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title: "Daily headlines · Daily Diff"
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# Daily headlines

[Daily edition](</index.md>) · [Hot now](</hot.md>)

[Top 10](</headlines/first.md?date=2026-11-02&limit=10&q=>) · [Top 20](</headlines/first.md?date=2026-11-02&limit=20&q=>) · [Above median](</headlines/first.md?date=2026-11-02&limit=20&q=&mode=median>)

Daily ranking · strictly above median

## 2026-11-02

### [Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen](<https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: rikiyat.github.io

Published: 2026-11-02T18:21:28+00:00

Points: 1663 · Comments: [531](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341174>)

### [WTF Ubuntu?](<https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: chalmovsky.com

Published: 2026-11-02T14:52:00+00:00

Points: 1249 · Comments: [571](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337608>)

### [Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack](<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/02/supermarket-freezers-across-europe-hit-by-second-suspected-cyber-attack>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: theguardian.com

Published: 2026-11-02T11:50:13+00:00

Points: 354 · Comments: [402](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50335615>)

### [Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay](<https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-internal-ai-use-exceeds-employee-pay-tokens-2026-11>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: businessinsider.com

Published: 2026-11-02T16:40:29+00:00

Points: 276 · Comments: [231](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339494>)

### [US boy names that became girl names and vice versa](<https://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-names>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: namedaisy.com

Published: 2026-11-02T16:34:36+00:00

Points: 249 · Comments: [278](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339397>)

### [Anthropic reports $17B in Q3 revenue, commitments of $895B in revised S-1](<https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/02/anthropic-ant-s-1-quarter-financials.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: cnbc.com

Published: 2026-11-02T14:38:45+00:00

Points: 226 · Comments: [257](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337439>)

### [Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks](<https://freenode.net/article/ubuntu-lts-kernels-still-unfixed-for-critical-cve-2026-98432>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: freenode.net

Published: 2026-11-02T18:39:38+00:00

Points: 256 · Comments: [46](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341462>)

### [BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter](<https://electrek.co/2026/11/02/byd-sold-more-evs-last-month-than-the-us-did-all-quarter/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: electrek.co

Published: 2026-11-02T21:38:49+00:00

Points: 209 · Comments: [199](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344181>)

### [Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)](<https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Soviet-mathematics-physics-textbooks-so-insanely-hardcore-in-comparison-to-US-textbooks/answer/Scott-Miller-307?share=1>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: quora.com

Published: 2026-11-02T15:01:15+00:00

Points: 160 · Comments: [222](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337725>)

### [Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom](<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-17/san-francisco-s-ai-wealth-boom-skirts-engineers-as-openai-anthropic-ipos-near>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: bloomberg.com

Published: 2026-11-02T14:40:05+00:00

Points: 154 · Comments: [219](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337454>)