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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=2026-11-03&limit=10&q=>) · [Top 20](</headlines/second.md?date=2026-11-03&limit=20&q=>) · [Above median](</headlines/second.md?date=2026-11-03&limit=20&q=&mode=median>)

Daily ranking · strictly above median

## 2026-11-03

### [U.S. Strikes Iran's Qeshm Island as Trump Talks Down War Risks](<https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-strikes-irans-qeshm-island-as-trump-talks-down-war-risks-79d73d3d>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: wsj.com

Published: 2026-11-03T00:51:43+00:00

Points: 13 · Comments: [2](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346512>)

### [Too Expensive to Exist](<https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/too-expensive-to-exist>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: mapwriting.substack.com

Published: 2026-11-03T03:43:50+00:00

Points: 14 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50347784>)

### [What Are the US Midterms](<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6wyz223j19po>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: bbc.com

Published: 2026-11-03T00:28:10+00:00

Points: 14 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346314>)

### [Musk is throttling Grok because its cost is 'unsustainably high'](<https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/musk-is-throttling-grok-because-its-cost-is-unsustainably-high-162959909.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: finance.yahoo.com

Published: 2026-11-03T01:42:29+00:00

Points: 9 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346910>)

### [Quitting jobs: The two-week notice is dying. Maybe it should](<https://slate.com/life/2026/11/jobs-job-work-quit-two-weeks-notice.html>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: slate.com

Published: 2026-11-03T00:47:02+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [3](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346468>)

### [Most of our measures of a key cognitive process don't agree](<https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/most-of-our-measures-of-a-key-cognitive-process-dont-agree/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: arstechnica.com

Published: 2026-11-02T22:25:52+00:00

Points: 11 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344844>)

### [Paper straws worse for the environment than plastic ones](<https://nypost.com/2026/10/26/lifestyle/paper-straws-worse-for-the-environment-than-plastic-ones-says-study/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: nypost.com

Published: 2026-11-03T02:45:13+00:00

Points: 7 · Comments: [4](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50347352>)

### [Own Your HackerTube,an AI Curator Inspired by Karpathy's HackerTube](<https://ownhackertube.cc/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: ownhackertube.cc

Published: 2026-11-03T03:14:06+00:00

Points: 11 · Comments: [1](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50347574>)

### [When Modernization Breaks Working Code: A Study of LLMs on Legacy PHP](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40269>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: arxiv.org

Published: 2026-11-01T21:22:28+00:00

Points: 19 · Comments: [12](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50330033>)

### [Researchers face record-low chances of getting a grant partly due to rise of AI](<https://nltimes.nl/2026/11/02/researchers-face-record-low-chances-getting-grant-partly-due-rise-ai>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: nltimes.nl

Published: 2026-11-02T18:28:46+00:00

Points: 11 · Comments: [0](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341293>)