top 50% hacker news stories for today

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

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

37 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 3 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

994 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
925 upvotes – 626 comments

Jailbreaking the Switch 2

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

17 hours ago

718 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

490 upvotes – 505 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 – 153 comments

What’s getting pwned right now

https://pwn.watch/

11 hours ago

1 change
340 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

Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions

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

4 hours ago

325 upvotes – 133 comments

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

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

10 hours ago

★ 514 C 2 changes
321 upvotes – 124 comments

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

316 upvotes – 231 comments

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
301 upvotes – 282 comments

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
295 upvotes – 152 comments

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

249 upvotes – 93 comments

Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list

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

14 hours ago

238 upvotes – 86 comments

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

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

9 hours ago

231 upvotes – 293 comments

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
230 upvotes – 120 comments

OpenAI CLI

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

20 hours ago

★ 1k Go Apache-2.0
230 upvotes – 109 comments

A farewell to Arc browser

https://arc.net/

9 hours ago

3 changes
228 upvotes – 208 comments

Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany

https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-13.html

9 hours ago

226 upvotes – 85 comments

Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms

https://globus.software/blog/2026/10/16/cutting-map-polygons/

15 hours ago

201 upvotes – 38 comments

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/xbox-wants-you-to-pay-24-to-40-cents-per-hour-to-stream-games-you-already-bought/

13 hours ago

199 upvotes – 198 comments

Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc

https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2026/2026fca1552

23 hours ago

1 change
186 upvotes – 136 comments

Crystal 1.22

https://crystal-lang.org/2026/10/12/1.22.0-released/

12 hours ago

2 changes
168 upvotes – 86 comments

A complete bypass of eMudhra’s 1FA OTP login system

https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/117475976434068995

6 hours ago

1 change
155 upvotes – 46 comments

Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool

https://github.com/maxilevi/project-hedra/tree/pre-ai

6 hours ago

★ 106 C# GPL-3.0
130 upvotes – 28 comments

AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

7 hours ago

109 upvotes – 64 comments

The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums

https://lastmuseum.com/

12 hours ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50194909

12 hours ago

105 upvotes – 2 comments

LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale

https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification

2 hours ago

94 upvotes – 39 comments

Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3

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

1 day ago

86 upvotes – 55 comments

Claude Now Works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-now-works-in-google-docs-sheets-and-slides

23 hours ago

85 upvotes – 11 comments

Docker is weird

https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird

1 hour ago

1 change
79 upvotes – 25 comments

AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation

https://www.biograph.com/newsroom/biograph-completes-first-u.s.-study-with-caristo-diagnostics%E2%80%99-ai-powered-coronary-inflammation-detection-finding-risk-in-over-42-of-asymptomatic-patients

7 hours ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI

https://www.typeui.sh/micro-interactions

6 hours ago

68 upvotes – 42 comments

I can't believe PowerShell is good

https://www.spacebar.news/powershell-is-actually-good/

21 hours ago

66 upvotes – 78 comments
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