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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• DoorDash to acquire Instacart
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• LLM Voice
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• H.264 Is Magic (2016)
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• We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
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• Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
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• elect.horse
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• Claude Code VS Code extension with backdoor released on Cursor marketplace
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• Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions
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• US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech
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• AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
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• Emacs Turns 50
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• Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
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• CNC Stone Carving
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• StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
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• Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
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• Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
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• We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
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• Patrick Stewart has died
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• Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Start Doing Graph Theory
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• Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
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• Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
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• Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
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• Git for the US Code
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• Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
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• ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Ops in US History
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• Gemini 4 Carbon
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• MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
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• Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
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• CSS-Tricks has a new owner
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• Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
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• Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
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• The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
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• AI promised less work. I've never worked more
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• Python's experimental JIT to be removed
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• US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
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• Genie 4
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• Ghostty 1.4
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
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• Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline
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• Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
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• Lula wins election after final votes tallied
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• Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
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• Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale
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• Anthropic S-1
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• Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
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• Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
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• GPT-6.1 Terra
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more
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• I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
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• The Goose Programming Language
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• We should be more ambitious with the software we build
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• America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
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• Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
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• Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
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• A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
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• I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
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• Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Real Kevin Bacon
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• Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
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• Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
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• Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
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• Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
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• Twelve years of distributed SQLite
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• OBS Studio 33
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• Root shell on Samsung TV
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• No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
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• Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 23, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
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• Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name
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• Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices
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• Every AI model has the same \"controversial\" take on humans
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• Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
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• Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
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• Docker is weird
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• Apple Music 404 Not Found
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• Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
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• Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor
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• Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
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• Claude Duet
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• Security Disclosure
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• There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
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• mitmproxy adds --emudhra option
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• WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
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• Jailbreaking the Switch 2
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• eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
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• Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
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• What shall I teach my son?
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• Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
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• Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
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• The Future of CSS
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• The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
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• Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
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• PHP 8.2.35
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• Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
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• EA is shutting down BioWare
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
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• Starcraft: Ashfall
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• I built a drone with only one motor [video]
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• Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
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• DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
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• MiniMax M3.1 Flash
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• WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
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• DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
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• EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
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• Voxtral 3
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• It's still ok to enjoy programming
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• There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
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• RepRapMicron
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• Someone behind the software
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• Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
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• Linux 7.3
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• Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
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• Documents: Police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent husband
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• Wine ported to OpenBSD
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• I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana
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• Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour
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• Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States
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• Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG
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• Gold is now the top U.S. export
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• NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing
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• Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day
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• The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
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• DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
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• Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ultramarine 1 Flash
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• I love software rendering
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• Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio
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• Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console
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• You could have invented transformers from memory
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• How the Claude Code team does code review
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• DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
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• DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017
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• Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
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• OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]
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• AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
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• Jev meets the Trolley Problem
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• Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
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• New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing
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• What I self-host
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• Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts
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• Tesla Roadster
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• 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
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• Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Do dentists know what they're doing?
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• Passkeys are not a trap
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• Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
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• Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts
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• OpenCode 2.0
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• Tiny Little Office
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• Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say
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• Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
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• Neural networks are clean
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• Muse Spark Open
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
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• Thunderbird for iOS
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• Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
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• OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
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• AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs
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• Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font
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• How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
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• ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
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• Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
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• Things to know when you get cancer – 2026 Edition
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
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• Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver
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• GLM-Legal
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• A Modern Web App in C
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• AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
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• 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
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• Firefox Enterprise
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• Apple HomeView
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• Redesigning source control at Anthropic
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• Gemini 4 Argon
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
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• NYC's \"Click to Cancel\" rule is now in effect
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• Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
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• The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
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• Passkeys are a trap
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• Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers
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• Fingerprints are the new cookies
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• Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth
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• Muse Wonder
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• Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Grieving the loss of details
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• The Lightbulb Computer
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• A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
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• Build your own decision model
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• LineageOS 24
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• 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
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• Bot traffic from Yandex
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• Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
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• I paid people to try and follow my README
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• Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 2D Vehicles
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• Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
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• Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
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• Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
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• YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
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• REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
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• Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
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• `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
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• Lobbying Is Corruption
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• Bitwarden Dual License Model
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
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• Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
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• Yes, and
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• Theranos.world
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• Sorry, I'm in a meeting
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• Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
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• Cloudflare acquires Deno
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• Our $445M Series D
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• US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
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• Triple-A Minesweeper
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits
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• Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
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• Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app
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• The Mathocalypse
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• Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
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• “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
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• I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
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• Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
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• Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
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• Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
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• Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
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• Decisions API is in public beta
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• Sharing AI progress in mathematics
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• A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps
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• Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
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• Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees
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• GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
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• Claude Haiku 5.5
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• Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for the Apollo program, has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
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• Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
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• ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
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• Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
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• Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
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• JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
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• Polars 2.0
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• Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire
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• Mistral Large 4
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• Mistral Large 4: \"Le Chonk\"
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What is going on with ceiling fans
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• Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
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• A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
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• Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
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• Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
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• Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
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• Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
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• Web Search API
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• Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation
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• Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• So you think you could be an electrician?
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• I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
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• Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
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• LeCun has \"zero concerns\" about AI wiping out humanity, recent \"rogue\" incidents
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• Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
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• The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
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• Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
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• We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
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• Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
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• Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
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• FLUX 3 Image
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• Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
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• Sites in ChatGPT
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• Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
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• A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting
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• Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
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• Extra Big Ass Intelligence
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• Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
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• Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
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• RIP, vector database
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• Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
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• Pi Durable
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• SvelteKit 3
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• Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
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• Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
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• Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
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• DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
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• Apple Pass Designer
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-10-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
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• Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
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• The last time my family was replaced by technology
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• A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
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• StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
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• Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant
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• Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
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• Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks
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• Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
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• Pi 1.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
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• A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
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• Ask HN: What are you reading?
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• America.gov
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• Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
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• Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
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• Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
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• September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
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• You said no MCP
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• Gemini 4 Argon
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