--- title: "Archived daily edition · Daily Diff" --- [Daily edition](/?appearance=system)[Hot now](/hot?appearance=system) # Archived daily edition [Archive](/archive?limit=20&appearance=system) / 2026-10-31 [Top 10](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-31&limit=10&q=&appearance=system)[Top 20](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-31&limit=20&q=&appearance=system)[Above median](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-31&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=system) Daily ranking · strictly above median 1. 2026-10-31 2. [34](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277379)126 [Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)](https://github.com/chris124567/cfsolve) HNgithub.com2 days ago 3. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/soosuu)11 [The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261029-00/?p=112808/) LBdevblogs.microsoft.com3 hours ago[historical](/search?q=historical&appearance=system) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 0 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300039 "6 points") 4. [1](https://programming.dev/post/58748304)6 [Mermaid Diagrams in Obsidian: Architecture Docs That Live Next to Your Notes](https://danholloran.me/posts/mermaid-diagrams-in-obsidian-architecture-docs-that-live-next-to-your-notes) PDdanholloran.me5 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system) 5. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312174)13 [Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312174) HNnews.ycombinator.com3 hours ago 6. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312739)21 [Flock camera searches fell 95% after a dispatcher's misconduct was caught](https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/investigations/flock-camera-searches-fall-95-percent-highland-heights-dispatcher-misconduct-caught/95-94b18f33-60e2-4bc7-a00f-d71d1e1fdd5e) HNwkyc.com1 hour ago 7. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311670)8 [Be a Loser](https://makemeacto.cc/be-a-loser/) HNmakemeacto.cc4 hours ago 8. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312922)8 [OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-raises-less-than-half-of-30-billion-target-in-latest-round-91aecdc5) HNwsj.com54 minutes ago 9. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312555)5 [I don't think AGI is right around the corner (2025)](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-june-2025) HNdwarkesh.com2 hours ago 10. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312408)5 [Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault](http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html) HNrhaas.blogspot.com2 hours ago 11. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/paqtgw)5 [Smart audio for the smart home (2021)](https://computer.rip/2021-11-06-smart-audio-for-the-smart-home.html) LBcomputer.rip15 hours ago[historical](/search?q=historical&appearance=system) 12. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311672)6 [Googling Firebase got me a phishing page hosted by Google](https://volodymyr.smirnov.im/writing/google-firebase-phishing/) HNvolodymyr.smirnov.im4 hours ago 13. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308222)5 [Show HN: Fishoid: an ambient fish tank for your screen](https://fishoid.net/) HNfishoid.net9 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 14. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311045)5 [Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020](https://maketecheasier.com/arecibo-zinc-creep-collapse/) HNmaketecheasier.com5 hours ago 15. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310582)6 [Wolfenstein 3D on the Atari 2600](https://forums.atariage.com/topic/394015-wolfenstein-3d-atari-2600-port-for-pluscartunocart/) HNforums.atariage.com6 hours ago 16. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304437)7 [Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era](https://www.404media.co/apple-is-entering-its-slop-era/) HN404media.co13 hours ago 17. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308900)5 [From Lotus Leaves to Rain Jackets: The Power of Biomimicry](https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/student-contributors-technology-general-science/lotus-leaves-rain-jackets-power-biomimicry) HNmcgill.ca8 hours ago 18. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307196)5 [Chasing the Karpathy Peak (and Falling Off Slop Cliff)](https://thomasjiralerspong.substack.com/p/chasing-the-karpathy-peak) HNthomasjiralerspong.substack.com10 hours ago 19. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301004)12 [Malicious Claude Code Extension Found in Cursor Marketplace](https://cursor.com/blog/claude-code-extension-security-notice) HNcursor.com20 hours ago 20. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306904)5 [EU to impose €2 fee on all packages entering the bloc as of 1 November](https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/30/eu-to-impose-2-fee-on-all-packages-entering-the-bloc-as-of-1-november) HNeuronews.com11 hours ago 21. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308297)5 [Old Ideas](https://blog.fogus.me/thoughts/old-ideas.html) HNblog.fogus.me9 hours ago 22. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308262)5 [Hamburg 1:1 in Minecraft](https://github.com/lukad/hamburg-in-minecraft) HNgithub.com9 hours ago 23. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291812)25 [Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers](https://github.com/arterialist/kube32) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 24. