Hacker News: Top 5

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2. A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

lynchlab.net — 670 points, 274 comments

3. The Goose Programming Language

aardappel.github.io — 602 points, 367 comments

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2113704269274636568

4. I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

talkweb.eu — 550 points, 280 comments

5. America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?

apricitas.io — 546 points, 590 comments

Issue #25

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT

1. We should be more ambitious with the software we build

danluu.com — 907 points, 777 comments

2. Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

grapheneos.social — 691 points, 340 comments

3. No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector

apollo.com — 649 points, 677 comments

4. Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin

stealmybitcoin.com — 623 points, 450 comments

Made this because I'm curious if anyone out there has figured out how to actually use this PHP RCE we spent the last few days panicking over. Have fun!

5. Start Doing Graph Theory

vertex.degree — 613 points, 137 comments

Issue #24

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

blog.calif.io — 1,123 points, 732 comments

2. Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

kimi.ai — 1,096 points, 679 comments

https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models.html
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3-1-pro
https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/china-open-source-ai

3. Apple Music 404 Not Found

music.apple.com — 941 points, 278 comments

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/23/apple-music-has-a-hidde...

4. Root shell on Samsung TV

twitter.com — 858 points, 642 comments

Merged threads: "Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you": https://twitter.com/mike64_t/status/2114150399406202896 "Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events"…

5. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry

753 points, 270 comments

I posted here about the then-upcoming PHP RCEs related to CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619. I appreciate this has had considerable knock-on effects with the schedule for co-ordinated disclosure, and created additional workload. I am truly sorry. I take full responsibility for…

Issue #23

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

edjefferson.com — 1,719 points, 255 comments

2. Quad9 to exit France

quad9.net — 1,376 points, 479 comments

3. eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

emudhra.com — 1,157 points, 745 comments

4. Docker is weird

codeandcake.dev — 885 points, 370 comments

5. Jailbreaking the Switch 2

pepsipu.com — 839 points, 307 comments

Issue #22

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. PHP 8.2.35

github.com — 1,107 points, 581 comments

Related ongoing thread: Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50182987

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

scotthelme.co.uk — 957 points, 461 comments

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

thephp.foundation — 816 points, 405 comments

Related ongoing thread: PHP 8.2.35 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180873
(links to more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184935)

4. EA is shutting down BioWare

theverge.com — 709 points, 481 comments

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

cnbc.com — 701 points, 430 comments

https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/the-new-mexico-department-of...

Issue #21

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

github.com — 2,353 points, 892 comments

2. Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now

php.net — 1,561 points, 659 comments

https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167754

3. eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com — 1,281 points, 504 comments

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/10/20/protecting-fire...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2083449

4. Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits

permit.petercai.com — 940 points, 428 comments

5. Voxtral 3

mistral.ai — 770 points, 202 comments

Issue #20

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

redact.dev — 744 points, 222 comments

2. I built a drone with only one motor [video]

youtube.com — 677 points, 150 comments

3. Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system

wjcl.com — 650 points, 374 comments

4. Linux 7.3

lwn.net — 635 points, 301 comments

5. Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

628 points, 766 comments

I saw this LinkedIn post from a Meta engineer and it resonated with me: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-hamie_im-an-engineer-at-m... > I'm an engineer at Meta and I never felt this uncomfortable doing my job. I'm writing code these days and it all feels like a black box. This…

Issue #19

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

reddit.com — 695 points, 365 comments

2. DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

api-docs.deepseek.com — 607 points, 282 comments

3. Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

pele.run — 597 points, 63 comments

4. Starcraft: Ashfall

starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev — 592 points, 201 comments

5. Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers

github.com — 570 points, 162 comments

Issue #18

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked

twitter.com — 976 points, 185 comments

2. DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

huggingface.co — 959 points, 726 comments

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news261017/
https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017

3. It's still ok to enjoy programming

chriskiehl.com — 711 points, 652 comments

4. Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time

pv-magazine.com — 698 points, 454 comments

5. Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day

meidasnews.com — 650 points, 424 comments

Issue #17

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

anthropic.com — 1,066 points, 391 comments

https://words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/

2. What I self-host

viceconsole.fyi — 675 points, 433 comments

3. You could have invented transformers from memory

alexwang.ai — 670 points, 152 comments

https://twitter.com/heyyalexwang/status/2111158818730397932

4. Jev meets the Trolley Problem

zachlandes.com — 656 points, 264 comments

5. 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

mercor.com — 634 points, 581 comments

Issue #16

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Tesla Roadster

tesla.com — 1,645 points, 3,162 comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p5LxFdc-Qg
https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/2110788059008819215

2. Muse Spark Open

research.meta.ai — 922 points, 479 comments

https://dev.meta.ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse-spark-ope...
https://huggingface.co/meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B
https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/15/meta-launches-new-muse-spark-...

