Monday, 02 November 2026
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Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
Article URL: https://www.vox.com/politics/508526/patrick-stewart-jean-luc-picard-star-trek-liberalism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50327650 Points: 157 # Comments: 105
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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN
Saw Karpathy's HackerTube and wanted the same thing for books. So I had Claude build one (Opus 5.5). It's ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now.
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Police chief unplugs Flock cameras after company ignores contract cancellation
Article URL: 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 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326118 Points: 315 # Comments: 106
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Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_just/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326099 Points: 237 # Comments: 93
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Kwi Being Developed As New KDE Terminal Emulator With 3x To 35x Performance
A new KDE terminal emulator is in development as a modern alternative to Konsole. Kwi is this new terminal app being built atop the Ghostty library...
The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily The Largest In Kernel History
After writing this morning with some stats about the size of the Linux 7.4 merge window and the kernel's source tree approaching 42 million lines, I was curious to run some numbers for putting the size of the merge window into perspective against the major kernel releases of the past 15 years. This shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity...
'Mother of all editors' Emacs is 50
By a startling coincidence, so is its arch-rival Vi
OverlayFS Sees Many Fixes Thanks To AI Code Review
Merged this weekend for Linux 7.4 and also marked for back-porting to current stable kernel versions are a number of fixes to the OverlayFS union mount file-system...
AI Use In The Linux Kernel, Microsoft Defender On Linux & Other October Highlights
October brought the releases of Linux 7.3, Ubuntu 26.10, the KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop, and a wealth of other open-source software releases. The expanding use of AI/LLMs within Linux kernel development also made for interesting discussions in October. Microsoft bringing their Defender software to the Linux desktop was perhaps the biggest surprise out of October.
Linux's Perf Python Scripts More Robust & Faster With Linux 7.4
Merged this weekend to Linux 7.4 Git were all of the perf subsystem tooling updates. Most notable to these tooling updates for dealing with performance counters and more on Linux is an overhaul to the Python code...
Linux 7.4 Merge Window Saw Nearly 20k Commits, Source Tree Approaching 42 Million Lines
Linux 7.3 started out just under 41 million lines in total in the kernel source tree. In the end the Linux v7.3 tag came in at 41,019,555 lines as measured by cloc while now with Linux 7.4 we are inching ever closer to 42 million lines. On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record...
Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions – Openreach
Legacy public switched telephone network service is to be retired on January 31, 2027
The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
Article URL: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323088 Points: 232 # Comments: 164
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Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
Article URL: https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322173 Points: 269 # Comments: 149
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Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02292 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322022 Points: 161 # Comments: 84
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Brief Server Downtime Expected Tonight
Just a friendly heads up that Phoronix.com and associated sites will be down briefly at around midnight PST / 3AM EST on 1 November for a failed drive in the NVMe SSD RAID array...
OpenShot 4.1 Released With Auto-Optimize, CLI Automation & ARM64 Linux Builds
OpenShot is closing out the month of October by releasing OpenShot 4.1 as the latest major feature release for this useful open-source video editing solution...
Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
Article URL: https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320995 Points: 387 # Comments: 191
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An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320963 Points: 683 # Comments: 187
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HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
YouTube-style UI over 6,454 videos sourced from 39,834 HN comments since 2007. https://hackertube.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510 Points: 1940 # Comments: 488
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TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
Article URL: https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319143 Points: 633 # Comments: 307
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Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry
Enlightenment 0.28 Released With Many Improvements
Enlightenment 0.27 released at the beginning of 2025 and since then there's been no major feature update, falling off their roughly 12 month release cadence. But out this Halloween is Enlightenment 0.28 now with the better part of two years worth of changes...
Linux Mint Developing New Apps For Terminal & System Monitoring
Linux Mint is out with their October 2026 status report to outline various initiatives they have underway in their lead-up to the Linux Mint 27 stable release happening on/around Christmas...
New Linux 7.4 Feature For Reducing AI Noise Already Reverted Due To A "Crazy Beast"
A new feature merged last week for Linux 7.4 to help reduce AI/LLM generated noise from invalid/irrelevant testing configurations is now reverted due to a "crazy beast" in the VFIO subsystem...
Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s
Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?
Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
A long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.
The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?
Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use
A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession
KDE Plasma 6.9 Lands Some New Performance Optimizations
I love a good performance optimization and there are several this week in the KDE space with Plasma 6.9 development heating up...
