3:40:45 AM SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1, 2026 THE HACKER NEWS
oger
8 hours ago
TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-98432 is a CVSS 9.8 remote use-after-free in Linux's IPv4 TCP handshake, fixed upstream Oct 15. Ubuntu and RHEL haven't shipped a fixed kernel yet....
2 DAYS AGO
DVERLAECKT80
Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup
8 HOURS AGO
PRETEXT
Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models
AN HOUR AGO
TECH-PULSE
Hermantown approves controversial Google Data Center during late night meeting
2 DAYS AGO
MODINFO
Decode kernel panic from QR Code photo
3 DAYS AGO
DATASCIENTIST
AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura
12 HOURS AGO
ABIJAHKAJ
Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line
5 DAYS AGO
FOOG
Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32
7 HOURS AGO
LAKESARE
With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines
13 HOURS AGO
KHALIDKHAIR
Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
7 HOURS AGO
FIRESTEELRAIN
Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games
9 HOURS AGO
RYANMADDEN
GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
7 HOURS AGO
FIRESTEELRAIN
Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games
karpathy
8 hours ago
HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Instead of YouTube, watch HackerTube!
ohjeez
a day ago
Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
A 2024 National Academies report blames the 2020 Arecibo telescope collapse on zinc creep in cable spelter sockets, a failure never documented before....
samclemens
3 days ago
Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer
Not Mark Twain, not Herman Melville, not F. Scott Fitzgerald....
danielfoster
6 hours ago
AI text watermarking and quality loss
After the EU AI Act’s transparency guidelines went into effect, and following the announcement that most major AI labs will soon be watermarking their text output to comply, there has been s...
dverlaeckt80
5 hours ago
When electric cars were for women
Early carmakers decided women wanted cars that were quiet, clean, and easy to start...
samizdis
8 hours ago
Surviving "The Graduate"
It was the film that made me famous. On set, all I could think about was how I was failing....
creack
4 hours ago
Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards
A project by @bbrouter on BBRouter, the 3D breadboard editor and simulator: open it to look around and run it....
guregodevo
5 hours ago
Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
A lightweight coding and automation agent in one CLI binary. Run locally or over SSH, optimize token use, and automate CI and cron with durable workflows. - guregodevo/memdoor...
toomuchtodo
8 hours ago
Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half
Robert speaks to Professor Jan Rosenow, Oxford University, to reveal why electricity currently only tells 20% of the global energy story....
kerlenton
15 hours ago
Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector
A language model that lives in a boot sector. Contribute to kerlenton/bootgpt development by creating an account on GitHub....
luu
4 days ago
Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think
I am talking about the I/O operations as used in computing here. A typical example of how this kind of thing is exposed are the POSIX syscalls read(2) and write(2), which have the following ...
ilreb
10 hours ago
William Nordhaus has died
William Nordhaus ‘63, Sterling Professor of Economics who won a Nobel Prize in 2018 for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis, died Oct. 30 at age 85....
aray07
2 days ago
Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference
Since this will be the only source of this process on the Internet1, I figured I'd document a quick fan swap I did on a piece of test/reference equipment I'm running in my Atomic Clock Tower...
4yk5
2 days ago
Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector
A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client & webhook inspector. No cloud, no Electron, 100% local-first. - 4yk5/Ghostman...
gone35
7 hours ago
Distributed Proofreaders
Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers can work on a...
_chall
2 days ago
Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
Phorion has detected a backdoor in the official Claude Code for VS Code extension bundle on the Cursor Marketplace that drops a persistent SSH backdoor across macOS, Linux, and Windows. This...