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# Archived daily edition

[Archive](/archive?limit=20) / 2026-10-31

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

Daily ranking · strictly above median

1.   2026-10-31
2.   [23](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311686)82

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

     HNtng.episodle.com3 hours ago[show](/search?q=show)

3.   [31](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277379)110

     [Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)](https://github.com/chris124567/cfsolve)

     HNgithub.com2 days ago

4.   [0](https://lobste.rs/s/soosuu)10

     [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.com1 hour ago[historical](/search?q=historical)

     Also discussed: [Hacker News · 0 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300039 "6 points")

5.   [1](https://programming.dev/post/58748304)6

     [Mermaid Diagrams in Obsidian: Architecture Docs That Live Next to Your Notes](https://danholloran.me/posts/mermaid-diagrams-in-obsidian-architecture-docs-that-live-next-to-your-notes)

     PDdanholloran.me4 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming)

6.   [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312174)10

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

     HNnews.ycombinator.com2 hours ago

7.   [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311670)8

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

     HNmakemeacto.cc3 hours ago

8.   [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311505)13

     [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.com3 hours ago

9.   [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312013)5

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

     HNft.com2 hours ago

10.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312408)5

     [Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault](http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html)

     HNrhaas.blogspot.com1 hour ago

11.  [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308222)5

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

     HNfishoid.net8 hours ago[show](/search?q=show)

12.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311672)6

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

     HNvolodymyr.smirnov.im3 hours ago

13.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311045)5

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

     HNmaketecheasier.com4 hours ago

14.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304437)7

     [Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era](https://www.404media.co/apple-is-entering-its-slop-era/)

     HN404media.co12 hours ago

15.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299790)15

     [Deterministic Factoring in Time N^O(1)](https://hexagonmath.org/2610.00600v1)

     HNhexagonmath.org22 hours ago

16.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308900)5

     [From Lotus Leaves to Rain Jackets: The Power of Biomimicry](https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/student-contributors-technology-general-science/lotus-leaves-rain-jackets-power-biomimicry)

     HNmcgill.ca7 hours ago

17.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301004)12

     [Malicious Claude Code Extension Found in Cursor Marketplace](https://cursor.com/blog/claude-code-extension-security-notice)

     HNcursor.com18 hours ago

18.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306904)5

     [EU to impose €2 fee on all packages entering the bloc as of 1 November](https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/30/eu-to-impose-2-fee-on-all-packages-entering-the-bloc-as-of-1-november)

     HNeuronews.com9 hours ago

19.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303890)6

     [Finland launches criminal probe into land clearance for Google data centre](https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/finland-launches-criminal-probe-suspected-environmental-damage-google-data-2026-10-29/)

     HNreuters.com13 hours ago

20.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308297)5

     [Old Ideas](https://blog.fogus.me/thoughts/old-ideas.html)

     HNblog.fogus.me8 hours ago

21.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308262)5

     [Hamburg 1:1 in Minecraft](https://github.com/lukad/hamburg-in-minecraft)

     HNgithub.com8 hours ago

22.  [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300097)9

     [A Claude Code agent's test escaped into my Mac. I only noticed because it talked](https://www.marutpandya.com/posts/2026/10/my-mac-started-reading-json-aloud/)

     HNmarutpandya.com21 hours ago

23.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307885)5

     [Giant eagles once ruled the skies](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261028-predatory-birds-the-size-of-a-small-aircraft-once-flocked-the-skies-some-of-them-ate-humans)

     HNbbc.com8 hours ago

24.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304393)7

     [Ghostly Cat's Head Nebula Lurks Within Sight of NASA's Hubble, Webb](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/ghostly-cats-head-nebula-lurks-within-sight-of-nasas-hubble-webb/)

     HNscience.nasa.gov12 hours ago

25.  [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297787)10

     [Reddit shares drop and it plans login requirement as search traffic sinks](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/29/reddit-rddt-q3-2026.html)

     HNcnbc.com1 day ago

26.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303279)6

     [Show HN: What research is your code standing on?](https://lacuna.tiptreesystems.com/standing-on)

     HNlacuna.tiptreesystems.com13 hours ago[show](/search?q=show)

