9:10:57 PM WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21, 2026

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ejohnso49

5 hours ago

Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

Describing the story behind how critical security vulnerabilities were found and fixed....

2 HOURS AGO

KUBERWASTAKEN

Claude Duet

A DAY AGO

GMAYS

A Place Among the Fiddlers

2 HOURS AGO

WIRADIKUSUMA

Canary Tokens

9 HOURS AGO

UKD1

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

5 HOURS AGO

HASHEDDAN

Your MCU likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

2 HOURS AGO

MPAEPPER

Potential third critical PHP CVE

2 DAYS AGO

FRIZLAB

Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro

2 DAYS AGO

IBOBEV

C++ futures part 1: The mental model

2 HOURS AGO

SAIKATSG

Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military

2 HOURS AGO

CL3MISCH

gocryptfs: Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

11 HOURS AGO

SOHKAMYUNG

Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes

4 HOURS AGO

SASVARI

Hertzon: Open-Source 3D Full-Wave FEM Solver

2 DAYS AGO

SAMCLEMENS

The Lucrative World of Literary Scams

19 HOURS AGO

FIRLOOP

Good type against all odds

8 HOURS AGO

BEPERO

Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework

2 HOURS AGO

CL3MISCH

gocryptfs: Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

3 DAYS AGO

CASSIANOLEAL

The Decoherence Trap

11 HOURS AGO

SOHKAMYUNG

Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes

3 HOURS AGO

JETHRONETHRO

Meta fined $25B for 'lies' over user data privacy

4 HOURS AGO

SASVARI

Hertzon: Open-Source 3D Full-Wave FEM Solver

7 HOURS AGO

AMVALEX

What the PHP2Shell rumors got wrong, from inside the PHP security team

2 DAYS AGO

SAMCLEMENS

The Lucrative World of Literary Scams

5 HOURS AGO

TOB_SCOTT_A

AI agent fixed the bug, but what else did it change?

19 HOURS AGO

FIRLOOP

Good type against all odds

funnym0nk3y

2 hours ago

Mistral Large 4

Mistral Large 4 is a state-of-the-art, open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model with a granular Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It features 52B active parameters and 1.05T total parameters, and a 1.6B vision encoder.

rmason

an hour ago

After automation: Solo founding will be the default

Julian Weisser, Founder and CEO, Solo Founders — Most high-potential startups fail because of conflict between cofounders. After automation collapses the hours it takes to build a business, ...

nnx

7 hours ago

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 2.0.0 LTS, codenamed “Cinnamon Teal” (Spatula cyanoptera). This is our biggest feature release so far, and it s...

bryanrasmussen

2 days ago

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say...

abhisek

7 hours ago

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI ships a .pth credential stealer and a sitecustomize.py backdoor that run on every Python start. How the implant got in, what it steals, and indicators of compromise....

hkc

12 hours ago

Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

One of eMudhra's certificate authority private keys is the number 4. Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, ...

aaronbrethorst

4 hours ago

EA is shutting down BioWare

The company is also laying off around 400 staffers....

khalidkhair

2 days ago

Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it

Windows 11 still carries Windows 95’s heap manager, recompiled for old apps. Raymond Chen explains EmulateHeap, and how to find it yourself....

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/19/why-windows-11-still-ships-with-windows-95s-memory-manager-hidden-inside-it/

tuyuri

7 hours ago

PHP 8.2.35

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.2.35. This is a security release fixing two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) that can allow ...

cbg0

3 hours ago

Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties related to Cambridge Analytica scandal in New Mexico....

scottfalconer

2 days ago

Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation

DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 DriesNote presentation. ...

Klaster_1

5 hours ago

The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure

We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure. Here's how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest....

buf

5 hours ago

Show HN: I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it

Engineer, founder, dad, expat. Formerly homeless, convicted felon (pardoned). Retired at 38....

zaevlad

2 hours ago

Claude Duet

Claude Duet is a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. The research preview opens by waitlist today for Pro and Max subscribers in the US....

simfinii

14 hours ago

Launch HN: Alter (YC S25) – Access control for multi-user agents

PAM for AI agents, enforced at runtime: vaulted credentials, per-action policy, approval before risky calls complete, and an audit trail for every call through Alter....

zzyzxd

2 hours ago

Plex laid off the whole player team

Same problem....