top 50% hacker news stories for today

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/

17 hours ago

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Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117528831681803563

13 hours ago

US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech

https://progressives.house.gov/2026/10/reps-casar-waters-lead-democratic-resolution-opposing-a-i-bubble-bailout-for-big-tech-commit-to-protecting-american-people-instead

12 hours ago

elect.horse

https://elect.horse/

15 hours ago

AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them

https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/ai-isnt-replacing-sres-its-deskilling

8 hours ago

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Claude Code VS Code extension with backdoor released on Cursor marketplace

https://doublepulsar.com/anthropic-hacked-to-deliver-remote-access-trojan-to-claude-developer-laptops-worldwide-1148a92baae2

14 hours ago

1 change

Herdr has released native app

https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app

23 hours ago

★ 914 Rust Apache-2.0

Northflank Breached

https://status.northflank.com

9 hours ago

The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/

11 hours ago

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Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says

https://www.ft.com/content/59383c7f-8d82-493f-bf01-d2e862a1018f

7 hours ago

Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/123553?trw=no

10 hours ago

Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case

14 hours ago

Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'

https://www.404media.co/protons-ceo-cancels-ai-re-interviews/

7 hours ago

US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvwy72e0n72yo

8 hours ago

My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/

7 hours ago

The federated code forge

https://tangled.org/blog/forge/

8 hours ago

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Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium

8 hours ago

★ 596 Lua MIT

Bunny CDN Security Incident

https://status.bunny.net/incidents/p6gf1by9kr7m

5 hours ago

Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/30/g-s1-150902/blockchain-intelligence-firms-link-north-korea-to-6-3b-hack-on-binance

8 hours ago

Pico CSS is no longer maintained

https://github.com/picocss/pico/discussions/754

22 hours ago

★ 16.8k CSS MIT

ICE wants its mask back, and hired a company to ask

https://blog.flokinet.is/2026/10/29/ice-wants-its-mask-back-and-hired-a-company-to-ask/

9 hours ago

Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights

https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer

7 hours ago

★ 149 Python 1 change

Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/29/metro/patrick-stewart-picard-star-trek-the-next-generation/

4 hours ago

GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/pwxsjgnvrk6b

6 hours ago

Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301479

15 hours ago

Linode Security Incident

https://status.linode.com/incidents/nt58zhx3pmgm

2 hours ago

Cormac McCarthy's Library

https://cormacmccarthy.lib.utk.edu/

1 day ago

French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax

https://www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-numerique/netflix-steam-cloud-vos-abonnements-et-telechargements-bientot-plus-chers-a-cause-d-une-nouvelle-taxe-n264035.html

6 hours ago

Polymarket 1h halt after vendor compromise; affected users will be 'made whole'

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/polymarket-trading-halt-hack-wallets-rcna606405

9 hours ago

Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites

https://twitter.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/2116062991686721968

10 hours ago

Infinite Mac: BeOS

https://blog.persistent.info/2026/10/infinite-mac-beos.html

5 hours ago

French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit

https://twitter.com/videolan/status/2116229135919919278

5 hours ago

Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code

https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-rewrite-legacy-code-entry-level-jobs/

10 hours ago

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'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/oct/30/uk-house-price-growth-crypto-industry-6bn-binance-hack-eurozone-france-gdp-latest-news-updates

16 hours ago

France is getting download tax for content providers (€0.055/GB)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/france-is-getting-download-tax-for-content-providers-%E2%82%AC0-055-gb-for-data-delivered-to-french-users.1675109/

2 hours ago

AO3 Down for Maintenance

https://www.otwstatus.org

3 hours ago

1 change

Intel plunges 25%, triggers global chip rout on bleak outlook

https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-warning-sparks-chip-rout-pc-weakness-clouds-turnaround-2026-10-30/

10 hours ago

The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-climate-culture/the-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-the-stone-age-is-emerging-from-the-melting-ice/2713921

4 hours ago

Show HN: I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter cat

https://catcopter.com

9 hours ago

I didn't know I was lacking in Vitamin D until I collapsed at work

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm78pxxe55v0o

8 hours ago

How do you take a picture of a black hole?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-20261029/

14 hours ago

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Geist Serif

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-serif

8 hours ago

Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM

https://frvr.com/blog/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-its-terrible-to-have-everybody-have-a-bunch-of-the-worlds-limited-supply-of-dram-instead-of-shoving-it-all-in-datacentres/

8 hours ago

Jules Verne's Lost Novel

https://blue-continuum.com/verne-paris

4 hours ago

Massie, Khanna, and Others Introduce the "Epstein Files Transparency Act II"

https://massie.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=395849

10 hours ago

CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation

https://www.penligent.ai/hackinglabs/cve-2026-98432/

21 hours ago

Show HN: Arsaze – Cursor for video editing (Tab-complete and agent edits)

https://www.arsaze.com

17 hours ago

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