--- 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. [245](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418)872 [We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/) HNmistral.ai5 hours ago 3. [327](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288867)394 [‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html) HNnytimes.com6 hours ago 4. [523](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287919)307 [DoorDash to acquire Instacart](https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart) HNabout.doordash.com7 hours ago 5. [249](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290668)231 [I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/10/27/i-saw-future-driving-mexico-its-off-limits-americans/) HNwashingtonpost.com4 hours ago 6. [168](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287448)206 [How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)](https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html) HNpublicpolicy.googleblog.com8 hours ago 7. [69](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287898)245 [Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees](https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6021497) HNtext.npr.org7 hours ago 8. [200](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287775)181 [If IPv4 were land](https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land) HNiptrust.co7 hours ago 9. [97](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286987)213 [Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers](https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers) HNdreamgroup.com9 hours ago 10. [97](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291054)193 [H.264 Is Magic (2016)](https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/) HNsidbala.com4 hours ago 11. [109](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287599)140 [NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto](https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117518160563539748) HNmastodon.sdf.org7 hours ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 17 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/m6fw0x "27 points") 12. [99](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287359)119 [Perspectiva Kogui: A message on artificial intelligence from the Kogui people](https://sonidoselva.com/perspectiva-kogui) HNsonidoselva.com8 hours ago 13. [112](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289162)77 [Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?](https://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/good-devs-wary.html) HNmartinfowler.com5 hours ago 14. [11](https://lobste.rs/s/7qaac6)46 [What the fox say?](https://entropicthoughts.com/what-the-fox-say) LBentropicthoughts.com13 hours ago[games](/search?q=games) 15. [14](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292233)122 [Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic](https://www.vut.cz/en/but/news-f19528/two-but-graduates-received-state-honors-from-the-president-of-the-republic-d378468) HNvut.cz3 hours ago 16. [78](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282538)93 [The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/xreal-aura/) HNblog.google20 hours ago 17. [58](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284329)88 [The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history](https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/28/sport/live-news/game-5-world-series) HNcnn.com16 hours ago 18. [107](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282766)56 [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.org19 hours ago 19. [34](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291927)61 [Toxic experts (2017)](https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201711/toxic_experts) HNnedbatchelder.com3 hours ago 20. [73](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282865)55 [MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy](https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) HNgithub.com19 hours ago 21. [18](https://lobste.rs/s/eccbci)17 [Shared password manager for families?](https://lobste.rs/s/eccbci) LBlobste.rs5 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask) 22. [24](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286738)45 [I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here's What Happened](https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-generated-scientific-papers) HNspectrum.ieee.org9 hours ago 23. [16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284342)56 [Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action over failed real estate venture](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/zillow-pay-2125-million-settle-class-action-over-failed-real-estate-venture-2026-10-28/) HNreuters.com16 hours ago 24. [73](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282650)33 [Get Ready for Touch on Mac](https://developer.apple.com/touch-on-mac/) HNdeveloper.apple.com20 hours ago 25. [11](https://programming.dev/post/58682633)12 [This means it's a real programming language now, right?](https://wafrn-media.goodanser.com/1793286346041_45f2ae3e674fcb198aa1ae1f8778e616b24f43db_processed.webp) PDwafrn-media.goodanser.com4 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming) 26. