top 50% hacker news stories for today

America on Data Centers: 10k city council comments

https://www.americansentiment.com/datacenters

1 hour ago

11 upvotes – 6 comments

OccupySaaS

https://occupysaas.com/

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

https://hackerbooks.org

9 hours ago

1 change
909 upvotes – 178 comments

Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes

https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/norwegian-scenic-routes/worlds-best-toilets/

14 hours ago

1 change
672 upvotes – 393 comments

Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation

https://www.thedrive.com/news/my-city-canceled-flocks-contract-flock-ignored-it-so-the-police-chief-unplugged-the-cameras

10 hours ago

2 changes
415 upvotes – 145 comments

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_just/

10 hours ago

390 upvotes – 142 comments

Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power

https://www.vox.com/politics/508526/patrick-stewart-jean-luc-picard-star-trek-liberalism

8 hours ago

366 upvotes – 261 comments

Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing

https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/

23 hours ago

314 upvotes – 198 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/

19 hours ago

294 upvotes – 228 comments

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/

7 hours ago

221 upvotes – 241 comments

U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947

https://fortune.com/article/why-did-us-workers-just-take-home-smallest-share-of-capital-since-1947-lowest-ever-recorded/

2 hours ago

198 upvotes – 94 comments

Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02292

23 hours ago

1 change
181 upvotes – 92 comments

Frontier Airlines Likely Breached

https://www.reddit.com/r/frontierairlines/comments/1xl20e8/psa_email_scam/

8 hours ago

171 upvotes – 63 comments

Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare

https://nurse.org/news/uber-for-nursing-gig-apps-report/

6 hours ago

158 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff

12 hours ago

★ 344 Rust
156 upvotes – 40 comments

AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/25/ai-delivers-zero-financial-payoff-to-most-companies-according-to-apollo-economist/

3 hours ago

153 upvotes – 127 comments

AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-swarms-unleashed-in-minecraft-to-build-a-thriving-civilization-50-agent-teams-fail-after-falling-into-paralyzing-bureaucracy

11 hours ago

149 upvotes – 72 comments

It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge

https://blog.raed.dev/posts/proton-loser-thinking/

6 hours ago

141 upvotes – 81 comments

Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter

https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/oct/seoul-291026.shtml

9 hours ago

3 changes
135 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328896

5 hours ago

134 upvotes – 236 comments

Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions

https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/11/01/landline-phones-will-switch-off-across-britland-in-100-days-no-extensions-openreach/5306673

9 hours ago

132 upvotes – 107 comments

Novellas with Groff

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html

11 hours ago

110 upvotes – 49 comments

Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39302

12 hours ago

1 change
108 upvotes – 60 comments

A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income

https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/10/29/a-tiny-pacific-country-rolls-out-universal-basic-income

15 hours ago

95 upvotes – 136 comments

Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500

https://asymco.com/2026/11/01/the-last-consumer-company/

4 hours ago

66 upvotes – 50 comments

So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now

https://eva.ac/blog/llms/

3 hours ago

63 upvotes – 87 comments

noyb win: French electronics retailer Fnac Darty fined €7M

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-french-electronics-retailer-fnac-darty-fined-eu7-million

14 hours ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release

https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2026-10-31-enlightenment-0.28.0

10 hours ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not personal computers

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization

15 hours ago

59 upvotes – 75 comments
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