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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

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
• (01:35) - Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
• (02:40) - Gemini 4 Carbon
• (03:45) - MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
• (04:47) - StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
• (05:48) - Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
• (07:07) - The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
• (08:24) - CNC Stone Carving
• (09:18) - Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
• (10:24) - A Health Update
• (11:26) - Outro

Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271640

Gemini 4 Carbon
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276792

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/proled-xdr-display/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276940

StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph?t=1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282454

Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282838

The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243060

CNC Stone Carving
https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274409

Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
https://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255

A Health Update
https://furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280974

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Ghostty 1.4
• (01:33) - US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
• (02:36) - Genie 4
• (03:52) - Python's experimental JIT to be removed
• (04:53) - Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
• (06:04) - New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
• (07:07) - New iMac with M6
• (07:59) - Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
• (08:57) - Git for the US Code
• (10:00) - Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest
• (10:52) - Outro

US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-on-americans/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259604

Genie 4
https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261319

Python's experimental JIT to be removed
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257419

Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
https://www.brangus.io/survival-llm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264853

New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261352

New iMac with M6
https://www.apple.com/imac/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258538

Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
https://tailscale.com/ssh-investigation-update
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264857

Git for the US Code
https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268380

Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner-of-nikons-small-world-photomicrography-contest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234796

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Anthropic S-1
• (01:38) - Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
• (02:47) - Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
• (03:51) - The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
• (04:54) - CSS-Tricks has a new owner
• (05:57) - Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
• (07:01) - Websites Should Be Printable
• (07:59) - Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
• (08:58) - Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)
• (09:47) - Type Server Protocol
• (10:44) - Outro

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251344

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245138

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026/paper.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251661

CSS-Tricks has a new owner
https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245831

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248055

Websites Should Be Printable
https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241664

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245385

Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)
https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200152

Type Server Protocol
https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248371

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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 abandoned tabs
• (06:50) - IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
• (07:56) - Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
• (08:43) - Why I Am a Programmer
• (09:35) - Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
• (10:37) - Outro

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
https://imaginationlibrary.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234474

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233929

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234232

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236102

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197108

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistibly-good-and-cheap-on-prem/5304640
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238088

Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
https://titleart.dvy.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238708

Why I Am a Programmer
https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235017

Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/amazons-digital-pacifier-for-toddlers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185534

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
• (01:16) - Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
• (02:15) - We should be more ambitious with the software we build
• (03:32) - The Goose Programming Language
• (04:43) - America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
• (05:55) - Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps
• (07:10) - I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
• (08:17) - Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
• (09:16) - FreeDNS
• (10:05) - Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
• (11:03) - Outro

Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
https://stealmybitcoin.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916

We should be more ambitious with the software we build
https://danluu.com/ambitious/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225695

The Goose Programming Language
https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224100

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226419

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219177

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219666

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186450

FreeDNS
https://freedns.afraid.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222133

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222622