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301636)6 [Europe plans to squeeze out Starlink](https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-telecom-giants-team-up-against-starlink/) HNpolitico.eu18 hours ago 25. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304393)7 [Ghostly Cat's Head Nebula Lurks Within Sight of NASA's Hubble, Webb](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/ghostly-cats-head-nebula-lurks-within-sight-of-nasas-hubble-webb/) HNscience.nasa.gov13 hours ago 26. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297787)10 [Reddit shares drop and it plans login requirement as search traffic sinks](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/29/reddit-rddt-q3-2026.html) HNcnbc.com1 day ago 27. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300049)12 [Radio-in-a-box: Self-hosted internet radio with Icecast, Liquidsoap and Rust CLI](https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/radio-in-a-box) HNgithub.com23 hours ago 28. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304435)6 [A computer scientist breaks through a limit that stood since 1996](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261029072146.htm) HNsciencedaily.com13 hours ago 29. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303280)5 [Show HN: Showbuild – Hacker News but only for builders](https://showbuild.co/) HNshowbuild.co15 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 30. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302236)6 [India Saved Its Tigers](https://altermag.com/articles/how-india-actually-saved-its-tigers) HNaltermag.com17 hours ago 31. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302703)5 [Ginux: Independent rust based Linux implementation](https://github.com/gmkurtzer/ginux) HNgithub.com16 hours ago 32. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300569)7 [Electrocutions, disease, no pay: workers risk exploitation in Europe datacentres](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/30/electrocutions-disease-and-no-pay-how-workers-risk-exploitation-in-europes-datacentres) HNtheguardian.com21 hours ago 33. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301537)5 [Mistral 4 had a release, makes it comparable to Chinese open-weight models](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/mistral-ceo-says-new-ai-model-beats-chinese-ones-some-areas-2026-10-06/) HNreuters.com18 hours ago 34. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302330)5 [The Authoritarian Stack](https://authoritarian-stack.info/) HNauthoritarian-stack.info17 hours ago 35. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302257)5 [Dockworkers at more than 100 ports worldwide strike against arms shipments](https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/dockworkers-more-than-100-ports-strike-against-arms-shipments-friday-2026-10-29/) HNreuters.com17 hours ago 36. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300979)7 [Binance hot wallet signed 50 EIP-7702 delegations 3 minutes before the drain](https://808bits.com/articles/binance-hot-wallet-eip-7702-delegations/) HN808bits.com20 hours ago 37. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298738)12 [Show HN: Arken – Passwordless auth middleware using secp256k1 keys](https://github.com/zacharybenson/arken-protocol) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 38. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298017)10 [Meta discussed 'whisper strategy' against social media critic Jonathan Haidt](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/29/meta-staff-us-social-media-critic-jonathan-haidt-court-documents) HNtheguardian.com1 day ago 39. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299796)5 [Sam Altman: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/boucetta-abderahmane_sam-altman-local-inference-is-a-terrible-activity-7521718579914981376-WZzP) HNlinkedin.com1 day ago 40. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298677)8 [34% of U.S. women under age 50 have iron deficiency under new guidelines](https://www.empirical.health/blog/ferritin-thresholds-iron-deficiency/) HNempirical.health1 day ago 41. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298900)6 [New federal rule will require prescription drug middlemen to share payment data](https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/29/prescription-drug-price-reform-pbm-disclosure-rules-face-challenge/) HNstatnews.com1 day ago 42. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298397)9 [Sudo](https://sudo.com/) HNsudo.com1 day ago 43. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/i1xogy)5 [QSYRUPWD, Part 2: Correcting the Rijndael Key Builder](https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2026/10/29/qsyrupwd-part-2-correcting-the-rijndael-key-builder/) LBblog.silentsignal.eu1 day ago[cryptography](/search?q=cryptography&appearance=system) 44. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300797)5 [Making DNS\_Erlang Fast: Binary Tricks for the Beam](https://blog.dnsimple.com/2026/10/making-dns-erlang-fast/) HNblog.dnsimple.com20 hours ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 5 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/p3pruv "26 points") 45. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297892)7 [Critical TCP use-after-free: CVE-2026-98432](https://www.rescana.com/post/linux-kernel-tcp-cve-2026-98432-use-after-free-prepare-now) HNrescana.com1 day ago 46. