--- 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. [213](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313661)286 [Digital minimalism](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html) HNvitalik.eth.limo16 hours ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 6 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/y81ppi "9 points") 3. [141](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314699)290 [Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts](https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai) HNparameter.ai11 hours ago 4. [119](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756)333 [Tell HN: Scribd Breached](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756) HNnews.ycombinator.com19 hours ago 5. [120](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510)301 [HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN](https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/) HNkarpathy.bearblog.dev2 hours ago 6. [88](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319143)180 [TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8](https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf) HNatlasum.net3 hours ago 7. [72](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311686)232 [Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game](https://tng.episodle.com/) HNtng.episodle.com22 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 8. [136](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318871)133 [GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode](https://ryanmadden.net/gpt-56-beats-factorio/) HNryanmadden.net3 hours ago 9. [11](https://programming.dev/post/58762012)72 [They're getting desperate for real intelligence. I guess that's what happens when you don't have any of your own.](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/3fea42aa-a0cf-4b86-b701-263715607ab1.png) PDlemmy.ca15 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system) 10. [76](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316100)147 [Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4](https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4) HNjepsen.io8 hours ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 12 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/drwd4j "65 points") 11. [38](https://programming.dev/post/58769371)36 [Can't start with programming except being into computer science](https://programming.dev/post/58769371) PDprogramming.dev10 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system) 12. [134](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315047)95 [French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic](https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/comptes-rendus/seance/session-ordinaire-de-2026-2027/premiere-seance-du-vendredi-30-octobre-2026) HNassemblee-nationale.fr10 hours ago 13. [69](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316760)89 [Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation'](https://torrentfreak.com/ex-meta-researcher-torrented-pirated-books-dataset-deleted-it-due-to-all-this-litigation/) HNtorrentfreak.com7 hours ago 14. [98](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315776)74 [Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally?](https://newrepublic.com/post/217281/meta-suspend-democratic-candidate-angie-nixon-instagram-account) HNnewrepublic.com9 hours ago 15. [7](https://lobste.rs/s/soosuu)56 [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.com21 hours ago[historical](/search?q=historical&appearance=system) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 0 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300039 "6 points") 16. [14](https://lobste.rs/s/rpiu3w)28 [The Kluever Maneuver](https://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/the-kluever-maneuver/) LBjordi.inversethought.com7 hours ago[testing](/search?q=testing&appearance=system) 17. [74](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315574)49 [Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks](https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-anthropics-filing-crushed-tech) HNthebignewsletter.com9 hours ago 18. [33](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315987)57 [Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-ai-model-is-now-blocking-attempts-at-video-game-recreation-and-cloning-users-also-claim-non-malicious-generic-reverse-engineering-tasks-are-blocked) HNtomshardware.com8 hours ago 19. [14](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312739)86 [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.com19 hours ago 20. [4](https://lobste.rs/s/k508we)26 [Avoid Public Functions Calling Other Public Functions](https://matklad.github.io/2026/10/29/pub-calls-pub.html) LBmatklad.github.io4 hours ago[api](/search?q=api&appearance=system) 21. [15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319358)70 [Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models](https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088) HNtwitter.com2 hours ago 22. [17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319061)63 [The Duty of a Scholar](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html) HNdaemonology.net3 hours ago 23. [17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318720)68 [It's the Memory Latency, Stupid](https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/) HNpivotlake.io3 hours ago 24. [20](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314243)57 [How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC?](https://www.osnews.com/story/146273/how-long-do-you-need-to-hold-down-the-power-button-to-turn-off-a-pc/) HNosnews.com13 hours ago 25. [36](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315039)30 [Halloween is a crass American import – I'll never indulge it](https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/halloween-crass-american-import-never-indulge-4862206) HNinews.co.uk10 hours ago 26. [9](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318407)37 [A City Canceled Flock's Contract. Flock Ignored It. Police Chief Unplugged Them](https://www.thedrive.com/news/my-city-canceled-flocks-contract-flock-ignored-it-so-the-police-chief-unplugged-the-cameras) HNthedrive.com4 hours ago 27. [28](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317484)24 [A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages](https://a-side.social/) HNa-side.social6 hours ago 28. [21](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317991)33 [I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1xkezig/im_a_proton_employee_and_im_breaking_my_silence/) HNreddit.com5 hours ago 29. [10](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318376)38 [William Nordhaus has died](https://news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/william-nordhaus-nobel-laureate-who-integrated-economics-and-climate-change-devoted-yale) HNnews.yale.edu4 hours ago 30. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/wd4ye5)21 [Clojure/Conj 2026](http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAkHRk3lgU_Q) LByoutube.com15 hours ago[clojure](/search?q=clojure&appearance=system) 31. [4](https://lobste.rs/s/ymqjuj)13 [Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert](https://dbushell.com/2026/11/01/tangled-accessibility/) LBdbushell.com5 hours ago[a11y](/search?q=a11y&appearance=system) 32. [10](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320003)21 [Common Desktop Environment available now as open-source](https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/) HNsourceforge.net1 hour ago 33. [23](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318646)12 [Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318646) HNnews.ycombinator.com3 hours ago 34. [15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319169)27 [Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)](https://epoyraz.github.io/nes-contra-us/) HNepoyraz.github.io3 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 35. [11](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315409)25 [NASA's Voyager 1 mysteriously lost touch with Earth](https://mashable.com/science/nasa-voyager-1-communication-outage) HNmashable.com10 hours ago 36. [2](https://lobste.rs/s/qwou15)9 [Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved](https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in-power-grids-solved) LBfz-juelich.de2 hours ago[science](/search?q=science&appearance=system) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 0 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315217 "7 points") 37. [25](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300902)39 [Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector](https://github.com/4yk5/Ghostman) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 38. [1](https://programming.dev/post/58748304)14 [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.me23 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=system) 39. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315782)34 [Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector](https://github.com/kerlenton/bootgpt) HNgithub.com9 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 40. [15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313508)20 [Tools Hacker News keeps asking for](https://stillunbuilt.shiptiffin.app/) HNstillunbuilt.shiptiffin.app16 hours ago 41. [2](https://lobste.rs/s/qoznnh)6 [An LC-3 Disassembler in Haskell](https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/lc3-disassembler/) LBabhinavsarkar.net6 hours ago[assembly](/search?q=assembly&appearance=system) 42. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/95quqz)13 [Tactical-Retreat: a freely available, multi-platform QuakeC-based Counter-Strike v1.5 port](https://www.frag-net.com/project_tacticalretreat.html) LBfrag-net.com19 hours ago[games](/search?q=games&appearance=system) 43. [4](https://lobste.rs/s/hgx46o)5 [Marelleo, a story box I built for my kids](https://zebra.rodeo/en/blog/marelleo/) LBzebra.rodeo11 hours ago[hardware](/search?q=hardware&appearance=system) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 48 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260753 "177 points") 44. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/fmawla)7 [Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release](https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2026-10-31-enlightenment-0.28.0) LBenlightenment.org4 hours ago[linux](/search?q=linux&appearance=system) 45. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319873)14 [GPT-6.1 Terra](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/26/gpt-61-terra/) HNsimonwillison.net1 hour ago 46. [16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291812)52 [Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers](https://github.com/arterialist/kube32) HNgithub.com2 days ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 47. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313484)20 [Cursed cruise: how the dream of never-ending luxury at sea became a nightmare](https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/31/mv-odyssey-cruise-passengers-nightmare-stranded-cambodia) HNtheguardian.com16 hours ago 48. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313127)21 [Visit Iceland Will Send a Real Knitter to Your Dumb Meeting So You Can Skip It](https://matadornetwork.com/read/iceland-ai-notetaker-knitting/) HNmatadornetwork.com18 hours ago 49. [17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320028)24 [With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines](https://learnfromx.com/research/anime-word-coverage-vs-lines-understood) HNlearnfromx.com1 hour ago 50. [33](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320255)48 [Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games](https://mashable.com/tech/anthropic-takes-steps-to-block-video-game-cloning-and-reverse-engineering) HNmashable.com1 hour ago 51. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313257)18 [Britain Narrowly Escaped a Grid Blackout in June 2026](https://hackaday.com/2026/10/30/how-britain-narrowly-escaped-a-grid-blackout-in-june-2026/) HNhackaday.com17 hours ago 52. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314345)13 [A drop in US births due to smartphone use? These researchers say so](https://www.detroitnews.com/story/tech/2026/06/13/birth-rates-decline-smartphones-iphone-study/90537400007/) HNdetroitnews.com13 hours ago 53. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319849)7 [NASA's Voyager 1 Conserves Power, Resolves Brief Communications Pause](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-conserves-power-resolves-brief-communications-pause/) HNjpl.nasa.gov1 hour ago 54. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319053)9 [2.5 hrs of makeup: Japan teen struggles with social media beauty standards](https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20261029/p2a/00m/0na/004000c) HNmainichi.jp3 hours ago 55. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/bmmj1e)6 [Let’s Build a Brain](https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/) LBaatishb.com7 hours ago[ai](/search?q=ai&appearance=system) Also discussed: [Hacker News · 63 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261253 "194 points") 56. [3](https://lobste.rs/s/dtvr7y)9 [Defending the patch gap against automated attackers](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/privacy-security/defending-patch-gap/) LBblog.mozilla.org1 day ago[browsers](/search?q=browsers&appearance=system) 57. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318882)10 [HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare](https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/10/30/http/3-is-faster-with-some-work-and-help-from-cloudflare/5306767) HNtheregister.com3 hours ago 58. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311505)24 [The 'Moylan Arrow' Is One of Ford's Best Contributions to Car Design](https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-moylan-arrow-is-one-of-fords-best-contributions-to-car-design) HNthedrive.com22 hours ago 59. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316431)12 [How Trump Is Dismantling America's Scientific Research Machine](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/climate/how-trump-is-dismantling-americas-scientific-research-machine.html) HNnytimes.com8 hours ago 60. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315496)9 [YC funded a startup $1.3M to build silent speech – a dev on x built it in 9mins](https://startupfortune.com/a-startup-raised-13-million-for-silent-speech-glasses-and-a-developer-built-the-free-version-in-nine-minutes/) HNstartupfortune.com9 hours ago 61. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319767)7 [Report from the Vatican](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/report-from-the-vatican) HNgarymarcus.substack.com1 hour ago 62. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319851)6 [Reddit shares plunge as Google's AI search squeezes traffic](https://www.reuters.com/business/reddit-pinterest-shares-tumble-weak-user-revenue-growth-2026-10-30/) HNreuters.com1 hour ago 63. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320588)5 [ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limits) HNhelp.openai.com31 minutes ago 64. [19](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293806)34 [Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference](https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/noctua-fan-swap-calnex-rb-gps-frequency-reference/) HNjeffgeerling.com2 days ago 65. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318912)5 [The Smartest People in AI Believe This Is the World's Most Important Chart](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-anthropic-rsi-recursive-self-improvement-bff4e815) HNwsj.com3 hours ago 66. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319563)18 [Surviving "The Graduate"](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/dustin-hoffman-on-surviving-the-graduate) HNnewyorker.com2 hours ago 67. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320137)9 [Distributed Proofreaders](https://www.pgdp.net/c/) HNpgdp.net1 hour ago 68. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319662)5 [The lithium hypothesis of obesity \[video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5NklTNoKDI) HNyoutube.com2 hours ago 69. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319356)5 [Hackers broke into four of Canada's top law firms](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-law-firms-hackers-how-did-it-happen-client-files-voice-phishing/) HNtheglobeandmail.com2 hours ago 70. