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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

https://hackerbooks.org
1140•roansh•13h ago•207 comments

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

https://fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%203%20-%20The%20Beginning%20of%20BSD%20Unix/
61•joonehur•3h ago•5 comments

Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html
218•soheilpro•2d ago•134 comments

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
2417•karpathy•1d ago•553 comments

Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in...
64•_Microft•1d ago•18 comments

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

236•LecroJS•10h ago•409 comments

Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed

https://trigger.dev/blog/security-incident-nov-2026
45•anurag•4h ago•14 comments

Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed

https://github.com/raphlinus/nibnib
122•raphlinus•3d ago•19 comments

Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/02/05/
97•luu•4d ago•16 comments

Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics

https://tibleiz.net/copper/
152•bogdanoff_2•2d ago•82 comments

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff
196•FabCH•16h ago•46 comments

Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/death-industry-mortuary-programs-women-andie-eisen-quarterly/
38•TMWNN•2d ago•20 comments

AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

https://www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis-errors-complicating-games-culture
56•rdmuser•3h ago•29 comments

OccupySaaS

https://occupysaas.com/
159•misswaterfairy•5h ago•105 comments

Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
124•Anon84•16h ago•66 comments

New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261025073051.htm
62•stevenalowe•3d ago•32 comments

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/
259•smilelamp•11h ago•283 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
336•luu•23h ago•258 comments

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0
136•croes•1d ago•45 comments

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_j...
436•entryleveljobsc•15h ago•156 comments

Bidirectional charging during grid outages

https://www.jefftk.com/p/bidirectional-charging-during-grid-outages
94•luu•1d ago•142 comments

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

https://outcrop.rocks/
178•headsupernova•3d ago•41 comments

Radiation Map of the World

https://radiaverse.com/
147•slater•4d ago•47 comments

Novellas with Groff

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html
118•dverlaeckt80•15h ago•51 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

https://kevs3d.co.uk/phoria2/
82•kevs3d•1d ago•14 comments

The She-Wolves of Jülich

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/she-wolves-julich
19•Thevet•1d ago•3 comments

The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/28/us/politics/billionaire-midterms-donors.html
44•doener•5h ago•24 comments

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/domain-hacks-with-unusual-unicode-characters/
68•n_plus_1_acc•18h ago•49 comments

Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)

https://tedium.co/2019/11/21/nonstick-parchment-paper-history/
46•colinprince•2d ago•24 comments

Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter

https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/oct/seoul-291026.shtml
153•gmays•13h ago•43 comments
Open in hackernews

The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/28/us/politics/billionaire-midterms-donors.html
44•doener•5h ago

Comments

nneonneo•1h ago
https://archive.ph/hYaHF
wpm•1h ago
If they have the money for this, they have the money to pay more in taxes.
dboreham•56m ago
I think you misunderstand the direction of the trade.
OccamsMirror•8m ago
Why do you think they're dumping money into the election?
hightrix•1h ago
This is an old article. Musk has spent close to half a billion himself this election cycle.
epistasis•51m ago
Establishing a wealth tax based on the rolling 10 prior years worth of PAC donations would feel somewhat fitting. A basis point per $50k or something.
QGQBGdeZREunxLe•1h ago
Is there any viable road to campaign finance reform that is also constitutional?
jacquesm•59m ago
There always was. You just have to make sure your Supreme Court isn't bought and paid for by the same people who wish to buy elections.
epistasis•55m ago
Yes, we need a vastly larger supreme court, probably with a reorganization such that there are smaller panels that hear cases, etc, like happens with other courts.

The current court is completely partisan and has zero judicial theory other than backing partisan power and oligarch power. They have the final say on how to interpret the constitution but reject the founding principles of the USA.

jacquesm•52m ago
And far better checks on whether or not a SC member has been bought. There is so much evidence of this and yet everybody just sits around as if they couldn't possibly do anything about it. A politicized Supreme Court is worse than nothing because it concentrates insane power in the hand a few un-elected people.
defrost•39m ago
There are no checks because (US) Supreme Court judges aren't subject to any laws making non declaration of gifted RV's and expensive holidays illegal.

That said - yes, they need anti corruption / bribery regulation, fixed terms, and those terms to be co-prime wrt political fixed terms.

* https://www.abc.net.au/science/archive/articles/2001/11/27/4...

darth_avocado•52m ago
How is Elon Musk only being reported as $90M when other sources say it’s more than $400M+? Seems like this is a big discrepancy.

Example: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/...

defrost•38m ago
It's a two month old article - the reporting on Musks contributions is more recent.
applebottomjean•25m ago
Wouldn’t it be great if all the money Musk dumped into this election was wasted? I guess it’s still not that much money for him, but the repudiation of these tactics would be wonderful.
dragontamer•18m ago
It won't be.

Musk largely dumped the money into the election to prove to everyone he can keep dumping money perpetually into every election. Its a pain to deal with $400 Million this year, but can you imagine 2028, 2030 or 2032? Its going to be a constant onslaught until we figure out a way to mitigate Citizens United vs FEC

Even if Democrats win, Musk has proven that his money is now part of our political system moving forward.

pavlov•11m ago
With the executive powers that the Supreme Court has allowed Trump, the next president could simply nationalize SpaceX.

Of course the Supreme Court will change its mind about executive powers soon after the next election, because they are an impartial body dedicated to the abstract intellectual pursuit of discovering the true intent behind 250-year-old sacred documents.

erxam•24m ago
These midterms are the single most consequential election of anyone's lives, no matter where in the world you are, if you are the most unaware uncontacted Sentinelese or you're a prodigious member of NYC's top society.

Tucker Carlson just warned of irreversible escalation with Iran because Netanyahu (the god-king of the world, the Chosen One), with Trump teetering on the knife's edge whether he takes the nuclear option or not. Holy shit. Oh my god.

>Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

Guess who also needs this and whose fate is also teetering dependent upon these results? Yeah.

Senator Chris Murphy warned about an insane, unconscionable escalation plan he was privy to and then suffered a stroke from the sheer stress of the knowledge.

Please, Americans, do something. This world can't this anymore. The world can't take anything anymore.

dboreham•55m ago
Also the court follows laws. There are numerous cases where weird stuff happens with supreme court rulings only because congress never passed any law regarding whatever it is.
free_bip•50m ago
I believe Hawaii already has, by redefining what rights corporations have under their state constitution. If every state followed suit, the problem would be solved.
SV_BubbleTime•38m ago
> If every state followed suit, the problem would be solved.

If we just change the rules, the game will stay exactly the same? Sorry, but this awfully naive.

majorchord•27m ago
> If every state followed suit, the problem would be solved.

Or it creates an entirely new problem. People like this don't just go away after hitting a single roadblock.

QGQBGdeZREunxLe•19m ago
If it isn't done federally then it isn't done.