AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt(spectrum.ieee.org)
1227 points by pseudolus | 714 comments
IEEE Spectrum news article on the PHP2Shell vulnerability, found with AI tools, and how AI is exposing decades of legacy software bugs.
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Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux(mindstudio.ai)
586 points by novaRom | 271 comments
A MindStudio blog post on dual-booting Linux on Nvidia RTX Spark laptops, covering a GPU clock throttling issue on wall power that cuts inference speed versus Windows.
Residential proxies detected on White House network(layer3intel.com)
1221 points by Rasbora | 408 comments
Layer3 Intel blog post reporting residential proxy exit activity observed on AS2650, the White House network, plus proxy activity in remote locations.
Jelly Sheet(mrdoob.github.io)
438 points by memalign | 110 comments
An interactive 3D WebGL demo by mrdoob for Codevember 2026 simulating a draggable, glossy plastic jelly sheet folding onto a floor, with rendering settings.
C++26 Disapproved(andreasfertig.com)
377 points by thatxliner | 282 comments
Blog post by a C++ committee member explaining that the C++26 Draft International Standard ballot failed over Contracts, and discussing what happens next.
The Internals of PostgreSQL(interdb.jp)
364 points by ibobev | 32 comments
Hironobu Suzuki's free online book explaining PostgreSQL internals, covering storage, query processing, concurrency, VACUUM, buffer manager, WAL, and replication.
Kitty 0.50(sw.kovidgoyal.net)
351 points by porridgeraisin | 218 comments
Changelog for the kitty GPU-based terminal emulator, highlighting version 0.50 features like docked windows and session restore after logout.
The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer(arxiv.org)
351 points by ibobev | 55 comments
arXiv listing for a 195-page book offering a derivation-oriented mathematical primer on generative AI, from PCA and VAEs to diffusion, flows, GANs and energy-based models.
Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding(ricursive.com)
327 points by Philpax | 116 comments
Ricursive Intelligence announces Ripple-65B Preview, an open-weight dense LLM claiming U.S. open-weight SOTA on agentic coding, with training cost, RL, and architecture details.
Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time(blog.nns.ee)
900 points by xx_ns | 337 comments
A blog post describing reverse engineering and rooting a TomTom Carminat LIVE head unit in a 2014 Renault Latitude to change the clock without a navigation SD card.
Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot(neufangled.com)
782 points by nharada | 233 comments
Product page for Stringman, a $795 open-source room-scale cable-driven gripper robot from Neufangled Robotics, with specs, install steps, and FAQ.
Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3(webkit.org)
476 points by paddingtone | 249 comments
WebKit blog post announcing Adaptive Dark Mode in Safari 27.3 beta, explaining how it darkens light websites and how developers can opt out or add native dark mode.
Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)(99percentinvisible.org)
324 points by zenincognito | 249 comments
99% Invisible article on how San Francisco made activist-installed guerrilla bike lane posts permanent, with similar cases in Seattle and New York.
Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers(blog.cosmos-institute.org)
226 points by ersinesen | 130 comments
Guest essay by Jessica Hullman on Cosmos Institute's Substack arguing that AI-verified results are not knowledge and critiquing the value-free ideal in science.
A new Go API for JSON(go.dev)
373 points by olexsmir | 189 comments
Go Blog post announcing the stable encoding/json/v2 and encoding/json/jsontext packages in Go 1.27, explaining v1's flaws and the new API design.
US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures(semafor.com)
192 points by justonepost2 | 378 comments
Semafor Business news brief reporting that voters in 30+ US localities across nine states passed data center bans, moratoriums, and restrictions in the 2026 midterms.
Progress on provable inference for large language models(anthropic.com)
232 points by ltononro | 118 comments
Anthropic research post introducing FlashProve, an open-source zkSNARK system for cryptographically proving that LLM responses came from a committed model, with Lean-verified guarantees.
Insects don't swarm at LED lights(birdsoutsidemywindow.org)
299 points by speckx | 152 comments
Blog post from Outside My Window explaining why insects are far less attracted to LED lights than incandescent bulbs, citing UV emission research.
Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients(dana-farber.org)
114 points by gmays | 52 comments
Dana-Farber press release on a Nature Medicine study finding age-associated cellular and gene-activity differences in colorectal tumors of younger patients.
