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  • 4 13

    AWS rates PHP RCE as Important so Amazon Linux 2023 patch may take 20 days (github.com)
  • 12 24

    No More Icons in Every Menu by Default (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 6 24

    Claude Duet (claude.com)
  • 0 27

    CDC Ignored Request from States to Validate a New Measles Test (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2 201

    Meta hit with $25B penalty for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook (nmdoj.gov)
  • 0 11

    A Place Among the Fiddlers (longreads.com)
  • 13 40

    Potential third critical PHP CVE (elk.zone)
  • 49 40

    After automation: Solo founding will be the default (every.to)
  • 68 94

    Plex laid off the whole player team (forums.plex.tv)
  • 2 54

    Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military (www.bbc.com)
  • 89 308

    Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
  • 76 104

    Google's Rust Style Guide (google.github.io)
  • 55 86

    Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it (www.windowslatest.com)
  • 173 199

    Claude Duet (claude.com)
  • 27 129

    GitLab Critical Patch Release (docs.gitlab.com)
  • 39 68

    Show HN: I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it (buford.bg)
  • 14 30

    Corporate Linux (lpar.ath0.com)
  • 18 86

    Canary Tokens (canarytokens.org)
  • 11 15

    Open Source Games (opensourcegames.dev)
  • 124 87

    The compiler was supposed to end programming too (hrih.si)
  • 48 45

    Anthropic's Public Benefit Charter (www.anthropic.com)
  • 13 42

    Texas data center boom could erase decades of progress on air quality (www.texastribune.org)
  • 117 208

    Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case (www.cnbc.com)
  • 3 9

    A train simulator game for console hackers (github.com)
  • 10 42

    The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure (github.blog)
  • 245 400

    EA is shutting down BioWare (www.theverge.com)
  • 8 23

    Overview of the German AfD email leak (erik.gdn)
  • 4 20

    Trials and Tribulations of Native Lua Compilation (samyeyo.github.io)
  • 19 78

    New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic (www.oist.jp)
  • 73 66

    Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era (rustoffrails.org)
  • 5 42

    AI agent fixed the bug, but what else did it change? (blog.trailofbits.com)
  • 3 18

    Show HN: ULDA – Client-side encryption with a simple JavaScript API (demo.ulda.io)
  • 84 185

    OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud (openai.com)
  • 22 47

    Your MCU likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise (danielmangum.com)
  • 47 73

    What I learned from six months of being stupid on purpose (wvez.org)
  • 0 13

    Cities Across the World Sinking from Groundwater Depletion: It Can Be Reversed (cleantechnica.com)
  • 1 10

    The phenomena that brighten dawn and dusk (2016) (www.colorado.edu)
  • 23 126

    Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua (www.bbc.com)
  • 15 100

    Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 269 525

    Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security (thephp.foundation)
  • 2 30

    PHP2Shell (www.php2shell.com)
  • 79 149

    Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin (apnews.com)
  • 12 54

    Delays for Pull Requests and Webhook deliveries (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 18 68

    Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework (github.com)
  • 118 354

    Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor (safedep.io)
  • 37 328

    DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” (duckdb.org)
  • 6 30

    Patch the Planet (patchtheplanet.org)
  • 457 471

    The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck (www.techdirt.com)
  • 62 114

    Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data (openai.com)
  • 12 59

    C++ futures part 1: The mental model (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 132 203

    Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities (openai.com)
  • 167 422

    PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP (www.wiz.io)
  • 2 276

    PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out (www.php.net)
  • 519 923

    PHP 8.2.35 (github.com)
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  • 131 140

    Most advice is right for the person giving it (coached.com)
  • 2 17

    A page looks innocent: the algorithms behind a typeset page (news.speedata.de)
  • 40 69

    LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents (layerfs.ai)
  • 117 237

    Qwen3-Coder writes less secure code when told it's for a US persona (www.hirundo.io)
  • 20 19

    Despite Iran's Attacks, Gulf Oil Exports Exceed Prewar Levels (maritime-executive.com)
  • 94 262

    Dutch National Cyber Security Center is Offline because it uses PHP (www.ncsc.nl)
  • 13 67

    The Lucrative World of Literary Scams (www.thedial.world)
  • 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX (9mothers.com)
  • 7 11

    Show HN: Linkit – AI bookmark manager, 100% free and open source (github.com)
  • 77 73

