--- title: "Archived daily edition · Daily Diff" --- [Daily edition](/)[Hot now](/hot) # Archived daily edition [Archive](/archive?limit=20) / 2026-10-29 [Top 10](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-29&limit=10&q=)[Top 20](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-29&limit=20&q=)[Above median](/archive/edition?date=2026-10-29&limit=20&q=&mode=median) Daily ranking · strictly above median 1. 2026-10-29 2. [8](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282538)9 [The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/xreal-aura/) HNblog.google1 hour ago 3. [18](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282650)16 [Get Ready for Touch on Mac](https://developer.apple.com/touch-on-mac/) HNdeveloper.apple.com59 minutes ago 4. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282766)8 [New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled](https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/the-new-york-times-is-adding-more-ai-features-to-its-cooking-app-and-users-arent-thrilled/) HNniemanlab.org41 minutes ago 5. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282826)5 [Elon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks with SpaceX boss](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c63djl148n3eo) HNbbc.com33 minutes ago 6. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281826)10 [AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/ai-execs-may-be-too-out-of-touch-to-build-for-the-general-public/) HNtechcrunch.com2 hours ago 7. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276913)5 [Show HN: Homi, open decision model for audio, near Flash on MMSU and 50x cheaper](https://github.com/egma-ai/homi/) HNgithub.com7 hours ago[show](/search?q=show) 8. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268907)10 [F](https://f.com/) HNf.com21 hours ago 9. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269260)9 [U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Confirms China's Spaceplane](https://www.twz.com/news-features/u-s-intel-confirms-this-is-chinas-secret-spaceplane) HNtwz.com20 hours ago 10. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267368)11 [Zen: System-wide open source ad-blocker for Windows, macOS, and Linux](https://irbis.sh/zen) HNirbis.sh1 day ago 11. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269746)6 [Satellites show some of the strongest evidence the AMOC is weakening](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2595629-satellites-show-some-of-the-strongest-evidence-the-amoc-is-weakening/) HNnewscientist.com19 hours ago 12. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267720)11 [OEIS sequence A400000: The city-building sequence](https://oeis.org/A400000) HNoeis.org1 day ago 13. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/wdibp8)5 [Precedence levels are dead; long live precedence sets](https://www.corsix.org/content/precedence-levels-are-dead) LBcorsix.org1 day ago[zig](/search?q=zig) 14. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267680)7 [Show HN: Guess what frontier LLMs do in a repeated prisoner's dilemma](https://thenunchiproject.com/game/ai-decides) HNthenunchiproject.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show) 15. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265225)5 [Anduril Partners with Qualcomm to Build Laptops on US Soil](https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/military-drone-outfit-anduril-partners-with-qualcomm-to-build-laptops-on-us-soil-with-new-bluechip-venture-defense-contractor-targets-a-100-percent-domestic-supply-chain-in-the-future) HNtomshardware.com1 day ago 16. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269855)5 [Exiled Brazilian political opponent's desperate run for the US through Argentina](https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/27/americas/flavio-bolsonaro-brazil-passports-latam-intl) HNcnn.com18 hours ago 17. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268919)7 [Show HN: The New Way to Make AI UGC Ads in 2026](https://www.aivideosugc.com/ai-video-generation) HNaivideosugc.com21 hours ago[show](/search?q=show) 18. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268522)5 [Diary of a CEO: Mark Cuban Interview \[video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VTSAs4Rsck) HNyoutube.com22 hours ago 19. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269272)6 [Harold Blauer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Blauer) HNen.wikipedia.org20 hours ago 20. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269136)6 [Don't anthropomorphize big tech companies](https://www.seangoedecke.com/dont-anthropomorphize-big-tech-companies/) HNseangoedecke.com21 hours ago 21. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267927)8 [Ukraine is arming war robots with grenade launchers to hit the Russians](https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-robots-use-grenade-launchers-to-fire-without-risking-soldiers-2026-10) HNbusinessinsider.com1 day ago 22. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268020)5 [Plex "laid off the player team" what is the industry doing to developers?](https://samueleast.co.uk/playground/laid-off-from-plex-60-days-in) HNsamueleast.co.uk1 day ago 23. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268662)5 [Writing AI agents in YAML instead of Python](https://codecut.ai/build-ai-agents-yaml-docker-agent/) HNcodecut.ai22 hours ago 24. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264076)9 [Nook: A terminal Markdown editor where the cursor never moves](https://github.com/simone20a/Nook) HNgithub.com1 day ago 25. