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title: "Archived daily edition · Daily Diff"
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# Archived daily edition

[Daily edition](</index.md>) · [Hot now](</hot.md>)

[Top 10](</archive/edition.md?date=2026-10-31&limit=10&q=>) · [Top 20](</archive/edition.md?date=2026-10-31&limit=20&q=>) · [Above median](</archive/edition.md?date=2026-10-31&limit=20&q=&mode=median>)

Daily ranking · strictly above median

## 2026-10-31

### [Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament](<https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: science.org

Published: 2026-10-31T10:21:30+00:00

Points: 894 · Comments: [498](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314654>)

### [HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN](<https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: karpathy.bearblog.dev

Published: 2026-10-31T19:56:53+00:00

Points: 2219 · Comments: [533](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510>)

### [Digital minimalism](<https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: vitalik.eth.limo

Published: 2026-10-31T06:16:36+00:00

Points: 342 · Comments: [266](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313661>)

Also discussed: [Lobsters · 12 comments](<https://lobste.rs/s/y81ppi>)

### [Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable](<https://piefed.world/post/1503394>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: piefed.world

Published: 2026-10-31T10:23:41+00:00

Points: 331 · Comments: [190](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314666>)

### [TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8](<https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: atlasum.net

Published: 2026-10-31T19:16:30+00:00

Points: 698 · Comments: [324](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319143>)

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

Source: Hacker News · Domain: divagr.com

Published: 2026-10-29T00:25:45+00:00

Points: 702 · Comments: [145](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282838>)

Also discussed: [Lobsters · 9 comments](<https://lobste.rs/s/zftely>)

### [Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts](<https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: parameter.ai

Published: 2026-10-31T10:30:11+00:00

Points: 357 · Comments: [176](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314699>)

### [Tell HN: Scribd Breached](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: news.ycombinator.com

Published: 2026-10-31T02:46:36+00:00

Points: 351 · Comments: [122](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756>)

### [UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power](<https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/05/green-party-nuclear-power-policy>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: theguardian.com

Published: 2026-10-31T17:37:22+00:00

Points: 236 · Comments: [317](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318189>)

### [Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth](<https://blog.talosintelligence.com/appraisal-by-ai-model-driven-victim-prioritization-in-the-volta-infostealer/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: blog.talosintelligence.com

Published: 2026-10-31T14:29:03+00:00

Points: 256 · Comments: [136](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316531>)

### [Casio Watches of the 1980s](<https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1980s/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: casio.com

Published: 2026-10-31T16:00:48+00:00

Points: 247 · Comments: [131](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317363>)

### [GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode](<https://ryanmadden.net/gpt-56-beats-factorio/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: ryanmadden.net

Published: 2026-10-31T18:50:34+00:00

Points: 176 · Comments: [187](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318871>)

### [Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age](<https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/31/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: nullprogram.com

Published: 2026-10-31T11:54:59+00:00

Points: 203 · Comments: [132](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315226>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: wsj.com

Published: 2026-10-31T03:22:44+00:00

Points: 186 · Comments: [200](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312922>)

### [Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4](<https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: jepsen.io

Published: 2026-10-31T13:39:52+00:00

Points: 334 · Comments: [188](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316100>)

Also discussed: [Programming.dev · 1 comments](<https://programming.dev/post/58837491>) · [Lobsters · 34 comments](<https://lobste.rs/s/drwd4j>)

### [Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game](<https://tng.episodle.com/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: tng.episodle.com

Published: 2026-10-30T23:51:24+00:00

Points: 240 · Comments: [76](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311686>)

Tags: [show](</search.md?q=show>)

### [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>)

Source: Programming.dev · Domain: lemmy.ca

Published: 2026-10-31T06:53:59+00:00

Points: 125 · Comments: [22](<https://programming.dev/post/58762012>)

Tags: [programming](</search.md?q=programming>)

### [Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models](<https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: twitter.com

Published: 2026-10-31T19:39:19+00:00

Points: 453 · Comments: [252](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319358>)

### [Can't start with programming except being into computer science](<https://programming.dev/post/58769371>)

Source: Programming.dev · Domain: programming.dev

Published: 2026-10-31T11:41:18+00:00

Points: 42 · Comments: [40](<https://programming.dev/post/58769371>)

Tags: [programming](</search.md?q=programming>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: assemblee-nationale.fr

Published: 2026-10-31T11:28:46+00:00

Points: 102 · Comments: [140](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315047>)

### [Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again](<https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/us/philadelphia-woman-delivery-robots-cec>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: cnn.com

Published: 2026-10-31T13:39:57+00:00

Points: 90 · Comments: [137](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316103>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: mashable.com

