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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

### [Avartha: Fastest open-weight frontier voice AI beats OpenAI, Google, and xAI](<https://avartha.ai/blog/introducing-avartha/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: avartha.ai

Published: 2026-11-01T22:28:27+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50330585>)

### [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: 9 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331158>)

### [France plans internet tax of 5.5 cents per gigabyte](<https://www.heise.de/en/news/France-plans-internet-tax-of-5-5-cents-per-gigabyte-11507179.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: heise.de

Published: 2026-11-01T23:17:41+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50330916>)

### [A Global Anti-Right Backlash](<https://www.newyorker.com/news/global-notes/a-global-anti-right-backlash>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: newyorker.com

Published: 2026-11-01T20:36:43+00:00

Points: 6 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50329560>)

### [Writing Is Magic; Machine Writing Is Ash](<https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/machine-writing-is-ash/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: baldurbjarnason.com

Published: 2026-11-01T19:56:00+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50329121>)

### [Show HN: Egres, A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads](<https://manishrjain.com/egres/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: manishrjain.com

Published: 2026-11-01T13:07:16+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325296>)

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

### [Terence Tao: The Year Math Changed Forever](<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/11/09/the-year-math-changed-forever>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: newyorker.com

Published: 2026-11-01T11:19:06+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324546>)

### [Indian ISPs found to be DNS Hijacking](<https://twitter.com/karthihegde/status/2116533888025874611>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: twitter.com

Published: 2026-11-01T13:29:33+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325509>)

### [Stuck on an island for years, can't get transit visa to fly home](<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmq5npz5l5geo>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: bbc.co.uk

Published: 2026-11-01T07:01:19+00:00

Points: 6 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323302>)

### [FAT32 File-System Seeing as Much as 265x Improvement with Linux 7.4](<https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Faster-FAT32>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: phoronix.com

Published: 2026-10-30T21:57:46+00:00

Points: 32 · Comments: [5](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310689>)