--- title: "Archived daily edition · Daily Diff" --- [Daily edition](/?appearance=system)[Hot now](/hot?appearance=system) # Archived daily edition [Archive](/archive?limit=20&appearance=system) / 2026-10-27 [Top 10](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-27&limit=10&q=&appearance=system)[Top 20](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-27&limit=20&q=&appearance=system)[Above median](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-27&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=system) Daily ranking · strictly above median 1. 2026-10-27 2. [195](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256985)312 [Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking](https://open3dlab.com/news/roblox-downloaded-145-gb-of-models-from-our-sites/) HNopen3dlab.com3 hours ago 3. [186](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255298)283 [The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI](https://j11g.com/the-mythical-man-month-in-the-age-of-ai) HNj11g.com7 hours ago 4. [220](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257325)242 [AI promised less work. I've never worked more](https://oioannou.com/blog/ai-promised-less-work/) HNoioannou.com3 hours ago 5. [92](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256738)182 [I will no longer upload to NEW](https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html) HNlists.debian.org4 hours ago 6. [108](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257548)143 [Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible](https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/) HNbitlog.com2 hours ago 7. [62](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257419)137 [Python's experimental JIT to be removed](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/) HNlwn.net3 hours ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 3 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/cajuq6 "42 points") 8. [59](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257326)128 [Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content](https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup) HNspectrum.ieee.org3 hours ago 9. [92](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258521)78 [Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/) HNapple.com1 hour ago 10. [96](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254836)84 [There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek](https://allmodels.io/llm/abliterated) HNallmodels.io9 hours ago 11. [63](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253939)97 [I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0](https://eliasfarhan.ch/graphics/cpp/2026/01/27/why-i-teach-opengles.html) HNeliasfarhan.ch12 hours ago 12. [23](https://lobste.rs/s/cxxcik)51 [Shitty Screenshare](http://shittyscreenshare.com/) LBshittyscreenshare.com14 hours ago[browsers](/search?q=browsers&appearance=system) 13. [28](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253529)110 [16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows](https://github.com/otya128/winevdm) HNgithub.com13 hours ago 14. [0](https://programming.dev/post/58572055)35 [Chinese markets lose trillions as race for AI supremacy with US takes its toll](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/27/chinese-markets-lose-trillions-ai-race-beijing) PDtheguardian.com7 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system) 15. [86](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256230)42 [AI is ruining haunted houses](https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/10/26/ai-is-ruining-haunted-attractions/) HNplagiarismtoday.com5 hours ago 16. [55](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254935)49 [UK to charge universities $1,200 per international student](https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/uk-to-charge-universities-dollar1200-per-international-student-including-those-from/qe5rqbe) HNafrica.businessinsider.com9 hours ago 17. [7](https://lobste.rs/s/pq6ju6)35 [The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False \[pdf\]](https://files.mathhelm.org/files/733/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026.pdf) LBfiles.mathhelm.org13 hours ago[math](/search?q=math&appearance=system) 18. [14](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253630)53 [The 'Buy, Borrow and Die' Wealth Strategy Has Become a $5T Market](https://www.wsj.com/finance/the-buy-borrow-and-die-wealth-strategy-has-become-a-5-trillion-market-d9149a9d) HNwsj.com12 hours ago 19. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256952)67 [Gforth 1.0](https://gforth.org/manual/1.0/NEWS.html) HNgforth.org3 hours ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 1 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/bgpsuu "9 points") 20. [12](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253750)42 [ICE wants robot dogs. Boston Dynamics' workers urge company to 'cancel the sale'](https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/10/23/boston-dynamics-employees-petition-dhs) HNwbur.org12 hours ago 21. [9](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255406)27 [A simplified proof of ETH is False \[pdf\]](https://shivakintali.github.io/papers/ETH.pdf) HNshivakintali.github.io7 hours ago 22. [5](https://lobste.rs/s/cxdpiu)14 [Our Response To The eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident](https://go.dev/blog/emudhra-incident) LBgo.dev13 hours ago[go](/search?q=go&appearance=system) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 0 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253961 "5 points") 23. [9](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254383)24 [Micron Taiwan increasing salaries for factory workers by 2.7X](https://ec.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/5619258) HNec.ltn.com.tw10 hours ago 24. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258538)14 [New iMac with M6](https://www.apple.com/imac/) HNapple.com1 hour ago 25. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259343)17 [Wiz: No successful PHP2Shell exploits seen so far; exposure down 67%](https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-exploitation-so-far) HNwiz.io26 minutes ago 26. [1](https://programming.dev/post/58547265)10 [HTMX creator on the history of REST and why he thinks we got it wrong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbNvpiJ9gTs) PDyoutube.com20 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system) 27. [9](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256725)11 [Show HN: Hatamoto batteries-included CMS in Go](https://hatamoto.dev/) HNhatamoto.dev4 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 28. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255159)18 [Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH](https://hexagonmath.org/2610.00577v1) HNhexagonmath.org8 hours ago 29. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249916)31 [Third Risk](https://thirdrisk.org/) HNthirdrisk.org18 hours ago 30. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251896)23 [Running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 at 184 tok/s on a single RTX 6000 Pro](https://meshapplied.com/blog/release-1) HNmeshapplied.com16 hours ago 31. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257619)7 [Microsoft Office 2021 Perpetual License Disabled After Software Update](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/6048787/microsoft-office-2021-perpetual-license-disabled-a) HNlearn.microsoft.com2 hours ago 32. [15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255318)5 [Why remote roles are becoming extinct in 2026?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255318) HNnews.ycombinator.com7 hours ago 33. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257448)12 [Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/microsoft-offers-voluntary-buyouts-to-60000-employees/) HNarstechnica.com2 hours ago 34. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/beiiil)6 [Full Haskell-like Type Class resolution in Java](https://garciat.com/posts/java-type-classes/) LBgarciat.com4 hours ago[haskell](/search?q=haskell&appearance=system) 35. [8](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234707)43 [APC says let there be light, with standards to speed up photonics manufacturing](https://www.nextplatform.com/connect/2026/10/23/apc-says-let-there-be-light-with-raft-of-standards-to-speed-up-photonics-manufacturing/5304950) HNnextplatform.com1 day ago 36. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256932)6 [Hey, Y Combinator - What will happen to humans?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256932) HNnews.ycombinator.com3 hours ago 37. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253512)21 [Initial Support for the Apple M4 and Apple A18 Pro Make It into Linux 7.4](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-SoCs) HNphoronix.com13 hours ago 38. [10](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243060)19 [Unveiling The Grid: PCBs made in America, twice as fast as Shenzhen](https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid) HNcircuithub.com1 day ago 39. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249872)25 [Neuron Explorer for Qwen3.5-4B: See every neuron at work, make targeted edits](https://github.com/lyramakesmusic/neuron-explorer) HNgithub.com18 hours ago 40. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259050)9 [Alleged Israeli spy company targeted Starlink users](https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alleged-israeli-spy-company-heavily-targeted-starlink-users-sources-say-2026-10-27/) HNreuters.com45 minutes ago 41. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258868)9 [Here Be Monsters: What Do You Still Need to Know When Agents Do the Work?](https://blog.adrq.dev/here-be-monsters-what-do-you-still-need-to-know-when-agents-do-the-work) HNblog.adrq.dev55 minutes ago 42. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258751)5 [eMudhra are now blocking access to their certificate revocation list](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2085612) HNbugzilla.mozilla.org1 hour ago 43. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253561)11 [What to do if you discover AI models trained using your copywrighted book?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253561) HNnews.ycombinator.com12 hours ago 44. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/adprro)5 [TypeScript and Haskell: Unions & Singletons (2024)](https://garciat.com/posts/haskell-union-types/) LBgarciat.com4 hours ago[haskell](/search?q=haskell&appearance=system) 45. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259246)5 [GitHub suspended my account, and I couldn't submit a support ticket](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259246) HNnews.ycombinator.com32 minutes ago 46. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254255)10 [Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid](https://fortune.com/2026/10/26/pentagon-fortress-bases-90-days-off-grid-uk-be-ready-stockpile/) HNfortune.com11 hours ago 47. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254873)9 [Looking for a tech job is a helpless data-entry nightmare](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254873) HNnews.ycombinator.com9 hours ago 48. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253524)8 [Do you want to keep your job? Stop feeding AI models](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253524) HNnews.ycombinator.com13 hours ago 49. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258722)5 [Static reasoning can't prove runtime behavior: benchmark of AI PR reviewers](https://www.heal.dev/benchmark) HNheal.dev1 hour ago 50. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251762)13 [Anthropic Is the Most Ridiculous IPO of 2026 \[pdf\]](https://www.newconstructs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Anthropic-Is-The-Most-Ridiculous-IPO-of-2026.pdf) HNnewconstructs.com16 hours ago 51. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258557)5 [Apple Announces iMac with M6](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-new-imac-with-m6/) HNapple.com1 hour ago 52. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253172)11 [Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, dies aged 90](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv0ldjzg9xppo) HNbbc.com13 hours ago 53. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258875)5 [Show HN: Markdown is 40× more token-efficient with SQLite](https://www.withnative.ai/research-and-posts/markdown-context-benchmark) HNwithnative.ai54 minutes ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 54. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258574)10 [Greg Abbott Took $9M from Data-Center Donors. Now He Regulates Them](https://www.gadgetreview.com/greg-abbott-took-9m-from-data-center-donors-now-he-regulates-them) HNgadgetreview.com1 hour ago 55. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256421)5 [Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Reviewers found a race](https://thenewstack.io/torvalds-claude-code-kernel/) HNthenewstack.io5 hours ago 56. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253759)7 [AI Science vs. Human Science](https://lacuna.tiptreesystems.com/paper/ai-science-vs-human-science/art_3901430d6c0e4bddb284362100ef8548) HNlacuna.tiptreesystems.com12 hours ago 57. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254670)7 [AI and the Collapse of Capitalism](https://jasonpolak.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-collapse-of-capitalism) HNjasonpolak.substack.com9 hours ago 58. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249883)12 [What Happened to the Neanderthals?](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/science/what-happened-to-the-neanderthals.html) HNnytimes.com18 hours ago 59. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50252650)13 [The real-life Scottish surgeon who inspired Sherlock Holmes](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-real-life-scottish-surgeon-who-inspired-sherlock-holmes/) HNarstechnica.com14 hours ago 60. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256605)5 [Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model tried to upload a file to Beijing in a test](https://www.notebookcheck.net/Alibaba-s-Qwen3-8-model-tried-to-upload-a-file-to-Beijing-in-a-test.1435026.0.html) HNnotebookcheck.net4 hours ago 61. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253664)11 [Chinese research vessels loiter near undersea cables more than any other nation](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinese-research-vessels-loiter-near-pacific-undersea-cables-more-than-any-other-nation-report-finds-civilian-fleet-using-lawnmower-patterns-may-be-mapping-seafloor-for-future-sabotage) HNtomshardware.com12 hours ago 62. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255057)5 [Qwen Phoning Home](https://venturebeat.com/data/coheres-test-caught-an-open-source-qwen3-8-model-trying-to-phone-home-to-china-what-enterprises-should-know) HNventurebeat.com8 hours ago 63. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255258)7 [ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from Boston Dynamics employees](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/boston-dynamics-employees-want-to-block-sale-of-robot-dogs-to-ice/) HNarstechnica.com7 hours ago 64. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254386)5 [Kazakhstan Expands Compute for Its AI Future](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/kazakhstan-ai-compute-ecosystem/) HNblogs.nvidia.com10 hours ago 65. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255285)5 [ChatGPT leaked users' data, and nobody hacked it](https://trustboundarystudio.com/posts/chatgpt-redis-leak-2023/) HNtrustboundarystudio.com7 hours ago 66. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254751)5 [Tech market feels like a data entry job](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254751) HNnews.ycombinator.com9 hours ago 67. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254796)9 [Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update](https://tailscale.com/ssh-investigation-update) HNtailscale.com9 hours ago 68. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254941)5 [Walter Koenig, actor who played Chekov on original "Star Trek" series, dies](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walter-koenig-dies-age-90-chekov-star-trek/) HNcbsnews.com9 hours ago 69. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254899)6 [1984: The Canadian Edition](https://btxx.org/posts/1984/) HNbtxx.org9 hours ago 70. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226808)48 [Virtual and Real World Combine at LAN Party (1998)](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-10-mn-11870-story.html) HNlatimes.com2 days ago 71. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254116)6 [Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/cohere-says-alibabas-qwen-model-tried-to-send-a-file-to-beijing/) HNtechcrunch.com11 hours ago 72. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/aszhzo)5 [The Limits of Fingerprint Blocklists: A Reproducible Java Certificate Bypass](https://www.sonatype.com/blog/the-limits-of-fingerprint-blocklists-a-reproducible-java-certificate-bypass) LBsonatype.com17 hours ago[java](/search?q=java&appearance=system) 73. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251301)5 [You can hack your TVs and gadgets with AI for free now – but should you?](https://www.zdnet.com/innovation/ai-reverse-engineering-old-gadgets-smart-tvs/) HNzdnet.com16 hours ago 74. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254205)5 [Tesla's $10B solar factory could get 35 years of tax breaks in Texas](https://electrek.co/2026/10/23/tesla-solar-factory-texas-35-years-tax-breaks-fort-bend/) HNelectrek.co11 hours ago 75. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253944)5 [Show HN: ESP-Watchtower – $3 ESP8266 Home Network Sentinel and Canary Honeypot](https://github.com/prasadabhishek/esp-watchtower) HNgithub.com12 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 76. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253325)6 [Meaning After an AI Eucatastrophe](https://meaningness.substack.com/p/meaning-after-an-ai-eucatastrophe) HNmeaningness.substack.com13 hours ago 77. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251518)5 [The US AI Labs, Mapped: Founders, Revenue and the Money Behind Them](https://codingplans.dev/briefs/us-model-labs-part-1/) HNcodingplans.dev16 hours ago 78. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243002)10 [Anthropic Officially Files S1 – Shows $81B Net Loss](https://twitter.com/anthropicai/status/2114705042817110293) HNtwitter.com1 day ago 79. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245653)9 [Microsoft to Trim Workforce with Buyout Offers for 60k Staff](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-26/microsoft-to-offer-buyouts-to-60-000-workers-in-latest-cost-cut) HNbloomberg.com22 hours ago 80. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50252963)5 [Show HN: Shittyscreenshares.com](https://shittyscreenshare.com/) HNshittyscreenshare.com14 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 81. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245457)10 [That free beer has a brewer](https://bytecode.news/posts/2026/10/that-free-beer-has-a-brewer) HNbytecode.news22 hours ago