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The Best LED Grow Lights for Houseplants This Winter (2026)https://www.wired.com/story/best-led-grow-lights

Shorter days don’t have to spell trouble for your houseplants. These are the lights we’ve used and loved in our own homes.

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MALFEX npm Package 'imgdecode' Hides Shellcode Loader in Windows Native Addonhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/malfex-npm-package-imgdecode-hides.html

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that's part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX. The package, named "imgdecode," was uploaded to the package registry on September 30, 2026, by a user named "malfexteste8." It has been downloaded 979 times as of writing and is still available on npm as of writing. The latest version of

England stunned by Tonga in World Cup openerhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/articles/c83vqd73k0xlo

England 's men fall to defeat in the Rugby League World Cup opener as Tonga take their chances in Perth.

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These 12 Automatic Cat Feeders Were the Best We Tested in 2026https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-automatic-cat-feeders

We tested some of the most popular automatic dry- and wet-food pet feeders to see which ones are worth the money.

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Fake Linda and me: the Agatha Christie-worthy mystery of the fraudster who stole my bylinehttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/17/fake-linda-and-me-mystery-fraudster-stole-my-byline

How a string of bizarre events led writer Linda Geddes to don her sleuthing cap and dig into a world of shadowy impersonators It started with an entirely ordinary interaction on LinkedIn. Someone had tagged me in a post, saying how much they’d enjoyed contributing to a New York Post article I’d written about β€œchronoworking”. As the author of a book about circadian rhythms, it was exactly the sort of subject I might write about. Except I’d never heard of this person, let alone interviewed them. I clicked on the link and my stomach dropped. There, above an article about people who org…

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Decades after apartheid, South Africans seek justice for crimes of the pasthttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/17/nx-s1-5987671/south-africa-justice-sharpeville-apartheid

More than three decades after the end of apartheid, families of victims of some of the worst crimes of South Africa's past are still fighting for justice. As survivors and perpetrators grow older, a new wave of legal efforts is seeking truth, accountability and reparations before it's too late.

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DIY SOS to be 'rested' next year to save money, BBC sayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr15jw22v50qo

The long-running programme will be replaced by a "more cost-effective" spin-off show revisiting past projects.

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Rare pink diamond goes on display in France 100 years after amateur heisthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c61m4zkx47vlo

The French royal jewel will be on public display for the first time since it was found hidden in an apple after a 1926 theft.

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Show HN: SpawnDroid, Cloud-Provisioned Android Containers via WebRTC and ReDroidhttps://spawndroid.io

Article URL: https://spawndroid.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129783 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Don’t Let a Crypto Inheritance Get Stuck on the Blockchainhttps://www.wired.com/story/crypto-inheritance-how-to

Claiming an inheritance of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency can be like hunting for buried treasure. It doesn’t have to be.

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HTC Made Smart Glasses That Are Way More Privatehttps://www.wired.com/story/htc-wants-its-vive-eagle-smart-glasses-to-be-the-anti-meta

These smart glasses do just about everything Meta glasses can, but they're not tied to a social media platform.

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Ministers must be honest about Russian threat to UK, says former Foreign Office headhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/17/russia-threat-uk-former-foreign-office-head-lord-peter-ricketts

Peter Ricketts calls for more resilience in protecting banking, energy and water systems from cyber-assaults Ministers need to be honest with the British public about the immediate threat posed by Russia, which could soon lead to lives being lost, a former national security adviser has said. Peter Ricketts, who advised David Cameron when he was prime minister, became the latest figure to warn about the scale of the threat posed by β€œhybrid attacks” from Vladimir Putin’s forces. Continue reading...

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Show HN: Gridmark – make logos by tweaking shapes on a gridhttps://gridmark.dev

I built this (with claude) as i needed a logo for a project im working on but really did not want to use AI to make the logo. It all runs in browser and you can make logos and save them and download png and svgs without watermarks or anything. At the end of the day it's just an SVG manipulator with some sensible bounds for making some pretty cool looking designs. I did add a paid feature to download the whole brand kit but not really looking to make any money out of it. Would love feedback or any ideas on things to add for different grid types / styles. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.…

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Show HN: A Game of Life sandbox where any pattern is a shareable linkhttps://www.seloby.com/life

Article URL: https://www.seloby.com/life/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129649 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Programming Language Cup: same tasks in 32 langs, pick the winnerhttps://chalmovsky.com/prog-lang-cup/plain

Article URL: https://chalmovsky.com/prog-lang-cup/plain/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129576 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Sudan’s army claims dozens of RSF fighters killed in Nyala attackhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/17/2550

Rapid Support Forces accuses army of killing 30 civilians in attack on Nyala's busy livestock market.