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299915)6 [The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated](https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/10/29/the-reports-of-stack-overflow-s-death-are-greatly-exaggerated/) HNstackoverflow.blog23 hours ago 47. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297354)10 [Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/highway-thieves-are-spoofing-gps-to-steal-millions-in-data-center-bound-cargo/) HNarstechnica.com1 day ago 48. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298941)5 [Binance's possible hack triggers $3B freeze in crypto assets](https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/tether-circle-freeze-238-billion-after-binance-reports-security-incident-2026-10-29/) HNreuters.com1 day ago 49. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298297)6 [Patrick Stewart dies at 86](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-actor-patrick-stewart-has-died-his-family-says-2026-10-29/) HNreuters.com1 day ago 50. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299971)5 [You can know a person's device type on Twitter if the post has these parameters](https://twitter.com/youhatefive/status/2115847903696527589) HNtwitter.com23 hours ago 51. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299830)5 [Chez Scheme from a Clojurian Perspective](https://get-aksh.com/blog/chez-from-a-clojurian-perspective) HNget-aksh.com23 hours ago 52. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298118)7 [Josh Kushner's Thrive and OpenAI to buy home security firm ADT](https://www.ft.com/content/f88e30a0-1252-4695-97b0-03da22e5fd42) HNft.com1 day ago 53. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298054)7 [Did your company donate to Trump's ballroom project? Call your lawyer](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/29/oversight-lobbying-k-street-01139772) HNpolitico.com1 day ago 54. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297506)5 [The end of startups: The coming credit crunch](https://evanjconrad.com/posts/end-of-startups) HNevanjconrad.com1 day ago 55. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296169)6 [Polymarket Got Hacked. Here's What Their Post Didn't Tell You](https://twitter.com/brianskellenger/status/2115890675237392452) HNtwitter.com1 day ago 56. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269668)41 [Solving Postgres' Count Problem](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/opening-a-closed-tin-part-2) HNparadedb.com2 days ago 57. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292825)10 [Thursday: A SerenityOS for Myself](https://shantaram.xyz/posts/2026/10/a-serenityos-for-myself) HNshantaram.xyz1 day ago 58. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294992)8 [Amazon.com Announces Q3 2026 Results \[pdf\]](https://ir.aboutamazon.com/files/doc_earnings/2026/q3/earnings-result/AMZN-Q3-2026-Earnings-Release.pdf) HNir.aboutamazon.com1 day ago 59. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296693)5 [The Streisand Effect Case Might Have Played Out Differently in Germany](https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/29/the-streisand-effect-case-might-have-played-out-differently-in-germany/) HNtechdirt.com1 day ago 60. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295783)7 [California's High-Speed Rail Chief Quits Amid Questions About Spending](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/choudri-resign-california-high-speed-rail.html) HNnytimes.com1 day ago 61. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293004)8 [Canada to invest up to $1.6B in Toronto-based AI company Cohere](https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-cohere-ai-investment-9.7401367) HNcbc.ca1 day ago 62. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296773)6 ["Peak Greenwashing": Two Bills in Congress Endorse Misleading Recycling Claims](https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-industry-recycling-legislation-congress) HNpropublica.org1 day ago 63. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296378)6 [The Wayback Machine Labs](https://wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/) HNwayback-labs.sf.archive.org1 day ago 64. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292625)9 [If the context window is a million tokens, why bother with search?](https://deployed-ai.io/blog/long-context-vs-rag/) HNdeployed-ai.io1 day ago 65. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295045)5 [Polymarket Halts Trading as Users Report $1.4M Drained](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/polymarket-halts-trading-users-report-183518883.html) HNfinance.yahoo.com1 day ago 66. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292208)6 [Attackers turn GitHub issues into supply chain campaign against 61 public repos](https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/29/attackers-turn-github-issues-into-supply-chain-campaign-against-61-public-repos-in-less-than-an-hour/5306153) HNtheregister.com1 day ago 67. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294421)5 [Jules Turndown](https://jules.google/docs/changelog/2026-10-29/) HNjules.google1 day ago 68. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293580)7 [Isometric Istanbul](https://isometricistanbul.com/) HNisometricistanbul.com1 day ago 69. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295662)5 [Show HN: OpenArcanum – An End-to-End Encrypted Alternative to Discord](https://github.com/hyperkubeorg/openarcanum/) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)