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291421)52 [16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive](https://16colo.rs/) HN16colo.rs3 hours ago 27. [30](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50278645)49 [noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in Golang](https://github.com/theconsensuslabs/noalloc) HNgithub.com1 day ago 28. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291902)40 [Alphabet heads for a $500B drop in market value, biggest in its history](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/alphabet-heads-for-a-500-billion-drop-in-market-value-the-biggest-in-its-history-134824763.html) HNfinance.yahoo.com3 hours ago 29. [24](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259697)92 [MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark](https://dmux.github.io/minilake/) HNdmux.github.io2 days ago 30. [17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293546)25 [Archive Of Our Own down for maintenance for 2 to 4 weeks](https://www.otwstatus.org/incidents/g12jnxck9g6h) HNotwstatus.org1 hour ago 31. [3](https://lobste.rs/s/jmbjlu)19 [The Future Trait Has A Missing State](https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/the-future-trait-has-a-missing-state) LBblog.yoshuawuyts.com15 hours ago[rust](/search?q=rust) 32. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294702)31 [Sir Patrick Stewart has died](https://twitter.com/sirpatstew/status/2115891266131300517) HNtwitter.com16 minutes ago 33. [13](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293308)23 [I'm building LYNX, an open-source DAW inspired by FL Studio, free,cross-platform](https://github.com/Ka1-S/LYNX-SHARE) HNgithub.com1 hour ago 34. [11](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291116)25 [Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291116) HNnews.ycombinator.com4 hours ago 35. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/siebde)15 [My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii](https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/) LBvirtuallyfun.com3 hours ago[retrocomputing](/search?q=retrocomputing) 36. [1](https://lobste.rs/s/brdwr2)19 [Redox Ring Buffers Project Summary](https://www.redox-os.org/news/nlnet-rb-summary/) LBredox-os.org17 hours ago[osdev](/search?q=osdev) 37. [32](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285134)11 [Ask HN: I Need Advice](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285134) HNnews.ycombinator.com13 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask) 38. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286924)23 [Nvidia Chief Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-jensen-huang-trump.html) HNnytimes.com9 hours ago 39. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294770)16 [Patrick Stewart Has Died](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html) HNnytimes.com10 minutes ago 40. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294507)14 [The importance of communities around software](https://lumi.codeberg.page/blog/software-community.html) HNlumi.codeberg.page30 minutes ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 0 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/o8xo9z "21 points") 41. [13](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282504)20 [Low cholesterol targets cut cardiovascular events by 33%](https://www.empirical.health/blog/lower-ldl-target-ez-pave-trial/) HNempirical.health20 hours ago 42. [3](https://lobste.rs/s/4x3ten)6 [Building NixOS using Nixtamal](https://nixtamal.toast.al/cookbook/nixos-using-nixtamal/) LBnixtamal.toast.al6 hours ago[nix](/search?q=nix) 43. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286306)22 [Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286306) HNnews.ycombinator.com10 hours ago 44. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287647)20 [CVE-2026-98432: 9.8 CVE affecting all Ubuntu versions](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-98432) HNubuntu.com7 hours ago 45. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293562)16 [Trump and aides helped Flávio Bolsonaro flee Brazil amid criminal investigations](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/world/americas/flavio-bolsonaro-trump-brazil-us.html) HNnytimes.com1 hour ago 46. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293303)11 [Show HN: Capo-S3 – a typed, async-first S3 client for Python](https://pypi.org/project/capo-s3/) HNpypi.org1 hour ago[show](/search?q=show) 47. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287638)12 [DoorDash to Buy Instacart for $17B, Uniting 2 Delivery Giants](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/technology/doordash-instacart-acquisition-delivery.html) HNnytimes.com7 hours ago 48. [3](https://lobste.rs/s/tw3rsp)6 [Phorge](https://www.phorge.it/) LBphorge.it3 hours ago[php](/search?q=php) 49. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294287)10 [Polymarket Pauses Trading After Some Users Report Funds Drained](https://www.wsj.com/business/polymarket-pauses-trading-after-some-users-report-funds-drained-b014527d) HNwsj.com47 minutes ago 50. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293361)9 [Show HN: phpClaw – AI agent runtime for PHP with tools, memory and guards](https://github.com/phpclaw-php/phpclaw-monorepo) HNgithub.com1 hour ago[show](/search?q=show) 51. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/j4ntsz)5 [Will Open Firmware Become the Next Big Trend in Electronic Music Gear?](https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2026/10/28/will-open-firmware-become-the-next-big-trend-in-electronic-music-gear/) LBsynthtopia.com5 hours ago[art](/search?q=art) 52. [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291756)5 [Elon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c63djl148n3eo) HNbbc.com3 hours ago 53. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292467)6 [I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World](https://twitter.com/jsnnsa/status/2115623382721126826) HNtwitter.com2 hours ago 54. [9](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271756)25 [TLP Is Not a Suggestion](https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/tlp-is-not-a-suggestion) HNakamai.com1 day ago 55. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294300)13 [Show HN: GenesisDB – The event sourcing database, is now open source](https://www.genesisdb.io/blog/posts/2026-10-24/genesisdb-2-is-open-source) HNgenesisdb.io47 minutes ago[show](/search?q=show) 56. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292524)9 [OpenAI: We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100/200/500 tiers](https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2115850175868727621) HNtwitter.com2 hours ago 57. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293305)5 [Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/google-admits-ai-search-makes-less-money-but-its-fixing-that-with-more-ads/) HNarstechnica.com1 hour ago 58. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294486)6 [IgE disruptor for food allergy with Claude-enabled antibody design \[pdf\]](https://divergencelabs.com/publications/ige-preprint.pdf) HNdivergencelabs.com32 minutes ago 59. [13](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293023)35 [After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/world/europe/karl-bushby-walking-globe-uk.html) HNnytimes.com2 hours ago 60. [0](https://lobste.rs/s/ssp7ug)9 [Introducing the Accessible Components Library](https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/10/14/accessible-components-library/) LBtetralogical.com19 hours ago[a11y](/search?q=a11y) 61. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294600)5 [Billionaires or Democracy: Choose One](https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/california-proposition-40-billionaire-wealth-tax/) HNthenation.com23 minutes ago 62. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294421)5 [Jules Turndown](https://jules.google/docs/changelog/2026-10-29/) HNjules.google37 minutes ago 63. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288716)9 [SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that's a problem for America's space agency](https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/spacex-no-longer-needs-nasa-and-thats-a-problem-for-americas-space-agency/) HNarstechnica.com6 hours ago 64. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294248)5 [The Rise of Rib Remodeling](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/28/the-shocking-rise-of-rib-remodelling-i-wanted-that-hourglass-shape) HNtheguardian.com50 minutes ago 65. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293992)5 [Law Firm Linked to Elon Musk Started an 'Election Integrity' Organization](https://www.wired.com/story/law-firm-linked-to-elon-musk-started-an-election-integrity-organization/) HNwired.com1 hour ago 66. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293979)9 [A Defense Contractor Gave Their AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System](https://www.wired.com/story/a-defense-contractor-gave-their-personal-ai-agent-access-to-a-secure-pentagon-system/) HNwired.com1 hour ago 67. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292103)7 [ACLs Don't (2009) \[pdf\]](https://shiftleft.com/mirrors/www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-20.pdf) HNshiftleft.com3 hours ago Also discussed: [Lobsters · 0 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/9h6lc4 "5 points") 68. [8](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294506)20 [Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow \ to find devices on local networks?"](https://github.com/johncassil/dontallow) HNgithub.com30 minutes ago[show](/search?q=show) 69. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294463)5 [Polymarket halts trading after compromise, impacted users will be 'made whole'](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/polymarket-trading-halt-hack-wallets-rcna606405) HNnbcnews.com34 minutes ago 70. [8](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284849)7 [Ask HN: Why big LLMs use "it's not A, it is B" pattern? Shared dataset supplier?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284849) HNnews.ycombinator.com14 hours ago[ask](/search?q=ask) 71. