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Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

2026-10-24T01:15:14Z

550 points by privacyishuman | 198 comments

Article: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117492375462459244
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50217495
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217495

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

2026-10-23T19:09:54Z

459 points by dsr12 | 180 comments

Article: https://block.xyz/dessa
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50213925
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213925

Root shell on Samsung TV

2026-10-24T05:49:57Z

441 points by testing22321 | 175 comments

Article: https://twitter.com/log4j/status/2113014142600953868?s=46
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50218633
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218633

OBS Studio 33

2026-10-24T04:49:58Z

378 points by pentagrama | 130 comments

Article: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/33.0.0
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50218430
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218430

Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads

2026-10-23T19:34:15Z

369 points by JustSkyfall | 189 comments

Article: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1017600/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-policy-ads-update
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214218
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214218

Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

2026-10-24T13:09:28Z

345 points by sblank | 373 comments

Article: https://steveblank.com/2026/10/24/europe-gets-a-wake-up-call/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50220913
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220913

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

2026-10-24T01:16:58Z

329 points by otoolep | 49 comments

Article: https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50217500
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217500

Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center

2026-10-24T14:38:34Z

236 points by rustybolt | 182 comments

Article: https://nypost.com/2026/10/24/business/google-illegally-tore-down-250k-trees-for-finland-data-center-infuriating-locals-report/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50221676
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50221676

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

2026-10-24T03:43:54Z

216 points by stmonty | 61 comments

Article: https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50218195
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218195

I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018)

2026-10-24T09:53:26Z

214 points by rramadass | 151 comments

Article: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50219666
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219666

CVE Tracker

2026-10-23T21:21:47Z

205 points by Group_B | 71 comments

Article: https://cve.0xosprey.com/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50215530
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215530

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

2026-10-24T08:06:39Z

194 points by theanonymousone | 90 comments

Article: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50219177
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219177

Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more

2026-10-23T23:30:17Z

179 points by cowlevel | 95 comments

Article: https://nitter.click/AikidoSecurity/status/2113759110625906950?__galadriel=lPmlGl9id4oAd5UeBwMhlYKArHyr6lR2IDGujPwB5HV2kQ1aLoPWFd5A9sGuzNcmrp8fUso8qygmHcKTDZ8MNHWqQ3bDJcycV87xp_0VypzQLYj6O_RRHlZuQqj33oASGY2YLSoAiMjeOZN40h7Stf8AG7DPrGZbAPVKUXy36HoMudRbvwF3_r2uYNmfJMhpKzywQDM6Ab8
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50216791
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50216791

FreeDNS

2026-10-24T15:20:01Z

152 points by esher | 36 comments

Article: https://freedns.afraid.org/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50222133
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222133

We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970

2026-10-23T19:41:59Z

149 points by speckx | 133 comments

Article: https://thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev/we-are-all-living-inside-of-an-obscure-sci-fi-film-from-1970/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214323
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214323

Apple Security Research Device

2026-10-24T02:36:38Z

135 points by neom | 82 comments

Article: https://security.apple.com/research-device/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50217903
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217903

Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques

2026-10-24T01:53:10Z

127 points by amichail | 26 comments

Article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261018084421.htm
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50217683
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217683

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

2026-10-24T16:06:26Z

121 points by cxr | 70 comments

Article: https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50222622
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222622

Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line

2026-10-23T18:24:54Z

119 points by theanonymousone | 41 comments

Article: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3-1-pro
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50213337
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213337

Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer

2026-10-23T19:46:38Z

119 points by eiopa | 40 comments

Article: https://corgi.computer/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214373
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214373

Securing our frontier model training environment

2026-10-23T19:50:56Z

113 points by pretext | 115 comments

Article: https://openai.com/index/securing-our-frontier-model-training-environment/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214416
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214416

How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money

2026-10-24T02:43:43Z

96 points by motionlessveloc | 44 comments

Article: https://ayoships.com/breakdowns/block-blast
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50217946
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217946

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

2026-10-24T09:58:27Z

93 points by fragebogen | 41 comments

Article: https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50219700
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219700

Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year

2026-10-24T01:37:28Z

88 points by gumby | 16 comments

Article: https://gizmodo.com/password-please-border-searches-of-laptops-phones-up-32-this-year-2000830213
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50217600
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217600

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist

2026-10-24T11:18:54Z

84 points by TangerineDream | 42 comments

Article: https://torrentfreak.com/ai-assisted-paper-on-z-library-cites-a-torrentfreak-article-that-doesnt-exist/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50220204
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220204

Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left

2026-10-23T19:53:55Z

77 points by speckx | 88 comments

Article: https://www.techpowerup.com/354081/sony-retires-its-last-4k-blu-ray-player-in-japan-ps5-is-all-thats-left
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214447
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214447

Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home

2026-10-23T19:01:56Z

77 points by Michelangelo11 | 54 comments

Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-impersonates-dead-florida-man-moved-into-home-rcna604844
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50213826
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213826

Proton hosts map of 300k Flock devices amid legal threats

2026-10-23T21:34:51Z

76 points by DeepLogin | 0 comments

Article: https://cyberinsider.com/proton-flock-map/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50215695
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215695

Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California's Proposed Wealth Tax

2026-10-24T01:35:49Z

67 points by JKCalhoun | 95 comments

Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-california-wealth-tax.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50217587
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217587

German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying'

2026-10-23T22:18:49Z

66 points by rdmuser | 50 comments

Article: https://www.courthousenews.com/german-court-calls-google-aerial-imagery-spying/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50216142
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50216142

New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors

2026-10-23T19:31:36Z

63 points by njx | 56 comments

Article: https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-says-its-new-ai-is-more-than-twice-as-good-at-diagnosing-diseases-as-doctors-2000829562
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214185
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214185

Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501

2026-10-23T19:42:01Z

58 points by ernestrc | 23 comments

Article: https://rune.build/blog/rune-1-3-release
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214325
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214325

A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)

2026-10-23T20:37:12Z

54 points by ibobev | 10 comments

Article: https://quantum5.ca/2025/03/22/whirlwind-tour-of-systemd-nspawn-containers/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214983
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214983

One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video]

2026-10-23T21:46:51Z

54 points by Teever | 5 comments

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFwHGGfPz4
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50215828
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215828

DNS: A Replacement for Finger

2026-10-23T19:00:04Z

53 points by Bender | 34 comments

Article: https://altchan.org/sh/42
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50213791
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213791

No Source Code? No Problem

2026-10-23T20:38:06Z

52 points by ibobev | 41 comments

Article: https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/945131.945155
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214994
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214994

Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more

2026-10-23T22:03:40Z

52 points by mikelgan | 29 comments

Article: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4239858/google-will-pay-people-to-use-less-electricity-so-its-data-centers-can-use-more.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50215983
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215983

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there

2026-10-23T19:21:40Z

50 points by doener | 17 comments

Article: https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2113677048354947180
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214055
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214055

ThinkRail from JetBrains

2026-10-24T08:08:42Z

47 points by wilsonjholmes | 73 comments

Article: https://thinkrail.ai/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50219186
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219186

White House Directly Intervened to Shut Down Epstein Files Probe

2026-10-23T21:26:02Z

47 points by Betelbuddy | 1 comments

Article: https://newrepublic.com/post/217060/white-house-intervened-shut-down-epstein-files-investigation
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50215587
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215587

Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'

2026-10-24T16:47:19Z

46 points by warrenmiller | 79 comments

Article: https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-i-no-longer-think-were-gonna-be-able-to-just-patch-all-the-bugs-2000829947
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50222976
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222976

Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates

2026-10-24T04:05:02Z

45 points by adityaathalye | 17 comments

Article: https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/10/23/emsign-revoked-gov-in/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50218277
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218277

Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company

2026-10-24T04:42:10Z

43 points by Alien1Being | 21 comments

Article: https://symby.com/news?_cid=101605177&preferredLanguage=en
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50218404
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218404

Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

2026-10-24T15:57:17Z

43 points by giuliomagnifico | 6 comments

Article: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/neural-chip-decodes-interactions-between-brain-r-2/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50222525
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222525

One Must Fall 2097 Remastered

2026-10-24T13:47:07Z

42 points by hmm37 | 28 comments

Article: https://github.com/Jared-woodruff/OMF-2097-Remastered/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50221179
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50221179

The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise

2026-10-24T16:41:55Z

39 points by schleck8 | 3 comments

Article: https://de.numista.com/9866
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50222927
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222927

Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706

2026-10-24T10:51:35Z

35 points by t20n | 8 comments

Article: https://gitlab.com/c4psu13/mali-pagecache-root
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50220042
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220042

HumanLayer is now Open Source

2026-10-23T21:57:31Z

29 points by dhorthy | 5 comments

Article: https://www.hlyr.dev/blog/open-sourcing-humanlayer
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50215925
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215925

Trump Says He Has 'Right' to Run for Third Term: 'They Cheated Us'

2026-10-23T20:00:49Z

28 points by handfuloflight | 48 comments

Article: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-wants-to-run-for-third-term-12608607
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214523
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214523

Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals

2026-10-23T20:12:08Z

25 points by khalidkhair | 1 comments

Article: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/crows-can-evaluate-visual-info-twice-as-fast-as-mammals/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50214643
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214643