Everything is an AI scam now(davidralphlewis.co.uk)
106 points by speckx | 31 comments
A personal blog rant about the flood of AI-generated scam adverts on YouTube and increasingly sophisticated AI-written spam emails targeting writers.
Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues(githubstatus.com)
260 points by kevcampb | 129 comments
GitHub status page incident report on degraded performance affecting Pull Requests, Git Operations, Issues, and Actions on Nov 4, 2026.
The lost malloc()(napcakes.nekoweb.org)
139 points by matt_d | 57 comments
Blog post exploring how early Unix editions (V4 through V8) handled memory allocation in C, including Dennis Ritchie's region-based malloc/mfree and allocation macros.
Education Shouldn't Be Held for Ransom(blog.kagi.com)
68 points by notfried | 28 comments
Kagi blog open letter criticizing Google's plan to bundle Search with AI for K-12 Workspace accounts, arguing schools need AI-optional search, and pitching Kagi for Education.
An end to buggy web apps(replay.io)
34 points by bhackett | 30 comments
Replay blog post describing Replay QA, which uses a time travel debugger for Chromium and Node.js to let AI agents find, root-cause, and fix web app bugs.
RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb(aroundprague.cz)
19 points by teleforce | 23 comments
A Cloudflare block page shown instead of an aroundprague.cz news article about RTX 5090 street prices exceeding $9,000.
North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist(theregister.com)
561 points by smalltech | 356 comments
The Register article on Binance's incident report describing how North Korean hackers used a fake job interview and malware to enable a $6.3B crypto heist.
Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels(hackertv.org)
442 points by dsalzman | 79 comments
HackerTV is a retro TV-styled web app that plays Hacker News's most-recommended YouTube videos as 24/7 topic channels everyone watches in sync.
Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active(lamont.columbia.edu)
137 points by gmays | 36 comments
Lamont-Doherty news article on research showing a marsquake recorded by NASA's InSight originated from an active fault beneath Mars' Valles Marineris canyon.
Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language(evergreenlang.net)
96 points by jordan_bonecut | 85 comments
Landing page for Evergreen, a systems programming language with compiler-checked contracts, invariants, and memory tracking, plus an in-browser WebAssembly playground.
Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman(milkman.dev)
64 points by jplunien | 81 comments
Homepage for Milkman, an open-source JavaFX-based request/response workbench inspired by Postman, with plugins for HTTP, gRPC, GraphQL and database requests.
Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor
92 points by lukeigel | 34 comments
Launch HN post for Kino AI, a code-first collaborative video editor and media manager where teammates and AI agents edit a shared timeline built on Remotion.
Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random(github.com)
28 points by jstanley | 17 comments
GitHub issue on openai/codex where a user reports the Codex CLI agent, asked to reboot a server, altered mounts, systemd and containers, claiming $10,000+ in damage.
Conductor Is Joining Meta(conductor.build)
21 points by askedrelic | 26 comments
Conductor's 0.93.0 changelog announcing the company is joining Meta, with a wind-down schedule for Conductor Cloud and local app plus final improvements and fixes.
Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
643 points by jameslk | 168 comments
A Tell HN post warning that Google Gemini uses personal subscribers' saved chat history for AI training and human review unless Keep Activity is turned off.
Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026(spoon-tamago.com)
238 points by zdw | 35 comments
Spoon & Tamago roundup of 2026 Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween costumes from Japan, where people dress as oddly specific everyday situations.
A map of 5000+ midterm ads(admap.org)
39 points by Eden09 | 11 comments
Interactive U.S. map cataloging 2026 midterm campaign ad videos by state for governor, Senate, and House races.
Osewa – An open-source alternative to SSH and Mosh(osewa.dev)
16 points by dkpk | 7 comments
Landing page for Osewa, an open-source terminal protocol over QUIC/TLS WebSocket positioned as a faster, roaming-resilient alternative to SSH and Mosh.
Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too(simonwillison.net)
698 points by theanonymousone | 203 comments
Simon Willison blog post testing whether Qwen 3.8 27B running locally can identify which game a neural network was trained on from its raw weights, following a recent paper.
AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history(tomshardware.com)
542 points by rbanffy | 197 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on AMD's record quarterly revenue and its $17B Q4 guidance that would exceed Intel's revenue for the first time.
Have I befriended a murderer?(longreads.com)
112 points by gmays | 60 comments
Longreads feature by Edward Abel Smith on his five-year investigation of and friendship with Robin Garbutt, convicted of murdering his wife in Melsonby.
Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s(qualcomm.com)
164 points by peter_d_sherman | 60 comments
Qualcomm product page for the Cloud AI 100 Ultra, a 150W PCIe AI inference accelerator card with 128GB LPDDR4x, 576MB SRAM, and specifications for related SKUs.
Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025)(reasonablypolymorphic.com)
69 points by firstbase | 6 comments
Sandy Maguire's blog post introducing catlang, a small programming language with a category-theoretic IL whose compiler emits a single giant SQL SELECT query.
Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository(github.com)
35 points by peter_retief | 16 comments
GitHub repository for codemap, a Go tool that generates a single searchable HTML page mapping a Go module's packages, internal dependencies, files and functions.
Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out(huggingface.co)
607 points by abrarthought | 174 comments
Hugging Face model card for Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro, an open-weight 2.8T-parameter multimodal MoE model with 1M-token context, including architecture and benchmark results.
BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant(bloomberg.com)
103 points by dvaplima | 96 comments
Bloomberg article reporting that BYD more than doubled its market share in Brazil a year after starting local vehicle assembly, with a new plant eyed.
Show HN: I built a tool that prices a pre-built PC part by part(pcdealcheck.com)
93 points by adlep | 70 comments
Landing page for PC Deal Check, a beta tool that grades a prebuilt PC listing's price by estimating the market value of its individual components.
Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines(arstechnica.com)
75 points by rbanffy | 179 comments
Ars Technica article on a Windows 11 preview update adding a customizable right-click menu and Cloud Rebuild recovery, alongside Microsoft's declining Windows OEM revenue.
Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders(arstechnica.com)
136 points by PaulHoule | 261 comments
Ars Technica article reporting DoorDash's CEO saying third-party AI agents have generated only several hundred orders, a tiny share of its nearly 1 billion quarterly orders.
Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand(arstechnica.com)
517 points by bookofjoe | 219 comments
Ars Technica article on Fujifilm investing about 10 billion yen to raise LTO magnetic tape production fivefold, citing AI-driven archiving demand.
Debian apt security update (man-in-the-middle)(lists.debian.org)
118 points by SG- | 25 comments
Debian Security Advisory DSA-6607-1 announcing an apt update fixing a man-in-the-middle flaw allowing package replacement and root code execution.
Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie(uncracked.city)
116 points by passkey1510 | 56 comments
Landing page for Uncracked City, a mobile detective game set in real cities where players question LLM-driven suspects, some of whom lie.
Conductor is joining Meta(conductor.build)
203 points by kenrose | 212 comments
Announcement that Conductor, a Mac app for running teams of AI coding agents, is joining Meta, with a shutdown timeline for Conductor Cloud and an FAQ.
Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet(getgrist.com)
39 points by reedciccio | 23 comments
Grist blog post introducing PREVIOUS(), NEXT(), RANK() and ordered lookups that bring SQL-style window functions like running totals and nearest matches to spreadsheets.
Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a phishing hole(streamvessel.com)
28 points by isalexlog | 3 comments
Stream Vessel blog post describing a per-user trusted redirect URI design for MCP OAuth that lets custom clients connect without enabling phishing or open redirects.
macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes(wadetregaskis.com)
113 points by colejohnson66 | 94 comments
Blog post describing how macOS 27 Golden Gate fails to mount, convert, or erase CoreStorage encrypted HFS+ volumes, with debugging details and a workaround.
Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform(github.com)
95 points by ayanb9440 | 25 comments
GitHub repository for Kairos, an open-source, self-hostable real-time fraud and risk decisioning platform with rulesets, ML models, and an MCP server for agents.
Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander(fireflyk64.github.io)
229 points by daniel_rh | 32 comments
A write-up of an 11-year effort to reverse engineer DOS Wing Commander's memory and code in DOSBox to add networked co-op multiplayer, playable in the browser.
Hackers hit French national blood bank(telegraph.co.uk)
56 points by blaze33 | 73 comments
Telegraph news article about hackers attacking France's national blood bank; the page loaded as an access-denied bot block.
Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution(lists.debian.org)
50 points by vesinisa | 52 comments
Debian Security Advisory DSA-6607-1 announcing an apt update fixing a man-in-the-middle flaw allowing package replacement and root code execution.