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# Archived daily edition

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

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

1.   [269](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294702)1400

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

     HNnytimes.com1 hour ago

2.   [346](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288867)398

     [‘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.com7 hours ago

3.   [545](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287919)348

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

     HNabout.doordash.com9 hours ago

4.   [236](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288019)323

     [Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5](https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-carbon-new-number-1)

     HNartificialanalysis.ai8 hours ago

5.   [286](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418)987

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

     HNmistral.ai7 hours ago

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7.   [244](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280864)393

     [Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents](https://www.wired.com/story/massive-leak-exposes-41000-homeland-security-workers-including-undercover-ice-agents/)

     HNwired.com1 day ago

8.   [670](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282454)751

     [StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month](https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph?t=1)

     HNdata.stackexchange.com21 hours ago

9.   [242](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265393)314

     [Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth](https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/code-execution-flaw-in-uefi-firmware-threatens-most-servers-on-planet-earth/)

     HNarstechnica.com2 days ago

     Also discussed: [Lobsters · 19 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/0gomue "35 points")

10.  [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

11.  [254](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243060)557

     [The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand](https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid)

     HNcircuithub.com3 days ago

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