhissingkitty.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=light)