    Does Ruby on Rails still make sense? (tech.dirkjonker.nl)
  • 45 28

    Finland Buying a Million Landmines (yle.fi)
  • 140 180

    Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes (practical.engineering)
  • 82 193

    Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro (www.pagetable.com)
  • 732 600

    The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable (unric.org)
  • 381 773

    Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds (scotthelme.co.uk)
  • 6 37

    Bonanza of new dates rewrites the history of the Inca (www.science.org)
  • 80 173

    The Decoherence Trap (maevyn.codes)
  • 32 42

    Composite objects and C++26 the std:polymorphic type (mariusbancila.ro)
  • 97 152

    C# now beats Rust on WASM size (github.com)
  • 19 29

    Launch HN: Alter (YC S25) – Access control for multi-user agents (alterauth.com)
  • 24 15

    SaaS Is Dead (saasisdead.si)
  • 24 24

    Ship Your Interpreter (www.basis.ai)
  • 26 24

    Alibaba hikes DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output prices by 230% (www.stork.ai)
  • 84 127

    Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code (www.anthropic.com)
  • 45 87

    Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID (nmattia.com)
  • 29 38

    Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser (github.com)
  • 4 15

    Nexus-CLI – Pure Go Bridge to DeepSeek R1/V3 with Claude Code and Ollama Support (github.com)
  • 61 184

    PHP session.upload_progress heap UAF (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619) (jackalsyn.com)
  • 35 61

    Pillowfort Is Closing (www.pillowfort.social)
  • 16 55

    Four Years with Decker (beyondloom.com)
  • 159 377

    Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations (arstechnica.com)
  • 4 37

    Borrow Checking Zero-Cost Cyclic Mutability (antelang.org)
  • 25 121

    ZX Spectrum Next Laptop (www.dorchester3d.com)
  • 23 160

    PingCap TiDB Leaks (fulcrumsec.vg)
  • 72 140

    In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 257 582

    The Future of CSS (www.joshwcomeau.com)
  • 3 69

    To Make, or to Buy: The Economics of Decision Models (pncnmnp.github.io)
  • 20 8

    T3 Code now synced between GitHub and GitCafe (git.cafe)
  • 1 8

    GitHub package firewall (github.blog)
  • 80 47

    Learning to live with Waymos (www.newyorker.com)
  • 20 194

    Good type against all odds (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 646 1496

    Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now (www.php.net)
  • 7 13

    Shipping a LaTeX Compiler Behind an Edge App (bhargav.dev)
  • 10 8

    Microagi: Accelerating Embodied AGI (www.microagi.ai)
  • 2 15

    LabRobotBench v0.1: Benchmarking wet lab robotics (gamowlabs.com)
  • 5 21

    Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF? (dovepass.com)
  • 229 286

    The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines (www.thebeliever.net)
  • 0 10

    Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer (2024) (www.nature.com)
  • 135 262

    Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 11 83

    Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video] (www.youtube.com)
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  • 143 226

    Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
  • 53 32

    Deepfake of Washington County, Oregon, Candidate Goes Viral Nationwide (www.oregonjournalismproject.org)
  • 39 90

    Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster (engineering.fb.com)
  • 60 92

    On AI writing (www.bolkunov.com)
  • 0 17

    Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch (github.com)
  • 6 25

    Show HN: Rouler – Steer Windows traffic per app or IP across multiple interfaces (rouler.io)
  • 74 116

    Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins (www.anthropic.com)
  • 3 59

    Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2 (jepsen.io)
  • 120 303

    SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful (github.com)
  • 408 903

    Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits (permit.petercai.com)
  • 8 48

    Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026 (research.poh.org)
  • 185 317

    Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery (e360.yale.edu)
  • 95 98

    Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages (openai.com)
  • 30 134

    Archive of Our Own (archiveofourown.org)
  • 614 468

    What shall I teach my son? (stevekrouse.com)
  • 1 3

    Go Conventions That Clicked Too Late for an AI Engineer (towardsdev.com)
  • 225 183

    Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest (www.ign.com)
  • 68 197

    IKEA – 3D Guide (sael.net)
  • 31 126

    JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission (www.science.org)
  • 88 375

    Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs (github.com)
  • 195 754

    Voxtral 3 (mistral.ai)
  • 7 35

    Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog (lukaswerner.com)
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  • 4 12