Published: 2026-10-31T21:07:58+00:00

Points: 180 · Comments: [111](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320255>)

### [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/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: torrentfreak.com

Published: 2026-10-31T14:57:33+00:00

Points: 99 · Comments: [75](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316760>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: newrepublic.com

Published: 2026-10-31T12:57:31+00:00

Points: 86 · Comments: [107](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315776>)

### [It's the memory latency, stupid](<https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: pivotlake.io

Published: 2026-10-31T18:38:16+00:00

Points: 251 · Comments: [89](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318720>)

### [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/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: devblogs.microsoft.com

Published: 2026-10-31T01:01:21+00:00

Points: 76 · Comments: [11](<https://lobste.rs/s/soosuu>)

Tags: [historical](</search.md?q=historical>)

Also discussed: [Hacker News · 0 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300039>)

### [Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only](<https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2026-10-the-last-proof-of-human-craft-browser-full-chain/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: blog.orange.tw

Published: 2026-10-29T06:47:28+00:00

Points: 253 · Comments: [40](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285319>)

Also discussed: [Lobsters · 4 comments](<https://lobste.rs/s/ansfvi>)

### [What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on](<https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1/voyager-1-what-is-a-light-day/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: science.nasa.gov

Published: 2026-10-31T16:09:55+00:00

Points: 95 · Comments: [49](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317429>)

### [The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025)](<https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3706598.3713778>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: dl.acm.org

Published: 2026-10-31T18:02:29+00:00

Points: 79 · Comments: [54](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318401>)

### [The Kluever Maneuver](<https://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/the-kluever-maneuver/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: jordi.inversethought.com

Published: 2026-10-31T15:05:04+00:00

Points: 53 · Comments: [33](<https://lobste.rs/s/rpiu3w>)

Tags: [testing](</search.md?q=testing>)

### [Avoid Public Functions Calling Other Public Functions](<https://matklad.github.io/2026/10/29/pub-calls-pub.html>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: matklad.github.io

Published: 2026-10-31T18:05:03+00:00

Points: 87 · Comments: [20](<https://lobste.rs/s/k508we>)

Tags: [api](</search.md?q=api>)

Also discussed: [Programming.dev · 5 comments](<https://programming.dev/post/58836232>)

### [The Duty of a Scholar](<https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: daemonology.net

Published: 2026-10-31T19:07:36+00:00

Points: 132 · Comments: [37](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319061>)

### [Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn](<https://www.cairoreport.org/p/egypt-brazil-iraq-billboard-hack>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: cairoreport.org

Published: 2026-10-31T17:36:05+00:00

Points: 64 · Comments: [89](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318182>)

### [Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks](<https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-anthropics-filing-crushed-tech>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: thebignewsletter.com

Published: 2026-10-31T12:32:10+00:00

Points: 53 · Comments: [79](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315574>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: tomshardware.com

Published: 2026-10-31T13:25:00+00:00

Points: 73 · Comments: [43](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315987>)

### [AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages](<https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-startup-hacks-anthropic-in-12-hours-gains-access-to-employee-details-and-internal-messages-3025452-2026-10-26>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: indiatoday.in

Published: 2026-10-31T13:25:10+00:00

Points: 74 · Comments: [18](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315990>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: learnfromx.com

Published: 2026-10-31T20:46:39+00:00

Points: 81 · Comments: [59](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320028>)

### [Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to work to get](<https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/31/burn-berne/#unvictored>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: pluralistic.net

Published: 2026-10-31T17:16:04+00:00

Points: 63 · Comments: [42](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318018>)

### [Shiny Object Syndrome](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_object_syndrome>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: en.wikipedia.org

Published: 2026-10-31T11:02:14+00:00

Points: 66 · Comments: [23](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314872>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: wkyc.com

Published: 2026-10-31T02:42:02+00:00

Points: 89 · Comments: [14](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312739>)

### [I post trained a model on Demoscenes](<https://datavorous.com/writing/demoscener/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: datavorous.com

Published: 2026-10-31T18:08:24+00:00

Points: 56 · Comments: [40](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318442>)

### [An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them](<https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: smithsonianmag.com

Published: 2026-10-31T22:41:06+00:00

Points: 762 · Comments: [197](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320963>)

### [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>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: fz-juelich.de

Published: 2026-10-31T19:50:11+00:00

Points: 68 · Comments: [28](<https://lobste.rs/s/qwou15>)

Tags: [science](</search.md?q=science>)

Also discussed: [Hacker News · 3 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315217>) · [Hacker News · 3 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320526>) · [Hacker News · 2 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323992>)

