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2026-11-06 06:30:10 GMT

Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue
Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-cuban-says-facebook-knowingly-213000020.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50385870

2026-11-06 04:25:10 GMT

The Hackintosh Reborn
Link: https://www.naut.ca/blog/2026/11/05/the-hackintosh-reborn-with-ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383057

2026-11-06 02:10:10 GMT

MCP Explained
Link: https://mcp-explained.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379249

2026-11-06 01:50:11 GMT

Window Sweaters
Link: https://github.com/saragordic/window-sweaters
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381383

2026-11-06 00:10:14 GMT

MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Link: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-83844
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50384233

2026-11-05 23:55:10 GMT

Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Link: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/107757
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50385272

2026-11-05 23:40:11 GMT

Download your favourite YouTube videos
Link: https://criminallyvulgar.dev/you-should-absolutely-download-your-favourite-youtube-videos/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378571

2026-11-05 22:35:11 GMT

I wish tech companies knew more about me
Link: https://rakhim.exotext.com/i-wish-tech-companies-knew-more-about-me
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378942

2026-11-05 22:30:11 GMT

Kagi Search for Everyone
Link: https://kagi.com/changelog
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383740

2026-11-05 22:20:12 GMT

Goodbye from Salon
Link: https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383739

2026-11-05 22:15:11 GMT

GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research
Link: https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/covert-underperformance-on-safety-research-tasks/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50376313

2026-11-05 19:55:11 GMT

Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
Link: https://motorolanews.com/motorola-signature-27-2/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50380810

2026-11-05 19:00:11 GMT

Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
Link: https://www.theverge.com/news/1027379/discord-ditching-electron-web-app
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378625

2026-11-05 17:35:12 GMT

Alpine Linux Security Advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass
Link: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2026-11-05-openssh-password-authentication-bypass/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379704

2026-11-05 13:20:09 GMT

Sshole
Link: https://sshhole.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378228

2026-11-05 12:50:12 GMT

Lemmings CSS Animation
Link: https://markblah.github.io/lemmings/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50375354

2026-11-05 12:05:10 GMT

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
Link: https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-pierre/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366863

2026-11-05 11:00:15 GMT

Tencent Hy4
Link: https://hy.tencent.ai/research/hy4
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50365780

2026-11-05 09:20:11 GMT

Insects don't swarm at LED lights
Link: https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2026/11/03/insects-dont-swarm-at-led-lights/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50370610

2026-11-05 08:10:12 GMT

Images 2.6
Link: https://openai.com/index/introducing-images-2-6/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50372945

2026-11-05 06:30:12 GMT

Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366117

2026-11-05 06:15:10 GMT

A thousand fewer paths to root
Link: https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50372929

2026-11-05 04:30:10 GMT

Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
Link: https://www.ricursive.com/ripple
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369925

2026-11-05 03:30:12 GMT

A new Go API for JSON
Link: https://go.dev/blog/jsonv2
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369106

2026-11-05 01:10:12 GMT

Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)
Link: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastructure-permanent/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366522

2026-11-04 23:10:12 GMT

Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
Link: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smtdswd1h2w4
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363378

2026-11-04 22:05:10 GMT

Residential proxies detected on White House network
Link: https://layer3intel.com/blog/residential-proxies-white-house-network
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50371246

2026-11-04 20:45:11 GMT

Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out
Link: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366999

2026-11-04 18:55:10 GMT

AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-expects-to-outsell-intel-in-q4-for-the-first-time-in-history-usd17b-guidance-would-exceed-intels-projections
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50367125

2026-11-04 16:45:11 GMT

North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
Link: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/03/north-korean-fake-job-interview-led-to-63b-binance-heist/5307398
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50365755

2026-11-04 16:00:14 GMT

Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/03/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-better-off-without-ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363554

2026-11-04 14:45:10 GMT

Kitty 0.50
Link: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50362980

2026-11-04 14:25:12 GMT

Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363461

2026-11-04 14:15:15 GMT

Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
Link: https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/linux-nvidia-rtx-spark-laptop
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50362905

2026-11-04 13:55:12 GMT

AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50364336

2026-11-04 10:25:11 GMT

Jelly Sheet
Link: https://mrdoob.github.io/codevember-2026/01/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50361268

2026-11-04 08:05:10 GMT

The Internals of PostgreSQL
Link: https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358702

2026-11-04 07:55:11 GMT

C++26 Disapproved
Link: https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/11/cpp26-dis-failed-how-does-cpp-survive/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360164

2026-11-04 05:10:11 GMT

Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels
Link: https://hackertv.org
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346755

2026-11-04 02:45:11 GMT

The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29713
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358582

2026-11-04 02:10:10 GMT

US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months
Link: https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/artificial-intelligence/us-tech-giants-hidden-ai-debt-swells-90-to-3.2tn-in-6-months
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358422

2026-11-04 00:40:13 GMT

Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
Link: https://webkit.org/blog/18541/introducing-adaptive-dark-mode/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358562

2026-11-03 22:20:10 GMT

Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
Link: https://neufangled.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354358

2026-11-03 21:00:10 GMT

Mac at Any Scale
Link: https://namespace.so/blog/mac-at-any-scale
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50352758

