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# 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.   [496](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237485)442

     [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.com13 hours ago

3.   [241](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238088)336

     [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.com11 hours ago

4.   [121](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240922)275

     [Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale](https://blocks.manifold3d.ch/)

     HNblocks.manifold3d.ch4 hours ago

5.   [51](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238708)296

     [Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997](https://titleart.dvy.io/)

     HNtitleart.dvy.io10 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

6.   [105](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237712)171

     [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.blog12 hours ago

7.   [66](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238739)182

     [PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP](https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot)

     HNgithub.com10 hours ago

8.   [88](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238763)168

     [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.edu10 hours ago

9.   [98](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237896)129

     [iPhone Duo Teardown](https://www.ifixit.com/News/119895/iphone-duo-teardown)

     HNifixit.com12 hours ago

10.  [67](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228115)207

     [Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard](https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes)

     HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

11.  [50](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237224)145

     [Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19428)

     HNarxiv.org13 hours ago

12.  [46](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238884)128

     [US Wages Share of GDI at 75 Year Low](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA)

     HNfred.stlouisfed.org9 hours ago

13.  [36](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237379)139

     [Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC](https://github.com/KillaBoi/StealMyBitcoin-PoC)

     HNgithub.com13 hours ago

14.  [72](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241664)81

     [Websites Should Be Printable](https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/)

     HNbrennenputh.me3 hours ago

     Also discussed: [Lobsters · 2 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/olnqh2 "8 points")

15.  [86](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239027)71

     [Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism](https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/cognitive-mercantilism)

     HNcontraptions.venkateshrao.com9 hours ago

16.  [74](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239748)53

     [The result of the C++26 DIS ballot](https://train-it.eu/blog/cpp26-contracts-the-ballot-result/)

     HNtrain-it.eu7 hours ago

17.  [64](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215997)179

     [Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261019-birdwatching-rewires-the-brain-and-slows-cognitive-decline)

     HNbbc.com2 days ago

18.  [27](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238620)69

     [Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained](https://shattered.io/microsoft-decision-1-qwen3-5-9b-model-2026/)

     HNshattered.io10 hours ago

19.  [34](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239430)58

     [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.co8 hours ago

20.  [19](https://lobste.rs/s/x1s5oq)26

     [“AI Skills” are worthless in 2026](https://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2026/10/26/ai-skills)

     LBfishbowl.pastiche.org13 hours ago[ai-tooling](/search?q=ai-tooling&appearance=system)

     Also discussed: [Hacker News · 0 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240678 "5 points")

21.  [28](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237426)69

     [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.br13 hours ago

22.  [7](https://lobste.rs/s/hzrmwz)37

     [Simple NetBSD webserver](https://bsandro.tech/posts/simple-netbsd-webserver/)

     LBbsandro.tech14 hours ago[netbsd](/search?q=netbsd&appearance=system)

23.  [5](https://programming.dev/post/58528450)20

     [beige-wordlist: very boring English words for filenames or anything else](https://programming.dev/post/58528450)

     PDprogramming.dev4 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system)

24.  [67](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238351)34

     [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.com11 hours ago

25.  [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.com10 hours ago

26.  [4](https://lobste.rs/s/mu3xcd)20

     [writing about pratt parsing so I remember it](https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/2026-10-25_pratt-parsing.html)

     LBunix.dog10 hours ago[c](/search?q=c&appearance=system)

27.  [32](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227041)55

     [Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git](https://adrs.systems/)

     HNadrs.systems1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

28.  [17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50209278)120

     [Growing Trees](https://brashandplucky.com/2026/10/15/growing-trees.html)

     HNbrashandplucky.com2 days ago

29.  [4](https://programming.dev/post/58523327)8

     [Need database topography advice](https://programming.dev/post/58523327)

     PDprogramming.dev7 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system)

30.  [9](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237680)26

     [Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237680)

     HNnews.ycombinator.com12 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=system)

31.  [6](https://lobste.rs/s/xzp4m0)9

     [About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs](https://support.apple.com/en-us/149555)