27.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301636)6

     [Europe plans to squeeze out Starlink](https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-telecom-giants-team-up-against-starlink/)

     HNpolitico.eu17 hours ago

28.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304435)6

     [A computer scientist breaks through a limit that stood since 1996](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261029072146.htm)

     HNsciencedaily.com12 hours ago

29.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301822)6

     [Simon Tatham: I often find typos cognitively fascinating](https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/117529047077355923)

     HNhachyderm.io16 hours ago

30.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300049)12

     [Radio-in-a-box: Self-hosted internet radio with Icecast, Liquidsoap and Rust CLI](https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/radio-in-a-box)

     HNgithub.com21 hours ago

31.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303280)5

     [Show HN: Showbuild – Hacker News but only for builders](https://showbuild.co/)

     HNshowbuild.co13 hours ago[show](/search?q=show)

32.  [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298799)8

     [Six popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261028234238.htm)

     HNsciencedaily.com1 day ago

33.  [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299285)9

     [Reddit to Transition to Logged in Only](https://www.axios.com/2026/10/29/reddit-logged-in-ai-search-incognito)

     HNaxios.com1 day ago

34.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303971)5

     [Top House Democrats demand Trump preserve conversations with Grok](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/29/trump-democrats-grok-oversight-01140089)

     HNpolitico.com13 hours ago

35.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302575)5

     [Google Faces Criminal Probe over 816 Acres Cleared for Finnish AI Data Center](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/criminal-investigation-launched-into-googles-ai-data-center-deforestation-in-finland-local-police-act-over-multiple-complaints-about-breaches-of-environmental-law)

     HNtomshardware.com15 hours ago

36.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303013)5

     [AI is letting anyone reverse engineer anything. We talked to the developer](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-exclusive-conversation-with-the-developer-of-rea-the-viral-ai-reverse-engineering-tool/)

     HNscientificamerican.com14 hours ago

37.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302236)6

     [India Saved Its Tigers](https://altermag.com/articles/how-india-actually-saved-its-tigers)

     HNaltermag.com16 hours ago

38.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302703)5

     [Ginux: Independent rust based Linux implementation](https://github.com/gmkurtzer/ginux)

     HNgithub.com15 hours ago

39.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302688)5

     [Senators Demand Meta Answer for 'Pervert Glasses'](https://www.404media.co/senators-wyden-markey-letter-to-meta-smart-glasses/)

     HN404media.co15 hours ago

40.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302503)5

     [Babies Are Catching Measles in Utero for the First Time in Decades](https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/10/congenital-measles-birth-pennsylvania/689214/)

     HNtheatlantic.com15 hours ago

41.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296688)14

     [The Illusion of Thinking: Models Don't Actually Reason](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06941)

     HNarxiv.org1 day ago

42.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300569)7

     [Electrocutions, disease, no pay: workers risk exploitation in Europe datacentres](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/30/electrocutions-disease-and-no-pay-how-workers-risk-exploitation-in-europes-datacentres)

     HNtheguardian.com20 hours ago

43.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301537)5

     [Mistral 4 had a release, makes it comparable to Chinese open-weight models](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/mistral-ceo-says-new-ai-model-beats-chinese-ones-some-areas-2026-10-06/)

     HNreuters.com17 hours ago

44.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302330)5

     [The Authoritarian Stack](https://authoritarian-stack.info/)

     HNauthoritarian-stack.info15 hours ago

45.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302257)5

     [Dockworkers at more than 100 ports worldwide strike against arms shipments](https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/dockworkers-more-than-100-ports-strike-against-arms-shipments-friday-2026-10-29/)

     HNreuters.com16 hours ago

46.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298988)9

     [Show HN: Tiberava – My Game is growing](https://tiberava.online/)

     HNtiberava.online1 day ago[show](/search?q=show)

47.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300979)7

     [Binance hot wallet signed 50 EIP-7702 delegations 3 minutes before the drain](https://808bits.com/articles/binance-hot-wallet-eip-7702-delegations/)

     HN808bits.com18 hours ago

48.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298738)12

     [Show HN: Arken – Passwordless auth middleware using secp256k1 keys](https://github.com/zacharybenson/arken-protocol)

     HNgithub.com1 day ago[show](/search?q=show)

