10.26.26 | CNN beats frontier LLMs, Dolly Parton Imagination Library, Censored Internet at FOSDEM 27

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 26, 2026 · 10m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 26, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

(01:27) - Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

(02:23) - I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

(03:38) - Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

(04:43) - OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

(05:58) - Overgrown, when plants invade your…