top 50% hacker news stories for today

Donnie Darko: A Mind-Twisting Cult Classic Turns 25

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/movies/donnie-darko-oral-history-25-year-anniversary.html

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Wikimedia Foundation Tries to Save Itself by Brokering AI Copyright Deal

https://gizmodo.com/wikimedia-foundation-tries-to-save-itself-from-oblivion-by-brokering-ai-copyright-deal-2000833099

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament

15 hours ago

812 upvotes – 464 comments

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/

5 hours ago

1 change
711 upvotes – 239 comments

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf

6 hours ago

342 upvotes – 160 comments

Tell HN: Scribd Breached

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756

23 hours ago

336 upvotes – 120 comments

Digital minimalism

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html

19 hours ago

1 change
308 upvotes – 228 comments

Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

https://piefed.world/post/1503394

15 hours ago

1 change
303 upvotes – 178 comments

Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai

15 hours ago

1 change
303 upvotes – 149 comments

Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/appraisal-by-ai-model-driven-victim-prioritization-in-the-volta-infostealer/

11 hours ago

232 upvotes – 126 comments

Casio Watches of the 1980s

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1980s/

9 hours ago

210 upvotes – 109 comments

UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/05/green-party-nuclear-power-policy

8 hours ago

201 upvotes – 237 comments

Switch Lowering in GCC

https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/

17 hours ago

199 upvotes – 40 comments

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4

12 hours ago

1 change
198 upvotes – 105 comments

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models

https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088

6 hours ago

188 upvotes – 111 comments

OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-raises-less-than-half-of-30-billion-target-in-latest-round-91aecdc5

22 hours ago

182 upvotes – 186 comments

Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/31/

13 hours ago

181 upvotes – 119 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode

https://ryanmadden.net/gpt-56-beats-factorio/

6 hours ago

156 upvotes – 173 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/

3 hours ago

1 change
144 upvotes – 46 comments

It's the memory latency, stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/

7 hours ago

1 change
124 upvotes – 39 comments

French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic

https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/comptes-rendus/seance/session-ordinaire-de-2026-2027/premiere-seance-du-vendredi-30-octobre-2026

14 hours ago

96 upvotes – 136 comments

Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games

https://mashable.com/tech/anthropic-takes-steps-to-block-video-game-cloning-and-reverse-engineering

4 hours ago

96 upvotes – 65 comments

Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation'

https://torrentfreak.com/ex-meta-researcher-torrented-pirated-books-dataset-deleted-it-due-to-all-this-litigation/

10 hours ago

92 upvotes – 71 comments

The Duty of a Scholar

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html

6 hours ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Flock camera searches fell 95% after a dispatcher's misconduct was caught

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/investigations/flock-camera-searches-fall-95-percent-highland-heights-dispatcher-misconduct-caught/95-94b18f33-60e2-4bc7-a00f-d71d1e1fdd5e

23 hours ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1/voyager-1-what-is-a-light-day/

9 hours ago

85 upvotes – 41 comments

Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/us/philadelphia-woman-delivery-robots-cec

12 hours ago

84 upvotes – 124 comments

Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally?

https://newrepublic.com/post/217281/meta-suspend-democratic-candidate-angie-nixon-instagram-account

12 hours ago

77 upvotes – 103 comments

Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve

3 hours ago

★ 13 Go Apache-2.0
74 upvotes – 38 comments

AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-startup-hacks-anthropic-in-12-hours-gains-access-to-employee-details-and-internal-messages-3025452-2026-10-26

12 hours ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3706598.3713778

7 hours ago

2 changes
73 upvotes – 49 comments

With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines

https://learnfromx.com/research/anime-word-coverage-vs-lines-understood

5 hours ago

68 upvotes – 43 comments

Shiny Object Syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_object_syndrome

14 hours ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-ai-model-is-now-blocking-attempts-at-video-game-recreation-and-cloning-users-also-claim-non-malicious-generic-reverse-engineering-tasks-are-blocked

12 hours ago

63 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector

https://github.com/kerlenton/bootgpt

12 hours ago

★ 20 Python MIT
59 upvotes – 1 comments

Surviving "The Graduate"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/dustin-hoffman-on-surviving-the-graduate

5 hours ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC?

https://www.osnews.com/story/146273/how-long-do-you-need-to-hold-down-the-power-button-to-turn-off-a-pc/

17 hours ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn

https://www.cairoreport.org/p/egypt-brazil-iraq-billboard-hack

8 hours ago

56 upvotes – 72 comments

William Nordhaus has died

https://news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/william-nordhaus-nobel-laureate-who-integrated-economics-and-climate-change-devoted-yale

7 hours ago

1 change
55 upvotes – 21 comments

Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to work to get

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/31/burn-berne/#unvictored

8 hours ago

55 upvotes – 35 comments
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