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Hacker News on October 29, 2026

On October 29, 2026, Trendoday checked Hacker News 96 times and recorded 134 different entries. “Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?” ranked highest over the day: on the list in 77% of checks, best #1, average #1.5. “StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month” and “Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside…” followed. 0 entries were on the list at every check. 105 entries made their first appearance, led by “StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month”.

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    77%of checks
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    73%of checks
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    Gemini 4 Carbon↗
    best #2 · avg #2.9
    63%of checks
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    CNC Stone Carving↗
    best #4 · avg #7.0
    68%of checks
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    A Health Update↗
    best #5 · avg #11.1
    70%of checks
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    AlpineBSD↗
    best #9 · avg #11.3
    53%of checks
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    48%of checks
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    40%of checks
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    DoorDash to acquire Instacart↗
    best #3 · avg #8.5new
    43%of checks
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    If IPv4 were land↗
    best #7 · avg #12.5new
    43%of checks
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    Scaling Hierarchical Networks↗
    best #18 · avg #21.6
    51%of checks
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    The Agent SDK↗
    best #13 · avg #15.8
    42%of checks
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    Emacs Turns 50↗
    best #6 · avg #6.7
    32%of checks
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    H.264 Is Magic (2016)↗
    best #5 · avg #10.4new
    33%of checks
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    LLM Voice↗
    best #4 · avg #10.1new
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    Nixpkgs for the Front End Impaired↗
    best #19 · avg #22.8new
    45%of checks
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    The case of the 9 bit AES key↗
    best #12 · avg #16.8
    36%of checks
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    Treap (Cartesian Tree)↗
    best #20 · avg #26.6new
    36%of checks
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    Patrick Stewart has died↗
    best #1 · avg #1.4new
    17%of checks
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    22%of checks

Also on the list that day (84)

Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue · Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen… · How we made our MMDB files a 33% smaller · Image generation has come a long way since August 2022 · Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis… · Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state · Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees · noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in… · ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014) · Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action for real estate venture · The importance of communities around software · Duet is the future of chatbot interaction · Leak website releases data on DHS employees · Show HN: SlideBySide – Present slides without sharing your screen · Requests, Please · Start Doing Graph Theory · Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local… · Show HN: A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms · IgE disruptor for food allergy with Claude-enabled antibody design… · Southern Africa's first known stenciled rock art found hiding in… · Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene · We won't "just hang out" · Edit an SQLite database in your browser · Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on… · A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W · Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance · The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise… · Oseberg Tapestry Fragments · After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home · Toxic experts (2017) · Scattered thoughts on how doing math feels these days · Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any… · Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption… · We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry · ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser · The tragedy of losing your Wikipedia page · Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers · One reviewer per layer: splitting code review by the way code is read · Show HN: UK Farming Simulator · I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here's What Happened · Electronic fibers weave touchscreen into sleeve that survives… · An Urgent Message on Artificial Intelligence from the Kogui People · Blanets and Weird Worlds · Everything Rhymes with Porcelain · Archive.today links going forward · The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150 · Ghostty 1.4 · Muhammad Aqeel: Undo for Postgres, without losing the rest of your day · MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy · Partitioning my digital life into security domains (2011) · DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17B · Newly discovered Kerberos delegation abuse path · Should a medical diagnosis reshape the past? (2025) · New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users… · A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014) · Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B · TLP Is Not a Suggestion · Finland investigate Google over destruction of 250k trees · I'm building LYNX, an open-source DAW inspired by FL Studio,… · Creating interactive data visualization with Flint-interactive · El Niño Is Flooding California's Coasts with the Highest Tides to Come · Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages · Get Ready for Touch on Mac · Executable Archaeology: Reanimating the Heuristic Compiler (1961)… · React.lazy, Suspense and the Hidden 300 ms Delay · Open Sound Connect – Control Sony Headphones from Your Mac · AI Contributions to GHC · Patrick Stewart Has Died · Why are good developers so wary of agentic development? · Archive Of Our Own down for maintenance for 2 to 4 weeks · Genie 4 · Utah charges Kalshi and its CEO with illegally promoting online… · Bernstein – open-source governance layer for AI agents · Two RTX 5090 hosts sharing a KV cache over Ethernet · Show HN: phpClaw – AI agent runtime for PHP with tools, memory and… · Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok app for less… · Lighthouses, War and a Puffling · Open-weight AI models can exploit the patch gap · Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer · Over $5B drained from Binance in apparent hack · Proton goes all in on using AI · Show HN: Live speech-to-text on an ESP32-P4 microcontroller, no cloud · Are stochastic parrots alive? · Thursday: A SerenityOS for Myself

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Part of week 44 and October 2026.