49.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298017)10

     [Meta discussed 'whisper strategy' against social media critic Jonathan Haidt](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/29/meta-staff-us-social-media-critic-jonathan-haidt-court-documents)

     HNtheguardian.com1 day ago

50.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299796)5

     [Sam Altman: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/boucetta-abderahmane_sam-altman-local-inference-is-a-terrible-activity-7521718579914981376-WZzP)

     HNlinkedin.com22 hours ago

51.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298677)8

     [34% of U.S. women under age 50 have iron deficiency under new guidelines](https://www.empirical.health/blog/ferritin-thresholds-iron-deficiency/)

     HNempirical.health1 day ago

52.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298900)6

     [New federal rule will require prescription drug middlemen to share payment data](https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/29/prescription-drug-price-reform-pbm-disclosure-rules-face-challenge/)

     HNstatnews.com1 day ago

53.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298397)8

     [Sudo](https://sudo.com/)

     HNsudo.com1 day ago

54.  [0](https://lobste.rs/s/i1xogy)5

     [QSYRUPWD, Part 2: Correcting the Rijndael Key Builder](https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2026/10/29/qsyrupwd-part-2-correcting-the-rijndael-key-builder/)

     LBblog.silentsignal.eu1 day ago[cryptography](/search?q=cryptography)

55.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300797)5

     [Making DNS\_Erlang Fast: Binary Tricks for the Beam](https://blog.dnsimple.com/2026/10/making-dns-erlang-fast/)

     HNblog.dnsimple.com19 hours ago

     Also discussed: [Lobsters · 5 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/p3pruv "26 points")

56.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296905)12

     [Lighthouses, War and a Puffling](https://adcochrane.wordpress.com/2026/10/29/lighthouses-war-and-a-puffling-the-isle-of-may/)

     HNadcochrane.wordpress.com1 day ago

57.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300687)5

     [40-year mystery solved: Common gut virus infects bacteria, not human cells](https://medicine.washu.edu/news/40-year-mystery-solved-common-gut-virus-infects-bacteria-not-human-cells/)

     HNmedicine.washu.edu19 hours ago

58.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299089)7

     [Searching for Jobs, Gen Z Feels Like It's Staring into 'The Void'](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/28/style/gen-z-job-market.html)

     HNnytimes.com1 day ago

59.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297892)7

     [Critical TCP use-after-free: CVE-2026-98432](https://www.rescana.com/post/linux-kernel-tcp-cve-2026-98432-use-after-free-prepare-now)

     HNrescana.com1 day ago

60.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299915)6

     [The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated](https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/10/29/the-reports-of-stack-overflow-s-death-are-greatly-exaggerated/)

     HNstackoverflow.blog22 hours ago

61.  [11](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290514)5

     [Ask HN: Should I be polite to my agent or should I treat it like shit?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290514)

     HNnews.ycombinator.com1 day ago[ask](/search?q=ask)

62.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297354)10

     [Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/highway-thieves-are-spoofing-gps-to-steal-millions-in-data-center-bound-cargo/)

     HNarstechnica.com1 day ago

63.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298941)5

     [Binance's possible hack triggers $3B freeze in crypto assets](https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/tether-circle-freeze-238-billion-after-binance-reports-security-incident-2026-10-29/)

     HNreuters.com1 day ago

64.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298297)6

     [Patrick Stewart dies at 86](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-actor-patrick-stewart-has-died-his-family-says-2026-10-29/)

     HNreuters.com1 day ago

65.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299971)5

     [You can know a person's device type on Twitter if the post has these parameters](https://twitter.com/youhatefive/status/2115847903696527589)

     HNtwitter.com22 hours ago

66.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299030)6

     [GitHub Copilot Fusion orchestrates between models at half the cost](https://twitter.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2115477376981508419)

     HNtwitter.com1 day ago

67.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299573)5

     [AI killed my software career \[video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwsy-6gu5p4)

     HNyoutube.com23 hours ago

68.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298118)7

     [Josh Kushner's Thrive and OpenAI to buy home security firm ADT](https://www.ft.com/content/f88e30a0-1252-4695-97b0-03da22e5fd42)