### [Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line](<https://github.com/Koppar-AI/koppar-lte-modem>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: github.com

Published: 2026-10-31T15:56:41+00:00

Points: 60 · Comments: [41](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317331>)

Tags: [show](</search.md?q=show>)

### [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/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: osnews.com

Published: 2026-10-31T08:43:32+00:00

Points: 59 · Comments: [20](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314243>)

### [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/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: reddit.com

Published: 2026-10-31T17:13:34+00:00

Points: 59 · Comments: [34](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317991>)

### [William Nordhaus has died](<https://news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/william-nordhaus-nobel-laureate-who-integrated-economics-and-climate-change-devoted-yale>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: news.yale.edu

Published: 2026-10-31T17:59:41+00:00

Points: 72 · Comments: [28](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318376>)

### [Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements](<https://www.phoronix.com/news/Enlightenment-0.28>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: phoronix.com

Published: 2026-10-31T16:22:26+00:00

Points: 52 · Comments: [25](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317534>)

### [Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –\> C and then C –\> WebAssembly)](<https://epoyraz.github.io/nes-contra-us/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: epoyraz.github.io

Published: 2026-10-31T19:18:48+00:00

Points: 89 · Comments: [80](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319169>)

Tags: [show](</search.md?q=show>)

### [Surviving "The Graduate"](<https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/dustin-hoffman-on-surviving-the-graduate>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: newyorker.com

Published: 2026-10-31T20:02:06+00:00

Points: 155 · Comments: [54](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319563>)

### [Halloween is a crass American import – I'll never indulge it](<https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/halloween-crass-american-import-never-indulge-4862206>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: inews.co.uk

Published: 2026-10-31T11:27:37+00:00

Points: 34 · Comments: [39](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315039>)

### [Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert](<https://dbushell.com/2026/11/01/tangled-accessibility/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: dbushell.com

Published: 2026-10-31T16:29:45+00:00

Points: 46 · Comments: [11](<https://lobste.rs/s/ymqjuj>)

Tags: [a11y](</search.md?q=a11y>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: thedrive.com

Published: 2026-10-31T18:03:03+00:00

Points: 39 · Comments: [11](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318407>)

### [A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages](<https://a-side.social/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: a-side.social

Published: 2026-10-31T16:16:20+00:00

Points: 24 · Comments: [29](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317484>)

### [Clojure/Conj 2026](<http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAkHRk3lgU_Q>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: youtube.com

Published: 2026-10-31T06:25:34+00:00

Points: 28 · Comments: [2](<https://lobste.rs/s/wd4ye5>)

Tags: [clojure](</search.md?q=clojure>)

### [Anthropic orders AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games](<https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/anthropic-appears-to-have-ordered-ai-tool-claude-to-stop-remaking-video-games>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: gamedeveloper.com

Published: 2026-10-31T14:41:44+00:00

Points: 30 · Comments: [16](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316635>)

### [Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector](<https://github.com/4yk5/Ghostman>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: github.com

Published: 2026-10-30T07:48:40+00:00

Points: 64 · Comments: [40](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300902>)

Tags: [show](</search.md?q=show>)

### [Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector](<https://github.com/kerlenton/bootgpt>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: github.com

Published: 2026-10-31T12:58:29+00:00

Points: 94 · Comments: [6](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315782>)

Tags: [show](</search.md?q=show>)

### [Common Desktop Environment available now as open-source](<https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: sourceforge.net

Published: 2026-10-31T20:43:41+00:00

Points: 23 · Comments: [13](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320003>)

### [Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318646>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: news.ycombinator.com

Published: 2026-10-31T18:30:22+00:00

Points: 18 · Comments: [32](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318646>)

### [NASA's Voyager 1 mysteriously lost touch with Earth](<https://mashable.com/science/nasa-voyager-1-communication-outage>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: mashable.com

Published: 2026-10-31T12:12:54+00:00

Points: 25 · Comments: [12](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315409>)

### [Neuroscientists reveal method to train people to have lucid dreams](<https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/neuroscientists-reveal-method-to-train-people-to-have-lucid-dreams-and-it-involves-virtual-reality-and-mediation>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: livescience.com

Published: 2026-10-31T10:12:30+00:00

Points: 30 · Comments: [12](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314611>)

### [Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use](<https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/31/amazon-sends-chills-through-its-workforce-with-mixed-message-memo-about-ai-use-corey-quinn/5306804>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: theregister.com

Published: 2026-10-31T17:21:16+00:00

Points: 23 · Comments: [12](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318063>)

### [Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release](<https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2026-10-31-enlightenment-0.28.0>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: enlightenment.org