3. Neural networks are clean

already-clean.goodfire.com — 849 points, 344 comments

https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/2110757819427574056

4. Tiny Little Office

tinylittleoffice.com — 705 points, 202 comments

5. Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

github.com — 704 points, 282 comments

Issue #15

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Things to know when you get cancer

jjmaxwell4.com — 1,978 points, 479 comments

2. How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

not-ship.com — 954 points, 768 comments

3. Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts

csoonline.com — 952 points, 630 comments

4. OpenCode 2.0

anoma.ly — 890 points, 397 comments

5. Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

typeof.net — 756 points, 318 comments

Issue #14

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Gemini 4 Argon

deepmind.google — 1,467 points, 1,047 comments

See also: Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074869

2. Redesigning source control at Anthropic

anthropic.com — 900 points, 1,014 comments

3. Firefox Enterprise

firefox.com — 788 points, 331 comments

4. Apple HomeView

apple.com — 763 points, 920 comments

5. 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

github.com — 751 points, 446 comments

Issue #13

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

tomshardware.com — 918 points, 1,007 comments

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/french-supe... , https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crq5nzxv9q4yo , https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/10/12/french-s... Related: https://www.claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controlle... I think the military…

2. Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]

youtube.com — 877 points, 259 comments

3. AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

yyhh.org — 808 points, 608 comments

4. Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

bleepingcomputer.com — 796 points, 515 comments

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Crypto-thieves-sell-hardware-wa...
https://crypto.news/ledger-confirms-hidden-chip-in-crypto-wa...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JnHdr30v4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4FEFlgv3Q
https://www.tibane.net/research/ledger-nano-x-implant

5. A Modern Web App in C

prophitt.me — 716 points, 329 comments

Issue #12

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Passkeys are a trap

nonfunctional.substack.com — 1,150 points, 577 comments

2. Do dentists know what they're doing?

mapwriting.substack.com — 990 points, 707 comments

3. Fingerprints are the new cookies

royfish.dev — 753 points, 380 comments

4. The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

twitter.com — 730 points, 1,074 comments

5. Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

nanolathe.gg — 702 points, 271 comments

Issue #11

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Our $445M Series D

oxide.computer — 705 points, 342 comments

2. The Lightbulb Computer

lightbulbcomputer.com — 619 points, 99 comments

3. A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

housing.over.pizza — 558 points, 201 comments

4. Lobbying is corruption

carette.xyz — 528 points, 296 comments

5. US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

reuters.com — 523 points, 528 comments

Issue #10

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Triple-A Minesweeper

minesweeper.mikelacher.com — 1,449 points, 289 comments

2. Cloudflare acquires Deno

deno.com — 1,391 points, 728 comments

3. Sorry, I'm in a meeting

iminafleeting.com — 1,056 points, 289 comments

4. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

rea.tools — 814 points, 340 comments

5. YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

gizmodo.com — 709 points, 364 comments

Issue #9

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

cactuscompute.com — 964 points, 185 comments

2. Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

apnews.com — 945 points, 1,615 comments

3. Yes, and

htmx.org — 799 points, 309 comments

4. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years

778 points, 245 comments

Ten years ago I was 19 and traveling through East Africa, and I spent a summer in Ibumila, a village in the Njombe highlands of Tanzania. There's no school in the village. The nearest one is a boarding school an hour away that costs a few hundred dollars a year, which is out of…

5. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

bigwords.page — 728 points, 166 comments

Issue #8

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Margaret Hamilton has died

news.mit.edu — 2,123 points, 259 comments

2. Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

dgt.is — 1,141 points, 990 comments

3. Claude Haiku 5.5

anthropic.com — 1,049 points, 489 comments

4. Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

dexerto.com — 962 points, 575 comments

https://x.com/NomadsGalaxy/status/2107284088247689290

5. GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

openai.com — 761 points, 459 comments

Issue #7

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Mistral Large 4

mistral.ai — 2,044 points, 1,216 comments

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-large-4-0

2. Sharing AI progress in mathematics

openai.com — 1,363 points, 1,539 comments

https://github.com/openai/math
https://github.com/openai/math/tree/main/preprints

3. I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

antonfrolov.substack.com — 941 points, 209 comments

4. JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025

helgilibrary.com — 596 points, 567 comments

5. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

586 points, 349 comments

I am a developer of https://www.photopea.com, a popular photo editor that runs in a web browser. Many people are asking AI models to take the Javascript code from my website, remove all ads from it, and they publish such a "new product" on Github for everyone to download. There…

Issue #6

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Web Search API

developers.cloudflare.com — 596 points, 286 comments

2. ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

niemanlab.org — 559 points, 428 comments

3. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

reflection.ai — 556 points, 172 comments

4. Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data

cpr.dk — 510 points, 353 comments

5. Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

vals.ai — 495 points, 341 comments

Issue #5

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

github.com — 940 points, 420 comments

2. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

techspot.com — 840 points, 680 comments

3. Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

github.com — 775 points, 559 comments

4. Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

1011now.com — 530 points, 716 comments

5. The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

phoronix.com — 501 points, 108 comments

Issue #4

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

947 points, 222 comments

I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who's real name was Mark Stevens, was an early employee of Apple and was best known for his PBS documentaries, especially "Triumph of the Nerds". He will be missed.