top 10 hacker news stories for today

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html

39 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 4 comments

Elon Musk Just Threatened the Coming Democratic Majority

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/elon-musk-just-threatened-the-coming

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France

https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/

10 hours ago

997 upvotes – 359 comments

eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business

11 hours ago

1 change
927 upvotes – 627 comments

Jailbreaking the Switch 2

https://pepsipu.com/blog/2026-10-switch2-jailbreak-ns2jb/

17 hours ago

719 upvotes – 250 comments

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/

23 hours ago

504 upvotes – 156 comments

Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened

https://www.techspot.com/news/114296-woman-spends-three-nights-jail-faces-six-years.html

12 hours ago

492 upvotes – 506 comments

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50193416

15 hours ago

365 upvotes – 156 comments

What’s getting pwned right now

https://pwn.watch/

11 hours ago

1 change
342 upvotes – 159 comments

CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-111943

16 hours ago

332 upvotes – 118 comments
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