Published: 2026-10-31T18:02:18+00:00

Points: 25 · Comments: [1](<https://lobste.rs/s/fmawla>)

Tags: [linux](</search.md?q=linux>)

Also discussed: [Hacker News · 28 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326530>)

### [Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard](<https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: github.com

Published: 2026-10-31T22:46:12+00:00

Points: 419 · Comments: [205](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320995>)

### [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>)

Source: Programming.dev · Domain: danholloran.me

Published: 2026-10-30T22:24:26+00:00

Points: 16 · Comments: [2](<https://programming.dev/post/58748304>)

Tags: [programming](</search.md?q=programming>)

### [Show HN: Jointter – A daily word puzzle using dots and lines](<https://www.jointter.com/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: jointter.com

Published: 2026-10-31T16:24:24+00:00

Points: 14 · Comments: [27](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317548>)

Tags: [show](</search.md?q=show>)

### [Report from the Vatican](<https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/report-from-the-vatican>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: garymarcus.substack.com

Published: 2026-10-31T20:23:22+00:00

Points: 19 · Comments: [9](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319767>)

### [Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312174>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: news.ycombinator.com

Published: 2026-10-31T00:58:26+00:00

Points: 40 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312174>)

### [Tools Hacker News keeps asking for](<https://stillunbuilt.shiptiffin.app/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: stillunbuilt.shiptiffin.app

Published: 2026-10-31T05:44:01+00:00

Points: 20 · Comments: [17](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313508>)

### [Tactical-Retreat: a freely available, multi-platform QuakeC-based Counter-Strike v1.5 port](<https://www.frag-net.com/project_tacticalretreat.html>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: frag-net.com

Published: 2026-10-31T02:32:10+00:00

Points: 16 · Comments: [4](<https://lobste.rs/s/95quqz>)

Tags: [games](</search.md?q=games>)

### [Distributed Proofreaders](<https://www.pgdp.net/c/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: pgdp.net

Published: 2026-10-31T20:56:12+00:00

Points: 36 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320137>)

### [Homebrew 68000 computer with a PCI bus](<https://maniek86.xyz/projects/homebrew_m68k_pci.php>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: maniek86.xyz

Published: 2026-10-31T17:38:13+00:00

Points: 24 · Comments: [5](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318200>)

### [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/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: jpl.nasa.gov

Published: 2026-10-31T20:30:54+00:00

Points: 17 · Comments: [7](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319849>)

### [The case of the 9 bit AES key](<https://v12.sh/blog/the-case-of-the-9bit-aes-key>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: v12.sh

Published: 2026-10-29T02:13:24+00:00

Points: 42 · Comments: [1](<https://lobste.rs/s/dqexzg>)

Tags: [cryptography](</search.md?q=cryptography>)

Also discussed: [Hacker News · 78 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280722>)

### [Computer Science Programs Lose Students as AI Replaces Jobs](<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-29/computer-science-degree-programs-lose-students-as-ai-takes-jobs>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: bloomberg.com

Published: 2026-10-31T22:57:27+00:00

Points: 32 · Comments: [20](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321065>)

### [GPT-6.1 Terra](<https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/26/gpt-61-terra/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: simonwillison.net

Published: 2026-10-31T20:32:17+00:00

Points: 16 · Comments: [4](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319873>)

### [Novellas with groff](<https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: movq.de

Published: 2026-10-31T20:31:13+00:00

Points: 38 · Comments: [6](<https://lobste.rs/s/54xwm8>)

Tags: [unix](</search.md?q=unix>)

Also discussed: [Hacker News · 47 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325694>)

### [AI Data Centers Could Erase 15 Years of America's Climate Progress by 2030](<https://www.gadgetreview.com/ai-data-centers-could-erase-15-years-of-americas-climate-progress-by-2030>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: gadgetreview.com

Published: 2026-10-31T17:34:23+00:00

Points: 16 · Comments: [7](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318169>)

### [Crypto firm Binance covers 90% of losses after $6.3B hack](<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckpdg3ql4169o>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: bbc.com

Published: 2026-10-31T18:15:00+00:00

Points: 20 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318505>)

### [Is the Music Business Collapsing?](<https://www.honest-broker.com/p/is-the-music-business-collapsing>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: honest-broker.com

Published: 2026-10-31T13:38:39+00:00

Points: 17 · Comments: [6](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316090>)

### [An LC-3 Disassembler in Haskell](<https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/lc3-disassembler/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: abhinavsarkar.net

Published: 2026-10-31T16:08:42+00:00

Points: 15 · Comments: [4](<https://lobste.rs/s/qoznnh>)

