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# Archived daily edition

[Archive](/archive?limit=20&appearance=system) / 2026-10-28

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Daily ranking · strictly above median

1.   2026-10-28
2.   [268](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270764)258

     [Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale](https://dreamagainusa.org/)

     HNdreamagainusa.org4 hours ago

3.   [168](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268380)317

     [Git for the US Code](https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code)

     HNlexifina.com11 hours ago

4.   [66](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271640)176

     [Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates](https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html)

     HNemudhra.we-have-a-problem.com1 hour ago

     Also discussed: [Lobsters · 3 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/xybmsj "17 points")

5.   [8](https://lobste.rs/s/cpaibp)62

     [This is not sustainable](https://www.netmeister.org/blog/defense-ddos.html)

     LBnetmeister.org9 hours ago[security](/search?q=security&appearance=system)

     Also discussed: [Hacker News · 2 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266602 "6 points")

6.   [69](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266719)94

     [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)71

     [Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5](https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index-v5)

     HNartificialanalysis.ai9 hours ago

8.   [61](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271032)63

     [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.   [20](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267569)82

     [Moxnox 1.0: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible OS Running Atop Btrfs](https://github.com/maharmstone/moxnox)

     HNgithub.com13 hours ago

10.  [52](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271457)60

     [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.com2 hours ago

11.  [13](https://programming.dev/post/58621639)12

     [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")

12.  [24](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266880)32

     [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.dev14 hours ago

13.  [12](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266910)39

     [Qwen has alter egos triggered by flipping a single neuron](https://qwen-neurons-site.vercel.app/)

     HNqwen-neurons-site.vercel.app14 hours ago

14.  [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

15.  [37](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.com12 hours ago

16.  [0](https://lobste.rs/s/87iesc)20

     [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)

17.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271088)24

     [Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++](https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/26/billion-query-per-second-lookup-tables-in-c/)

     HNlemire.me3 hours ago

18.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270973)23

     [Suffering as a Feature](https://blog.codinghorror.com/suffering-as-a-feature/)

     HNblog.codinghorror.com3 hours ago

19.  [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)

20.  [2](https://lobste.rs/s/smtpje)7

     [The Benchmarking Crisis](http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-benchmarking-crisis.html)

     LBdatabasearchitects.blogspot.com4 hours ago[ai](/search?q=ai&appearance=system)

21.  [17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271411)16

     [Opus 5.5 causing an identity crisis is real](https://www.kondz.io/blog/opus-5-5-causing-identity-crisis-is-real/)

     HNkondz.io2 hours ago

22.  [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)

23.  [0](https://lobste.rs/s/yxuvie)15

     [AlpineBSD](https://wiki.alpinebsd.org/)

     LBwiki.alpinebsd.org2 hours ago[netbsd](/search?q=netbsd&appearance=system)

24.  [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

25.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270229)16

     [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)

26.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271271)24

     [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

27.  [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

28.  [0](https://lobste.rs/s/ml4m9a)7

     [Who’s 0xabadbabe and why? (2011)](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/10/28/whos-0xabadbabe-and-why/)

     LBdaniel.haxx.se5 hours ago[windows](/search?q=windows&appearance=system)

29.  [16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272145)51

     [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.com1 hour ago

30.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272596)7

     [Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain](https://www.euronews.com/video/2026/10/28/spain-first-footage-reveals-wreckage-of-deadly-high-speed-train-crash)

     HNeuronews.com24 minutes ago

31.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269492)12

     [碁の国: Play Chess as Town Building](https://gonokuni.plpl.town/)

     HNgonokuni.plpl.town8 hours ago

32.  [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.org16 hours ago

33.  [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.com18 hours ago

34.  [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

35.  [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.com11 hours ago

36.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271915)6

     [The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take](https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-class-humanities-32e06366)

     HNwsj.com1 hour ago

37.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267931)13

     [New Agentic security tool detects shuts down hackers on autopilot](https://argusone.website/)

     HNargusone.website12 hours ago

38.  [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.com13 hours ago

39.  [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.com1 hour ago

40.  [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.org10 hours ago

41.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272028)11

     [Entry level jobs that dont ask for experience](https://entryleveljobs.co/jobs/)

     HNentryleveljobs.co1 hour ago

42.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270781)8

     [Elon Musk's AI Odyssey Review](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/27/elon-musk-ai-odyssey-movie-grok-christopher-nolan)

     HNtheguardian.com4 hours ago

43.  [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.com4 hours ago

44.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268548)14

     [Emacs Turns 50](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/)

     HNtechnologyreview.com10 hours ago

45.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268907)10

     [F](https://f.com/)

     HNf.com9 hours ago

46.  [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

47.  [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.com7 hours ago

48.  [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.org18 hours ago[zig](/search?q=zig&appearance=system)

49.  [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)

50.  [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

51.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267720)8

     [OEIS sequence A400000: The city-building sequence](https://oeis.org/A400000)

     HNoeis.org12 hours ago

52.  [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)

53.  [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

54.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269272)6

     [Harold Blauer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Blauer)

     HNen.wikipedia.org8 hours ago

55.  [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

56.  [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.uk12 hours ago

57.  [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.com12 hours ago

58.  [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.com12 hours ago

59.  [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

60.  [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

61.  [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)

62.  [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.com19 hours ago

63.  [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

64.  [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

65.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266429)5

     [Stripe Pay](https://docs.stripe.com/cli/pay)

     HNdocs.stripe.com15 hours ago

66.  [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.com17 hours ago

67.  [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)

68.  [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.com18 hours ago

69.  [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)

70.  [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)

71.  [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=system)

72.  [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.com22 hours ago

73.  [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

74.  [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.com21 hours ago

75.  [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

76.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257997)7

     [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)

77.  [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

78.  [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

79.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259943)5

     [Tare: K8s Rightsizer CO2 Aware](https://github.com/2listic/tare)

     HNgithub.com22 hours ago

80.  [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