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Hacker News on November 4, 2026

On November 4, 2026, Trendoday checked Hacker News 96 times and recorded 114 different entries. “Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot” ranked highest over the day: on the list in 85% of checks, best #1, average #4.1. “The Internals of PostgreSQL” and “Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos…” followed. 0 entries were on the list at every check. 84 entries made their first appearance, led by “Jelly Sheet”.

  1. 1
    85%of checks
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    The Internals of PostgreSQL↗
    best #6 · avg #11.0
    86%of checks
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    81%of checks
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    65%of checks
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    67%of checks
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    67%of checks
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    67%of checks
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    Jelly Sheet↗
    best #5 · avg #11.1new
    70%of checks
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    64%of checks
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    68%of checks
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    59%of checks
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    50%of checks
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    How I use AI (Oct 2026)↗
    best #13 · avg #15.4
    65%of checks
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    54%of checks
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    49%of checks
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    Kitty 0.50↗
    best #6 · avg #11.8new
    56%of checks
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    52%of checks
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    68%of checks
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    C++26 Disapproved↗
    best #7 · avg #11.5new
    54%of checks
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    57%of checks
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    60%of checks
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    63%of checks
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    65%of checks
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    57%of checks
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    40%of checks
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    59%of checks
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    Mac at any scale↗
    best #7 · avg #8.0
    34%of checks
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    45%of checks
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    The lost malloc()↗
    best #13 · avg #21.6new
    48%of checks
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    33%of checks
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    38%of checks
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    36%of checks
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    Curiosity Traps↗
    best #18 · avg #21.2
    45%of checks
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    52%of checks
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    41%of checks
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    31%of checks
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    31%of checks
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    40%of checks
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    28%of checks
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    Provable Inference↗
    best #12 · avg #16.2new
    28%of checks
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    31%of checks
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    39%of checks
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    Tencent Hy4↗
    best #12 · avg #16.8new
    27%of checks
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    31%of checks
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    33%of checks
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    28%of checks
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    A new Go API for JSON↗
    best #10 · avg #15.7new
    23%of checks
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    22%of checks
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    Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMs↗
    best #30 · avg #30.0
    33%of checks
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    26%of checks

Also on the list that day (64)

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in… · Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet · Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI · Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding · Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a… · US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months · Pratt parsing is a black box · Residential proxies detected on White House network · Insects don't swarm at LED lights · Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders · Conductor is joining Meta · Have I befriended a murderer? · Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at… · Benchfmt.rs: Bringing Go's benchmarking and benchstat workflow to Rust · Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS… · macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes · Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository · Mocktastic: A Meshtastic Node on Arduino · Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman · Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by… · This Month in Ladybird – October 2026 · From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region · Killing what can't be handled – putting a spaghetti demon to eternal… · Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media · Everything is an AI scam now · The Pnyx and the Agora (2016) · US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures · USDB: Scaling Storage for Next-Generation Recommender Systems at… · BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its… · Ask HN: What Cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10… · If you're on Replit Pro, you have until November 8 to opt out of… · An end to buggy web apps · Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements · A map of 5000+ midterm ads · Hackers hit French national blood bank · Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives across 44 ports · Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic · Ask HN: What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be… · Runs Scored in World Baseball Classic · AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks · Education Shouldn't Be Held for Ransom · Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution · YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year… · Tiny Basic for Arduino · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers,… · AR guitar with just a laptop and scissors · Less Popular Than Coal · Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders · Successful People (2013) · Osewa – An open-source alternative to SSH and Mosh · RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb · Show HN: Gauge – Open-Source CLI to recursively improve your docs · 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high… · US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats win Senate control… · Death Comes for XSLT · Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson… · Conductor Is Joining Meta · Is Curiosity Good for Us? · Democrats win control of the House of Representatives · Prompting Is Programming · Running 17 Claude Code bots in a real company for $100/month · US midterm elections 2026: live results from Senate, House and… · Disaster is still better than AI

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Part of week 45 and November 2026.