     HNft.com1 day ago

69.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298054)7

     [Did your company donate to Trump's ballroom project? Call your lawyer](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/29/oversight-lobbying-k-street-01139772)

     HNpolitico.com1 day ago

70.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295178)7

     [Show HN: Sunlight – the camera-based infinite canvas window manager for Mac](https://sunlight.software/)

     HNsunlight.software1 day ago[show](/search?q=show)

71.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298350)5

     [You can still get a IPv4 /24 from ARIN for $275⅌year, with strings attached](https://dreamstation.systems/personal/arin410.html)

     HNdreamstation.systems1 day ago

72.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298367)6

     [Wenzhou Train Collision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision)

     HNen.wikipedia.org1 day ago

73.  [9](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284849)11

     [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.com1 day ago[ask](/search?q=ask)

74.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297506)5

     [The end of startups: The coming credit crunch](https://evanjconrad.com/posts/end-of-startups)

     HNevanjconrad.com1 day ago

75.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296169)6

     [Polymarket Got Hacked. Here's What Their Post Didn't Tell You](https://twitter.com/brianskellenger/status/2115890675237392452)

     HNtwitter.com1 day ago

76.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269668)40

     [Solving Postgres' Count Problem](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/opening-a-closed-tin-part-2)

     HNparadedb.com2 days ago

77.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292825)10

     [Thursday: A SerenityOS for Myself](https://shantaram.xyz/posts/2026/10/a-serenityos-for-myself)

     HNshantaram.xyz1 day ago

78.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297005)5

     [Chinese Universities in Jiangsu Begin Paying Staff in Digital Yuan](https://chinascope.org/archives/41502)

     HNchinascope.org1 day ago

79.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294992)8

     [Amazon.com Announces Q3 2026 Results \[pdf\]](https://ir.aboutamazon.com/files/doc_earnings/2026/q3/earnings-result/AMZN-Q3-2026-Earnings-Release.pdf)

     HNir.aboutamazon.com1 day ago

80.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296821)5

     [Rhyme-as-Reason Effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme-as-reason_effect)

     HNen.wikipedia.org1 day ago

81.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296693)5

     [The Streisand Effect Case Might Have Played Out Differently in Germany](https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/29/the-streisand-effect-case-might-have-played-out-differently-in-germany/)

     HNtechdirt.com1 day ago

82.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296625)5

     [Reddit will force users to log in as AI is killing search traffic](https://www.engadget.com/2301687/reddit-will-move-to-logged-in-only-as-ai-eats-search-traffic/)

     HNengadget.com1 day ago

83.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295783)7

     [California's High-Speed Rail Chief Quits Amid Questions About Spending](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/choudri-resign-california-high-speed-rail.html)

     HNnytimes.com1 day ago

84.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293004)8

     [Canada to invest up to $1.6B in Toronto-based AI company Cohere](https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-cohere-ai-investment-9.7401367)

     HNcbc.ca1 day ago

85.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296773)6

     ["Peak Greenwashing": Two Bills in Congress Endorse Misleading Recycling Claims](https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-industry-recycling-legislation-congress)

     HNpropublica.org1 day ago

86.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296768)6

     [Rockstar is a programming language based on 1980s hard rock lyrics](https://codewithrockstar.com/)

     HNcodewithrockstar.com1 day ago

87.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296378)6

     [The Wayback Machine Labs](https://wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/)

     HNwayback-labs.sf.archive.org1 day ago

88.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292625)9

     [If the context window is a million tokens, why bother with search?](https://deployed-ai.io/blog/long-context-vs-rag/)

     HNdeployed-ai.io1 day ago

89.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296124)6

     [Keep your home server reachable with Dynamic DNS](https://www.fastmail.com/blog/keep-your-home-server-reachable-with-dynamic-dns/)

     HNfastmail.com1 day ago

90.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295045)5

     [Polymarket Halts Trading as Users Report $1.4M Drained](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/polymarket-halts-trading-users-report-183518883.html)

     HNfinance.yahoo.com1 day ago

91.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292208)6

     [Attackers turn GitHub issues into supply chain campaign against 61 public repos](https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/29/attackers-turn-github-issues-into-supply-chain-campaign-against-61-public-repos-in-less-than-an-hour/5306153)

     HNtheregister.com1 day ago