     LBsupport.apple.com3 hours ago[mac](/search?q=mac&appearance=system)

32.  [63](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242939)134

     [Anthropic S-1](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm)

     HNsec.gov29 minutes ago

33.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239870)21

     [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.com7 hours ago

34.  [0](https://lobste.rs/s/cf8mdy)12

     [OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp](https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/openldk-java-in-common-lisp/)

     LBatgreen.github.io7 hours ago[java](/search?q=java&appearance=system)

     Also discussed: [Hacker News · 0 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50232101 "5 points")

35.  [10](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242734)43

     [Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist](https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-10-25/peter-thiel-the-tech-oligarch-who-believes-in-the-antichrist.html)

     HNenglish.elpais.com45 minutes ago

36.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238242)22

     [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.org11 hours ago

37.  [19](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241924)18

     [Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository](https://typemill.net/knowledge-hub/tasks-as-code)

     HNtypemill.net2 hours ago

38.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237813)22

     [Show HN: Freehire, open-source search 3M+ tech jobs from company career boards](https://freehire.me/)

     HNfreehire.me12 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

39.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239041)16

     [Show HN: Proc-CLI – An agent-friendly CLI tool for process and port management](https://proc-cli.com/)

     HNproc-cli.com9 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

40.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241390)10

     [Viktor Orbán, U.N. Secretary-General?](https://www.wsj.com/opinion/viktor-orban-u-n-secretary-general-china-russia-us-d968fcaf)

     HNwsj.com3 hours ago

41.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234028)22

     [Learning to Be Me (1990) \[pdf\]](https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1995-egan.pdf)

     HNgwern.net19 hours ago

42.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237815)15

     [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.com12 hours ago

43.  [0](https://lobste.rs/s/p9obkt)8

     [Gram 3.4.0 released](https://gram-editor.com/posts/release-3.4.0/)

     LBgram-editor.com1 hour ago[editors](/search?q=editors&appearance=system)

44.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237365)15

     [The Great Schlep: Israelis Are Flying Back to Vote](https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-great-schlep)

     HNnewyorker.com13 hours ago

45.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240696)13

     [Musk says he was behind Starlink speed restriction in Ukraine](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-starlink-satellite-restored-9.7394719)

     HNcbc.ca5 hours ago

46.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240559)10

     [Anemoia: Nostalgia for a time one did not personally experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemoia)

     HNen.wikipedia.org5 hours ago

47.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243002)6

     [Anthropic Officially Files S1 – Shows $81B Net Loss](https://twitter.com/anthropicai/status/2114705042817110293)

     HNtwitter.com24 minutes ago

48.  [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238020)9

     [Recycling ANSI art: Tracing the origins of Fire Escape's BBS logon screens](https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/10/25/recycling-ansi-art/)

     HNbreakintochat.com11 hours ago

49.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242957)6

     [Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering](https://www.anthropic.com/news/s1-sec)

     HNanthropic.com28 minutes ago

50.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242870)6

     [Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM](https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/fixing-tool-call-accuracy-in-vllm)

     HNubicloud.com34 minutes ago

51.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242555)10

     [Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code](https://danielmiessler.com/blog/writing-is-closer-to-thought-than-code)

     HNdanielmiessler.com1 hour ago

52.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242308)5

     [Why is it so expensive to send an email?](https://evancz.dev/why-is-it-so-expensive-to-send-an-email)

     HNevancz.dev1 hour ago

53.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240976)7

     [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.com4 hours ago

54.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240393)9

     [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.pub5 hours ago

55.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242543)5

     [US startup's demonstration of lighting Earth from space draws critcism](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/california-sunlight-space-mirrors-satellites)

     HNtheguardian.com1 hour ago

56.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242413)5

     [An American Answer to China's Open AI Models: A Safe Harbor for Open Weights](https://manhattan.institute/article/an-american-answer-to-chinas-open-ai-models-a-safe-harbor-for-open-weights)

     HNmanhattan.institute1 hour ago

57.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239367)6

     [Zen Browser is the Arc replacement I was looking for](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1018275/zen-browser-arc-replacement)

