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Patrick Stewart has died

j4mie — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:41:39 +0000

https://archive.ph/y4Egm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294702

Points: 837

# Comments: 149

Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue

hubraumhugo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:42:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kadoa.com/companies/insights/google-search-below-half

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291945

Points: 356

# Comments: 302

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

ea016 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:53:03 +0000

Article URL: https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291054

Points: 222

# Comments: 103

I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy

bookofjoe — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:30:22 +0000

https://archive.ph/sGqBh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290668

Points: 259

# Comments: 281

LLM Voice

ibobev — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:57:55 +0000

Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290177

Points: 242

# Comments: 133

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

kuberwastaken — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:13:21 +0000

Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418

Points: 935

# Comments: 261

‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)

surprisetalk — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:40:04 +0000

https://archive.ph/Ykfga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_letter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288867

Points: 396

# Comments: 336

Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

theHocineSaad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:41:56 +0000

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-carbon-new-number-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288019

Points: 320

# Comments: 235

DoorDash to acquire Instacart

WalterSobchak — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:33:05 +0000

Article URL: https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287919

Points: 334

# Comments: 532

Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees

firefax — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:31:09 +0000

Article URL: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6021497

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287898

Points: 248

# Comments: 70

If IPv4 were land

rokostik — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:19:00 +0000

Article URL: https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287775

Points: 187

# Comments: 208

How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)

terminalbraid — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:41:18 +0000

Article URL: https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287448

Points: 206

# Comments: 168

The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months

ljf — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:44:49 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/08/31/the-us-added-a-record-20-2-gwh-of-battery-storage-in-just-3-months/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287001

Points: 259

# Comments: 178

Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers

882542F3884314B — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:42:41 +0000

Article URL: https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286987

Points: 228

# Comments: 102

Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS

MarkBlah — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:08:50 +0000

Article URL: https://smsofdeath.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285452

Points: 303

# Comments: 170

Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only

austinallegro — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:47:28 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2026-10-the-last-proof-of-human-craft-browser-full-chain/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285319

Points: 225

# Comments: 38

Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model

NikZaal — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 03:33:42 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255

Points: 553

# Comments: 221

Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

csmantle — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:25:45 +0000

Article URL: https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282838

Points: 670

# Comments: 141

GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229

sashk — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:45:46 +0000

Article URL: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/GitLab-security-incident-CVE-2026-97229.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282544

Points: 241

# Comments: 119

StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

babelfish — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:35:02 +0000

Article URL: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph?t=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282454

Points: 748

# Comments: 659