top 50% hacker news stories for today

Meta discussed 'whisper strategy' against social media critic Jonathan Haidt

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/29/meta-staff-us-social-media-critic-jonathan-haidt-court-documents

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Josh Kushner's Thrive and OpenAI to buy home security firm ADT

https://www.ft.com/content/f88e30a0-1252-4695-97b0-03da22e5fd42

57 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Patrick Stewart dies at 86

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-actor-patrick-stewart-has-died-his-family-says-2026-10-29/

39 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Patrick Stewart has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html

5 hours ago

4 changes
2327 upvotes – 485 comments

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/

10 hours ago

1 change
1179 upvotes – 336 comments

Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer

1 day ago

679 upvotes – 143 comments

Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8

3 hours ago

649 upvotes – 394 comments

Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model

https://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce

21 hours ago

1 change
558 upvotes – 225 comments

DoorDash to acquire Instacart

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart

12 hours ago

2 changes
413 upvotes – 594 comments

‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html

11 hours ago

4 changes
407 upvotes – 379 comments

Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue

https://www.kadoa.com/companies/insights/google-search-below-half

8 hours ago

1 change
389 upvotes – 328 comments

LLM Voice

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html

10 hours ago

334 upvotes – 174 comments

Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-carbon-new-number-1

12 hours ago

328 upvotes – 240 comments

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/

9 hours ago

1 change
323 upvotes – 122 comments

Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS

https://smsofdeath.com/

17 hours ago

314 upvotes – 180 comments

Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers

https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers

14 hours ago

1 change
280 upvotes – 138 comments

Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang

https://nypost.com/2026/10/29/business/alleged-chinese-spy-had-close-relationship-with-nvidia-boss-jensen-huang-report/

7 hours ago

1 change
280 upvotes – 194 comments

I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/10/27/i-saw-future-driving-mexico-its-off-limits-americans/

9 hours ago

3 changes
278 upvotes – 322 comments

The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months

https://electrek.co/2026/08/31/the-us-added-a-record-20-2-gwh-of-battery-storage-in-just-3-months/

14 hours ago

265 upvotes – 189 comments

Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6021497

12 hours ago

259 upvotes – 74 comments

Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only

https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2026-10-the-last-proof-of-human-craft-browser-full-chain/

18 hours ago

231 upvotes – 38 comments

If IPv4 were land

https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land

12 hours ago

1 change
227 upvotes – 302 comments

How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)

https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html

13 hours ago

2 changes
218 upvotes – 179 comments

Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic

https://www.vut.cz/en/but/news-f19528/two-but-graduates-received-state-honors-from-the-president-of-the-republic-d378468

8 hours ago

2 changes
162 upvotes – 17 comments

NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117518160563539748

13 hours ago

1 change
162 upvotes – 131 comments

We won't "just hang out"

https://borretti.me/article/we-wont-just-hang-out

18 hours ago

1 change
151 upvotes – 244 comments

What we know so far about Spain train crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo

16 hours ago

1 change
147 upvotes – 301 comments

Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from

https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats

10 hours ago

1 change
141 upvotes – 61 comments

Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning

https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

10 hours ago

140 upvotes – 51 comments

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html

3 hours ago

138 upvotes – 54 comments

Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks

https://skypilot.ai/blog/grace-blackwell-needs-a-new-scheduler

9 hours ago

126 upvotes – 21 comments

Perspectiva Kogui: A message on artificial intelligence from the Kogui people

https://sonidoselva.com/perspectiva-kogui

13 hours ago

1 change
123 upvotes – 100 comments

DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17B

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart

10 hours ago

122 upvotes – 5 comments

Finland investigate Google over destruction of 250k trees

https://yle.fi/a/74-20254086

10 hours ago

114 upvotes – 65 comments

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer

4 hours ago

★ 90 Rust
113 upvotes – 7 comments

Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful

https://fig.blue/posts/duet-is-the-future/

7 hours ago

2 changes
101 upvotes – 83 comments

Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-keeps-dst-until-nov-2027.html

17 hours ago

100 upvotes – 237 comments

Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ultra-rich-01-produce-more-carbon-pollution-nearly-half-humanity-while-cashing

22 hours ago

99 upvotes – 51 comments

Patrick Stewart Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html

5 hours ago

97 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"

https://github.com/johncassil/dontallow

5 hours ago

★ 42 Swift MIT
96 upvotes – 76 comments

The importance of communities around software

https://lumi.codeberg.page/blog/software-community.html

5 hours ago

95 upvotes – 99 comments

The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/28/sport/live-news/game-5-world-series

21 hours ago

91 upvotes – 60 comments

Keplearn: Extract Equations from Data in Seconds

https://github.com/owls-on-wires/keplearn

10 hours ago

★ 108 Rust MIT
89 upvotes – 10 comments

Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?

https://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/good-devs-wary.html

11 hours ago

85 upvotes – 127 comments

16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/

8 hours ago

84 upvotes – 8 comments

After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/world/europe/karl-bushby-walking-globe-uk.html

7 hours ago

83 upvotes – 62 comments
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