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# Archived daily edition

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

[Top 10](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-29&limit=10&q=&appearance=system)[Top 20](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-29&limit=20&q=&appearance=system)[Above median](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-29&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=system)

Daily ranking · strictly above median

1.   2026-10-29
2.   [213](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255)527

     [Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model](https://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce)

     HNgist.github.com13 hours ago

3.   [139](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418)552

     [We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/)

     HNmistral.ai2 hours ago

4.   [219](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288019)286

     [Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5](https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-carbon-new-number-1)

     HNartificialanalysis.ai4 hours ago

5.   [143](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285452)264

     [Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS](https://smsofdeath.com/)

     HNsmsofdeath.com10 hours ago

6.   [151](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287001)234

     [The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months](https://electrek.co/2026/08/31/the-us-added-a-record-20-2-gwh-of-battery-storage-in-just-3-months/)

     HNelectrek.co6 hours ago

7.   [216](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285714)95

     [Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027](https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-keeps-dst-until-nov-2027.html)

     HNtimeanddate.com9 hours ago

8.   [61](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290170)105

     [Finland investigate Google over destruction of 250k trees](https://yle.fi/a/74-20254086)

     HNyle.fi2 hours ago

9.   [48](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284089)97

     [Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B](https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ultra-rich-01-produce-more-carbon-pollution-nearly-half-humanity-while-cashing)

     HNoxfam.org14 hours ago

10.  [66](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281826)87

     [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.com18 hours ago

11.  [108](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285154)58

     [We Won't "Just Hang Out"](https://borretti.me/article/we-wont-just-hang-out)

     HNborretti.me10 hours ago

12.  [9](https://lobste.rs/s/7qaac6)37

     [What the fox say?](https://entropicthoughts.com/what-the-fox-say)

     LBentropicthoughts.com10 hours ago[games](/search?q=games&appearance=system)

13.  [82](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286197)42

     [Spain train crash: What we know after two trains crashed with dozens feared dead](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo)

     HNbbc.com8 hours ago

14.  [44](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287255)38

     [Show HN: UK Farming Simulator](https://butterbean.farm/)

     HNbutterbean.farm5 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

15.  [13](https://lobste.rs/s/m6fw0x)17

     [NetBSD adds a new Emacs-like text editor called atto](https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117518160563539748)

     LBmastodon.sdf.org5 hours ago[editors](/search?q=editors&appearance=system)

     Also discussed: [Hacker News · 89 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287599 "96 points")

16.  [24](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290283)64

     [Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from](https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats)

     HNtrakkr.ai2 hours ago

17.  [17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289692)38

     [Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning](https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/)

     HN404media.co2 hours ago

18.  [12](https://lobste.rs/s/eccbci)13

     [Shared password manager for families?](https://lobste.rs/s/eccbci)

     LBlobste.rs2 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=system)

19.  [17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259697)84

     [MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark](https://dmux.github.io/minilake/)

     HNdmux.github.io2 days ago

20.  [2](https://lobste.rs/s/jmbjlu)17

     [The Future Trait Has A Missing State](https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/the-future-trait-has-a-missing-state)

     LBblog.yoshuawuyts.com12 hours ago[rust](/search?q=rust&appearance=system)

21.  [12](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289321)21

     [US economy beats forecasts to grow at 3.4% rate in third quarter](https://www.ft.com/content/f2de9f3c-3290-4e87-bbc2-55430025f2ab)

     HNft.com3 hours ago

22.  [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283488)38

     [Electronic fibers weave touchscreen into sleeve that survives machine washing](https://www.designboom.com/technology/electronic-fibers-touchscreen-sleeve-machine-washing-national-university-singapore-nus-tural-khudiyev/)

     HNdesignboom.com15 hours ago

23.  [1](https://lobste.rs/s/brdwr2)17

     [Redox Ring Buffers Project Summary](https://www.redox-os.org/news/nlnet-rb-summary/)

     LBredox-os.org15 hours ago[osdev](/search?q=osdev&appearance=system)

24.  [8](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290042)16

     [React.lazy, Suspense and the Hidden 300 ms Delay](https://tabwidgets.com/blog/react-lazy-suspense-delay)

     HNtabwidgets.com2 hours ago

25.  [5](https://programming.dev/post/58682633)6

     [This means it's a real programming language now, right?](https://wafrn-media.goodanser.com/1793286346041_45f2ae3e674fcb198aa1ae1f8778e616b24f43db_processed.webp)

     PDwafrn-media.goodanser.com1 hour ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system)

26.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289590)28

     [Keplearn: Extract Equations from Data in Seconds](https://github.com/owls-on-wires/keplearn)