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Show HN: Club Pigeon – A multiplayer pigeon park with SNES-style minigameshttps://clubpigeon.lol

Article URL: https://clubpigeon.lol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129489 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Show HN: WGSL linter with Tint parity and a full suite of LSP nicetieshttps://github.com/elringus/wgsl-linter

Made a WGSL linter for a VS Code extension with validation matching Chrome's Tint compiler. Plus navigation, rename, layout hints and other LSP niceties; in template strings too. Feedback is very welcome! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129425 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: A web workspace for trying FLUX 3 Kleinhttps://flux3klein.net

Article URL: https://flux3klein.net Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129351 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Panini – a zero-dependency parser for chaotic Indian bank narrationshttps://github.com/peopleofproduct/Panini

Article URL: https://github.com/peopleofproduct/Panini Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129311 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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"Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlandshttps://nos.nl/video/2635315-wildcamera-s-tonen-hoe-zwijnen-en-herten-zich-aanpassen-aan-de-wolf

Article URL: https://nos.nl/video/2635315-wildcamera-s-tonen-hoe-zwijnen-en-herten-zich-aanpassen-aan-de-wolf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129274 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Claude Code, deploy using thevibehosting.com == Your app on root Linuxhttps://thevibehosting.com

Article URL: https://thevibehosting.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129252 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Is MCP becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search?https://contextetech.com/en/articles/mcp-protocol-smart-decentralised-search

Article URL: https://contextetech.com/en/articles/mcp-protocol-smart-decentralised-search Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129235 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Trump promised a swing district blitz. He's going to a lot of very red stateshttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/17/nx-s1-6004276/trump-travel-midterms

President Trump's midterm travel blitz ahead of Election Day includes several red states he won easily 2 years ago, showing the electoral landscape is more challenging for Republicans.

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Weddings are expensive. How about a grocery store cake?https://www.npr.org/2026/10/17/nx-s1-5976921/grocery-store-wedding-cakes

About a third of couples are willing to save money on cake and dessert, according to the wedding-planning site Zola.

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Why AI Isn’t Ready to Tackle Our Convoluted Genomeshttps://www.wired.com/story/why-ai-isnt-ready-to-tackle-our-convoluted-genomes

The DNA inside our cells isn’t just a series of instructions, but something far more dynamic. Like scientists, AI models don't yet have the data to properly decode it.

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Sidewalk sleepers: They have nowhere else to stay while a loved one is in the hospitalhttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/17/g-s1-147874/hospital-diagnosis-patients-india-sidewalk

Patients travel miles to be treated at public hospitals in Delhi. Those in need get financial aid for their care. But for overnight accommodations, families are often on their own β€” and on the street.

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No Kings turns its focus to voting this weekend. Here's what we knowhttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/17/nx-s1-6004887/no-kings-voting-trump

The coalition behind nationwide anti-Trump protests is shifting its strategies this weekend to focus on voter turnout. Organizers say Saturday's events are a nonpartisan effort to get people to the polls.

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Microplastics React With Water, a New Study Says. That’s a Problem for Biologyhttps://www.wired.com/story/microplastics-react-with-water-new-study-says-thats-a-problem-for-biology

Though plastic is usually inert, tiny pieces of it have the potential to react with one of the most pervasive molecules in the environment and in our bodies.

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Show HN: CiteLadder – open-source AI search visibility trackerhttps://github.com/abhij1306/CiteLadder

Article URL: https://github.com/abhij1306/CiteLadder Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129168 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: I turned my kids' old Yoto Player into an Audiobookshelf playerhttps://github.com/tomekent/yotwo

My kids love their Yotos and I love Audiobookshelf. I wanted something in between that works as they get older and more control. I had two old Gen 2 players lying around that Yoto no longer supports. It turns the player into an Audiobookshelf client. You browse your library with the two knobs, the 16x16 screen shows tiny cover art, and favourites and downloads sync back to the server. Its still keeps the NFC card concept, but they're optional: you can link books/favourites to any NFC card. It all runs locally, with no Yoto account or cloud. It does require opening the player and soldering som…

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England crush Women's World Cup debutants Waleshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/articles/c6djvxmx0z1po

England scored seven tries before the break, and 13 in total on their way to a comprehensive victory over Wales in their Group A opener.

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DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129121 Points: 20 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: CADrs – onshape rust clonehttps://github.com/rvdende/cadrs

Article URL: https://github.com/rvdende/cadrs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129079 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129045 Points: 21 # Comments: 7

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Coastal homes burn as hot winds fuel California fireshttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/17/g-s1-148569/coastal-homes-burn-in-california-fires

High winds are fueling a fast-moving fire that has burned homes in Southern California. Flames engulfed expensive coastal properties and prompted thousands to evacuate.

