top 50% hacker news stories for today

AI in UX: Work Is Faster, but Practitioners Have Mixed Feelings

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-in-ux-survey-26/

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone

9 hours ago

1 change
747 upvotes – 501 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro

8 hours ago

3 changes
724 upvotes – 458 comments

Apple Music 404 Not Found

https://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-exist

13 hours ago

592 upvotes – 191 comments

Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers

https://www.kadoa.com/energy-prices/insights/investor-owned-utilities

12 hours ago

526 upvotes – 384 comments

Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

https://keepandroidopen.org/?

12 hours ago

1 change
479 upvotes – 329 comments

Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier

https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/disney-plus-price-hike-ads-premium-tier-nielsen-emmys-2026/

17 hours ago

415 upvotes – 434 comments

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

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

1 day ago

360 upvotes – 250 comments

Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude

https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/chat-gpt-och-claude-forbjuder-regeringskansliet

14 hours ago

315 upvotes – 117 comments

Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone

https://twitter.com/jaredkushner/status/2113376217415958767

15 hours ago

288 upvotes – 188 comments

Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1017600/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-policy-ads-update

6 hours ago

277 upvotes – 144 comments

Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built

https://block.xyz/dessa

6 hours ago

234 upvotes – 99 comments

eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2083449

11 hours ago

193 upvotes – 152 comments

Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching)

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/pull/2165

17 hours ago

★ 1.1k Shell 1 change
182 upvotes – 142 comments

OpenSSL 4.1.0

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/tag/openssl-4.1.0

13 hours ago

★ 31k C Apache-2.0
180 upvotes – 62 comments

Move Slow and Fix Things (2024)

https://endler.dev/2024/move-slow-and-fix-things/

20 hours ago

1 change
170 upvotes – 31 comments

Job loss and cortisone mania

https://tilschuenemann.de/job-loss-cortisone-mania

15 hours ago

1 change
168 upvotes – 113 comments

No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/skip-retirement-for-utopia/

14 hours ago

153 upvotes – 169 comments

Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/hacker-leaks-281-gb-data-germany-afd

12 hours ago

151 upvotes – 104 comments

Is this the new cyber normal?

https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/is-this-the-new-cyber-normal/

14 hours ago

151 upvotes – 164 comments

This I Believe (1952)

https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=468

23 hours ago

1 change
149 upvotes – 79 comments

Shitter – A Nitter Fork

https://codeberg.org/shitter/shitter

12 hours ago

★ 141 Nim
147 upvotes – 143 comments

The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden

https://berget.ai/en/blog/per-request-co2-press-release

19 hours ago

140 upvotes – 154 comments

Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for use at border

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/21/politics/heat-ray-weapon-dhs-pentagon

11 hours ago

126 upvotes – 139 comments

Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?

https://david.lequin.dev/blog/bi-software-is-dead/

8 hours ago

120 upvotes – 73 comments

We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970

https://thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev/we-are-all-living-inside-of-an-obscure-sci-fi-film-from-1970/

6 hours ago

116 upvotes – 114 comments

Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3-1-pro

7 hours ago

115 upvotes – 38 comments

UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does

https://alexsci.com/blog/uuidv7-is-weird/

9 hours ago

112 upvotes – 94 comments

Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy

https://bottlecapai.com/post/thinkingcap-gemma-4-26b/

11 hours ago

104 upvotes – 25 comments

CVE Tracker

https://cve.0xosprey.com/

4 hours ago

103 upvotes – 39 comments

The rise and fall of Jev hype

https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/rise-and-fall-of-jev-eval-hype-vs-llm

16 hours ago

1 change
88 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart

https://github.com/anubhavmalhotra/r2d2-tv

1 day ago

★ 51 Python MIT
87 upvotes – 66 comments

How is music possible

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/music

9 hours ago

1 change
85 upvotes – 68 comments

Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases in Middle East

https://meidasnews.com/news/so-much-worse-than-people-realize-never-before-seen-images-reveal-damage-at-u-s-bases-as-troops-describe-being-abandoned

1 day ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50204125

22 hours ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in node, Python, and more

https://nitter.click/AikidoSecurity/status/2113759110625906950?__galadriel=lPmlGl9id4oAd5UeBwMhlYKArHyr6lR2IDGujPwB5HV2kQ1aLoPWFd5A9sGuzNcmrp8fUso8qygmHcKTDZ8MNHWqQ3bDJcycV87xp_0VypzQLYj6O_RRHlZuQqj33oASGY2YLSoAiMjeOZN40h7Stf8AG7DPrGZbAPVKUXy36HoMudRbvwF3_r2uYNmfJMhpKzywQDM6Ab8

2 hours ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

Securing our frontier model training environment

https://openai.com/index/securing-our-frontier-model-training-environment/

6 hours ago

1 change
74 upvotes – 92 comments

Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left

https://www.techpowerup.com/354081/sony-retires-its-last-4k-blu-ray-player-in-japan-ps5-is-all-thats-left

6 hours ago

72 upvotes – 65 comments

Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-impersonates-dead-florida-man-moved-into-home-rcna604844

6 hours ago

68 upvotes – 45 comments

I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen

https://twitter.com/robbietilton/status/2111936458923851923

8 hours ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

Jared Kushner's Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations

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

15 hours ago

1 change
65 upvotes – 9 comments

I Did This Without Your Knowledge

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3375SZNGA5dKHQMie/i-did-this-without-your-knowledge

20 hours ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

France needs to read my paper

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/10/23/france-needs-to-read-my-paper/

15 hours ago

63 upvotes – 104 comments

Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

https://www.jefftk.com/p/air-purifiers-as-white-noise-machines

8 hours ago

62 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

https://swurf.org/

18 hours ago

59 upvotes – 28 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro

https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro

8 hours ago

59 upvotes – 2 comments

The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025)

https://isaacmarovitz.com/posts/sonic-06/

9 hours ago

1 change
59 upvotes – 18 comments
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