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# Daily headlines

[Top 10](/headlines/second?date=2026-10-31&limit=10&q=&appearance=light)[Top 20](/headlines/second?date=2026-10-31&limit=20&q=&appearance=light)[Above median](/headlines/second?date=2026-10-31&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=light)

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1.   2026-10-31
2.   [69](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316760)89

     [Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation'](https://torrentfreak.com/ex-meta-researcher-torrented-pirated-books-dataset-deleted-it-due-to-all-this-litigation/)

     HNtorrentfreak.com7 hours ago

3.   [14](https://lobste.rs/s/rpiu3w)28

     [The Kluever Maneuver](https://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/the-kluever-maneuver/)

     LBjordi.inversethought.com7 hours ago[testing](/search?q=testing&appearance=light)

4.   [98](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315776)74

     [Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally?](https://newrepublic.com/post/217281/meta-suspend-democratic-candidate-angie-nixon-instagram-account)

     HNnewrepublic.com9 hours ago

5.   [4](https://lobste.rs/s/k508we)26

     [Avoid Public Functions Calling Other Public Functions](https://matklad.github.io/2026/10/29/pub-calls-pub.html)

     LBmatklad.github.io4 hours ago[api](/search?q=api&appearance=light)

6.   [74](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315574)49

     [Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks](https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-anthropics-filing-crushed-tech)

     HNthebignewsletter.com9 hours ago

7.   [33](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315987)57

     [Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-ai-model-is-now-blocking-attempts-at-video-game-recreation-and-cloning-users-also-claim-non-malicious-generic-reverse-engineering-tasks-are-blocked)

     HNtomshardware.com8 hours ago

8.   [14](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312739)86

     [Flock camera searches fell 95% after a dispatcher's misconduct was caught](https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/investigations/flock-camera-searches-fall-95-percent-highland-heights-dispatcher-misconduct-caught/95-94b18f33-60e2-4bc7-a00f-d71d1e1fdd5e)

     HNwkyc.com19 hours ago

9.   [15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319358)70

     [Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models](https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088)

     HNtwitter.com2 hours ago

10.  [17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319061)63

     [The Duty of a Scholar](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html)

     HNdaemonology.net3 hours ago

11.  [11](https://programming.dev/post/58762012)72

     [They're getting desperate for real intelligence. I guess that's what happens when you don't have any of your own.](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/3fea42aa-a0cf-4b86-b701-263715607ab1.png)

     PDlemmy.ca15 hours ago[programming](/search?q=programming&appearance=light)