2026-11-03 19:50:12 GMT

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355251

2026-11-03 19:25:10 GMT

Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/trump-admin-sues-utah-to-save-kalshi-from-the-states-total-ban-on-gambling/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353229

2026-11-03 19:10:10 GMT

OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50352757

2026-11-03 19:00:13 GMT

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archiving-demand/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336918

2026-11-03 18:25:12 GMT

Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
Link: https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354960

2026-11-03 18:20:14 GMT

Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/google-search-schools-restrict-ai.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353192

2026-11-03 17:55:14 GMT

Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
Link: https://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339288

2026-11-03 16:50:12 GMT

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?
Link: https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026/algorithmic-improvements-chess.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50349276

2026-11-03 14:50:10 GMT

Resisting Cognitive Surrender
Link: https://knlb.dev/essays/surrender
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323123

2026-11-03 14:10:11 GMT

The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading
Link: https://honnibal.dev/blog/astra-read-write-misleading
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50351111

2026-11-03 12:40:11 GMT

Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You
Link: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/11/self-employed-solopreneur-nist-has-cybersecurity-guide-just-you
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340619

2026-11-03 11:50:11 GMT

DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs
Link: https://github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat/DiscImageStudio
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346849

2026-11-03 09:30:10 GMT

Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News
Link: https://hackertimes.ca/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346981

2026-11-03 07:20:19 GMT

Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre
Link: https://p.migdal.pl/warsaw-vibe-voxel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339221

2026-11-03 04:15:10 GMT

The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public
Link: https://www.techpolicy.press/the-sec-should-block-anthropics-ipo-to-protect-the-public/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344919

2026-11-02 23:45:11 GMT

US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Link: https://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-names
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339397

2026-11-02 23:35:11 GMT

Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks
Link: https://freenode.net/article/ubuntu-lts-kernels-still-unfixed-for-critical-cve-2026-98432
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341462

2026-11-02 22:00:11 GMT

Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay
Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-internal-ai-use-exceeds-employee-pay-tokens-2026-11
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339494

2026-11-02 20:45:12 GMT

If you love a website, back it up
Link: https://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336518

2026-11-02 19:25:11 GMT

Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
Link: https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341174

2026-11-02 19:20:11 GMT

Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Link: https://subvocal.company/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340088

2026-11-02 18:25:12 GMT

Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/02/supermarket-freezers-across-europe-hit-by-second-suspected-cyber-attack
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50335615

2026-11-02 16:50:11 GMT

Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-may-release-proteins-slow-aging-and-extend-life-span
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331957

2026-11-02 15:35:12 GMT

WTF Ubuntu?
Link: https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337608

2026-11-02 12:30:11 GMT

Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN
Link: https://wikihack.netlify.app
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50333339

2026-11-02 10:45:12 GMT

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust
Link: https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325253

2026-11-02 09:20:13 GMT

OccupySaaS
Link: https://occupysaas.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331402

2026-11-02 06:25:12 GMT

Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now
Link: http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312408

2026-11-02 06:15:12 GMT

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328896

2026-11-02 04:20:14 GMT

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
Link: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328251

2026-11-01 20:50:12 GMT

Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
Link: https://www.vox.com/politics/508526/patrick-stewart-jean-luc-picard-star-trek-liberalism
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50327650

2026-11-01 20:35:12 GMT

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

2026-11-01 19:40:11 GMT

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_just/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326099

2026-11-01 18:20:10 GMT

Police chief unplugs Flock cameras after company ignores contract cancellation
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/police-chief-physically-unplugs-flock-cameras-after-the-company-ignores-contract-cancellation-city-takes-matters-into-its-own-hands-amid-privacy-controversies
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326118

2026-11-01 18:05:11 GMT

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN
Link: https://hackerbooks.org
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326821

2026-11-01 17:45:11 GMT

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

2026-11-01 12:50:14 GMT

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

2026-11-01 11:05:11 GMT

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

2026-11-01 10:00:11 GMT

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors
Link: https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261253

2026-11-01 08:20:12 GMT

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

2026-11-01 04:50:10 GMT

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

2026-11-01 04:05:12 GMT

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models
Link: https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319358

2026-10-31 23:25:11 GMT

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

2026-10-31 21:50:12 GMT

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Link: https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510

2026-10-31 19:25:12 GMT

Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable
Link: https://piefed.world/post/1503394
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314666

2026-10-31 19:15:12 GMT

Digital minimalism
Link: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313661

2026-10-31 18:35:12 GMT

We Took over ChatGPT Accounts
Link: https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314699

2026-10-31 16:00:12 GMT

Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
Link: https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-rewrite-legacy-code-entry-level-jobs/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304122

2026-10-31 13:35:10 GMT

Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)
Link: https://github.com/chris124567/cfsolve
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277379

2026-10-31 12:30:12 GMT

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

2026-10-31 12:30:12 GMT

Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314654

2026-10-31 09:55:12 GMT

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

2026-10-31 08:00:12 GMT

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

2026-10-31 07:20:11 GMT

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

2026-10-31 04:45:12 GMT

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

2026-10-31 04:05:11 GMT

Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man
Link: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/29/metro/patrick-stewart-picard-star-trek-the-next-generation/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309647