top 20 hacker news stories for today

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

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

38 minutes ago

Elon Musk Just Threatened the Coming Democratic Majority

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

1 hour ago

Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France

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

10 hours ago

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

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Jailbreaking the Switch 2

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

17 hours ago

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

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

23 hours ago

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

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

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

15 hours ago

What’s getting pwned right now

https://pwn.watch/

11 hours ago

1 change

CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority

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

16 hours ago

Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions

https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-secret-negotiations

4 hours ago

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel

10 hours ago

★ 514 C 2 changes

Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest

https://www.techspot.com/news/114100-google-cleared-300-hectares-finnish-forest-data-center.html

9 hours ago

The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf

22 hours ago

1 change

OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents

https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell

7 hours ago

★ 17.7k Rust Apache-2.01 change

Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-threat-intelligence-identifies-php2shell-exploitation-prior-to-public-disclosure-in-madpot/

13 hours ago

Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LKML-New-Trend-Vulnerabilities

14 hours ago

Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-take-on-humans

9 hours ago

MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/gambling-ads-restrictions-canada-9.7388888

11 hours ago

1 change

OpenAI CLI

https://github.com/openai/openai-cli

20 hours ago

★ 1k Go Apache-2.0
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