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  1. 21h ago

    11.5.26 | AI forces technical debt repayment, White House residential proxies detected, Kimi K3.1 Pro weights released

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt (01:25) - Residential proxies detected on White House network (02:20) - Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out (03:44) - A thousand fewer paths to root (04:42) - Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? (05:42) - A new Go API for JSON (06:58) - Images 2.6 (08:01) - Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016) (08:58) - Sshole (09:57) - Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding (10:59) - Outro AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debthttps://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerabilityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50364336Residential proxies detected on White House networkhttps://layer3intel.com/blog/residential-proxies-white-house-networkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50371246 Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are outhttps://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Prohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366999 A thousand fewer paths to roothttps://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50372929 Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366117 A new Go API for JSONhttps://go.dev/blog/jsonv2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369106 Images 2.6https://openai.com/index/introducing-images-2-6/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50372945 Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)https://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastructure-permanent/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366522 Ssholehttps://sshhole.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378228 Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Codinghttps://www.ricursive.com/ripplehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369925

  2. 1d ago

    11.4.26 | Postman auto installs AI plugins, car navigation time jailbreaking, Qwen 3.8 27B interprets weights

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (01:25) - Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time (02:32) - Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (03:44) - Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (04:44) - Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand (05:46) - Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 (06:46) - Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (07:42) - C++26 Disapproved (08:36) - The Internals of PostgreSQL (09:36) - Jelly Sheet (10:22) - Outro Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API datahttps://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354960Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the timehttps://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339288 Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, toohttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355251 Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robothttps://neufangled.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354358 Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demandhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archiving-demand/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336918 Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3https://webkit.org/blog/18541/introducing-adaptive-dark-mode/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358562 Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channelshttps://hackertv.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346755 C++26 Disapprovedhttps://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/11/cpp26-dis-failed-how-does-cpp-survive/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360164 The Internals of PostgreSQLhttps://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358702 Jelly Sheethttps://mrdoob.github.io/codevember-2026/01/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50361268

  3. 2d ago

    11.3.26 | Astra improves Qwen weights, Subvocal enables silent computer control, Back up loved websites

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen (01:29) - Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise (02:36) - If you love a website, back it up (03:38) - US boy names that became girl names and vice versa (04:40) - Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News (05:35) - Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre (06:28) - DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs (07:32) - Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You (08:34) - Resisting Cognitive Surrender (09:35) - Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era (10:37) - Outro Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwenhttps://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341174Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noisehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340088 If you love a website, back it uphttps://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336518 US boy names that became girl names and vice versahttps://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-nameshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339397 Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker Newshttps://hackertimes.ca/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346981 Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centrehttps://p.migdal.pl/warsaw-vibe-voxel/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339221 DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discshttps://github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat/DiscImageStudiohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346849 Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for Youhttps://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/11/self-employed-solopreneur-nist-has-cybersecurity-guide-just-youhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340619 Resisting Cognitive Surrenderhttps://knlb.dev/essays/surrenderhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323123 Egoless Mathematics in the AI Erahttps://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341736

  4. 3d ago

    11.2.26 | HackerBooks HackerTube for HN books, Postgres 19 delayed by bugs, TV privacy recommendations

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (01:18) - Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now (02:11) - Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? (03:16) - OccupySaaS (04:15) - Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN (05:13) - Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust (06:21) - Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology (07:22) - Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics (08:23) - Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved (09:18) - One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems (10:16) - Outro Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HNhttps://hackerbooks.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326821Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found nowhttp://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312408 Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328896 OccupySaaShttps://occupysaas.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331402 Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HNhttps://wikihack.netlify.apphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50333339 Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rusthttps://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325253 Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geologyhttps://outcrop.rocks/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290533 Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and genericshttps://tibleiz.net/copper/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308754 Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solvedhttps://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in-power-grids-solvedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315217 One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systemshttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314617

  5. 4d ago

    11.1.26 | HackerTube built from HN recommendations, TCP Use After Free CVE-2026-98432, Italian farmer plants unknown seeds

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (01:27) - TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 (02:44) - An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them (03:49) - Norway makes shithouses great again (04:35) - Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard (05:55) - Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 (07:11) - It's the memory latency, stupid (08:28) - Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing (09:35) - The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks (10:45) - Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half (11:46) - Outro HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HNhttps://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uafhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319143 An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted themhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320963 Norway makes shithouses great againhttps://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/norwegian-scenic-routes/worlds-best-toilets/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324388 Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hardhttps://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solvehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320995 Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316100 It's the memory latency, stupidhttps://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318720 Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filinghttps://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322173 The AI cost of JavaScript frameworkshttps://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323088 Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Halfhttps://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in-half/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319110

  6. 5d ago

    10.31.26 | Claude Code backdoor in Cursor, Binance hack took 20 minutes, Northflank breached

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 31, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (01:28) - The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes (02:42) - Northflank Breached (03:40) - My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii (04:43) - Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises (05:46) - The federated code forge (06:54) - Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX (07:57) - Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots (09:03) - Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights (10:11) - Tell HN: Scribd Breached (11:01) - Outro Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplacehttps://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300683The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minuteshttps://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303172 Northflank Breachedhttps://status.northflank.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305025 My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wiihttps://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307190 Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromiseshttps://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-casehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301854 The federated code forgehttps://tangled.org/blog/forge/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305573 Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeXhttps://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305637 Breaking the open web won't stop the bad botshttps://www.techpolicy.press/breaking-the-open-web-wont-stop-the-bad-bots/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263837 Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weightshttps://github.com/dbreunig/nesformerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306442 Tell HN: Scribd Breachedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756

  7. 6d ago

    10.30.26 | Patrick Stewart dies, Mistral Large 4 weights released, Binance hacker 1029 steals 5.6B

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 30, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Patrick Stewart has died (01:08) - We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 (02:21) - Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance (03:29) - LLM Voice (04:29) - H.264 Is Magic (2016) (05:39) - We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry (06:45) - If IPv4 were land (07:44) - Herdr has released native app (08:42) - A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W (09:49) - What we know so far about Spain train crash (11:00) - Outro Patrick Stewart has diedhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294702We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418 Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binancehttps://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296470 LLM Voicehttps://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290177 H.264 Is Magic (2016)https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291054 We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustryhttps://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296486 If IPv4 were landhttps://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-landhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287775 Herdr has released native apphttps://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-apphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298436 A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Whttps://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295450 What we know so far about Spain train crashhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286197

  8. Oct 29

    10.29.26 | Fingerprinting script creating bioweapons, Apple git trusts compromised eMudhra certificates, Gemini 4 Carbon

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 29, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons? (01:35) - Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates (02:40) - Gemini 4 Carbon (03:45) - MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch (04:47) - StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month (05:48) - Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5 (07:07) - The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand (08:24) - CNC Stone Carving (09:18) - Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model (10:24) - A Health Update (11:26) - Outro Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?https://nullpt.rs/fingerprinting-bioweaponshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276998Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificateshttps://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271640 Gemini 4 Carbonhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276792 MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touchhttps://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/proled-xdr-display/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276940 StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a monthhttps://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph?t=1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282454 Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282838 The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demandhttps://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-gridhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243060 CNC Stone Carvinghttps://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274409 Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its modelhttps://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efcehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255 A Health Updatehttps://furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280974

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