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Swinney insists 'stars are aligning' for Scottish independencehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmx2844n7nepo

The first minister will tell delegates at the SNP conference in Aberdeen that 2026 has been a turning point in Scotland's "journey to nationhood".

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Boy, 16, and man, 80, die in light aircraft crash in Scotlandhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cky83g11q46lo

Emergency services were called at about 16:45 on Friday, and pronounced both dead at the scene.

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Show HN: Sys2txt – transcribe system audio to text in the CLI with a local LLMhttps://joe-heffer.github.io/sys2txt

sys2txt is a command line tool that records whatever audio your Linux machine is playing (via PulseAudio/PipeWire's monitor source) and transcribes it live with Whisper, OpenAI's AI-based speech-to-text model. I use it to caption meetings, videos, and calls playing on my own machine without routing audio through anything else. It supports faster-whisper, openai-whisper, and whisper.cpp (with Vulkan GPU support for AMD), and can either record-then-transcribe once or stream continuously in segments with live output in txt/srt/vtt/json/tsv. I'd be keen to collaborate with others extend its funct…

Eight-try Australia send Scotland to eighth straight defeathttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cxg5jz4epr1po

Scotland suffer a chastening eight-try defeat by Australia in their WXV Global Series match in Sydney.

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Show HN: Agentfork – Replay an LLM agent from any step and test fixeshttps://github.com/bimal1023/agentfork

Article URL: https://github.com/bimal1023/agentfork Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128913 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: FourCities – A multiplayer transport tycoon game in the browserhttps://fourcities.app

Article URL: https://fourcities.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128870 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Man jailed for Starmer-linked arson attacks is deportedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6x2vk44dv1xo

Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc was sentenced in June over arson attacks targeting the former prime minister's car and property.

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Show HN: Biblio Times, your RSS feeds, typeset as a morning newspaper (Mac/iOS)https://biblio.ink/times

the concept is not new but seem like people miss this newspaper in someway. The news is fetched on your own device, and nothing passes through your servers. That’s also why a traffic spike can’t take it down. The halftone photographs, the fold on iPhone and Duo, and the page curl. We are submitting a new update with OPML import. and will continue support the development. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128830 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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11-year old flying car company mocks Tesla Roadsterhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/17/11-year-old-flying-car-company-mocks-tesla-roadster

California-based Alef Aeronautics mocked Tesla, releasing a video of its flying car soaring over a Tesla Roadster.

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Show HN: Ews-scan – EWS calls in a .NET binary and their Graph equivalentshttps://github.com/sunset-less/ews-scan

Article URL: https://github.com/sunset-less/ews-scan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128807 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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'I had so many medals under the bed' - Green on Chelsea successhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cj5ynpgzly7no

When Paul Green left Chelsea after 13 years, he had achieved so much success that the majority of his medals were hidden away in a box under the bed.

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Show HN: I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltophttps://github.com/CLoaKY233/siltop

btop is beautiful. But on my M-series Mac it can't tell me the one thing I actually want to know: what is the chip doing? No watts, no GPU, no per-core clocks. So I built siltop: btop's calm, with eyes on the silicon. Real power, clocks and temps straight from the SMC and IOReport, no sudo, about 1.3% of one core (btop is ~2.5% on the same machine). It also tells you what's wrong in plain words ("Busy: rustc using 9.1 cores", "Hot: fans at 80%") before you read a single graph. 10-second try, no load needed: brew install cloaky233/tap/siltop && siltop --demo Rust, MIT/Apache, no telemetry, no…

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Show HN: I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltophttps://github.com/CLoaKY233/siltop

btop is beautiful. But on my M-series Mac it can't tell me the one thing I actually want to know: what is the chip doing? No watts, no GPU, no per-core clocks. So I built siltop: btop's calm, with eyes on the silicon. Real power, clocks and temps straight from the SMC and IOReport, no sudo, about 1.3% of one core (btop is ~2.5% on the same machine). It also tells you what's wrong in plain words ("Busy: rustc using 9.1 cores", "Hot: fans at 80%") before you read a single graph. 10-second try, no load needed: brew install cloaky233/tap/siltop && siltop --demo Rust, MIT/Apache, no telemetry, no…

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Show HN: Calcy – unit-aware, uncertainty-propagating mathhttps://habitathq.github.io/calcy

Offline-first notepad calculator: unit-aware math, uncertainty propagation, and rate reasoning. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128557 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: I built a free collection of browser-based 3D toolshttps://3dvalley.com

I built 3DValley, a collection of free tools for generating and editing 3D models. You can turn images into 3D models using AI, retexture existing models, remesh geometry, and use other 3D utilities. Some tools run entirely in your browser, while the more computationally expensive AI models run on shared GPUs with free daily credits. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128507 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Dubois v Wardley 2 - heavyweight title fight predictionshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/articles/cwz0vdmyvrx8o

Figures from the boxing world give their predictions for Saturday's heavyweight world title rematch between Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois.

