--- title: "Archived daily edition · Daily Diff" --- [Daily edition](/?appearance=system)[Hot now](/hot?appearance=system) # Archived daily edition [Archive](/archive?limit=20&appearance=system) / 2026-10-26 [Top 10](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-26&limit=10&q=&appearance=system)[Top 20](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-26&limit=20&q=&appearance=system)[Above median](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-26&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=system) Daily ranking · strictly above median 1. 2026-10-26 2. [431](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237485)412 [Lula wins election after final votes tallied](https://www.reuters.com/live/brazil-election-live-lula-bolsonaro-face-off-presidential-runoff-2026-10-25/) HNreuters.com9 hours ago 3. [140](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238088)247 [IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem](https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistibly-good-and-cheap-on-prem/5304640) HNtheregister.com8 hours ago 4. [36](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238708)230 [Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997](https://titleart.dvy.io/) HNtitleart.dvy.io6 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 5. [76](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237712)137 [Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category](https://korindiehacker.bloffy.blog/en/removing-nextjs-got-my-blog-to-100-on-every-lighthouse-category) HNkorindiehacker.bloffy.blog8 hours ago 6. [83](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237896)122 [iPhone Duo Teardown](https://www.ifixit.com/News/119895/iphone-duo-teardown) HNifixit.com8 hours ago 7. [30](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238739)133 [PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP](https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot) HNgithub.com6 hours ago 8. [43](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238884)118 [US Wages Share of GDI at 75 Year Low](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA) HNfred.stlouisfed.org6 hours ago 9. [51](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238763)110 [Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office](https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez/browse/next-computer-inc?per_page=96&sort=pub_year_isi+asc%2C+title_sort+asc&view=masonry) HNexhibits.stanford.edu6 hours ago 10. [38](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237224)108 [Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19428) HNarxiv.org10 hours ago 11. [23](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237379)113 [Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC](https://github.com/KillaBoi/StealMyBitcoin-PoC) HNgithub.com9 hours ago 12. [68](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239027)65 [Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism](https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/cognitive-mercantilism) HNcontraptions.venkateshrao.com5 hours ago 13. [28](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237426)68 [Lula Wins Brazilian Election](https://resultados.tse.jus.br/oficial/app/index.html#/eleicao/6258/uf/br/cargo/1/vis/nominal/resultados) HNresultados.tse.jus.br9 hours ago 14. [23](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238620)59 [Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained](https://shattered.io/microsoft-decision-1-qwen3-5-9b-model-2026/) HNshattered.io6 hours ago 15. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238557)73 [Brazil elections: Lula secures fourth term after dramatic comeback](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmvg7p001qj9o) HNbbc.com6 hours ago 16. [62](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238351)30 [If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay](https://www.economist.com/business/2026/10/22/if-ai-displaces-human-workers-they-will-lose-more-than-just-pay) HNeconomist.com7 hours ago 17. [43](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239748)46 [The result of the C++26 DIS ballot](https://train-it.eu/blog/cpp26-contracts-the-ballot-result/) HNtrain-it.eu3 hours ago 18. [6](https://lobste.rs/s/hzrmwz)25 [Simple NetBSD webserver](https://bsandro.tech/posts/simple-netbsd-webserver/) LBbsandro.tech10 hours ago[netbsd](/search?q=netbsd&appearance=system) 19. [11](https://lobste.rs/s/x1s5oq)16 [“AI Skills” are worthless in 2026](https://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2026/10/26/ai-skills) LBfishbowl.pastiche.org9 hours ago[ai-tooling](/search?q=ai-tooling&appearance=system) 20. [16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239430)27 [Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits](https://electrek.co/2026/10/23/tesla-cancels-cybertruck-australia-new-zealand/) HNelectrek.co4 hours ago 21. [4](https://programming.dev/post/58523327)8 [Need database topography advice](https://programming.dev/post/58523327) PDprogramming.dev4 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system) 22. [3](https://lobste.rs/s/mu3xcd)12 [writing about pratt parsing so I remember it](https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/2026-10-25_pratt-parsing.html) LBunix.dog6 hours ago[c](/search?q=c&appearance=system) 23. [8](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237680)22 [Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237680) HNnews.ycombinator.com8 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=system) 24. [1](https://programming.dev/post/58528450)7 [beige-wordlist: very boring English words for filenames or anything else](https://programming.dev/post/58528450) PDprogramming.dev51 minutes ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system) 25. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238242)21 [U.S. birth rate drops to record low, but older women are having more babies](https://www.npr.org/2026/10/24/nx-s1-6012804/birth-rate-population-cdc) HNnpr.org7 hours ago 26. [13](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240922)68 [Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale](https://blocks.manifold3d.ch/) HNblocks.manifold3d.ch1 hour ago 27. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234028)21 [Learning to Be Me (1990) \[pdf\]](https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1995-egan.pdf) HNgwern.net16 hours ago 28. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237815)14 [Drone warfare is evolving faster than armies can adapt](https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/drone-warfare-is-evolving-faster-than-armies-can-adapt-experts-warn/article_756362b6-0ef8-5e7e-8c97-94e6f12ca77e.html) HNthestar.com8 hours ago 29. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237813)17 [Show HN: Freehire, open-source search 3M+ tech jobs from company career boards](https://freehire.me/) HNfreehire.me8 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 30. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239870)14 [Everybody panic: A Valve developer said "HLX" in public](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/everybody-panic-a-valve-developer-said-hlx-in-public/) HNarstechnica.com3 hours ago 31. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237365)14 [The Great Schlep: Israelis Are Flying Back to Vote](https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-great-schlep) HNnewyorker.com9 hours ago 32. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240696)10 [Musk says he was behind Starlink speed restriction in Ukraine](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-starlink-satellite-restored-9.7394719) HNcbc.ca1 hour ago 33. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/cf8mdy)6 [OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp](https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/openldk-java-in-common-lisp/) LBatgreen.github.io3 hours ago[java](/search?q=java&appearance=system) 34. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238020)8 [Recycling ANSI art: Tracing the origins of Fire Escape's BBS logon screens](https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/10/25/recycling-ansi-art/) HNbreakintochat.com8 hours ago 35. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240393)8 [How to Start a Defence Tech Startup in the UK: Part 1](https://foxandlion.pub/analysis/how-to-start-a-defence-tech-startup-in-the-uk-part-1) HNfoxandlion.pub2 hours ago 36. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239041)11 [Show HN: Proc-CLI – An agent-friendly CLI tool for process and port management](https://proc-cli.com/) HNproc-cli.com5 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 37. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240976)5 [Lula is declared winner of Brazil's election as Bolsonaro rejects results](https://apnews.com/article/brazil-election-lula-bolsonaro-runoff-vote-president-e2c9fe8fc4aa3e3675b9a8ec15405d93) HNapnews.com1 hour ago 38. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240986)6 [Decision Models meet the Trolley Problem \[video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sSKZa6THa0) HNyoutube.com1 hour ago 39. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238022)11 [Data centre debate heats up ahead of US midterms](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq2e9we7w2ejo) HNbbc.com8 hours ago 40. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238561)6 [Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/25/elvis-presley-anthropic-lawsuit-ai-models-music) HNtheguardian.com6 hours ago 41. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240296)5 [Thiel's leaked lectures on the end of the world](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1014252/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-analysis) HNtheverge.com2 hours ago 42. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239788)7 [Germany to tap Ukrainian tech with missile purchase](https://www.ft.com/content/f9476b15-c2b6-4b8b-86fc-58ae5795fb87) HNft.com3 hours ago 43. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238978)6 [Rest of World faces prospect of shutting down](https://www.semafor.com/article/10/25/2026/rest-of-world-faces-prospect-of-shutting-down) HNsemafor.com5 hours ago 44. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238809)6 [Netflix Users Are Watching Less, Not Opening the App as Often](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-25/netflix-users-are-watching-less-not-opening-the-app-as-often) HNbloomberg.com6 hours ago 45. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240559)5 [Anemoia: Nostalgia for a time one did not personally experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemoia) HNen.wikipedia.org1 hour ago 46. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239367)5 [Zen Browser is the Arc replacement I was looking for](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1018275/zen-browser-arc-replacement) HNtheverge.com4 hours ago 47. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/1q1rc1)6 [Reverse-Engineering Instruction Encodings (2001)](https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix01/full_papers/hsieh/hsieh_html/) LBusenix.org11 hours ago[assembly](/search?q=assembly&appearance=system) 48. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237491)6 [They Fled Trump's America. Now They Regret It](https://www.wired.com/story/they-fled-trumps-america-now-they-regret-it/) HNwired.com9 hours ago 49. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238943)6 [Show HN: UIPalooza – Do AI models have a recognizable design taste?](https://uipalooza.ai/) HNuipalooza.ai5 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 50. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235909)10 [Show HN: AgentTrust – Zero-trust security and human approvals for AI agents](https://github.com/SRN0129/Agenttrust) HNgithub.com13 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 51. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/mug4of)5 [Every Clojure Talk Ever (2018)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPaby7suOc) LByoutube.com16 hours ago[clojure](/search?q=clojure&appearance=system) 52. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239374)5 [Vibe coding is turning the music gear world upside down](https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1013493/vibe-coding-ai-music-gear-hacking-custom-firmware) HNtheverge.com4 hours ago 53. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239150)5 [Failure Modes](https://www.autodidacts.io/failure-modes/) HNautodidacts.io5 hours ago 54. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236644)8 [Serbia's ruler VučIć concedes election to student-led protest](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5yn3xlprpmo) HNbbc.com11 hours ago