top 50% hacker news stories for today

The era of speedball capitalism has dawned

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/09/30/the-era-of-speedball-capitalism-has-dawned

51 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 1 comments

LiteLLM Security Update

https://docs.litellm.ai/blog/security-incident-oct-21-2026

37 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 0 comments

Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10/tesla-profits-drop-43-in-q3/

37 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

PHP 8.2.35

https://github.com/php/php-src/releases/tag/php-8.2.35

11 hours ago

★ 40.6k C BSD-3-Clause2 changes
970 upvotes – 534 comments

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

https://scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-of-trust-emudhras-ca-keys-cracked-in-milliseconds/

16 hours ago

1 change
842 upvotes – 403 comments

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

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-php-security/

9 hours ago

4 changes
677 upvotes – 335 comments

The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable

https://unric.org/en/unep-emissions-gap-report-2026-1-5-degree-overshoot/

16 hours ago

614 upvotes – 748 comments

The Future of CSS

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interop-2027/

23 hours ago

595 upvotes – 262 comments

EA is shutting down BioWare

https://www.theverge.com/games/1015647/ea-is-shutting-down-bioware

8 hours ago

522 upvotes – 313 comments

The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/accident-or-not-the-no-kings-takedown-is-why-you-shouldnt-rent-your-megaphone-from-zuck/

11 hours ago

493 upvotes – 475 comments

PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP

https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rce

11 hours ago

1 change
434 upvotes – 172 comments

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/

11 hours ago

434 upvotes – 141 comments

Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/meta-muse-exposes-users-personal-and-business-secrets-when-they-share-conversations/

1 day ago

380 upvotes – 163 comments

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

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html

7 hours ago

1 change
370 upvotes – 228 comments

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

https://duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announcing-duckdb-200

11 hours ago

1 change
361 upvotes – 45 comments

Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/

6 hours ago

2 changes
315 upvotes – 93 comments

Claude Duet

https://claude.com/product/claude-duet

6 hours ago

314 upvotes – 272 comments

Railway Security Disclosure

https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st

3 hours ago

1 change
300 upvotes – 146 comments

PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out

https://www.php.net/index.php

11 hours ago

276 upvotes – 2 comments

Dutch National Cyber Security Center is Offline because it uses PHP

https://www.ncsc.nl/actueel

13 hours ago

267 upvotes – 94 comments

GitLab Critical Patch Release

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/

6 hours ago

2 changes
246 upvotes – 58 comments

Qwen3-Coder writes less secure code when told it's for a US persona

https://www.hirundo.io/blog/qwen3-coder-vulnerabilities

13 hours ago

239 upvotes – 117 comments

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

https://openai.com/index/openai-models-google-cloud/

12 hours ago

238 upvotes – 99 comments

Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities

https://openai.com/index/coordinated-disclosure-of-critical-vulnerabilities/

11 hours ago

2 changes
234 upvotes – 160 comments

Meta hit with $25B penalty for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook

https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/the-new-mexico-department-of-justice-secures-another-landmark-victory-against-big-tech-with-historic-25-billion-penalty-against-facebook/

6 hours ago

206 upvotes – 2 comments

Google's Rust Style Guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/rustguide.html

6 hours ago

203 upvotes – 116 comments

Good type against all odds

https://unsung.aresluna.org/good-type-against-all-odds/

23 hours ago

197 upvotes – 20 comments

Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/10/20/whatever-happened-to-fire-escapes

15 hours ago

187 upvotes – 154 comments

PHP session.upload_progress heap UAF (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)

https://jackalsyn.com/posts/php-up-2026.html

21 hours ago

1 change
184 upvotes – 62 comments

Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin

https://apnews.com/article/oregon-waterfall-for-sale-lawmakers-996de63462d49ec3ad9bee1629fb9488

10 hours ago

169 upvotes – 83 comments

mitmproxy adds --emudhra option

https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3b

1 hour ago

★ 45.8k Python MIT
153 upvotes – 35 comments

C# now beats Rust on WASM size

https://github.com/zion-sati/NetWasm

22 hours ago

★ 231 C#
153 upvotes – 102 comments

Most advice is right for the person giving it

https://coached.com/essays/most-advice-is-right-for-the-person-giving-it/

12 hours ago

144 upvotes – 144 comments

In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-hilbert-space-all-things-are-quantumly-possible-20260826/

23 hours ago

141 upvotes – 76 comments

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability

https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/

2 hours ago

138 upvotes – 58 comments

Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data

https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-research-for-complex-biological-data/

12 hours ago

1 change
134 upvotes – 84 comments

Canary Tokens

https://canarytokens.org/

6 hours ago

1 change
131 upvotes – 22 comments

Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code

https://www.anthropic.com/research/attack-surface-reduction

22 hours ago

130 upvotes – 85 comments

Plex laid off the whole player team

https://forums.plex.tv/t/2026-20-0-beta-ios-and-tvos-4k-dovi-hdr10-won-t-play-infinite-spinning-circle/943966?page=5

6 hours ago

116 upvotes – 89 comments

Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmreyvepnv0po

6 hours ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

PHP web runtimes (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-143-aws/

4 hours ago

★ 629 HTML 2 changes
107 upvotes – 26 comments

Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability

https://blog.cloudflare.com/php-vulnerabilities-waf-protection/

11 hours ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic

https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2026/9/18/new-form-plastic-pollution-discovered-shores-vulnerable-coral-reefs

9 hours ago

100 upvotes – 37 comments

The compiler was supposed to end programming too

https://hrih.si/articles/the-compiler-was-supposed-to-end-programming/

7 hours ago

94 upvotes – 134 comments

Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID

https://nmattia.com/posts/2026-10-19-setting-up-ssh-keys-touch-id/

21 hours ago

88 upvotes – 46 comments

Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1015844/airbnb-chores-house-rules-update

2 hours ago

80 upvotes – 53 comments

What I learned from six months of being stupid on purpose

https://wvez.org/blog/learning-to-be-stupid/

9 hours ago

75 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework

https://github.com/vladocar/Sumi.css

12 hours ago

★ 119 HTML MIT
73 upvotes – 18 comments

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

https://buford.bg/

9 hours ago

72 upvotes – 48 comments

LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents

https://layerfs.ai/

13 hours ago

69 upvotes – 42 comments

Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era

https://rustoffrails.org/

9 hours ago

67 upvotes – 74 comments
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