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# Daily headlines

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

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.org8 hours ago

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