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# Archived daily edition

[Archive](/archive?limit=20&appearance=dark) / 2026-10-29

[Top 10](/archive/edition/first?date=2026-10-29&limit=10&q=&appearance=dark)[Top 20](/archive/edition/first?date=2026-10-29&limit=20&q=&appearance=dark)[Above median](/archive/edition/first?date=2026-10-29&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=dark)

Daily ranking · strictly above median

1.   2026-10-29
2.   [330](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294702)1687

     [Patrick Stewart has died](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html)

     HNnytimes.com2 hours ago

3.   [305](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418)1049

     [We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/)

     HNmistral.ai8 hours ago

4.   [223](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255)553

     [Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model](https://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce)

     HNgist.github.com18 hours ago

5.   [565](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287919)367

     [DoorDash to acquire Instacart](https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart)

     HNabout.doordash.com9 hours ago

6.   [352](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288867)400

     [‘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.com8 hours ago

7.   [307](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290668)269

     [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.com6 hours ago

8.   [111](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291054)266

     [H.264 Is Magic (2016)](https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/)

     HNsidbala.com6 hours ago

9.   [241](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287775)207

     [If IPv4 were land](https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land)

     HNiptrust.co9 hours ago

10.  [116](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286987)252

     [Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers](https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers)

     HNdreamgroup.com11 hours ago

11.  [175](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287448)210

     [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.com10 hours ago