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266458)7 [DHS Rejects Oversight Recommendation for ICE Body Cam Auto-Activation](https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/27/dhs-rejects-oversight-recommendation-for-ice-body-cam-auto-activation/) HNtechdirt.com1 day ago 26. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267947)5 [A New Dwarf Planet (Probably) Spotted Beyond Pluto](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/science/space/new-dwarf-planet-beyond-pluto.html) HNnytimes.com1 day ago 27. [11](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256342)7 [Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256342) HNnews.ycombinator.com1 day ago[ask](/search?q=ask) 28. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267802)6 [Nice Little Satellite You Got Here. Shame If Anything Were to Happen to It](https://streetwiseprofessor.com/nice-little-satellite-you-got-here-shame-if-anything-were-to-happen-to-it/) HNstreetwiseprofessor.com1 day ago 29. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266956)5 [An illustrated online book on Hewlett-Packard equipment](https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/27/an-illustrated-online-book-on-hewlett-packard-equipment/) HNblog.adafruit.com1 day ago 30. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240041)42 [Rosettes and Other Hidden Traces of Hamburg's Tram](https://alsterrunde.com/rosettes-and-other-hidden-traces-of-hamburgs-tram/) HNalsterrunde.com2 days ago 31. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264374)6 [Show HN: Tar-minefield shows where tar implementations disagree](https://stoppels.ch/tar/) HNstoppels.ch1 day ago[show](/search?q=show) 32. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261492)6 [Show HN: Freightfloor. Have 3 minutes? Drive a forklift vs. AI](https://freightfloor.com/) HNfreightfloor.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show) 33. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267380)5 [Historical Scientific Instruments](https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/historical-scientific-instruments) HNnealstephenson.substack.com1 day ago 34. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267373)5 [Show HN: Aqueous Archive Format](https://github.com/lifthrasiir/aqueous/) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show) 35. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266429)6 [Stripe Pay](https://docs.stripe.com/cli/pay) HNdocs.stripe.com1 day ago 36. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266408)6 [Linux 7.4 Introduces DMA-BUF Support to I/O Path with IO\_uring](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DMA-BUF-IO-uring-Linux-7.4) HNphoronix.com1 day ago 37. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50262753)7 [Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop](https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1019274/anduril-qualcomm-bluechip-laptops-american-made-military) HNtheverge.com1 day ago 38. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265147)5 [Hacking attempts against US Federal Election Commission system triggered outage](https://www.reuters.com/technology/hacker-trying-breach-us-federal-election-commission-system-email-shows-2026-10-27/) HNreuters.com1 day ago 39. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264920)5 [Anthropic IPO might kick off tech reset if the AI stock underperforms](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/anthropic-ipo-might-trigger-tech-reset-if-ipo-underperforms.html) HNcnbc.com1 day ago 40. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/n92yur)5 [Keyless Entry: Hacking SwitchBot Smart Locks](https://neodyme.io/en/blog/switchbot) LBneodyme.io1 day ago[cryptography](/search?q=cryptography) 41. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261776)6 [Show HN: Duotone icon library with 2.5k+ icons and 250 flags, RTL aware](https://github.com/andrsrxn/icons) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show) 42. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50262407)8 [Show HN: Agent-relay for multi-vendor coding sessions](https://github.com/saranyan/agent-relay) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show) 43. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264716)6 [Single-File Web Apps](https://gods.art/articles/single_file_web_apps) HNgods.art1 day ago 44. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258875)10 [Show HN: Markdown is 40× more token-efficient with SQLite](https://www.withnative.ai/research-and-posts/markdown-context-benchmark) HNwithnative.ai1 day ago[show](/search?q=show) 45. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264163)5 [Necro-Economics Eyal Weizman](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264163) HNnews.ycombinator.com1 day ago 46. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257116)5 [Ask HN: Has anyone used Phoenix, Langfuse, or OpenObserve?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257116) HNnews.ycombinator.com1 day ago[ask](/search?q=ask) 47. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254255)11 [Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid](https://fortune.com/2026/10/26/pentagon-fortress-bases-90-days-off-grid-uk-be-ready-stockpile/) HNfortune.com1 day ago 48. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/vqlcdk)8 [Cuis Smalltalk](https://cuis.st/) LBcuis.st2 days ago[plt](/search?q=plt) 49. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256532)8 [Trump admin cuts to satellites will set back US weather forecasting by a decade](https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/weather/trump-satellites-extreme-weather-forecast-future-set-back) HNcnn.com1 day ago 50. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260323)6 [Anduril and Qualcomm Unveil BlueChip to Rebuild American Computer Manufacturing](https://www.anduril.com/news/anduril-and-qualcomm-unveil-bluechip-to-rebuild-american-computer-manufacturing) HNanduril.com1 day ago 51. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261372)5 [Infisical raises $40M Series B led by Elad Gil](https://infisical.com/blog/series-b) HNinfisical.com1 day ago 52. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259567)5 [Show HN: Egres: A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads](https://manishrjain.com/egres/) HNmanishrjain.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show) 53. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261070)5 [GPT-6.1 Terra's price cut, recomputed for a cache-heavy agent session](https://theainewsreport.com/2026-10-27-gpt-6-1-terra-pricing-agent-cost-explained.html) HNtheainewsreport.com1 day ago 54. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256433)5 [Tell HN: Last night, I had a dream](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256433) HNnews.ycombinator.com1 day ago 55. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256421)6 [Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Reviewers found a race](https://thenewstack.io/torvalds-claude-code-kernel/) HNthenewstack.io1 day ago 56. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260969)5 [Show HN: Sectr – Serverless backend platform for easy deployment of AI agents](https://sectr.dev/) HNsectr.dev1 day ago[show](/search?q=show) 57. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257997)7 [Show HN: Tiny Tube – A self hosted video sharing server in a single Go binary](https://github.com/spapas/tiny-tube) HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show) 58. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253759)8 [AI Science vs. Human Science](https://lacuna.tiptreesystems.com/paper/ai-science-vs-human-science/art_3901430d6c0e4bddb284362100ef8548) HNlacuna.tiptreesystems.com1 day ago 59. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253172)12 [Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, dies aged 90](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv0ldjzg9xppo) HNbbc.com2 days ago 60. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258730)6 [The Cloudflare PHP Capture the Flag Challenge](https://blog.cloudflare.com/php-ctf/) HNblog.cloudflare.com1 day ago 61. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259943)5 [Tare: K8s Rightsizer CO2 Aware](https://github.com/2listic/tare) HNgithub.com1 day ago 62. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255798)5 [A 2^o(n) time algorithm for 3-SAT](https://github.com/anthropics/formal-math/tree/16a5ce41304fcdaea4e0be7c132e1c361dc26da5/eth) HNgithub.com1 day ago 63. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258343)6 [The Case for OpenTelemetry Maintainership](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/case-for-opentelemetry-maintainership/) HNopentelemetry.io1 day ago 64. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256197)5 [Show HN: Software Hate Index (real-time ranking of SaaS complaints)](https://hissingkitty.com/predictions) HNhissingkitty.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show) 65. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50254670)7 [AI and the Collapse of Capitalism](https://jasonpolak.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-collapse-of-capitalism) HNjasonpolak.substack.com1 day ago 66. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258529)5 [MacBook Pro with M6](https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro) HNapple.com1 day ago 67. [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239122)26 [Closing the Sea: Lessons from Ancient Mediterranean Blockades](https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/closing-the-sea-lessons-from-ancient-mediterranean-blockades) HNmaritime-executive.com2 days ago 68. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257193)5 [Sunlight at night: US startup's demo of lighting Earth from space draws critics](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/california-sunlight-space-mirrors-satellites) HNtheguardian.com1 day ago 69. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255161)6 [Edit an SQLite database in your browser](https://editsqlite.com/) HNeditsqlite.com1 day ago 70. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253664)12 [Chinese research vessels loiter near undersea cables more than any other nation](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinese-research-vessels-loiter-near-pacific-undersea-cables-more-than-any-other-nation-report-finds-civilian-fleet-using-lawnmower-patterns-may-be-mapping-seafloor-for-future-sabotage) HNtomshardware.com1 day ago 71. [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242358)14 [The Best Rubber Duck I've Ever Had](https://blog.blockingqueue.com/the-best-rubber-duck-i-ve-ever-had) HNblog.blockingqueue.com2 days ago 72. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256605)5 [Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model tried to upload a file to Beijing in a test](https://www.notebookcheck.net/Alibaba-s-Qwen3-8-model-tried-to-upload-a-file-to-Beijing-in-a-test.1435026.0.html) HNnotebookcheck.net1 day ago