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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.   [41](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311686)130

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

     HNtng.episodle.com5 hours ago[show](/search?q=show)

3.   [30](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756)86

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

     HNnews.ycombinator.com2 hours ago

4.   [36](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277379)133

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

     HNgithub.com2 days ago

5.   [6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312739)42

     [Flock camera searches fell 95% after a dispatcher's misconduct was caught](https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/investigations/flock-camera-searches-fall-95-percent-highland-heights-dispatcher-misconduct-caught/95-94b18f33-60e2-4bc7-a00f-d71d1e1fdd5e)

     HNwkyc.com2 hours ago

6.   [1](https://lobste.rs/s/soosuu)12

     [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.com3 hours ago[historical](/search?q=historical)

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

7.   [1](https://programming.dev/post/58748304)8

     [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.me6 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming)

8.   [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311505)19

     [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.com5 hours ago

9.   [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311670)8

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

     HNmakemeacto.cc5 hours ago

10.  [0](https://lobste.rs/s/mk87la)5

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

     LBganssle.com6 hours ago[hardware](/search?q=hardware)

11.  [17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312922)44

     [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)

     HNwsj.com1 hour ago

12.  [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.com4 hours ago

13.  [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.com3 hours ago

14.  [1](https://lobste.rs/s/paqtgw)5

     [Smart audio for the smart home (2021)](https://computer.rip/2021-11-06-smart-audio-for-the-smart-home.html)

     LBcomputer.rip15 hours ago[historical](/search?q=historical)

15.  [1](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.im5 hours ago

16.  [5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308222)5

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

     HNfishoid.net10 hours ago[show](/search?q=show)

17.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310582)8

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

     HNforums.atariage.com7 hours ago

18.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311562)5

     [U.S. approves $2.1B sale of Patriot interceptors to Ukraine](https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/us-approves-21-billion-sale-patriot-interceptors-ukraine-rcna606641)

     HNnbcnews.com5 hours ago

19.  [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.ca9 hours ago

20.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307196)5

     [Chasing the Karpathy Peak (and Falling Off Slop Cliff)](https://thomasjiralerspong.substack.com/p/chasing-the-karpathy-peak)

     HNthomasjiralerspong.substack.com11 hours ago

21.  [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.com15 hours ago

22.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308262)5

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

     HNgithub.com10 hours ago

23.  [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.com23 hours ago

24.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291812)27

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

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

25.  [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.com10 hours ago

26.  [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

27.  [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.com15 hours ago[show](/search?q=show)

28.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301822)6

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

     HNhachyderm.io18 hours ago

29.  [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

30.  [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

31.  [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.com14 hours ago

32.  [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.com17 hours ago

33.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303105)5

     [When Federico Faggin Left Intel](https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-federico-faggin-left-intel/)

     HNdfarq.homeip.net16 hours ago

34.  [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.com16 hours ago

35.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302703)5

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

     HNgithub.com17 hours ago

36.  [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.co17 hours ago

37.  [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.com17 hours ago

38.  [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

39.  [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)

40.  [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

41.  [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298397)9

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

     HNsudo.com1 day ago

42.  [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

43.  [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

44.  [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)

45.  [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

46.  [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.edu21 hours ago

47.  [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

48.  [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

49.  [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)

50.  [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

51.  [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

52.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299830)5

     [Chez Scheme from a Clojurian Perspective](https://get-aksh.com/blog/chez-from-a-clojurian-perspective)

     HNget-aksh.com1 day ago

53.  [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

54.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299573)5

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

     HNyoutube.com1 day ago

55.  [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

56.  [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)

57.  [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

58.  [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

59.  [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)

60.  [3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269668)41

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

     HNparadedb.com2 days ago

61.  [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

62.  [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

63.  [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

64.  [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

65.  [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

66.  [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

67.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293992)7

     [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 day ago