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# Daily headlines

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

1.  [19](https://lobste.rs/s/yxuvie)72

    [AlpineBSD](https://wiki.alpinebsd.org/)

    LBwiki.alpinebsd.org23 hours ago[netbsd](/search?q=netbsd&appearance=system)

    Also discussed: [Hacker News · 205 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274251 "217 points")

2.  [177](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280864)322

    [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.com13 hours ago

3.  [231](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265393)311

    [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.com1 day ago

    Also discussed: [Lobsters · 14 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/0gomue "30 points")

4.  [380](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282454)452

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

    HNdata.stackexchange.com10 hours ago

5.  [97](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282838)467

    [Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5](https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer)

    HNdivagr.com9 hours ago

6.  [128](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255)374

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

    HNgist.github.com6 hours ago

7.  [227](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243060)500

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

    HNcircuithub.com2 days ago

8.  [151](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275626)232

    [Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments](https://surgehq.ai/blog/dayjob-tax)

    HNsurgehq.ai18 hours ago

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