Saturday, 31 October 2026
74 stories filed.
Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust
A meteorite found in the Sahara is a rare piece of Mars' ancient crust.
PostgreSQL 19 Running Behind Schedule Due To AI/LLM Burden
The PostgreSQL database server typically sees its annual feature release every September~October, but it's not coming until at least November if not longer this year. Due to the increased developer burden due to increased bug reporting and patches via AI/LLM activity, the PostgreSQL developers have been overwhelmed...
Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.
Ubuntu 27.04 "Tenacious T-Rex" Opens For Development
Following this month's release of Ubuntu 26.10, Ubuntu 27.04 development formally got underway today...
Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/59383c7f-8d82-493f-bf01-d2e862a1018f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307219 Points: 108 # Comments: 36
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Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
Applying for FAFSA may get messy as DOJ “ghost student” crackdown ramps up.
GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement
$220 million? For all of you? Yeah, we can probably dig that up ...
A Working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen Weights
Article URL: https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306442 Points: 102 # Comments: 83
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Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise… couldn't be us
Claudeshop fingers 'malicious actor' in targeted supply-chain attack on Cursor
Analysts find looming launch crisis is "more severe" than anticipated
There's no evidence that Starship will launch traditional satellites, either.
AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
Article URL: https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/ai-isnt-replacing-sres-its-deskilling Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305693 Points: 335 # Comments: 254
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Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX
Article URL: https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305637 Points: 102 # Comments: 19
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The federated code forge
Article URL: https://tangled.org/blog/forge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305573 Points: 129 # Comments: 48
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Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/30/g-s1-150902/blockchain-intelligence-firms-link-north-korea-to-6-3b-hack-on-binance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305480 Points: 131 # Comments: 76
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Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment
Whew! Only kidding, here I am
AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Looks Like It Will Be In Good Shape With Linux 7.4, Laptop Improvements
The x86 platform driver changes were merged this week to the Linux 7.4 kernel ahead of the merge window closing this weekend...
Northflank Breached
Article URL: https://status.northflank.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305025 Points: 225 # Comments: 137
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AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS
Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland
Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
Article URL: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/123553?trw=no Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304419 Points: 231 # Comments: 218
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NASA ponders a Hubble servicing mission or a controlled deorbit
Agency only looking for information, but reentry countdown ticking for veteran space telescope
GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data
Owners of GM cars found their driving data had been sold to insurance companies.
Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record crypto heist
Binance scrambles to freeze billions after record-breaking hack linked to North Korea.
AI projects not paying off? Keep at it, says Uni Productivity Institute
All that up-front investment needs time to take effect, and speeding individual tasks won't necessarily boost the entire firm
The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303172 Points: 256 # Comments: 177
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NHS quango warns of risk to GP patient data after website vendor collapse
Hundreds of practices hit by small health tech firm going into administration
Another Week, Another Vibe Coded OS; Closed-Source In The Name Of Security
With today's AI/LLM capabilities, there is almost a new operating system heard about each week "coded from scratch" predominantly via AI agents. This week was no exception with another project hitting our email inbox. Though most of them are open-source, this one is closed-source in the name of security...
2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: Drives like an EV, but there's no plug involved
Nissan’s series hybrid e-Power system has been retuned for American roads.
British intelligence agency misplaced 'thousands' of storage devices, years later still can't say how many
Other agency errors included an unchecked software bug that led to Terrorism Act detentions
Review: You Can See Everything blurs the view of Elizabeth Holmes' deceit
Disgraced founder of Theranos has some people falling for her act all over again.
Rocket Report: Winter is coming for Themis; Cowboy Space adds iron to the fire
It's been a good week for ULA, with big NASA contract, Vulcan nearing return-to-flight.
Accenture AI agents are sifting through applicants
But a human makes final hiring decisions at global tech consultancy
AMD PerfOpt Makes it Into Linux 7.4 As A Nice Performance Boost For AMD iGPUs
As anticipated, the AMD PerfOpt feature was picked up for the Linux 7.4 kernel. As shown already in multiple Phoronix benchmarks, AMD PerfOpt makes for a nice performance boost for AMD integrated graphics, especially for AI workloads...
Domestic droid gone amok? Don't worry, you're covered
Insurance firms look to insulate domestic humanoid robot owners against the inevitable chaos they will bring
Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises
Article URL: https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301854 Points: 213 # Comments: 38
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Apple Silicon Linux Driver Adapted To Help Older Intel-Powered Macs
The Linux kernel's "macsmc" driver was developed for supporting the system management controller (SMC) on Apple Silicon Macs for supporting the light sensor, fan control, and other sensors. That macsmc driver now is seeing work to extend it for better supporting older Intel-powered Macs...
Vulkan 1.4.367 Released With VK_KHR_maintenance12
Vulkan 1.4.367 is out this morning as the newest spec revision for this high performance graphics and compute API...
I3C Hub & HDR-DDR Support Merged For Linux 7.4
The I3C changes for Linux 7.4 were submitted this week by Bootlin's Alexandre Belloni and subsequently merged...
UK Shelly reseller warns payment data stolen after malware found on website
Customer says they received fraudulent charges on their card hours before company notified them
Google's search revenue Ferrari hits an AI-powered speed bump
Just wait 'til we add more AI and this thing'll really fly
Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
https://cursor.com/blog/claude-code-extension-security-notic... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300683 Points: 546 # Comments: 396
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Farm PC 'maintained' by a 14-year-old dumped support chap in a steaming pile of tech mess
Human users can be hard to handle. A few hundred head of cattle and unsupported windows XP can really stink things up
AWS installs an AI accelerator every 14 seconds and eyes $1 trillion annual revenue
Before long, we could be writing about a cloud company with a retail side hustle
In the year AI re-wrote the infosec rulebook, it’s comforting to know crypto exchanges still have bad security
Binance freezes funny money after compromise of engineer’s laptop linked to $6.3 billion of unauthorized trades
PC chip plunge wipes out a quarter of Intel’s value
CEO predicts massive datacenter CPU boom, coming soon, but production problems mean Chipzilla may not cash in
Herdr has released native app
Article URL: https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298436 Points: 332 # Comments: 225
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RISC-V Has A Nice Portable Performance Optimization With Linux 7.4
The RISC-V architecture changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel with one nice optimization standing out...
Researchers find bugs in 5 AI developer tools, with OpenAI and Microsoft flaws still unpatched
Embedded browsers are at the heart of the problem
Fedora Linux 45 Shipping Next Week On 3 November
Fedora 45 is ready to ship! It will be formally released on Tuesday, 3 November...
Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says
Reddit's search traffic "was down meaningfully" last quarter.
Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines
The latest update also brings a cloud recovery option for PCs that won't boot.
Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine
Inspector general rejected request from Democratic and Republican senators.
Howler will have AI answer your questions, then burn the chat
Ask AI dumb things and leave no local chat history, all with the style of a kids' fantasy novel – or rather, one of its magical letters
Startup wants to make AI agents safe for DevOps duty
Infrastructure automation needs something better than prompt and pray
Topcoat enables Rust to render server-side web apps
Rust guru rejiggers web app reactivity for potentially speedier page loading
Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
President orders trade talks on foreign-made factory robots, threatens tariffs.
Trump ignored intel on China’s Nvidia spy to protect company’s stock, report says
Spy accused of exploiting Trump ties to Huang, funneling secrets to China.
Turning a solar power system into its own backup
Plant design allows it to run on either stored solar heat or combustion.
Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
Charges filed as Trump admin tries to save Kalshi from Utah's total ban on gambling.
F2FS Adds Opt-In Multi-Grain Timestamps With Linux 7.4, