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70 titles from 67 authors in the last 30 days, with 67 distinct links and 5 Show HN.

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• Show HN: GhostBench – do AI models recommend dead SaaS? I tested my own thesis · score 7.3

  GhostBench/kyv-attest defines a signed, machine-verifiable attestation convention for vendor aliveness and operational facts, anchored in a transparency log, to help AI agents determine whether a SaaS vendor is still real. The accompanying benchmark shows that dead SaaS domains often return HTTP 200 and that small models misjudge vendor viability, motivating signed continuity as a stronger signal. It is interesting because it targets a real gap in agent infrastructure—vendor trust and liveness—rather than another API wrapper.

• Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs · score 6.0

  Death Plan Switch is a self-hosted dead man's switch that periodically emails the owner; if they don't respond, it notifies next of kin, then other contacts, ensuring business continuity for solo developers. It addresses a real gap for one-person operations where critical information would otherwise be lost.

• Show HN: Dead APIs – a graveyard for the integrations that left us · score 3.7

  Dead APIs is a whimsical web project that serves as a 'graveyard' for discontinued APIs and integrations, letting users browse famous dead APIs, light virtual candles, and bury their own problematic integrations. It's an interesting community-driven memorial concept that could resonate with developers who have suffered from on-call incidents caused by deprecated services.

Recent titles

1. Rejoice, leap seconds are dead
   2026-10-31 · jeffgeerling.com · HN discussion
2. Show HN: No moat – Software is dead. Nobody told these companies
   2026-10-31 · nomoat.app · HN discussion
3. Patrick Stewart Is Dead
   2026-10-30 · facebook.com · HN discussion
4. Unshittify: A log of owners reclaiming hardware from dead clouds and lock-in
   2026-10-29 · unshittify.dev · HN discussion
5. Patrick Stewart Dead: Star Trek and X-Men Actor Was 86
   2026-10-29 · variety.com · HN discussion
6. Dead Star Offers a Glimpse into Our Solar System's Future
   2026-10-29 · nautil.us · HN discussion
7. I'm building my toddler a game wall, and Google's dead Stadia controller runs it
   2026-10-29 · xydac.com · HN discussion
8. Show HN: Dead APIs – a graveyard for the integrations that left us
   2026-10-29 · deadapis.dev · HN discussion
9. Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead
   2026-10-29 · theregister.com · HN discussion
10. Spain train crash: What we know after two trains crashed with dozens feared dead
    2026-10-29 · bbc.com · HN discussion
11. Precedence levels are dead; long live precedence sets
    2026-10-28 · corsix.org · HN discussion
12. Adobe isn't dead yet. That's not the point
    2026-10-28 · medium.com · HN discussion
13. One dead LED killed a working TV
    2026-10-28 · train-it.eu · HN discussion
14. Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision
    2026-10-28 · thetimes.com · HN discussion
15. iCloudKit Extractor: seven months from an ADP dead end to a public toolkit
    2026-10-27 · github.com · HN discussion
16. Attack of the Dead Men
    2026-10-26 · en.wikipedia.org · HN discussion
17. Moatless – App stores are dead. Buy the code
    2026-10-26 · moatless.store · HN discussion
18. PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025)
    2026-10-24 · hallofdreams.org · HN discussion
19. Open Source Is Dead and I Killed It
    2026-10-23 · espresso.ai · HN discussion
20. Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home
    2026-10-23 · nbcnews.com · HN discussion
21. Man as Man: A Promise to the Dead
    2026-10-22 · manasman.tiiny.site · HN discussion
22. MCP Is Dead
    2026-10-22 · mcpskull.com · HN discussion
23. Ford to City: Drop Dead
    2026-10-21 · en.wikipedia.org · HN discussion
24. Security Through Obscurity Is Dead and LLMs Killed It – Brendan Dolan Gavitt [video]
    2026-10-21 · youtube.com · HN discussion
25. Deleting 19k Lines of Dead Compiler Code Without Trusting the LLM
    2026-10-21 · thecloudlet.github.io · HN discussion
26. SaaS Is Dead
    2026-10-21 · saasisdead.si · HN discussion
27. Ask HN: Most recent post [dead] in seconds
    2026-10-20 · HN discussion
28. Zombiecost – find the AWS resources that should be dead but still bill you
    2026-10-20 · github.com · HN discussion
29. Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs
    2026-10-20 · deathplanswitch.com · HN discussion
30. Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus
    2026-10-19 · openrouter.ai · HN discussion

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