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

Daily ranking · strictly above median

## 2026-11-02

### [The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms](<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/28/us/politics/billionaire-midterms-donors.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: nytimes.com

Published: 2026-11-01T23:46:59+00:00

Points: 120 · Comments: [100](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331158>)

### [Sam Altman: All the RAM Should Belong to Me, So I Can Charge People to Use It](<https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-all-the-ram-should-belong-to-me-so-i-can-charge-people-to-use-it-2000833412>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: gizmodo.com

Published: 2026-11-02T13:51:06+00:00

Points: 91 · Comments: [91](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336791>)

### [Never Complain, Never Explain](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_complain,_never_explain>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: en.wikipedia.org

Published: 2026-11-02T11:55:48+00:00

Points: 117 · Comments: [44](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50335659>)

### [AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture](<https://www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis-errors-complicating-games-culture>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: eurogamer.net

Published: 2026-11-02T01:47:07+00:00

Points: 99 · Comments: [96](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50332086>)

### [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: 82 · Comments: [102](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337725>)

### [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: 142 · Comments: [132](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337439>)

### [Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse](<https://twitter.com/OcanaSantero/status/2115442964574908902>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: twitter.com

Published: 2026-11-02T12:50:59+00:00

Points: 71 · Comments: [61](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336138>)

### [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: 46 · Comments: [68](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337454>)

### [Pray for Chaos](<https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/11/01/pray-for-chaos.html>)

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

Published: 2026-11-02T14:02:53+00:00

Points: 57 · Comments: [39](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336921>)

### [Supermarket freezers in Belgium and Sweden hit by suspected cyber-attack](<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq1kd1nee80eo>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: bbc.com

Published: 2026-11-02T11:48:02+00:00

Points: 107 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50335602>)