top 50% hacker news stories for today

RPKI Now Protects 70% of Internet Routes, Up from 54% a Year Ago

https://ipinfo.io/blog/rpki-protects-70-internet-routes

41 minutes ago

16 upvotes – 0 comments

Tesla Debuts 2026 Roadster

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/business/tesla-roadster-2026-ev-sports-car.html

35 minutes ago

13 upvotes – 4 comments

Iran’s precision strikes picked apart Gulf infrastructure, blunting US war plans

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/iran-crisis-infrastructure-attacks/

56 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 1 comments

AI, Crypto and DEI Drove Marc Andreessen to MAGA

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-15/how-ai-crypto-and-dei-drove-marc-andreessen-to-maga

36 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 1 comments

Muse Spark Open

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open

7 hours ago

1 change
609 upvotes – 351 comments

Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-firm-digital-ads-enabling-installation-of-zero-click-spyware-researchers-say

12 hours ago

2 changes
499 upvotes – 1 comments

Neural networks are clean

https://already-clean.goodfire.com/

9 hours ago

2 changes
498 upvotes – 191 comments

Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk

12 hours ago

★ 781 C MIT
497 upvotes – 199 comments

AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware

https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/

14 hours ago

2 changes
388 upvotes – 555 comments

I know why the mathematicians weep

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/i-know-why-the-mathematicians-weep

11 hours ago

2 changes
343 upvotes – 567 comments

Jev meets the Trolley Problem

https://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem/

9 hours ago

1 change
301 upvotes – 145 comments

Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher

https://respawnfirst.com/steam-client-is-now-faster-than-epics-new-vibe-coded-launcher/

9 hours ago

1 change
285 upvotes – 287 comments

Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land

https://unfenced.land/

13 hours ago

257 upvotes – 183 comments

What I Self-Host

https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/

5 hours ago

256 upvotes – 157 comments

Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html

12 hours ago

252 upvotes – 153 comments

Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale

https://www.krea.ai/krea-3

9 hours ago

1 change
248 upvotes – 83 comments

I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one

https://snoutcover.com/one-year

9 hours ago

235 upvotes – 118 comments

An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online ads

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1011956/discover-tech-zero-click-ads-spyware

8 hours ago

233 upvotes – 9 comments

Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/news/simons-foundation-launches-15m-effort-to-help-mathematicians-navigate-ai-era/

10 hours ago

1 change
230 upvotes – 184 comments

Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

https://thereallo.dev/blog/someone-on-torrent-sites-kept-fucking-with-my-sonarr-setup

6 hours ago

228 upvotes – 103 comments

More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke

https://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke-2/

8 hours ago

1 change
221 upvotes – 72 comments

Why We're Banning AI

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai

7 hours ago

219 upvotes – 176 comments

Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran

https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/09-15-Fortran-birthday/

10 hours ago

1 change
216 upvotes – 94 comments

Why are we even doing all this?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/why-are-we-even-doing-all-this/

5 hours ago

167 upvotes – 131 comments

New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing

https://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/51887047154577-Unacceptable-Apple-Health-Sync-is-now-behind-a-99-year-paywall-for-new-accounts

5 hours ago

159 upvotes – 127 comments

E Ink Kaleido 4

https://www.eink.com/news/detail/EInk-Launches-Latest-Version-of-Color-ePaper-Platform-E-Ink-Kaleido-4

6 hours ago

2 changes
128 upvotes – 75 comments

C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions

https://www.cppstories.com/2026/cpp26_contracts/

12 hours ago

128 upvotes – 119 comments

Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive

https://morewrong.lol/?post=overdose-offsets-why-every-bag-of-fentanyl-i-sell-is-net-life-positive

1 day ago

126 upvotes – 30 comments

Siri is so bad at everything

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1x6gz83/siri_is_so_bad_at_everything/

10 hours ago

117 upvotes – 103 comments

AI was great until it was not

https://thetheorygirlie.substack.com/p/ai-was-great-until-it-was-not

17 hours ago

117 upvotes – 77 comments

An Apology

https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/an-apology

21 hours ago

108 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: Flipflop – Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing

https://github.com/andunieee/flipflop

21 hours ago

★ 145 Rust GPL-3.02 changes
108 upvotes – 61 comments

Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/10/15/aiandreverseengineerhardware/

10 hours ago

107 upvotes – 107 comments

The Double Headed Stack Allocator

https://blog.demofox.org/2026/10/03/the-double-headed-stack-allocator/

23 hours ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Proa – A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering

https://proa.so/

9 hours ago

1 change
90 upvotes – 26 comments

The technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC

https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026/resolution-5

9 hours ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

Israeli Firms Placed Spyware at Al Jazeera via Ads, Report Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-15/israeli-firms-placed-spyware-at-al-jazeera-via-ads-report-says

9 hours ago

85 upvotes – 1 comments

Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show

https://www.signalscorps.com/blog/prompt-injection-in-http-headers/

10 hours ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

We are entering a period of overlapping crises

https://hamishcampbell.com/we-are-entering-a-period-of-overlapping-crises/

6 hours ago

72 upvotes – 78 comments

The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend

https://www.theautopian.com/you-wont-believe-the-incredible-engineering-that-allows-articulated-buses-to-bend/

1 day ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

Muse Spark Open, the Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open

8 hours ago

71 upvotes – 1 comments

One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is

https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/how-old-are-leaders

22 hours ago

69 upvotes – 63 comments

Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2026-October/000330.html

13 hours ago

68 upvotes – 93 comments

Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/market-selloff-rising-rates-test-ai-data-centre-deal-boom-2026-10-15/

9 hours ago

68 upvotes – 78 comments

ICE's Lies About a Man Officer Ran over Undone by Footage from CCTV Camera

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/14/ices-lies-about-a-man-officer-ran-over-undone-by-footage-captured-by-nearby-cctv-camera/

7 hours ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/x-purges-13000-accounts-linked-to-suspected-meddling-ahead-of-us-midterms/5303234

12 hours ago

63 upvotes – 91 comments
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