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# Daily headlines

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1.  [119](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756)331

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

    HNnews.ycombinator.com18 hours ago

2.  [365](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304122)298

    [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)367

    [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=system)

    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.  [203](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313661)273

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

    HNvitalik.eth.limo14 hours ago

    Also discussed: [Lobsters · 6 comments](https://lobste.rs/s/y81ppi "9 points")

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7.  [158](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314666)271

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

    HNpiefed.world10 hours ago

8.  [136](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314699)282

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

    HNparameter.ai10 hours ago

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