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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)

1.   [302](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291945)357

     [Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue](https://www.kadoa.com/companies/insights/google-search-below-half)

     HNkadoa.com4 hours ago

2.   New since last visit
3.   [336](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288867)396

     [‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html)

     HNnytimes.com7 hours ago

4.   New since last visit
5.   [532](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287919)335

     [DoorDash to acquire Instacart](https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart)

     HNabout.doordash.com8 hours ago

6.   [235](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288019)320

     [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.ai8 hours ago

7.   New since last visit
8.   [261](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418)937

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

     HNmistral.ai6 hours ago

9.   [241](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280864)390

     [Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents](https://www.wired.com/story/massive-leak-exposes-41000-homeland-security-workers-including-undercover-ice-agents/)

     HNwired.com23 hours ago

10.  [659](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282454)748

     [StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month](https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph?t=1)

     HNdata.stackexchange.com21 hours ago

11.  [242](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265393)313

     [Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth](https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/code-execution-flaw-in-uefi-firmware-threatens-most-servers-on-planet-earth/)

     HNarstechnica.com2 days ago

     Also discussed: [Lobsters · 19 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/0gomue "35 points")

12.  [221](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255)553

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

     HNgist.github.com17 hours ago

13.  [252](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243060)556

     [The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand](https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid)

     HNcircuithub.com3 days ago

14.  [141](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282838)670

     [Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5](https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer)

     HNdivagr.com20 hours ago

     Also discussed: [Lobsters · 3 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/zftely "31 points")

15.  [170](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275626)249

     [Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments](https://surgehq.ai/blog/dayjob-tax)

     HNsurgehq.ai1 day ago

16.  [170](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285452)303

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

     HNsmsofdeath.com13 hours ago

17.  [58](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280974)341

     [A Health Update](https://furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/)

     HNfurbo.org23 hours ago

18.  [75](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275887)282

     [Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign](https://paulfwalsh.substack.com/p/meta-censored-the-no-kings-instagram)

     HNpaulfwalsh.substack.com1 day ago

19.  [26](https://lobste.rs/s/yxuvie)78

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

     LBwiki.alpinebsd.org1 day ago[netbsd](/search?q=netbsd&appearance=system)

     Also discussed: [Hacker News · 234 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274251 "242 points")

20.  [25](https://lobste.rs/s/qr59sa)72

     [Four Months of Zig](https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/four-months-of-zig/)

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

     Also discussed: [Hacker News · 149 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265128 "183 points")

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