     HNgithub.com2 hours ago

27.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289163)16

     [Sorry Harvey! I Made a Free Open-Source Alternative to Your Overpriced Legal AI](https://sorryharvey.com/)

     HNsorryharvey.com3 hours ago

28.  [8](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290324)16

     [MIT professor says AI is taking over your brain](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/23/opinion/ai-impact-cognitive-ability-eric-so/)

     HNbostonglobe.com2 hours ago

29.  [8](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291830)10

     [Are stochastic parrots alive?](https://stefano.petrilli.xyz/are-stochastic-parrots-alive/)

     HNstefano.petrilli.xyz32 minutes ago

30.  [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289646)8

     [US computer science enrollment drops 18% in two years](https://nscresearchcenter.org/prelim-fall-enrollment-trends/)

     HNnscresearchcenter.org2 hours ago

31.  [9](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288662)5

     [Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288662)

     HNnews.ycombinator.com3 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=system)

32.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286737)16

     [Residential proxy sourcing and consent: Q&A with Massive's CEO](https://www.reddit.com/r/WebScrapingInsider/comments/1xf9hdj/where_do_residential_proxies_really_come_from_ama/)

     HNreddit.com7 hours ago

33.  [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291135)7

     [Capital Wants a Monopoly](https://larrysalibra.com/capital-wants-a-monopoly/)

     HNlarrysalibra.com1 hour ago

34.  [9](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271756)25

     [TLP Is Not a Suggestion](https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/tlp-is-not-a-suggestion)

     HNakamai.com1 day ago

35.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289514)9

     [Show, don't prompt: how QA Wolf turns a recording into a real test](https://www.qawolf.com/blog/how-qa-wolf-turns-a-recording-into-a-real-test)

     HNqawolf.com2 hours ago

36.  [32](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291054)71

     [H.264 Is Magic (2016)](https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/)

     HNsidbala.com1 hour ago

37.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288172)10

     [Show HN: Pidgeon – Email inboxes for AI agents](https://pidgeon.ai/)

     HNpidgeon.ai4 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

38.  [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291945)22

     [For the first time ever, Google Search is less than 50% of Alphabet's revenue](https://www.kadoa.com/companies/insights/google-search-below-half)

     HNkadoa.com26 minutes ago

39.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290912)35

     [Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks](https://skypilot.ai/blog/grace-blackwell-needs-a-new-scheduler)

     HNskypilot.ai1 hour ago

40.  [0](https://lobste.rs/s/ssp7ug)9

     [Introducing the Accessible Components Library](https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/10/14/accessible-components-library/)

     LBtetralogical.com16 hours ago[a11y](/search?q=a11y&appearance=system)

41.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287015)9

     [FAT32 File-System Seeing as Much as 265x Improvement with Linux 7.4](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Faster-FAT32)

     HNphoronix.com6 hours ago

42.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290534)5

     [My Students Can't Read](https://chronicleofhighereducation.substack.com/p/my-students-cant-read)

     HNchronicleofhighereducation.substack.com1 hour ago

43.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288716)7

     [SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that's a problem for America's space agency](https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/spacex-no-longer-needs-nasa-and-thats-a-problem-for-americas-space-agency/)

     HNarstechnica.com3 hours ago

44.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286949)7

     [Show HN: I got tired of travel spreadsheets so I made a travel planner app](https://www.wherewhen.cc/)

     HNwherewhen.cc6 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

45.  [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291116)13

     [Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291116)

     HNnews.ycombinator.com1 hour ago

46.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290177)18

     [LLM Voice](https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html)

     HNmartinfowler.com2 hours ago

47.  [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283162)9

     [Apple's New Touchscreen MacBook Pro Costs Up to $14,549](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/28/new-macbook-pro-maxed-out-cost/)

     HNmacrumors.com16 hours ago

48.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289017)5

     [Trump administration will allow pharmacies to make popular peptides](https://www.npr.org/2026/10/28/nx-s1-6021030/peptides-compounding-enforcement)

     HNnpr.org3 hours ago

49.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286789)5

     [Em dashes on Reddit have become 10 times more popular in a few years](https://kissmypost.com/research/em-dash-chatgpt-reddit)

     HNkissmypost.com6 hours ago

50.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286844)7

     [Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead](https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/28/anthropic-engineer-declares-the-coding-interview-dead/5306115)

     HNtheregister.com6 hours ago

51.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283667)12

     [The Beleaguered Chip Sellers Getting Their Revenge on Apple](https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-memory-chips-ai-c0084cc9)

     HNwsj.com15 hours ago

52.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284628)9

     [Point system Claude uses to ban accounts](https://twitter.com/make_claude/status/2115501814090969583)

     HNtwitter.com12 hours ago

53.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282693)6

     [Maltese-flagged vessel is on route carrying Russian diesel to American ports](https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/2115453977579930062/photo/1)