Tags: [assembly](</search.md?q=assembly>)

### [Let’s Build a Brain](<https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: aatishb.com

Published: 2026-10-31T15:09:27+00:00

Points: 19 · Comments: [1](<https://lobste.rs/s/bmmj1e>)

Tags: [ai](</search.md?q=ai>)

Also discussed: [Hacker News · 81 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261253>)

### [Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers](<https://github.com/arterialist/kube32>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: github.com

Published: 2026-10-29T16:35:14+00:00

Points: 53 · Comments: [21](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291812>)

Tags: [show](</search.md?q=show>)

### [When electric cars were for women](<https://spectrum.ieee.org/early-electric-vehicles>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: spectrum.ieee.org

Published: 2026-10-31T23:08:12+00:00

Points: 72 · Comments: [75](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321130>)

### [Inverse Zitron: An Investment Strategy](<https://chalmovsky.com/posts/inverse-zitron>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: chalmovsky.com

Published: 2026-10-31T23:40:50+00:00

Points: 13 · Comments: [17](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321351>)

### [Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python](<https://florianwilhelm.info/2026/10/sentinel_values/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: florianwilhelm.info

Published: 2026-10-29T22:24:56+00:00

Points: 72 · Comments: [49](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297068>)

### [Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half](<https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in-half/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: fullycharged.show

Published: 2026-10-31T19:13:34+00:00

Points: 207 · Comments: [212](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319110>)

### [Marelleo, a story box I built for my kids](<https://zebra.rodeo/en/blog/marelleo/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: zebra.rodeo

Published: 2026-10-31T10:36:46+00:00

Points: 2 · Comments: [7](<https://lobste.rs/s/hgx46o>)

Tags: [hardware](</search.md?q=hardware>)

Also discussed: [Hacker News · 51 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260753>)

### [2.5 hrs of makeup: Japan teen struggles with social media beauty standards](<https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20261029/p2a/00m/0na/004000c>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: mainichi.jp

Published: 2026-10-31T19:07:04+00:00

Points: 12 · Comments: [6](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319053>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: theguardian.com

Published: 2026-10-31T05:37:38+00:00

Points: 20 · Comments: [6](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313484>)

### [Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference](<https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/noctua-fan-swap-calnex-rb-gps-frequency-reference/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: jeffgeerling.com

Published: 2026-10-29T18:33:40+00:00

Points: 45 · Comments: [31](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293806>)

### [Visit Iceland Will Send a Real Knitter to Your Dumb Meeting So You Can Skip It](<https://matadornetwork.com/read/iceland-ai-notetaker-knitting/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: matadornetwork.com

Published: 2026-10-31T04:09:21+00:00

Points: 21 · Comments: [7](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313127>)

### [CVE-2026-98432: Linux IPv4 UAF](<https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-98432>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: nvd.nist.gov

Published: 2026-10-31T09:23:59+00:00

Points: 30 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314397>)

### [Defending the patch gap against automated attackers](<https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/privacy-security/defending-patch-gap/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: blog.mozilla.org

Published: 2026-10-30T21:06:04+00:00

Points: 10 · Comments: [4](<https://lobste.rs/s/dtvr7y>)

Tags: [browsers](</search.md?q=browsers>)

### [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/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: hackaday.com

Published: 2026-10-31T04:38:44+00:00

Points: 18 · Comments: [6](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313257>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: theregister.com

Published: 2026-10-31T18:51:34+00:00

Points: 14 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318882>)

### [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/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: detroitnews.com

Published: 2026-10-31T09:09:53+00:00

Points: 14 · Comments: [7](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314345>)

### [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/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: reuters.com

Published: 2026-10-31T20:31:09+00:00

Points: 9 · Comments: [6](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319851>)

### [ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging](<https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limits>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: help.openai.com

Published: 2026-10-31T21:49:07+00:00

Points: 215 · Comments: [159](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320588>)

### [Spooky C++](<https://www.nablag.com/spooky_cpp>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: nablag.com

Published: 2026-10-31T21:40:18+00:00

Points: 17 · Comments: [16](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320513>)

Also discussed: [Lobsters · 0 comments](<https://lobste.rs/s/4yxx6f>)

### [Ask HN: Is the Microsoft buyout just a long overdue correction?](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313705>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: news.ycombinator.com

Published: 2026-10-31T06:22:39+00:00

Points: 6 · Comments: [27](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313705>)

Tags: [ask](</search.md?q=ask>)

### [Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)](<https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: health.harvard.edu

Published: 2026-10-31T16:36:40+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [4](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317651>)

### [MoneyPouch – self hosted expense tracker](<https://demo.moneypouch.app/session/new>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: demo.moneypouch.app

