top 50% hacker news stories for today

SpaceX – Starfall

https://www.spacex.com/starfall

1 hour ago

28 upvotes – 10 comments

You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents

https://orchidfiles.com/youll-need-nerves-of-steel-to-work-with-ai-agents/

1 hour ago

8 upvotes – 2 comments

Canva Layoffs

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-team-update/

46 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers

https://www.404media.co/american-voters-overwhelmingly-reject-ai-data-centers/

36 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 1 comments

Zgui: Native Rust UI with fine-grained signals, CSS, and a retained GPU renderer

https://github.com/zortax/zgui

1 hour ago

★ 50 Rust Apache-2.0
5 upvotes – 0 comments

AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability

13 hours ago

1052 upvotes – 627 comments

Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363461

15 hours ago

3 changes
627 upvotes – 163 comments

Residential proxies detected on White House network

https://layer3intel.com/blog/residential-proxies-white-house-network

4 hours ago

1 change
605 upvotes – 196 comments

Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/linux-nvidia-rtx-spark-laptop

16 hours ago

1 change
589 upvotes – 271 comments

North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/03/north-korean-fake-job-interview-led-to-63b-binance-heist/5307398

11 hours ago

570 upvotes – 353 comments

AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-expects-to-outsell-intel-in-q4-for-the-first-time-in-history-usd17b-guidance-would-exceed-intels-projections

9 hours ago

458 upvotes – 168 comments

Jelly Sheet

https://mrdoob.github.io/codevember-2026/01/

21 hours ago

445 upvotes – 113 comments

C++26 Disapproved

https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/11/cpp26-dis-failed-how-does-cpp-survive/

1 day ago

404 upvotes – 340 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro

9 hours ago

361 upvotes – 98 comments

Kitty 0.50

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#

16 hours ago

357 upvotes – 228 comments

US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/04/2026/us-voters-roundly-reject-data-centers-in-ballot-measures

10 hours ago

307 upvotes – 613 comments

Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/03/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-better-off-without-ai

14 hours ago

297 upvotes – 293 comments

Democrats win control of the House of Representatives

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/democrats-house-control-midterm-election-wins-trump-check-rcna603397

21 hours ago

259 upvotes – 127 comments

Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smtdswd1h2w4

15 hours ago

254 upvotes – 127 comments

Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastructure-permanent/

10 hours ago

2 changes
253 upvotes – 186 comments

Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers

https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/verification-is-not-knowledge

16 hours ago

227 upvotes – 130 comments

A new Go API for JSON

https://go.dev/blog/jsonv2

7 hours ago

1 change
221 upvotes – 93 comments

Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding

https://www.ricursive.com/ripple

6 hours ago

216 upvotes – 76 comments

Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synaptics-Blocks-Vino-Driver

14 hours ago

200 upvotes – 94 comments

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company

https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-pierre/

9 hours ago

3 changes
180 upvotes – 56 comments

Tencent Hy4

https://hy.tencent.ai/research/hy4

11 hours ago

178 upvotes – 61 comments

Progress on provable inference for large language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/provable-inference

8 hours ago

1 change
174 upvotes – 83 comments

Insects don't swarm at LED lights

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2026/11/03/insects-dont-swarm-at-led-lights/

5 hours ago

1 change
158 upvotes – 92 comments

The lost malloc()

https://napcakes.nekoweb.org/posts/malloc/

17 hours ago

149 upvotes – 64 comments

Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active

https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/giant-canyon-mars-still-tectonically-active-today

23 hours ago

1 change
142 upvotes – 38 comments

Debian apt security update (man-in-the-middle)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00526.html?pow_referer=

10 hours ago

135 upvotes – 28 comments

US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats win Senate control and edge

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/nov/03/midterm-election-results-live-updates

19 hours ago

133 upvotes – 47 comments

Everything is an AI scam now

https://www.davidralphlewis.co.uk/posts/everything-is-an-ai-scam-now/

4 hours ago

125 upvotes – 41 comments

Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients

https://www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/news-releases/2026/study-reveals-distinct-cellular-and-genetic-differences-in-colorectal-cancer-in-younger-patients

21 hours ago

124 upvotes – 57 comments

BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-03/china-s-byd-doubles-market-share-in-brazil-with-new-plant-eyed

7 hours ago

124 upvotes – 118 comments

Education shouldn't be held for ransom

https://blog.kagi.com/education-should-not-be-held-for-ransom

6 hours ago

1 change
115 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366117

10 hours ago

113 upvotes – 129 comments

This Month in Ladybird – October 2026

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-10-31/

7 hours ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

Have I befriended a murderer?

https://longreads.com/2026/11/03/murder-friendship-doubt/

6 hours ago

1 change
106 upvotes – 58 comments

Conductor is joining Meta

https://www.conductor.build/announcement

6 hours ago

1 change
103 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander

https://fireflyk64.github.io/wcmulti/

6 hours ago

102 upvotes – 11 comments

Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language

https://evergreenlang.net

9 hours ago

100 upvotes – 83 comments

Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00526.html

12 hours ago

98 upvotes – 77 comments

Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360947

22 hours ago

96 upvotes – 3 comments

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s

https://www.qualcomm.com/data-center/products/cloud-ai-100-ultra

5 hours ago

95 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: I built a tool that prices a pre-built PC part by part

https://pcdealcheck.com/

9 hours ago

1 change
94 upvotes – 66 comments

Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman

https://milkman.dev/

16 hours ago

81 upvotes – 83 comments

Democrats Rout GOP

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/11/03/us/midterms-2026-election-day-trump

17 hours ago

81 upvotes – 51 comments

Hackers hit French national blood bank

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/11/04/hackers-hit-french-blood-bank/

13 hours ago

80 upvotes – 91 comments

Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025)

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/arrows-to-arrows/

22 hours ago

79 upvotes – 7 comments

A map of 5000+ midterm ads

https://admap.org/

13 hours ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

Images 2.6

https://openai.com/index/introducing-images-2-6/

1 hour ago

1 change
71 upvotes – 53 comments

Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50368804

7 hours ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

A thousand fewer paths to root

https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/

1 hour ago

1 change
63 upvotes – 47 comments

YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens

https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/y-combinators-garry-tan-uses-ai-agents-so-much-he-spends-up-to-200k-a-year-on-tokens/

9 hours ago

61 upvotes – 73 comments

Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements

https://icode4.coffee/?p=1746

3 hours ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/ai-data-centers-comprehensively-defeated-at-us-midterm-elections-45-measures-put-on-the-ballot-as-americans-overwhelmingly-vote-against-developments

9 hours ago

55 upvotes – 45 comments

'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/04/what-can-save-the-british-high-street-rotherham

9 hours ago

54 upvotes – 135 comments

AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/04/ai-stocks-texas-governor-data-centers.html

18 hours ago

53 upvotes – 75 comments
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