top 50% hacker news stories for today

Lula wins election after final votes tallied

https://www.reuters.com/live/brazil-election-live-lula-bolsonaro-face-off-presidential-runoff-2026-10-25/

1 hour ago

Lula Wins Brazilian Election

https://resultados.tse.jus.br/oficial/app/index.html#/eleicao/6258/uf/br/cargo/1/vis/nominal/resultados

1 hour ago

They Fled Trump's America. Now They Regret It

https://www.wired.com/story/they-fled-trumps-america-now-they-regret-it/

1 hour ago

Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC

https://github.com/KillaBoi/StealMyBitcoin-PoC

1 hour ago

★ 76 Python

Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism

https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ignores-brazilian-court-order

16 hours ago

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer

8 hours ago

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/

8 hours ago

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/

7 hours ago

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

https://imaginationlibrary.com/

7 hours ago

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras

1 day ago

Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you

https://twitter.com/mike64_t/status/2114150399406202896

15 hours ago

Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/serbia-votes-students-seek-unseat-vucic-snap-election-2026-10-25/

4 hours ago

fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2

14 hours ago

★ 3.6k C++ GPL-2.0

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/ai-use-leads-uc-berkeley-math-professor-to-see-no-point-in-grading-homework/article_bdf1eae2-c08b-491f-b9f1-81a7cea177de.html

9 hours ago

JetBrains Thinkrail

https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail

9 hours ago

★ 1.7k TypeScript Apache-2.0

Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness

https://github.com/slee-persis/GVS5H

21 hours ago

★ 981 Python MIT1 change

Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/16/meta-employees-say-lulas-accounts-restricted-in-brazil-election-report

23 hours ago

Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

https://bigwhalehunting.com/workforce/

10 hours ago

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Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/personalized-mrna-cancer-vaccine-cut-melanoma-death-recurrence-by-42/

6 hours ago

Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505

https://loeffelholz-codex.org/en/

13 hours ago

France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms

https://www.blast-info.fr/articles/2026/information-exclusive-blast-le-premier-ministre-a-prepare-la-coupure-des-reseaux-sociaux-pour-le-24-octobre-9D8cgrU5S5iiW14Sb9nMzQ

15 hours ago

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/

4 hours ago

Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events

https://twitter.com/freddier/status/2114042326758867453

12 hours ago

Why I Am a Programmer

https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html

6 hours ago

Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/114171-nikon-photography-contest-winner-loses-title-after-scientists.html

16 hours ago

Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics

https://xtramagazine.com/culture/online-censorship-indie-webcomics-284463

16 hours ago

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

https://www.dreamhoststatus.com/

12 hours ago

Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless

https://twitter.com/boneGPT/status/2114035719853265264

13 hours ago

Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer

https://www.darkhorizons.com/xbox-turns-down-netflix-500-million-offer/

22 hours ago

What goes into making an animated film?

https://www.disneyanimation.com/process/

5 hours ago

What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches us

https://techbronerd.substack.com/p/openai-and-anthropic-wanted-to-replace

10 hours ago

1 change

All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

https://isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-wide-events-not-metrics

7 hours ago

Lego collaboration with Daft Punk

https://www.lego.com/en-us/categories/adults-welcome/article/daft-punk

13 hours ago

1 change

R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1xelcuf/your_tokens_arent_valuable_no_more_ai

11 hours ago

The State of Context Engineering

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/10/24/the-state-of-context-engineering.html

5 hours ago

US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect

https://theconversation.com/us-inequality-is-getting-worse-in-ways-you-might-not-expect-294075

12 hours ago

Challenge Is Gone

https://blog.alxgsv.com/challenge-is-gone/

13 hours ago

A few thoughts on intensity (2024)

https://www.tylerhogge.com/blog/a-few-thoughts-on-intensity/

11 hours ago

2 changes

Eunice is almost here

https://armincat.com/articles/eunice-is-almost-here

6 hours ago

1 change

Show HN: Farol – A risk map of a pull request for the person who approves it

https://github.com/winnin/farol

12 hours ago

★ 117 TypeScript MIT1 change

Proton Flock Camera Map

https://proton.me/flock-camera-map

3 hours ago

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