Published: 2026-10-31T14:00:12+00:00

Points: 11 · Comments: [8](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316275>)

### ['Big Short' Trader Steve Eisman on Anthropic IPO](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMoKKtNFkDs>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: youtube.com

Published: 2026-10-31T10:48:21+00:00

Points: 11 · Comments: [6](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314793>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: thedrive.com

Published: 2026-10-30T23:30:57+00:00

Points: 25 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311505>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: nytimes.com

Published: 2026-10-31T14:17:39+00:00

Points: 13 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316431>)

### [The Weird Little Guys of FOSS](<https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: drewdevault.com

Published: 2026-10-31T18:44:43+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318805>)

### [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/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: startupfortune.com

Published: 2026-10-31T12:24:49+00:00

Points: 10 · Comments: [4](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315496>)

### [Ask HN: Are you using AI to do election choices like Mayor, Special Measures](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317351>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: news.ycombinator.com

Published: 2026-10-31T15:59:29+00:00

Points: 7 · Comments: [6](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317351>)

Tags: [ask](</search.md?q=ask>)

### [A Chemical Hunger (2021)](<https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: slimemoldtimemold.com

Published: 2026-10-31T20:32:24+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319876>)

### ["Very Intentional": Steve Eisman Thinks Anthropic Is Hiding Something](<https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/very-intentional-steve-eisman-thinks>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: quoththeraven.substack.com

Published: 2026-10-31T21:50:30+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320601>)

### [He left 28 years ago, now after 36,000 miles Karl Bushby is almost home](<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8rz38jr50go>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: bbc.com

Published: 2026-10-31T21:38:05+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320489>)

### [The lithium hypothesis of obesity \[video\]](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5NklTNoKDI>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: youtube.com

Published: 2026-10-31T20:11:53+00:00

Points: 6 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319662>)

### [AI text watermarking and quality loss](<https://blog.keyvan.net/p/ai-text-watermarking-and-quality>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: blog.keyvan.net

Published: 2026-10-31T21:50:13+00:00

Points: 66 · Comments: [16](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320599>)

### [Altoids Project](<https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: uvdn7.github.io

Published: 2026-10-31T22:54:55+00:00

Points: 158 · Comments: [7](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321048>)

Also discussed: [Programming.dev · 1 comments](<https://programming.dev/post/58799782>)

### ['What Were You Thinking?' – Scott McNeely, Founder of Sun Microsystems](<https://app.hedgeye.com/insights/86557-what-were-you-thinking-part-deux/print>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: app.hedgeye.com

Published: 2026-10-31T20:54:26+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320113>)

### [Nonna – TypeScript Dependency injection without the reflection tax](<https://nonna.nodeboot.io/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: nonna.nodeboot.io

Published: 2026-10-31T16:18:58+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317502>)

### [Anthropic: Scaling Misuse Detection with Self-Assessment of Chats](<https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/2115871889549865429>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: twitter.com

Published: 2026-10-31T19:40:08+00:00

Points: 9 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319362>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: wsj.com

Published: 2026-10-31T18:54:27+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318912>)

### [Alzheimer's disease may begin in the nose and may be caused by aluminosilicates (1986)](<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0197458086901193?via%3Dihub>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: sciencedirect.com

Published: 2026-10-31T18:20:54+00:00

Points: 6 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318562>)

### [AI Is a Coup by the Tasteless](<https://sancho.bearblog.dev/ai-is-a-coup-by-the-tasteless/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: sancho.bearblog.dev

Published: 2026-10-31T15:14:53+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316911>)

### [The Limits of AI as an Economic Weapon](<https://www.palladiummag.com/2026/10/30/the-limits-of-ai-as-an-economic-weapon/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: palladiummag.com

Published: 2026-10-31T18:56:26+00:00

Points: 7 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318940>)

### [What Anthropic’s IPO Filing Actually Says](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic1Jf7VlXRM>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: youtube.com

Published: 2026-10-31T20:18:55+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319717>)

### [We Could Have Backdoored Bash](<https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-gnu-savannah>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: hacktron.ai

Published: 2026-10-31T15:35:16+00:00

Points: 7 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317125>)

### [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/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: theglobeandmail.com

Published: 2026-10-31T19:38:34+00:00

Points: 7 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319356>)

### [After last year's storm, this remote Alaska town is still picking up the pieces](<https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6021471>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: text.npr.org

Published: 2026-10-31T15:49:21+00:00

Points: 7 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317269>)

### [First patient undergoes pioneering stem-cell treatment for Parkinson's](<https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-patient-stem-cell-treatment-parkinson.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: medicalxpress.com