     HNtheverge.com8 hours ago

58.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241925)5

     [Pharo 14](https://pharo.org/news/2026-10-26-Pharo14Release.html)

     HNpharo.org2 hours ago

59.  [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.com6 hours ago

60.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240986)6

     [Decision Models meet the Trolley Problem \[video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sSKZa6THa0)

     HNyoutube.com4 hours ago

61.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237773)9

     [Show HN: RainbowSay – Learn, teach, research languages live with shows you love](https://rainbowsay.ai/)

     HNrainbowsay.ai12 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

62.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241432)5

     [The SDLC Was Designed for Humans](https://yusufaytas.com/the-sdlc-was-designed-for-humans)

     HNyusufaytas.com3 hours ago

63.  [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.com11 hours ago

64.  [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.com10 hours ago

65.  [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.com7 hours ago

66.  [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.com9 hours ago

67.  [28](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50210181)44

     [Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part](https://www.a16z.news/p/superhuman-hardware-design-is-the)

     HNa16z.news2 days ago

68.  [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.org15 hours ago[assembly](/search?q=assembly&appearance=system)

69.  [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.com9 hours ago

70.  [1](https://lobste.rs/s/mug4of)6

     [Every Clojure Talk Ever (2018)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPaby7suOc)

     LByoutube.com20 hours ago[clojure](/search?q=clojure&appearance=system)

71.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239374)7

     [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.com8 hours ago

72.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235909)11

     [Show HN: AgentTrust – Zero-trust security and human approvals for AI agents](https://github.com/SRN0129/Agenttrust)

     HNgithub.com16 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

73.  [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.com13 hours ago

74.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238943)6

     [Show HN: UIPalooza – Do AI models have a recognizable design taste?](https://uipalooza.ai/)

     HNuipalooza.ai9 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

75.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236138)11

     [Psilocybin Replaces Lost Synapses in Depressed Brains](https://neurosciencenews.com/psilocybin-depression-synapses-32338/)

     HNneurosciencenews.com16 hours ago

76.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239150)5

     [Failure Modes](https://www.autodidacts.io/failure-modes/)

     HNautodidacts.io9 hours ago

77.  [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.com15 hours ago

78.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237291)5

     [Show HN: A 3D mesh playground for coding agents (three.js + manifold-3d)](https://sketchagent.dev/s/yfYU6LhT)

     HNsketchagent.dev13 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

79.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235794)5

     [Ask HN: How fast is your CI these days?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235794)

     HNnews.ycombinator.com17 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=system)

80.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237574)5

     [Dua Lipa's Manifesto Library](https://www.banned-books.org/dua-lipa-manifesto-library)

     HNbanned-books.org12 hours ago

81.  [64](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50210696)21

     [Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?](https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-cares-whether-academics-use-ai-to-write)

     HNchronicle.com2 days ago

82.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213610)60

     [Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again](https://www.getty.edu/news/buddha-head-of-merv-turkmenistan-conservation/)

     HNgetty.edu2 days ago

83.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235513)8

     [Crosscut – Drawing Dynamic Models](https://www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut/)

     HNinkandswitch.com17 hours ago

84.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237198)5

     [Do not remove Contracts from C++26 \[pdf\]](https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2026/p4433r0.pdf)

     HNopen-std.org13 hours ago

85.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50232685)6

     [Mozilla "Come back to Firefox" video "reunites meme royalty"](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/come-back-to-firefox/)

     HNblog.mozilla.org21 hours ago

86.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236067)5

     [Why the Columbia River Has No Delta](https://www.worldatlas.com/rivers/why-the-columbia-river-has-no-delta.html)

     HNworldatlas.com16 hours ago

87.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235916)5

     [Struggling to Keep AI Out](https://blog.eunach.scot/struggling-to-keep-ai-out)

     HNblog.eunach.scot16 hours ago

88.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236669)5

     [Why the EU avoids tackling Big Soccer](https://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-eu-avoids-tackling-big-soccer/)

     HNpolitico.eu15 hours ago