top 50% hacker news stories for today

Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/the-intel-stock-collapse-is-getting-worse--and-the-37-trillion-chip-rout-is-spreading-212154947.html

1 hour ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346164

1 hour ago

20 upvotes – 4 comments

U.S. Strikes Iran's Qeshm Island as Trump Talks Down War Risks

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-strikes-irans-qeshm-island-as-trump-talks-down-war-risks-79d73d3d

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 1 comments

What Are the US Midterms

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6wyz223j19po

1 hour ago

8 upvotes – 0 comments

WA is losing more from Canada than shoppers

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-is-losing-more-from-canada-than-shoppers/

57 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 1 comments

Police Dept. Quits After Finding Out What It Feels Like to Be Tracked

https://www.gadgetreview.com/tables-turned-entire-police-department-quits-after-finding-out-what-it-feels-like-to-be-tracked

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 4 comments

Stolen AI API keys generated nearly $1M in charges for a single company

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/llmjacking-monetizing-compromised-cloud-models/

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/

7 hours ago

1935 upvotes – 617 comments

WTF Ubuntu?

https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu

11 hours ago

1324 upvotes – 583 comments

Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340088

8 hours ago

10 changes
553 upvotes – 300 comments

OccupySaaS

https://occupysaas.com/

1 day ago

493 upvotes – 307 comments

If you love a website, back it up

https://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/

12 hours ago

405 upvotes – 93 comments

Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/02/supermarket-freezers-across-europe-hit-by-second-suspected-cyber-attack

14 hours ago

1 change
367 upvotes – 416 comments

Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks

https://freenode.net/article/ubuntu-lts-kernels-still-unfixed-for-critical-cve-2026-98432

7 hours ago

334 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN

https://wikihack.netlify.app

20 hours ago

332 upvotes – 102 comments

Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span

https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-may-release-proteins-slow-aging-and-extend-life-span

1 day ago

317 upvotes – 127 comments

US boy names that became girl names and vice versa

https://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-names

9 hours ago

1 change
292 upvotes – 312 comments

Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-internal-ai-use-exceeds-employee-pay-tokens-2026-11

9 hours ago

291 upvotes – 238 comments

BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter

https://electrek.co/2026/11/02/byd-sold-more-evs-last-month-than-the-us-did-all-quarter/

4 hours ago

1 change
239 upvotes – 248 comments

Anthropic reports $17B in Q3 revenue, commitments of $895B in revised S-1

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/02/anthropic-ant-s-1-quarter-financials.html

11 hours ago

1 change
226 upvotes – 264 comments

Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre

https://p.migdal.pl/warsaw-vibe-voxel/

9 hours ago

1 change
217 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API

https://syscall.sh/

16 hours ago

208 upvotes – 50 comments

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

https://fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%203%20-%20The%20Beginning%20of%20BSD%20Unix/

23 hours ago

207 upvotes – 28 comments

The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-sec-should-block-anthropics-ipo-to-protect-the-public/

3 hours ago

192 upvotes – 123 comments

Let Me Ch...

https://blog.alxgsv.com/let-me-check/

8 hours ago

181 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: HackerHack – HackerBooks but for Posts Posted on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/

18 hours ago

180 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50338728

9 hours ago

1 change
175 upvotes – 143 comments

Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Soviet-mathematics-physics-textbooks-so-insanely-hardcore-in-comparison-to-US-textbooks/answer/Scott-Miller-307?share=1

10 hours ago

166 upvotes – 228 comments

My Favourite Laptop

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/laptop

8 hours ago

166 upvotes – 127 comments

Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed

https://trigger.dev/blog/security-incident-nov-2026

1 day ago

162 upvotes – 86 comments

Moving our warehouse off DuckDB

https://posthog.com/blog/moving-off-duckdb

9 hours ago

1 change
161 upvotes – 107 comments

Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-17/san-francisco-s-ai-wealth-boom-skirts-engineers-as-openai-anthropic-ipos-near

11 hours ago

1 change
161 upvotes – 228 comments

Anthropic's growth just flattened

https://www.regenerator1.com/p/anthropics-growth-just-flattened

3 hours ago

1 change
160 upvotes – 187 comments

Never Complain, Never Explain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_complain,_never_explain

14 hours ago

156 upvotes – 63 comments

Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/02/oracle-files-to-sell-20-billion-in-new-stock-bonds-to-finance-ai-buildout.html

6 hours ago

155 upvotes – 116 comments

China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48

https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-china-ai-export-controls-announcement-48-2/

18 hours ago

149 upvotes – 86 comments

We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%

https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-targeted-zone-builds/

11 hours ago

142 upvotes – 48 comments

BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" and don't get it

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/none-of-these-people-have-ever-made-a-game-bioware-co-founder-greg-zeschuk-says-of-game-industry-executives-they-just-dont-know-how-it-works/

17 hours ago

129 upvotes – 139 comments

Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app

https://momentic.ai/

8 hours ago

123 upvotes – 79 comments

Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse

https://twitter.com/OcanaSantero/status/2115442964574908902

13 hours ago

122 upvotes – 100 comments

Sam Altman: All the RAM Should Belong to Me, So I Can Charge People to Use It

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-all-the-ram-should-belong-to-me-so-i-can-charge-people-to-use-it-2000833412

12 hours ago

119 upvotes – 108 comments

Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/

7 hours ago

111 upvotes – 81 comments

Supermarket freezers in Belgium and Sweden hit by suspected cyber-attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq1kd1nee80eo

14 hours ago

108 upvotes – 1 comments

Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261102-00/?p=112818/

7 hours ago

106 upvotes – 36 comments

AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

https://www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis-errors-complicating-games-culture

1 day ago

100 upvotes – 110 comments

The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/2/census-bureau-super-intelligence/

12 hours ago

98 upvotes – 49 comments

Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/11/self-employed-solopreneur-nist-has-cybersecurity-guide-just-you

8 hours ago

96 upvotes – 27 comments

Agentic backdoors via pretraining poisoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37741

7 hours ago

1 change
89 upvotes – 28 comments

Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code

https://polyend.com/whats-up/tracker-the-biggest-update-yet/

8 hours ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings

https://stephenjgallagher.substack.com/p/ai-can-draw-blueprints-now

9 hours ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

Ballot Rejections Have Soared in Rural Counties as USPS Reduces Mail Service

https://www.propublica.org/article/mail-ballot-delays-postal-service-midterms

7 hours ago

81 upvotes – 48 comments

LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks

https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/

10 hours ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

Apple reports fourth quarter results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/11/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/

3 hours ago

77 upvotes – 86 comments
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