top 50% hacker news stories for today

"Musk" Documentary Pulled from Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week

https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/controversial-musk-documentary-pulled-from-almost-every-one-of-472-theaters-after-one-week-by-newly-sold-bleecker-street-films

58 minutes ago

31 upvotes – 7 comments

Tailworm – Tailscale Vulnerabilities

https://tailworm.com/

1 hour ago

17 upvotes – 9 comments

Amazon cloud capacity sold out through 2027, CEO Jassy says

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-cloud-capacity-sold-out-through-2027-ceo-jassy-says-2026-10-23/

2 hours ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: Why a Great Product Won't Succeed Without a Community

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227131

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 6 comments

Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117492375462459244

1 day ago

622 upvotes – 294 comments

No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector

6 hours ago

1 change
495 upvotes – 492 comments

Root shell on Samsung TV

https://twitter.com/log4j/status/2113014142600953868?s=46

20 hours ago

2 changes
490 upvotes – 203 comments

OBS Studio 33

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/33.0.0

21 hours ago

★ 78.1k C GPL-2.0
444 upvotes – 159 comments

Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

https://steveblank.com/2026/10/24/europe-gets-a-wake-up-call/

13 hours ago

423 upvotes – 452 comments

Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin

https://stealmybitcoin.com/

6 hours ago

2 changes
417 upvotes – 257 comments

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/

1 day ago

1 change
369 upvotes – 62 comments

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html

16 hours ago

2 changes
288 upvotes – 218 comments

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497

18 hours ago

281 upvotes – 140 comments

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move

10 hours ago

268 upvotes – 179 comments

FreeDNS

https://freedns.afraid.org/

11 hours ago

257 upvotes – 65 comments

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c

22 hours ago

257 upvotes – 87 comments

The Goose Programming Language

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/

7 hours ago

3 changes
256 upvotes – 173 comments

Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center

https://nypost.com/2026/10/24/business/google-illegally-tore-down-250k-trees-for-finland-data-center-infuriating-locals-report/

12 hours ago

248 upvotes – 200 comments

Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office

https://www.computerworld.dk/art/297226/digitaliseringsministeriet-har-i-al-stilhed-droppet-stort-anlagt-forsoeg-med-open-source-alternativ-til-microsoft

8 hours ago

196 upvotes – 148 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/

4 hours ago

196 upvotes – 160 comments

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock

16 hours ago

★ 3.1k C
195 upvotes – 61 comments

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?

https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class

3 hours ago

1 change
189 upvotes – 160 comments

Apple Security Research Device

https://security.apple.com/research-device/

1 day ago

173 upvotes – 116 comments

The Goose Programming Language

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/

7 hours ago

171 upvotes – 1 comments

Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29162

8 hours ago

156 upvotes – 151 comments

Dream-1

https://dreamlabs.ai/research/dream-1/

8 hours ago

155 upvotes – 75 comments

Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261018084421.htm

1 day ago

136 upvotes – 26 comments

Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz

https://missileer.watch

6 hours ago

127 upvotes – 82 comments

PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says

https://www.reuters.com/technology/php-foundation-under-funded-with-one-full-time-staff-member-director-says-2026-10-23/

7 hours ago

118 upvotes – 78 comments

How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money

https://ayoships.com/breakdowns/block-blast

23 hours ago

110 upvotes – 49 comments

The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise

https://de.numista.com/9866

9 hours ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year

https://gizmodo.com/password-please-border-searches-of-laptops-phones-up-32-this-year-2000830213

1 day ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/neural-chip-decodes-interactions-between-brain-r-2/

10 hours ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist

https://torrentfreak.com/ai-assisted-paper-on-z-library-cites-a-torrentfreak-article-that-doesnt-exist/

15 hours ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

SpeedCrunch 1.1

https://www.speedcrunch.org/

7 hours ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California's Proposed Wealth Tax

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-california-wealth-tax.html

1 day ago

70 upvotes – 98 comments
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