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294160)8 [How Elon Musk Turned on Ukraine](https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/10/elon-musk-ukraine-starlink-alternative/689192/) HNtheatlantic.com58 minutes ago 72. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292825)6 [Thursday: A SerenityOS for Myself](https://shantaram.xyz/posts/2026/10/a-serenityos-for-myself) HNshantaram.xyz2 hours ago 73. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290757)7 [Pi Durable on Cloudflare – Earendil](https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable-on-cloudflare/) HNearendil.com4 hours ago 74. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293987)5 [Netanyahu's party claims election 'stolen' by 'foreign entities'](https://www.ft.com/content/f66a684c-4073-4cf8-b5b8-8851c72e8bc0) HNft.com1 hour ago 75. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292727)6 [Duet is the future of chatbot interaction](https://fig.blue/posts/duet-is-the-future/) HNfig.blue2 hours ago 76. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293930)5 [US suit claiming Google wouldn't give employee new job following military leave](https://www.reuters.com/world/us-sues-google-failing-restore-former-employee-similar-job-following-military-2026-10-29/) HNreuters.com1 hour ago 77. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291812)5 [Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers](https://github.com/arterialist/kube32) HNgithub.com3 hours ago[show](/search?q=show) 78. [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286949)9 [Show HN: I got tired of travel spreadsheets so I made a travel planner app](https://www.wherewhen.cc/) HNwherewhen.cc9 hours ago[show](/search?q=show) 79. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291911)6 [Show HN: Witnessory – a signed record of the web's move to post-quantum crypto](https://witnessory.org/) HNwitnessory.org3 hours ago[show](/search?q=show) 80. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286844)8 [Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead](https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/28/anthropic-engineer-declares-the-coding-interview-dead/5306115) HNtheregister.com9 hours ago 81. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288594)7 [A Subexponential Time Algorithm for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm](https://github.com/bochum-crypto/subexponential-ecdl) HNgithub.com6 hours ago 82. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290899)5 [Give your coding agent a verification harness to check its code](https://www.heal.dev/verification-harness) HNheal.dev4 hours ago 83. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291850)5 [Nvidia CEO reportedly targeted by Chinese spy](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/29/nvidia-ceo-targeted-chinese-spy) HNtheguardian.com3 hours ago 84. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288014)6 [Man Wins First-of-Its-Kind Religious Exemption from Mandatory AI Use at Work](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/secular-humanist-gets-religious-exemption-from-using-ai-argues-that-offloading-his-thinking-to-llms-violates-his-beliefs-american-humanist-association-says-its-the-first-case-of-its-kind) HNtomshardware.com7 hours ago 85. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288049)6 [Manufacturing the Great Replacement](https://twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/2115726760717238312) HNtwitter.com7 hours ago 86. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290043)5 [Speeding up eBPF filepath checks](https://neilnaveen.dev/posts/speeding-up-ebpf-filepath-checks/) HNneilnaveen.dev5 hours ago 87. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287724)5 [AI recommends more expensive treatment than physicians, analysis suggests](https://www.bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026-101271) HNbmj.com7 hours ago 88. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287932)6 [HSBC Seeks to Hedge Data Center Debt with Credit Risk Insurance](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-29/hsbc-seeks-to-hedge-data-center-debt-with-credit-risk-insurance) HNbloomberg.com7 hours ago 89. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284996)11 [Show HN: Uji – Gentoo of Coding Agents](https://github.com/uji-labs/uji) HNgithub.com14 hours ago[show](/search?q=show) 90. [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286789)5 [Em dashes on Reddit have become 10 times more popular in a few years](https://kissmypost.com/research/em-dash-chatgpt-reddit) HNkissmypost.com9 hours ago 91. [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283738)13 [EU tells countries to make plans to cope with 3C of global warming](https://www.ft.com/content/9640cae1-98bb-4509-adb1-729ca6a5f2a8) HNft.com17 hours ago 92. [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286438)5 [Logs Ingestion Benchmark: Loki, Elasticsearch, VictoriaLogs and ClickHouse](https://victoriametrics.com/blog/structured-log-ingestion-benchmark/index.html) HNvictoriametrics.com10 hours ago 93. [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281226)8 [Show HN: Full Python 3.15 Implemented in 25k LoC C11](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281226) HNnews.ycombinator.com22 hours ago[show](/search?q=show)