--- title: "Archived daily edition · Daily Diff" --- [Daily edition](/?appearance=system)[Hot now](/hot?appearance=system) # Archived daily edition [Archive](/archive?limit=20&appearance=system) / 2026-10-29 [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. [401](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294702)2029 [Patrick Stewart has died](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html) HNnytimes.com3 hours ago 2. [324](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291945)379 [Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue](https://www.kadoa.com/companies/insights/google-search-below-half) HNkadoa.com6 hours ago 3. [371](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288867)403 [‘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.com9 hours ago 4. [577](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287919)388 [DoorDash to acquire Instacart](https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart) HNabout.doordash.com10 hours ago 5. [240](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288019)324 [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.ai10 hours ago 6. [315](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290668)275 [I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/10/27/i-saw-future-driving-mexico-its-off-limits-americans/) HNwashingtonpost.com7 hours ago 7. [322](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418)1107 [We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/) HNmistral.ai9 hours ago 8. [249](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280864)403 [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.com1 day ago 9. [681](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282454)757 [StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month](https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph?t=1) HNdata.stackexchange.com23 hours ago 10. [243](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265393)314 [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 "36 points") 11. [224](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255)558 [Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model](https://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce) HNgist.github.com19 hours ago 12. [257](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243060)558 [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 13. [142](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282838)678 [Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5](https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer) HNdivagr.com22 hours ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 3 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/zftely "37 points") 14. [171](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275626)253 [Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments](https://surgehq.ai/blog/dayjob-tax) HNsurgehq.ai1 day ago 15. [174](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285452)312 [Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS](https://smsofdeath.com/) HNsmsofdeath.com16 hours ago 16. [61](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280974)341 [A Health Update](https://furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/) HNfurbo.org1 day ago 17. [76](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275887)285 [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 18. [26](https://lobste.rs/s/yxuvie)79 [AlpineBSD](https://wiki.alpinebsd.org/) LBwiki.alpinebsd.org1 day ago[netbsd](/search?q=netbsd&appearance=system) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 238 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274251 "244 points") 19. [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 · 150 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265128 "184 points") [Refresh · highlight new picks →](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-29&limit=20&q=&since=1793316266&appearance=system) Edition progress · 19/20 selections generated Top 10: every 2 h 24 min. Top 20: every 1 h 12 min. UTC. 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