Published: 2026-10-31T10:20:12+00:00

Points: 11 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314645>)

### [Most agent friendly VC website in the world](<https://marathon.vc/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: marathon.vc

Published: 2026-10-31T18:42:41+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318774>)

### [Two EU AI Act translations use FLOPs/s instead of cumulative FLOPs](<https://www.arxo.io/findings/ARXO-2026-0413/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: arxo.io

Published: 2026-10-31T18:14:17+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318494>)

### [DeepSeek open-sources dsh-superagent, a coding agent largely built by agents](<https://github.com/deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: github.com

Published: 2026-10-31T13:41:11+00:00

Points: 11 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316116>)

### [Why Do I Sometimes Hate Myself](<https://tomaszdziurko.substack.com/p/why-do-i-sometimes-hate-myself>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: tomaszdziurko.substack.com

Published: 2026-10-31T07:33:14+00:00

Points: 10 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313976>)

### [Petition for Proton's CEO Andy Yen to step down reaches 1500 votes](<https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas/suggestions/51867423-andy-yen-steps-aside>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: protonmail.uservoice.com

Published: 2026-10-31T11:16:04+00:00

Points: 9 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314952>)

### [Reddit to lock content behind logins to fight scrapers](<https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/reddit-to-lock-content-behind-logins-to-fight-scrapers/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: bleepingcomputer.com

Published: 2026-10-31T14:24:12+00:00

Points: 7 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316496>)

### [Show HN: Quit everything to make one website](<https://hellojomp.com/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: hellojomp.com

Published: 2026-10-31T15:38:10+00:00

Points: 19 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317153>)

Tags: [show](</search.md?q=show>)

### [The Currency of the Journal Article Is Collapsing](<https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-journal-articles-writing/689186/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: theatlantic.com

Published: 2026-10-31T15:08:59+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316865>)

### [Mastodon 5.0: A Closer Look](<https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/10/5.0-a-closer-look/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: blog.joinmastodon.org

Published: 2026-10-31T14:09:23+00:00

Points: 7 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316369>)

Also discussed: [Lobsters · 19 comments](<https://lobste.rs/s/dlbufy>)

### [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/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: statnews.com

Published: 2026-10-31T16:29:36+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317586>)

### [How to free your email from the clutches of Google or Microsoft](<https://manualdousuario.net/en/email-big-tech-purelymail-migadu/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: manualdousuario.net

Published: 2026-10-31T12:57:48+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315778>)

### [Anthropic's path to the Nasdaq just got a lot bumpier](<https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/31/anthropic-ipo-ai-spending.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: cnbc.com

Published: 2026-10-31T12:03:05+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315317>)

### [GDPR: France imposes 27x more in fines per resident than Spain](<https://www.legiscope.com/blog/europe-data-protection-fines-per-capita.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: legiscope.com

Published: 2026-10-31T10:36:02+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314728>)

### [We've Stopped Dreaming](<https://hyperstition.cc/weve-stopped-dreaming>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: hyperstition.cc

Published: 2026-10-31T13:58:08+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316258>)

### [World trekker Karl Bushby's final push home to Hull](<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8rz38jr50go>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: bbc.co.uk

Published: 2026-10-31T12:06:51+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315351>)

### [What Is Work For? Labor, Politics, and Meaning in the Age of AI](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39375>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: arxiv.org

Published: 2026-10-31T11:28:42+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315046>)

### [EU and Canada forge 'alliance for the future' at Montreal summit](<https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:261030-930-920326/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: dpa-international.com

Published: 2026-10-31T10:14:29+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314619>)

### [Be a Loser](<https://makemeacto.cc/be-a-loser/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: makemeacto.cc

Published: 2026-10-30T23:48:50+00:00

Points: 10 · Comments: [4](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311670>)

### [Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311495>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: news.ycombinator.com

Published: 2026-10-30T23:29:12+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [7](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311495>)

Tags: [ask](</search.md?q=ask>)

### [The top ten reasons embedded projects get into trouble (2002)](<https://www.ganssle.com/articles/jackstoptenlist.htm>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: ganssle.com

Published: 2026-10-30T22:35:08+00:00

Points: 6 · Comments: [0](<https://lobste.rs/s/mk87la>)

Tags: [hardware](</search.md?q=hardware>)

### [Tell HN: Warp.dev Security Incident](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314132>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: news.ycombinator.com

Published: 2026-10-31T08:14:43+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314132>)

### [Show HN: Agent-arcade – Terminal games that pause when Claude Code/Codex is done](<https://github.com/Kuldeep-045/agent-arcade>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: github.com