    OpenDE: Play Deus Ex 1999 demo in the browser (opende.netlify.app)
  • 4 27

    Show HN: Clerkenwell – A Handwritten Clojure Notebook (handwritten.danieljanus.pl)
  • 1 10

    In-memory privacy shield to prevent context leaks in MCP tools (github.com)
  • 2 20

    UI-Te-Rangiora (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 51 69

    Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz? (jevcards.com)
  • 81 26

    Getting Banned from r/java (sjhannah.com)
  • 7 63

    Show HN: Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher (github.com)
  • 3 8

    Show HN: Run Claude Code unattended inside a fence, under a dollar budget (github.com)
  • 0 7

    Building full-firm knowledge graphs to dramatically speed up agents (lexifina.com)
  • 4 13

    Show HN: Another Blog Search Engine (outerweb.org)
  • 168 113

    Why do we have so many meetings? (www.nber.org)
  • 2 7

    How to Link Real-Time Live Streaming to Video-on-Demand (www.red5.net)
  • 399 458

    Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month (mastodon.gamedev.place)
  • 21 52

    Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins
  • 399 416

    Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case (prestonbyrne.com)
  • 13 188

    Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph (github.com)
  • 10 17

    FingerWorks iGesture Pad (2005) (uk.pcmag.com)
  • 108 191

    2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me) (yoyo-code.com)
  • 7 48

    One Manhattan power room took down FAA air traffic control in 1991 (matthorn.io)
  • 467 1188

    eMudhra intermediate CA compromise (emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com)
  • 53 211

    My Friend Bob Cringely (tyma.com)
  • 0 10

    The Byzantine Generals Problem: A visual explanation (gravitypersists.github.io)
  • 100 391

    How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed (kaba.cx)
  • 209 427

    Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 10 20

    Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects (petapixel.com)
  • 202 359

    Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs (peec.ai)
  • 132 191

    NixOS is making me less afraid (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 293 597

    Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads (teddysvoronos.com)
  • 14 34

    Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot (mbuffett.com)
  • 147 67

    Demographic "doomsday" misses the mark (www.science.org)
  • Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 27 74

    There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made. (www.nytimes.com)
  • 203 398

    Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe (www.neowin.net)
  • 63 102

    'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs (flatwaterfreepress.org)
  • 87 96

    Revolut down as users report app not working (www.bbc.com)
  • 551 383

    AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right (www.heistberlin.com)
  • 881 2298

    DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models (github.com)
  • 57 68

    UK Defence Startups Are Being Denied Banking Services Under ESG Rules (foxandlion.pub)
  • 66 92

    There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository (github.com)
  • 5 50

    Why Is Speculative Decoding Fast? (jbarrow.ai)
  • 8 9

    Fizzpoker – No-login Online Poker with friends (www.fizzpoker.com)
  • 59 37

    Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman (www.economist.com)
  • 131 419

    MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space (github.com)
  • 32 169

    Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick (k.sosnierz.me)
  • 20 23

    Vite+ an excellent toolchain for AI agent development (janmichalek.com)
  • 4 118

    Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (2025) (www.nature.com)
  • 0 15

    ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22 (www.os2museum.com)
  • 160 557

    Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers (github.com)
  • 65 102

    Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs (deathplanswitch.com)
  • 86 41

    Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 110 67

    U.S. Supreme Court to review 1868 federal ban on home distilling of liquor (www.staradvertiser.com)
  • 91 105

    Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 535 577

    DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order (www.reuters.com)
  • 1 21

    Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
  • 79 137

    Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs (github.com)
  • 157 484

    OpenBSD 8.0 (www.openbsd.org)
  • 13 73

    How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 2 27

    OpenBSD 8.0: released Oct 20, 2026 (marc.info)
  • 82 68

    Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD (trial.medpath.com)
  • 51 52

    Developing Taste (emilkowal.ski)
  • 35 52

    Porting video games to VHS (gardinerbryant.com)
  • 215 737

    WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator (redact.dev)
  • 185 429

    An ad-free Android TV (cretezy.com)
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  • 187 290

    Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference' (efe.com)
  • 13 75

    The ovary doesn't retire after menopause (news.northwestern.edu)
  • 221 243

    France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months (ipinfo.io)
  • 137 247

    How abliterated models can get you pwned (projectdiscovery.io)