--- title: "Archived daily edition · Daily Diff" --- [Daily edition](/?appearance=system)[Hot now](/hot?appearance=system) # Archived daily edition [Archive](/archive?limit=20&appearance=system) / 2026-10-28 [Top 10](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-28&limit=10&q=&appearance=system)[Top 20](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-28&limit=20&q=&appearance=system)[Above median](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-28&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=system) Daily ranking · strictly above median 1. 2026-10-28 2. [155](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268380)310 [Git for the US Code](https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code) HNlexifina.com10 hours ago 3. [249](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270764)247 [Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale](https://dreamagainusa.org/) HNdreamagainusa.org3 hours ago 4. [8](https://lobste.rs/s/cpaibp)57 [This is not sustainable](https://www.netmeister.org/blog/defense-ddos.html) LBnetmeister.org8 hours ago[security](/search?q=security&appearance=system) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 2 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266602 "6 points") 5. [44](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234796)273 [Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner-of-nikons-small-world-photomicrography-contest/) HNarstechnica.com2 days ago 6. [66](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266719)93 [Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers](https://felixrieseberg.com/hunger-beats-tenure-advice-for-junior-engineers/) HNfelixrieseberg.com14 hours ago 7. [72](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268868)68 [Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5](https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index-v5) HNartificialanalysis.ai9 hours ago 8. [60](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271032)60 [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.com3 hours ago 9. [18](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267569)81 [Moxnox 1.0: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible OS Running Atop Btrfs](https://github.com/maharmstone/moxnox) HNgithub.com12 hours ago 10. [36](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236073)155 [Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom](https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/the-earnings-boom-is-heavily-reliant-on-just-a-handful-of-stocks-21decb53) HNwsj.com2 days ago 11. [44](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271457)54 [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 12. [12](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242688)106 [Jokes for the ZX81](https://spelk.press/gb/products/81-jokes-for-the-zx81) HNspelk.press1 day ago 13. [12](https://programming.dev/post/58621639)11 [Python's experimental JIT to be removed](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/489e41d80e4966aa/) PDlwn.net3 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 0 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246591 "8 points") 14. [23](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266880)31 [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 15. [12](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266910)38 [Qwen has alter egos triggered by flipping a single neuron](https://qwen-neurons-site.vercel.app/) HNqwen-neurons-site.vercel.app13 hours ago 16. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269651)38 [Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0](https://artificialanalysis.ai/methodology/intelligence-benchmarking) HNartificialanalysis.ai7 hours ago 17. [33](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267890)22 ['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 18. [50](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249883)36 [What Happened to the Neanderthals?](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/science/what-happened-to-the-neanderthals.html) HNnytimes.com1 day ago 19. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/87iesc)18 [Reminder: Lobsters NYC Meetup Tomorrow 5:30 at Walker's](https://lobste.rs/s/87iesc) LBlobste.rs11 hours ago[event](/search?q=event&appearance=system) 20. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271088)21 [Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++](https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/26/billion-query-per-second-lookup-tables-in-c/) HNlemire.me2 hours ago 21. [2](https://lobste.rs/s/xybmsj)11 [Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates](https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html) LBemudhra.we-have-a-problem.com1 hour ago[cryptography](/search?q=cryptography&appearance=system) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 32 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271640 "100 points") 22. [2](https://lobste.rs/s/f3jpq3)15 [The next circle of security hell](https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/27/the-next-circle-of-security-hell/) LBblogs.gentoo.org16 hours ago[linux](/search?q=linux&appearance=system) 23. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271411)12 [Opus 5.5 causing an identity crisis is real](https://www.kondz.io/blog/opus-5-5-causing-identity-crisis-is-real/) HNkondz.io1 hour ago 24. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/yxuvie)7 [AlpineBSD](https://wiki.alpinebsd.org/) LBwiki.alpinebsd.org2 hours ago[netbsd](/search?q=netbsd&appearance=system) 25. [2](https://lobste.rs/s/smtpje)6 [The Benchmarking Crisis](http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-benchmarking-crisis.html) LBdatabasearchitects.blogspot.com4 hours ago[ai](/search?q=ai&appearance=system) 26. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270973)19 [Suffering as a Feature](https://blog.codinghorror.com/suffering-as-a-feature/) HNblog.codinghorror.com3 hours ago 27. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/vekgyd)7 [Scalable Vector Grief](https://portswigger.net/research/scalable-vector-grief) LBportswigger.net5 hours ago[security](/search?q=security&appearance=system) 28. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271271)16 [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.com2 hours ago 29. [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.io5 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 30. [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.me11 hours ago 31. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/ml4m9a)6 [Who’s 0xabadbabe and why? (2011)](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/10/28/whos-0xabadbabe-and-why/) LBdaniel.haxx.se4 hours ago[windows](/search?q=windows&appearance=system) 32. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272145)30 [Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar in $11.57B deal](https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/amazon-signs-1157-billion-deal-satellite-firm-globalstar-challenge-starlink-2026-04-14/1157-billion-deal-satellite-firm-globalstar-challenge-starlink-2026-04-14/) HNreuters.com41 minutes ago 33. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269492)12 [碁の国: Play Chess as Town Building](https://gonokuni.plpl.town/) HNgonokuni.plpl.town7 hours ago 34. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265697)21 [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.org15 hours ago 35. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263967)21 [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.com17 hours ago 36. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271808)8 [Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271808) HNnews.ycombinator.com1 hour ago 37. [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.com11 hours ago 38. [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 39. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271915)5 [The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take](https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-class-humanities-32e06366) HNwsj.com1 hour ago 40. [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 41. [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.com12 hours ago 42. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271954)5 [Wildfires Are Unfightable](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/opinion/wildfires-firefighters-climate-change.html) HNnytimes.com57 minutes ago 43. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268783)8 [Wikipedia: Signs of AI Writing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing) HNen.wikipedia.org9 hours ago 44. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272028)11 [Entry level jobs that dont ask for experience](https://entryleveljobs.co/jobs/) HNentryleveljobs.co51 minutes ago 45. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270781)7 [Elon Musk's AI Odyssey Review](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/27/elon-musk-ai-odyssey-movie-grok-christopher-nolan) HNtheguardian.com3 hours ago 46. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270723)7 [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 47. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268548)13 [Emacs Turns 50](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/) HNtechnologyreview.com10 hours ago 48. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268907)10 [F](https://f.com/) HNf.com9 hours ago 49. [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.com8 hours ago 50. [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.com6 hours ago 51. [13](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50230896)58 [Assembly Nights (2021)](https://ratfactor.com/assembly-nights) HNratfactor.com2 days ago 52. [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=system) 53. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267680)6 [Show HN: Guess what frontier LLMs do in a repeated prisoner's dilemma](https://thenunchiproject.com/game/ai-decides) HNthenunchiproject.com12 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 54. [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.com16 hours ago 55. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267720)8 [OEIS sequence A400000: The city-building sequence](https://oeis.org/A400000) HNoeis.org12 hours ago 56. [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.com9 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 57. [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.com10 hours ago 58. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267368)9 [Zen: System-wide open source ad-blocker for Windows, macOS, and Linux](https://irbis.sh/zen) HNirbis.sh13 hours ago 59. [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.uk11 hours ago 60. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269272)6 [Harold Blauer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Blauer) HNen.wikipedia.org8 hours ago 61. [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 62. [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.com11 hours ago 63. [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.com12 hours ago 64. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240041)42 [Rosettes and Other Hidden Traces of Hamburg's Tram](https://alsterrunde.com/rosettes-and-other-hidden-traces-of-hamburgs-tram/) HNalsterrunde.com2 days ago 65. [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=system) 66. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267380)5 [Historical Scientific Instruments](https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/historical-scientific-instruments) HNnealstephenson.substack.com13 hours ago 67. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261492)5 [Show HN: Freightfloor. Have 3 minutes? Drive a forklift vs. AI](https://freightfloor.com/) HNfreightfloor.com20 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 68. [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 69. [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.com16 hours ago 70. [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.com14 hours ago 71. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266429)5 [Stripe Pay](https://docs.stripe.com/cli/pay) HNdocs.stripe.com14 hours ago 72. [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.com16 hours ago 73. [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=system) 74. [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.com17 hours ago 75. [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.com19 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 76. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251762)14 [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.com1 day ago 77. [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.ai23 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 78. [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.com21 hours ago 79. [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.com1 day ago 80. [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.com20 hours ago 81. [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.com20 hours ago 82. [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 83. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253759)8 [AI Science vs. Human Science](https://lacuna.tiptreesystems.com/paper/ai-science-vs-human-science/art_3901430d6c0e4bddb284362100ef8548) HNlacuna.tiptreesystems.com1 day ago 84. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258730)6 [The Cloudflare PHP Capture the Flag Challenge](https://blog.cloudflare.com/php-ctf/) HNblog.cloudflare.com23 hours ago 85. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259943)5 [Tare: K8s Rightsizer CO2 Aware](https://github.com/2listic/tare) HNgithub.com22 hours ago 86. [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 87. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258343)6 [The Case for OpenTelemetry Maintainership](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/case-for-opentelemetry-maintainership/) HNopentelemetry.io23 hours ago 88. [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 89. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/vqlcdk)7 [Cuis Smalltalk](https://cuis.st/) LBcuis.st1 day ago[plt](/search?q=plt&appearance=system) 90. [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=system) 91. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258529)5 [MacBook Pro with M6](https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro) HNapple.com23 hours ago 92. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50252650)15 [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.com1 day ago 93. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257997)6 [Show HN: Tiny Tube – A self hosted video sharing server in a single Go binary](https://github.com/spapas/tiny-tube) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 94. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257193)5 [Sunlight at night: US startup's demo of lighting Earth from space draws critics](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/california-sunlight-space-mirrors-satellites) HNtheguardian.com1 day ago 95. [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.net1 day ago 96. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255161)6 [Edit an SQLite database in your browser](https://editsqlite.com/) HNeditsqlite.com1 day ago 97. [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.com1 day ago