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# Archived daily edition

[Archive](/archive?limit=20&appearance=system) / 2026-10-29

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Daily ranking · strictly above median

1.   2026-10-29
2.   [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282650)8

     [Get Ready for Touch on Mac](https://developer.apple.com/touch-on-mac/)

     HNdeveloper.apple.com47 minutes ago

3.   [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281826)8

     [AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/ai-execs-may-be-too-out-of-touch-to-build-for-the-general-public/)

     HNtechcrunch.com2 hours ago

4.   [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268907)10

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

     HNf.com21 hours ago

5.   [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.com20 hours ago

6.   [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267368)11

     [Zen: System-wide open source ad-blocker for Windows, macOS, and Linux](https://irbis.sh/zen)

     HNirbis.sh1 day ago

7.   [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.com18 hours ago

8.   [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267720)10

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

     HNoeis.org1 day ago

9.   [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.org1 day ago[zig](/search?q=zig&appearance=system)

10.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267680)7

     [Show HN: Guess what frontier LLMs do in a repeated prisoner's dilemma](https://thenunchiproject.com/game/ai-decides)

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

11.  [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.com1 day ago

12.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269272)6

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

     HNen.wikipedia.org20 hours ago

13.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269136)6

     [Don't anthropomorphize big tech companies](https://www.seangoedecke.com/dont-anthropomorphize-big-tech-companies/)

     HNseangoedecke.com20 hours ago

14.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267927)8

     [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.com1 day ago

15.  [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.uk23 hours ago

16.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264076)9

     [Nook: A terminal Markdown editor where the cursor never moves](https://github.com/simone20a/Nook)

     HNgithub.com1 day ago

17.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266458)7

     [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.com1 day ago

18.  [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.com1 day ago

19.  [11](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256342)7

     [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)

20.  [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.com1 day ago

21.  [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

22.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264374)6

     [Show HN: Tar-minefield shows where tar implementations disagree](https://stoppels.ch/tar/)

     HNstoppels.ch1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

23.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261492)6

     [Show HN: Freightfloor. Have 3 minutes? Drive a forklift vs. AI](https://freightfloor.com/)

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

24.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267380)5

     [Historical Scientific Instruments](https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/historical-scientific-instruments)

     HNnealstephenson.substack.com1 day ago

25.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267373)5

     [Show HN: Aqueous Archive Format](https://github.com/lifthrasiir/aqueous/)

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

26.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266429)6

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

     HNdocs.stripe.com1 day ago

27.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266408)6

     [Linux 7.4 Introduces DMA-BUF Support to I/O Path with IO\_uring](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DMA-BUF-IO-uring-Linux-7.4)

     HNphoronix.com1 day ago

28.  [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.com1 day ago

29.  [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.com1 day ago

30.  [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.com1 day ago

31.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261776)6

     [Show HN: Duotone icon library with 2.5k+ icons and 250 flags, RTL aware](https://github.com/andrsrxn/icons)

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

32.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50262407)8

     [Show HN: Agent-relay for multi-vendor coding sessions](https://github.com/saranyan/agent-relay)

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

33.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264716)6

     [Single-File Web Apps](https://gods.art/articles/single_file_web_apps)

     HNgods.art1 day ago

34.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258875)10

     [Show HN: Markdown is 40× more token-efficient with SQLite](https://www.withnative.ai/research-and-posts/markdown-context-benchmark)

     HNwithnative.ai1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

35.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264163)5

     [Necro-Economics Eyal Weizman](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264163)

     HNnews.ycombinator.com1 day ago

36.  [5](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)

37.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254255)11

     [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

38.  [0](https://lobste.rs/s/vqlcdk)8

     [Cuis Smalltalk](https://cuis.st/)

     LBcuis.st2 days ago[plt](/search?q=plt&appearance=system)

39.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256532)8

     [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

40.  [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.com1 day ago

41.  [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.com1 day ago

42.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259567)5

     [Show HN: Egres: A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads](https://manishrjain.com/egres/)

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

43.  [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.com1 day ago

44.  [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

45.  [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

46.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260969)5

     [Show HN: Sectr – Serverless backend platform for easy deployment of AI agents](https://sectr.dev/)

     HNsectr.dev1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

47.  [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)

48.  [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

49.  [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.com2 days ago

50.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258730)6

     [The Cloudflare PHP Capture the Flag Challenge](https://blog.cloudflare.com/php-ctf/)

     HNblog.cloudflare.com1 day ago

51.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259943)5

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

     HNgithub.com1 day ago

52.  [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

53.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258343)6

     [The Case for OpenTelemetry Maintainership](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/case-for-opentelemetry-maintainership/)

     HNopentelemetry.io1 day ago

54.  [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)

55.  [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.com1 day ago

56.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258529)5

     [MacBook Pro with M6](https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro)

     HNapple.com1 day ago

57.  [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.com2 days ago

58.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239122)26

     [Closing the Sea: Lessons from Ancient Mediterranean Blockades](https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/closing-the-sea-lessons-from-ancient-mediterranean-blockades)

     HNmaritime-executive.com2 days ago

59.  [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

60.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255161)6

     [Edit an SQLite database in your browser](https://editsqlite.com/)

     HNeditsqlite.com1 day ago

61.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253664)12

     [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.com1 day ago

62.  [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242358)14

     [The Best Rubber Duck I've Ever Had](https://blog.blockingqueue.com/the-best-rubber-duck-i-ve-ever-had)

     HNblog.blockingqueue.com2 days ago

63.  [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

64.  [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

65.  [0](https://lobste.rs/s/aszhzo)6

     [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.com2 days ago[java](/search?q=java&appearance=system)

66.  [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.com1 day ago

67.  [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.com1 day ago

68.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254899)7

     [1984: The Canadian Edition](https://btxx.org/posts/1984/)

     HNbtxx.org1 day ago

69.  [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251794)5

     [Walter Koenig, Chekov in Original 'Star Trek' Series, Dies at 90](https://uk.yahoo.com/news/walter-koenig-chekov-original-star-172418393.html)

     HNuk.yahoo.com2 days ago

70.  [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.com1 day ago

71.  [2](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.com1 day ago

72.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255410)5

     [Britain bets big on AI to defend against the threats AI is helping create](https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/26/britain-bets-big-on-ai-to-defend-against-the-threats-ai-is-helping-create/5305319)

     HNtheregister.com1 day ago

73.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251301)7

     [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.com2 days ago

74.  [15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242424)5

     [Ask HN: How do you grow OSS projects?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242424)

     HNnews.ycombinator.com2 days ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=system)

75.  [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.com1 day ago

76.  [0](https://programming.dev/post/58543229)5

     [From 27 minutes to 4: Cutting CI build time by 85%](https://alexitc.com/blog/2026-10-23-from-27-minutes-to-4-cutting-ci-build-time-by-85-percent/)

     PDalexitc.com2 days ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system)

77.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254205)6

     [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.co1 day ago

78.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251518)7

     [The US AI Labs, Mapped: Founders, Revenue and the Money Behind Them](https://codingplans.dev/briefs/us-model-labs-part-1/)

     HNcodingplans.dev2 days ago

79.  [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241822)11

     [Show HN: Ultimidi – piano learning web game](https://game.ultimidi.com/)

     HNgame.ultimidi.com2 days ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

80.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253944)6

     [Show HN: ESP-Watchtower – $3 ESP8266 Home Network Sentinel and Canary Honeypot](https://github.com/prasadabhishek/esp-watchtower)

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

81.  [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.com2 days ago

82.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240559)16

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

     HNen.wikipedia.org2 days ago