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# Daily headlines

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1.   [119](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756)333

     [Tell HN: Scribd Breached](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756)

     HNnews.ycombinator.com20 hours ago

2.   [367](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304122)300

     [Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code](https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-rewrite-legacy-code-entry-level-jobs/)

     HNfortune.com1 day ago

3.   [54](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305637)370

     [Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX](https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium)

     HNgithub.com1 day ago

     Also discussed: [Programming.dev · 3 comments](https://programming.dev/post/58740056 "12 points")

4.   [11](https://lobste.rs/s/f4aqog)80

     [How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months](https://seriot.ch/computation/curl.html)

     LBseriot.ch1 day ago[compsci](/search?q=compsci&appearance=light)

     Also discussed: [Hacker News · 0 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300011 "28 points") [Programming.dev · 0 comments](https://programming.dev/post/58734740 "15 points")

5.   [222](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313661)294

     [Digital minimalism](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html)

     HNvitalik.eth.limo16 hours ago

     Also discussed: [Lobsters · 9 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/y81ppi "9 points")

6.   [167](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314666)290

     [Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable](https://piefed.world/post/1503394)

     HNpiefed.world12 hours ago

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8.   [142](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314699)293

     [Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts](https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai)

     HNparameter.ai12 hours ago

9.   [219](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318189)194

     [UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/05/green-party-nuclear-power-policy)

     HNtheguardian.com5 hours ago

10.  [170](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510)444

     [HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN](https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/)

     HNkarpathy.bearblog.dev3 hours ago

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