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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
• (01:27) - TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
• (02:44) - An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them
• (03:49) - Norway makes shithouses great again
• (04:35) - Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
• (05:55) - Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
• (07:11) - It's the memory latency, stupid
• (08:28) - Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
• (09:35) - The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
• (10:45) - Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half
• (11:46) - Outro

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319143

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320963

Norway makes shithouses great again
https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/norwegian-scenic-routes/worlds-best-toilets/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324388

Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320995

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316100

It's the memory latency, stupid
https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318720

Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322173

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323088

Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half
https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in-half/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319110

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
• (01:28) - The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
• (02:42) - Northflank Breached
• (03:40) - My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
• (04:43) - Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises
• (05:46) - The federated code forge
• (06:54) - Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX
• (07:57) - Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots
• (09:03) - Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
• (10:11) - Tell HN: Scribd Breached
• (11:01) - Outro

The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303172

Northflank Breached
https://status.northflank.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305025

My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307190

Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises
https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301854

The federated code forge
https://tangled.org/blog/forge/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305573

Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX
https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305637

Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots
https://www.techpolicy.press/breaking-the-open-web-wont-stop-the-bad-bots/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263837

Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306442

Tell HN: Scribd Breached
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:15) - Patrick Stewart has died
• (01:08) - We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
• (02:21) - Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
• (03:29) - LLM Voice
• (04:29) - H.264 Is Magic (2016)
• (05:39) - We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
• (06:45) - If IPv4 were land
• (07:44) - Herdr has released native app
• (08:42) - A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W
• (09:49) - What we know so far about Spain train crash
• (11:00) - Outro

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418

Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296470

LLM Voice
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290177

H.264 Is Magic (2016)
https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291054

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296486

If IPv4 were land
https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287775

Herdr has released native app
https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298436

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W
https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295450

What we know so far about Spain train crash
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286197