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# Daily headlines

[Top 10](/headlines/second?date=2026-10-30&limit=10&q=&appearance=system)[Top 20](/headlines/second?date=2026-10-30&limit=20&q=&appearance=system)[Above median](/headlines/second?date=2026-10-30&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=system)

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1.   2026-10-30
2.   [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298017)8

     [Meta discussed 'whisper strategy' against social media critic Jonathan Haidt](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/29/meta-staff-us-social-media-critic-jonathan-haidt-court-documents)

     HNtheguardian.com5 hours ago

3.   [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298297)6

     [Patrick Stewart dies at 86](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-actor-patrick-stewart-has-died-his-family-says-2026-10-29/)

     HNreuters.com4 hours ago

4.   [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298677)7

     [34% of U.S. women under age 50 have iron deficiency under new guidelines](https://www.empirical.health/blog/ferritin-thresholds-iron-deficiency/)

     HNempirical.health4 hours ago

5.   [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298738)7

     [Show HN: Arken – Passwordless auth middleware using secp256k1 keys](https://github.com/zacharybenson/arken-protocol)

     HNgithub.com3 hours ago[show](/search?q=show&appearance=system)

6.   [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298721)9

     [Tracks along the longest drive on another world](https://science.nasa.gov/blog/tracks-along-the-longest-drive-on-another-world/)

     HNscience.nasa.gov3 hours ago

7.   [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293987)10

     [Netanyahu's party claims election 'stolen' by 'foreign entities'](https://www.ft.com/content/f66a684c-4073-4cf8-b5b8-8851c72e8bc0)

     HNft.com10 hours ago

8.   [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297892)5

     [Critical TCP use-after-free: CVE-2026-98432](https://www.rescana.com/post/linux-kernel-tcp-cve-2026-98432-use-after-free-prepare-now)

     HNrescana.com5 hours ago

9.   [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299212)5

     [AGI Economics: Coordination vs. Competence](https://institute.deepmind.com/essays/the-economics-of-intelligence/)

     HNinstitute.deepmind.com2 hours ago

10.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296688)7

     [The Illusion of Thinking: Models Don't Actually Reason](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06941)

     HNarxiv.org7 hours ago

11.  [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298397)5

     [Sudo](https://sudo.com/)

     HNsudo.com4 hours ago