HN Buddy - October 28, 2026

Hey buddy, how's it going? Just wanted to hit you up real quick about some of the wild stuff on Hacker News today, October 28th.

ICE Spying Operation

First off, there's this big Wired article talking about ICE apparently running a massive spying operation on left-wing groups. Like, one of the biggest anti-left surveillance ops in US history. People in the comments are going nuts, super political, a lot of back and forth about free speech and what's okay for government agencies to do. Wild. (All Stories from Today

Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements (www.wired.com)

1127 points by zzzeek | 929 comments

Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates (emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com)

1110 points by galadran | 392 comments

Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons? (nullpt.rs)

1105 points by hazebooth | 220 comments

Gemini 4 Carbon (blog.google)

901 points by acossta | 737 comments

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch (www.apple.com)

562 points by etothet | 952 comments

Emacs Turns 50 (www.technologyreview.com)

481 points by internet_points | 204 comments

CNC Stone Carving (carmelitegothic.com)

457 points by bschne | 127 comments

Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI (religionnews.com)

456 points by danso | 500 comments

Git for the US Code (lexifina.com)

437 points by alansaber | 262 comments

StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month (data.stackexchange.com)

353 points by babelfish | 298 comments

Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale (dreamagainusa.org)

333 points by haraball | 414 comments

Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents (www.wired.com)

315 points by Aboutplants | 174 comments

Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign (paulfwalsh.substack.com)

266 points by slowin | 72 comments

US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar (www.reuters.com)

229 points by noptd | 104 comments

Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments (surgehq.ai)

226 points by landonxi | 147 comments

A Health Update (furbo.org)

221 points by frizlab | 35 comments

AlpineBSD (wiki.alpinebsd.org)

206 points by bradley_taunt | 192 comments

Archive.today links going forward (www.reddit.com)

203 points by consumer451 | 143 comments

Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain (www.euronews.com)

191 points by evilmonkey19 | 233 comments

Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer (formlabs.com)

171 points by mhb | 109 comments

About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs (support.apple.com)

162 points by birdculture | 77 comments

GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229 (alpinelinux.org)

162 points by sashk | 71 comments

Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections (arstechnica.com)

149 points by jacquesm | 69 comments

The Agent SDK (cursor.com)

122 points by torutofu | 118 comments

Leak website releases data on DHS employees (www.reuters.com)

120 points by wondersky | 30 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages (huggingface.co)

119 points by wondersky | 20 comments

The case of the 9 bit AES key (v12.sh)

108 points by ledoge | 55 comments

Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision (www.thetimes.com)

95 points by ultral | 117 comments

Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880 (electrek.co)

93 points by metadat | 107 comments

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 (artificialanalysis.ai)

92 points by hn-aarvin | 82 comments