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AI fears are being weaponisedhttps://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/10/17/ai-fears-are-being-weaponised

Tech giants are fighting to protect their monopolies from cheap open-source models. Fear is their weapon.

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Why Math Dumped OpenAIhttps://raymyers.org/post/math-dumped-openai

Article URL: https://raymyers.org/post/math-dumped-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128468 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

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Hackers Use Compromised ConnectWise Credential to Sign In to 173 Microsoft 365 Tenantshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/hackers-use-compromised-connectwise.html

Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to gain unauthorized access to customers' M365 environments. ConnectWise Cloud Backup is a cloud-based backup and recovery service built for managed service providers (MSPs

Show HN: Cwist; a hobby-grade C17 web framework that keeps your app simplehttps://github.com/c4punks/cwist

First of all, I'm not claiming that my framework will save industrial C/C++ development. It's just a hobby project. Industrial code needs safer code, not easier code. But when you're developing a blog at 8 PM, long template errors are annoying. You need CRUD and RDBMS. It's simple. CWIST is for that kind of work. It sacrifices memory safety, smart pointers, and modern C++ abstractions. In return, compile errors are more predictable. #include #include #include #include static cwist_db_pool_t g_db_pool; static void send_error(cwist_http_response res, const char *msg) { res->status_code = CWIS…

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Palantir patient data tech rejected by many NHS trusts in Englandhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/17/palantir-patient-data-tech-rejected-by-many-nhs-trusts-in-england

Exclusive: health bodies across country say controversial US firm’s data platform no better than systems already in use NHS organisations that care for millions of people in England are rejecting Palantir’s patient data technology, according to freedom of information responses that reveal health bosses believe they can find better or equal alternatives in many cases. Some health bodies said the Β£330m federated data platform (FDP) operated by the controversial US company had made it easier to manage waiting lists and has improved surgery scheduling. But, from Gateshead to Truro, others sa…

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Which coffee chain was founded in London in 1971? The Saturday quizhttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/oct/17/which-coffee-chain-was-founded-in-london-in-1971-the-saturday-quiz

From Divine, Frank Fiegel and Helen Kane to the West Sussex estate pioneering rewilding, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz 1 Which classic of political theory was dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici? 2 What is the only jazz act to win the Mercury Music prize? 3 Spanish is an official language of which African country? 4 What 2026 release is said to be the most expensive entertainment product ever created? 5 Which West Sussex estate is a pioneer of rewilding? 6 Which gas is named from the Greek for β€œlazy”? 7 US doctor Sara Cohen writes bestsellers under what pseudonym? 8 Which coffee c…

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Matos on tactics, Klopp's influence, and taking Swans to top of the leaguehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/crp3gq832gqxo

Swansea boss Vitor Matos spent five years as an elite development coach at Liverpool, but it would be unfair to paint him with a Jurgen Klopp-shaped brush entirely.

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England's 41-match unbeaten run ended by Canadahttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cknv0m61l9e4o

England's 41-match unbeaten streak ends in dramatic fashion as Shoshanah Seumanutafa's late try hands Canada a thrilling 24-21 victory in Toronto.

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Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bankhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/israeli-settlers-attack-olive-farmers-west-bank-washington-post-journalist-heidi-levine

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/israeli-settlers-attack-olive-farmers-west-bank-washington-post-journalist-heidi-levine Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128297 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

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Pope's health should not be taken 'for granted', says top Vatican diplomathttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6kg53zrexdeo

Archbishop Paul Gallagher tells the BBC there was no sign of the Pope's ill health prior to his operation this week.

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Show HN: Crowned – A live king-of-the-hill billboard for projectshttps://www.crowned.wtf

Article URL: https://www.crowned.wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128084 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardwarehttps://llmspeed.dev

Article URL: https://llmspeed.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127979 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardwarehttps://llmspeed.dev

Article URL: https://llmspeed.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127979 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: 100kb-SDK – Client-side WASM image and PDF optimizer to cut S3 billshttps://www.100kb.in/en/developer

Article URL: https://www.100kb.in/en/developer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127939 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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