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

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[Top 10](</headlines/second.md?date=2026-10-31&limit=10&q=>) · [Top 20](</headlines/second.md?date=2026-10-31&limit=20&q=>) · [Above median](</headlines/second.md?date=2026-10-31&limit=20&q=&mode=median>)

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

Source: Hacker News · Domain: news.ycombinator.com

Published: 2026-10-31T02:46:36+00:00

Points: 347 · Comments: [122](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756>)

### [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/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: fortune.com

Published: 2026-10-30T14:08:20+00:00

Points: 311 · Comments: [382](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304122>)

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

Source: Hacker News · Domain: github.com

Published: 2026-10-30T15:48:12+00:00

Points: 379 · Comments: [54](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305637>)

Also discussed: [Programming.dev · 3 comments](<https://programming.dev/post/58740056>)

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

Source: Lobsters · Domain: seriot.ch

Published: 2026-10-30T07:24:01+00:00

Points: 81 · Comments: [11](<https://lobste.rs/s/f4aqog>)

Tags: [compsci](</search.md?q=compsci>)

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

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

Source: Hacker News · Domain: vitalik.eth.limo

Published: 2026-10-31T06:16:36+00:00

Points: 340 · Comments: [264](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313661>)

Also discussed: [Lobsters · 11 comments](<https://lobste.rs/s/y81ppi>)

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

Source: Hacker News · Domain: piefed.world

Published: 2026-10-31T10:23:41+00:00

Points: 330 · Comments: [190](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314666>)

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

Source: Hacker News · Domain: parameter.ai

Published: 2026-10-31T10:30:11+00:00

Points: 357 · Comments: [176](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314699>)

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

Source: Hacker News · Domain: theguardian.com

Published: 2026-10-31T17:37:22+00:00

Points: 229 · Comments: [309](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318189>)

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

Source: Hacker News · Domain: karpathy.bearblog.dev

Published: 2026-10-31T19:56:53+00:00

Points: 2050 · Comments: [506](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510>)

### [Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4](<https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: jepsen.io

Published: 2026-10-31T13:39:52+00:00

Points: 137 · Comments: [25](<https://lobste.rs/s/drwd4j>)

Tags: [databases](</search.md?q=databases>)

Also discussed: [Hacker News · 182 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316100>)

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