     HNtwitter.com17 hours ago

54.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283932)6

     [a](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/what-robinhoods-cfo-found-interesting-about-anthropics-ipo-prospectus-223910657.html)

     HNfinance.yahoo.com14 hours ago

55.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284856)5

     [Show HN: Fabivo – Furniture design from a photo to a numbered cut list](https://www.fabivo.app/en)

     HNfabivo.app11 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

56.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284080)5

     [America waged war on drunk driving, now a new epidemic is taking hold](https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/drugged-driving-epidemic/)

     HNsfchronicle.com14 hours ago

57.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282648)7

     [Trump's Russian Diesel Could End Up in Cuba Instead](https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/How-Trumps-Russian-Diesel-Could-End-Up-in-Cuba-Instead.html)

     HNoilprice.com17 hours ago

58.  [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280120)5

     [Show HN: A visual map of related food dishes from around the world](https://tangledtaste.com/)

     HNtangledtaste.com21 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

59.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281223)5

     [SK Hynix says memory shortages to persist until 2030](https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/28/sk-hynix-says-memory-shortages-to-persist-until-2030/5305887)

     HNtheregister.com19 hours ago

60.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282786)6

     [Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1018676/data-center-midterm-election-energy-water-texas)

     HNtheverge.com16 hours ago

61.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282311)5

     [I was never hired by Facebook to do a hit job on Jonathan Haidt](https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/10/27/we-interrupt-our-usual-programming-to-inform-you-that-i-was-never-hired-by-facebook-to-do-a-hit-job-on-jonathan-haidt/)

     HNstatmodeling.stat.columbia.edu17 hours ago

62.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281071)5

     [AI training platform Outlier illegally surveils European platform workers](https://noyb.eu/en/ai-training-platform-outlier-illegally-surveils-european-platform-workers)

     HNnoyb.eu19 hours ago

63.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50278645)12

     [noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in Golang](https://github.com/theconsensuslabs/noalloc)

     HNgithub.com22 hours ago

64.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280732)5

     [DOJ is inquiring about Nvidia's purchase of Hugging Face](https://www.reuters.com/world/us-doj-is-inquiring-about-nvidias-purchase-hugging-face-sources-say-2026-10-28/)

     HNreuters.com20 hours ago

65.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280553)5

     [Climate Change Stopped the Next Ice Age](https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/climate-change-stopped-next-ice-age)

     HNlamont.columbia.edu20 hours ago

66.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280153)5

     [US-owned trans-Pacific cables face growing risks from sabotage and China](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/google-and-meta-subsea-cables-among-most-at-risk-from-sabotage-in-pacific/)

     HNarstechnica.com21 hours ago

67.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277662)5

     [Show HN: OpenTaxRate – open-source US sales tax rates by street address](https://github.com/equated-org/opentaxrate)

     HNgithub.com23 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

68.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274657)8

     [Show HN: I made an interactive Sakura tree that runs in the browser](https://nozomi-xi.vercel.app/)

     HNnozomi-xi.vercel.app1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

69.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274893)9

     [Newly discovered Kerberos delegation abuse path](https://hunio.org/security/abusing-constrained-delegation-without-protocol-transition-against-spn-less-accounts/)

     HNhunio.org1 day ago

70.  [0](https://lobste.rs/s/t8epqj)5

     [A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress](https://brennan.day/a-love-letter-to-the-super-dimension-fortress/)

     LBbrennan.day1 day ago[culture](/search?q=culture&appearance=system)

     Also discussed: [Hacker News · 17 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219275 "96 points") [Hacker News · 1 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223651 "5 points")

71.  [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253100)35

     [Southern Africa's first known stenciled rock art found hiding in plain sight](https://phys.org/news/2026-10-southern-africa-stenciled-art-plain.html)

     HNphys.org2 days ago

72.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270788)5

     [Show HN: Curate. free, no ADS, with AI, private photo cleaner for iPhone](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/curate-photo/id6825514911)

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

73.  [9](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251085)24

     [Muhammad Aqeel: Undo for Postgres, without losing the rest of your day](https://www.pgedge.com/blog/undo-for-postgres-without-losing-the-rest-of-your-day)

     HNpgedge.com2 days ago

74.  [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)

75.  [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)

76.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269855)6

     [Exiled Brazilian political opponent's desperate run for the US through Argentina](https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/27/americas/flavio-bolsonaro-brazil-passports-latam-intl)

     HNcnn.com1 day ago

77.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268880)5

     [Show HN: Cirkit – Annotate, Trace, and Ask AI About Schematic PDFs](https://www.cirkit.us/demo/)

     HNcirkit.us1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)
