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Hacker News on October 31, 2026

On October 31, 2026, Trendoday checked Hacker News 96 times and recorded 111 different entries. “My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii” ranked highest over the day: on the list in 85% of checks, best #2, average #5.2. “Northflank Breached” and “Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the…” followed. 0 entries were on the list at every check. 81 entries made their first appearance, led by “Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament”.

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    85%of checks
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    Northflank Breached↗
    best #2 · avg #3.3
    78%of checks
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    The federated code forge↗
    best #6 · avg #7.4
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    Tell HN: Scribd Breached↗
    best #6 · avg #13.6new
    64%of checks
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    Digital minimalism↗
    best #3 · avg #13.4new
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    Switch Lowering in GCC↗
    best #6 · avg #15.6new
    64%of checks
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    Jules Verne's Lost Novel↗
    best #16 · avg #19.9
    67%of checks
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    We Took over ChatGPT Accounts↗
    best #2 · avg #11.6new
    51%of checks
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    Infinite Mac: BeOS↗
    best #14 · avg #15.9
    56%of checks
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    Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4↗
    best #9 · avg #14.9new
    30%of checks
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    Casio Watches of the 1980s↗
    best #7 · avg #14.0new
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    Brief History of PDP Computers↗
    best #24 · avg #27.7new
    35%of checks
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    Linode Security Incident↗
    best #13 · avg #13.4
    19%of checks
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    The Duty of a Scholar↗
    best #12 · avg #17.2new
    20%of checks
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    It's the Memory Latency, Stupid↗
    best #11 · avg #17.7new
    20%of checks
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Also on the list that day (61)

Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference · AO3 Down for Maintenance · Wonderful Weather: Floods and Foreboding in 17th-Century Britain · Hunting 'Zombie Accounts' in Active Directory · What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on · Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector · Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python · Bunny CDN Security Incident · Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models · Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line · Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly) · I post trained a model on Demoscenes · A Pickpocket's Guide to New York · Flock camera searches fell 95% after a dispatcher's misconduct was… · The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025) · Keeping the Bonfires Lit · 5 years of OqtaDrive: Microdrive emulation to Sinclair Network over… · With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's… · Shiny Object Syndrome · Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to… · Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers · Surviving "The Graduate" · Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements · OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target · Distributed Proofreaders · Show HN: Sketch Stadium – watch your agent play Pictionary · A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages · UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power · How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC? · Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show… · Rhind Mathematical Papyrus · Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to… · Show HN: Jointter – A daily word puzzle using dots and lines · Configure a UPS on Linux with NUT · Show HN: Samosa – Linter for Math Derivations · Sneezecount (2018) · AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details,… · Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup · Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies… · Why Anthropic's Filing Crushed Tech Stocks · Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works… · French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of… · An Italian Farmer Found Some Unknown Seeds in His Attic and Planted… · Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle… · Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video… · Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it… · Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on… · Fair Use Benefits Everyone · When Electric Cars Were for Women · First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite · What's on That Access Port? · GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks · France is getting download tax for content providers (€0.055/GB) · Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo… · Do At-Proto Users Know This Is Public? · Tools Hacker News keeps asking for · Common Desktop Environment available now as open-source · MoneyPouch – self hosted expense tracker · Gemini Code vs. Claude Code – A cautionary post-mortem ($800 in 12h) · Shaun Thomas: Burnt Toast · GPT-6.1 Terra

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Part of week 44 and October 2026.