Ceph In Linux 7.4 Adds Global Mount Option For Lazy I/O
The Ceph kernel client changes have been submitted for Linux 7.4 ahead of its merge window expected to wrap up on Sunday...
GNOME Now Has An Established RFC Process, GNOME OS Continues Improving
In recent weeks GNOME developers have been discussing a formal Request For Comments "RFC" process for solving major technical questions and changes to GNOME. This formalized process for succeeding their ad-hoc processes up to now has reached consensus...
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux...
CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA Programming
NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months...
Sculpt OS 26.10 Released - Now Powered By Genode's Custom Microkernel
Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system project born out of the Genode initiative is now using the project's own microkernel rather than a third-party microkernel...
Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out
London's Oxford Street signage shows its underwear to passing tourists
Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan
How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot
Wine 11.21 Released With Better WoW64 OpenGL Performance
Wine 11.21 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine and as we near Wine 12.0 stable release happenings getting underway in about one month with the official v12.0 release expected early in the new year...
Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death
The space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.
Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets
USDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June.
Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
"For huge numbers of people, I will always be Jean-Luc Picard. ... We created an admirable individual."
Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.
Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.
Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts
Blame plunging token prices
Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
Faked symptoms still point to infections that antibiotics don't treat.
HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare
How the Uber-bound delivery giant tuned its mobile networking stack to cut latency
Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see
n0n-existent security
Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.
Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust
A meteorite found in the Sahara is a rare piece of Mars' ancient crust.
PostgreSQL 19 Running Behind Schedule Due To AI/LLM Burden
The PostgreSQL database server typically sees its annual feature release every September~October, but it's not coming until at least November if not longer this year. Due to the increased developer burden due to increased bug reporting and patches via AI/LLM activity, the PostgreSQL developers have been overwhelmed...
Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.
Ubuntu 27.04 "Tenacious T-Rex" Opens For Development
Following this month's release of Ubuntu 26.10, Ubuntu 27.04 development formally got underway today...
Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
Applying for FAFSA may get messy as DOJ “ghost student” crackdown ramps up.
GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement
$220 million? For all of you? Yeah, we can probably dig that up ...
Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise… couldn't be us
Claudeshop fingers 'malicious actor' in targeted supply-chain attack on Cursor
Analysts find looming launch crisis is "more severe" than anticipated
There's no evidence that Starship will launch traditional satellites, either.
Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment
Whew! Only kidding, here I am
AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS
Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland
NASA ponders a Hubble servicing mission or a controlled deorbit
Agency only looking for information, but reentry countdown ticking for veteran space telescope
Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
Article URL: https://blog.zamzar.com/2026/10/30/20-years-766-million-files-two-chameleons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303984 Points: 204 # Comments: 46
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GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data
Owners of GM cars found their driving data had been sold to insurance companies.
Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record crypto heist
Binance scrambles to freeze billions after record-breaking hack linked to North Korea.
AI projects not paying off? Keep at it, says Uni Productivity Institute
All that up-front investment needs time to take effect, and speeding individual tasks won't necessarily boost the entire firm
NHS quango warns of risk to GP patient data after website vendor collapse
Hundreds of practices hit by small health tech firm going into administration
2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: Drives like an EV, but there's no plug involved
Nissan’s series hybrid e-Power system has been retuned for American roads.
British intelligence agency misplaced 'thousands' of storage devices, years later still can't say how many
Other agency errors included an unchecked software bug that led to Terrorism Act detentions
Review: You Can See Everything blurs the view of Elizabeth Holmes' deceit
Disgraced founder of Theranos has some people falling for her act all over again.
Rocket Report: Winter is coming for Themis; Cowboy Space adds iron to the fire
It's been a good week for ULA, with big NASA contract, Vulcan nearing return-to-flight.
Accenture AI agents are sifting through applicants
But a human makes final hiring decisions at global tech consultancy
Domestic droid gone amok? Don't worry, you're covered
Insurance firms look to insulate domestic humanoid robot owners against the inevitable chaos they will bring
Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says
Reddit's search traffic "was down meaningfully" last quarter.
Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology
I've been working on a fun little app that paints geologic maps over landscapes using augmented reality. You can use it to identify what the mapped rocks are, read descriptions about them, and view the earth as it looked when they formed by turning back the continent positions. It spun out of some augmented reality work I was doing on my other side project app - Flyover Country, which tells you…
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