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317502)6 [Nonna – TypeScript Dependency injection without the reflection tax](https://nonna.nodeboot.io/) HNnonna.nodeboot.io6 hours ago 71. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318940)5 [The Limits of AI as an Economic Weapon](https://www.palladiummag.com/2026/10/30/the-limits-of-ai-as-an-economic-weapon/) HNpalladiummag.com3 hours ago 72. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314645)10 [First patient undergoes pioneering stem-cell treatment for Parkinson's](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-patient-stem-cell-treatment-parkinson.html) HNmedicalxpress.com11 hours ago 73. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316116)8 [DeepSeek open-sources dsh-superagent, a coding agent largely built by agents](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype) HNgithub.com8 hours ago 74. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313976)10 [Why Do I Sometimes Hate Myself](https://tomaszdziurko.substack.com/p/why-do-i-sometimes-hate-myself) HNtomaszdziurko.substack.com14 hours ago 75. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316496)7 [Reddit to lock content behind logins to fight scrapers](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/reddit-to-lock-content-behind-logins-to-fight-scrapers/) HNbleepingcomputer.com7 hours ago 76. [14](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297068)28 [Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python](https://florianwilhelm.info/2026/10/sentinel_values/) HNflorianwilhelm.info1 day ago 77. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317586)5 [In 'You Can See Everything,' Elizabeth Holmes Is Still Lying](https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/19/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-whistleblower-tyler-shultz-insider-review/) HNstatnews.com5 hours ago 78. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315778)5 [How to free your email from the clutches of Google or Microsoft](https://manualdousuario.net/en/email-big-tech-purelymail-migadu/) HNmanualdousuario.net9 hours ago 79. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315317)5 [Anthropic's path to the Nasdaq just got a lot bumpier](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/31/anthropic-ipo-ai-spending.html) HNcnbc.com10 hours ago 80. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315351)5 [World trekker Karl Bushby's final push home to Hull](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8rz38jr50go) HNbbc.co.uk10 hours ago 81. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315046)5 [What Is Work For? Labor, Politics, and Meaning in the Age of AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39375) HNarxiv.org10 hours ago 82. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311670)10 [Be a Loser](https://makemeacto.cc/be-a-loser/) HNmakemeacto.cc22 hours ago 83. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311495)7 [Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311495) HNnews.ycombinator.com22 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask&appearance=system) 84. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/mk87la)6 [The top ten reasons embedded projects get into trouble (2002)](https://www.ganssle.com/articles/jackstoptenlist.htm) LBganssle.com23 hours ago[hardware](/search?q=hardware&appearance=system) 85. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314619)6 [EU and Canada forge 'alliance for the future' at Montreal summit](https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:261030-930-920326/) HNdpa-international.com12 hours ago 86. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313989)5 [Show HN: Agent-arcade – Terminal games that pause when Claude Code/Codex is done](https://github.com/Kuldeep-045/agent-arcade) HNgithub.com14 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system) 87. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312013)8 [OpenAI slashes funding target by $10B as tech anxieties mount](https://www.ft.com/content/7a3ad950-1b3b-4d9e-8c15-65a61ae6180f) HNft.com21 hours ago 88. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313615)5 [Cold showers benefit the environment and your health](https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/cold-showers-health-environment.html) HNunibas.ch16 hours ago 89. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313473)5 [The Beleaguered Chip Sellers Getting Their Revenge on Apple](https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-memory-chips-ai-c0084cc9) HNwsj.com16 hours ago 90. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313095)6 [A statement from Novaya Gazeta on the end of its existence](https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/10/30/we-have-been-killed) HNnovayagazeta.ru18 hours ago 91. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311562)8 [U.S. approves $2.1B sale of Patriot interceptors to Ukraine](https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/us-approves-21-billion-sale-patriot-interceptors-ukraine-rcna606641) HNnbcnews.com22 hours ago 92. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313701)5 [Push Ifs Up and Fors Down](https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html) HNmatklad.github.io15 hours ago 93. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312290)5 [Google's $500B bloodbath reflects the danger it faces from AI](https://www.economist.com/business/2026/10/29/googles-500bn-bloodbath-reflects-the-danger-it-faces-from-aiFromTheEconomist) HNeconomist.com21 hours ago 94. 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