Published: 2026-10-31T07:37:00+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313989>)

Tags: [show](</search.md?q=show>)

### [Show HN: Fishoid: an ambient fish tank for your screen](<https://fishoid.net/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: fishoid.net

Published: 2026-10-30T18:30:35+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [10](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308222>)

Tags: [show](</search.md?q=show>)

### [Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2](<https://kevs3d.co.uk/phoria2/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: kevs3d.co.uk

Published: 2026-10-31T09:49:42+00:00

Points: 71 · Comments: [11](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314508>)

Tags: [show](</search.md?q=show>)

### [I don't think AGI is right around the corner (2025)](<https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-june-2025>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: dwarkesh.com

Published: 2026-10-31T02:04:50+00:00

Points: 11 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312555>)

### [Rewriting Copyright Law for Generative AI Would Hurt Everyone](<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/rewriting-copyright-law-generative-ai-would-hurt-everyone>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: eff.org

Published: 2026-10-31T01:26:11+00:00

Points: 6 · Comments: [4](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312342>)

### [Keeping the Bonfires Lit](<https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/keeping-bonfires-lit>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: historytoday.com

Published: 2026-10-30T05:24:51+00:00

Points: 20 · Comments: [8](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300151>)

### [Wolfenstein 3D on the Atari 2600](<https://forums.atariage.com/topic/394015-wolfenstein-3d-atari-2600-port-for-pluscartunocart/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: forums.atariage.com

Published: 2026-10-30T21:47:17+00:00

Points: 10 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310582>)

### [OpenAI slashes funding target by $10B as tech anxieties mount](<https://www.ft.com/content/7a3ad950-1b3b-4d9e-8c15-65a61ae6180f>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: ft.com

Published: 2026-10-31T00:33:17+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312013>)

### [Cold showers benefit the environment and your health](<https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/cold-showers-health-environment.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: unibas.ch

Published: 2026-10-31T06:08:40+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313615>)

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

Source: Hacker News · Domain: wsj.com

Published: 2026-10-31T05:34:04+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313473>)

### [A statement from Novaya Gazeta on the end of its existence](<https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/10/30/we-have-been-killed>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: novayagazeta.ru

Published: 2026-10-31T04:02:20+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313095>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: nbcnews.com

Published: 2026-10-30T23:36:57+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311562>)

### [Push Ifs Up and Fors Down](<https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: matklad.github.io

Published: 2026-10-31T06:22:12+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313701>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: economist.com

Published: 2026-10-31T01:19:32+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312290>)

### [Scribd Security Incident](<https://support.scribd.com/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: support.scribd.com

Published: 2026-10-31T04:24:48+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313197>)

### [Hunting 'Zombie Accounts' in Active Directory](<https://www.fabian.fyi/2026/10/zombie-hunt.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: fabian.fyi

Published: 2026-10-29T21:56:31+00:00

Points: 32 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296700>)

### [Language Models Need Sleep: Learning to Self-Modify and Consolidate Memories](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03979>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: arxiv.org

Published: 2026-10-31T05:53:27+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313542>)

### [Nim version 2.4.0 released](<https://nim-lang.org/blog/2026/10/28/nim-240.html>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: nim-lang.org

Published: 2026-10-29T12:07:26+00:00

Points: 13 · Comments: [3](<https://lobste.rs/s/vfllme>)

Tags: [programming](</search.md?q=programming>)

Also discussed: [Hacker News · 5 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276055>)

### [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>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: rhaas.blogspot.com

Published: 2026-10-31T01:38:56+00:00

Points: 6 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312408>)

### [PFsense at 20. Plus and CE unified. Offline upgrades free.](<https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-at-20>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: netgate.com

Published: 2026-10-31T01:07:38+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312228>)

### [Googling Firebase got me a phishing page hosted by Google](<https://volodymyr.smirnov.im/writing/google-firebase-phishing/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: volodymyr.smirnov.im

Published: 2026-10-30T23:49:12+00:00

Points: 7 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311672>)

### [Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics](<https://tibleiz.net/copper/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: tibleiz.net

Published: 2026-10-30T19:09:33+00:00

Points: 118 · Comments: [71](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308754>)

### [The Ground Beneath Them Was Dry](<https://lagomor.ph/2026/10/the-ground-beneath-them-was-dry/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: lagomor.ph

Published: 2026-10-30T22:52:48+00:00

Points: 6 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311146>)

### [Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020](<https://maketecheasier.com/arecibo-zinc-creep-collapse/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: maketecheasier.com

Published: 2026-10-30T22:41:03+00:00

Points: 167 · Comments: [49](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311045>)