Story ranking for the past day

1. AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt | 666
2. Residential proxies detected on White House network | 276
3. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts) | 168
4. North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist | 368
5. Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux | 277
6. AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history | 193
7. Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out | 135
8. Kitty 0.50 | 229
9. US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures | 657
10. Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI | 301
11. Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016) | 208
12. A new Go API for JSON | 128
13. Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding | 99
14. A thousand fewer paths to root | 163
15. Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues | 130
16. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? | 255
17. Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers | 131
18. OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company | 69
19. Tencent Hy4 | 76
20. Images 2.6 | 147
21. Insects don't swarm at LED lights | 119
22. Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver | 97
23. Progress on provable inference for large language models | 91
24. Starfall – Affordable, routine access to microgravity | 121
25. Conductor is joining Meta | 174
26. Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander | 17
27. The lost malloc() | 74
28. Debian apt security update (man-in-the-middle) | 30
29. Everything is an AI scam now | 53
30. Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s | 54
31. BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant | 122
32. Education shouldn't be held for ransom | 80
33. Have I befriended a murderer? | 66
34. This Month in Ladybird – October 2026 | 38
35. 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street? | 221
36. Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language | 86
37. Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements | 5
38. Show HN: I built a tool that prices a pre-built PC part by part | 72
39. Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution | 79
40. Democrats Rout GOP | 57
41. Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor | 33
42. Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman | 83
43. Hackers hit French national blood bank | 93
44. YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens | 101
45. A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines | 89
46. A map of 5000+ midterm ads | 29
47. Death Comes for XSLT | 46
48. Lemmings CSS Animation | 10
49. AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections | 2
50. RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb | 77
51. AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks | 75
52. Conductor is joining Meta | 2
53. Ask HN: What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be hired" thread? | 41
54. If you're on Replit Pro, you have until November 8 to opt out of arbitration | 7
55. Elon Musk's millions fail to deliver Texas for the Republicans in fierce midterm | 10
56. You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents | 63
57. Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random | 32
58. Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet | 27
59. Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media | 10
60. Less Popular Than Coal | 66
61. Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository | 18
62. American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers | 2
63. Hacking the T-Mobile Sidekick, 20 Years Too Late | 7
64. From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region | 7
65. Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick | 4
66. An end to buggy web apps | 41
67. Apple Will Scan Public iCloud Links for Harmful Content Starting in iOS 27.3 | 17
68. Flock (YC 2018) Re-Connects Camera Disabled by Police Chief | 9
69. 512GB Mac Studio | 28
70. US midterm elections 2026: live results from Senate, House and governor races | 10
71. Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a phishing hole | 5
72. Mocktastic: A Meshtastic Node on Arduino | 1
73. Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt's 1948 open letter on Israel | 6
74. So my ISP was hijacking my DNS | 16
75. Benchfmt.rs: Bringing Go's benchmarking and benchstat workflow to Rust | 7
76. Tell HN: GitHub Is Down | 16
77. In Praise of Japan's Failure to Keep Up | 1
78. People say they want small smartphones–Enough Phone will put that to the test | 8
79. It is pathetic that there is no news about the midterms on the front page | 19
80. Show HN: Gauge – Open-Source CLI to recursively improve your docs | 4
81. Funimation Shutdown Fuels Push for DMCA Exemption to Legally Rip Anime Content | 2
82. Show HN: GPUWorks – A 40 MB GPU cluster manager for vLLM/SGLang, no K8s needed | 4
83. Postal Service Surveilled Protest Activities Online with Little Rules, Oversight | 6
84. Osewa – An open-source alternative to SSH and Mosh | 19
85. Nvidia store pulls RTX 5080 following RTX 5090 removal, prices rise to 2.2X MSRP | 7
86. Canva lays off 22% of its workforce; 1,270 people | 1
87. Harmony: Chat like Discord. Federated like email | 16
88. Kyiv Independent reports system breach | 1
89. Brainstem Theory of Consciousness | 3
90. US election results are being suppressed on HN | 20
91. Elon Musk's business empire braces for Democratic wave as Texas flips blue | 3
92. Successful People (2013) | 17
93. Canva Layoffs | 0
94. Shlemiel the Painter Is Back: How Zig's Libc Rewrite Made SQLite 12,000× Slower | 0
95. Don't Call It a Decision Model | 4
96. Nintendo's cartridge maker shifts focus to data centers, hurting physical media | 4
97. Voters Set $400M of Elon Musk's Money on Fire | 10
98. 11 Nanoseconds per Word: Over-Optimizing Anagrams | 2
99. Vi Turns 50: The True History of vi | 8
100. AI triggers PCB shortage for PC makers as order books full until 2030, costs 12x | 5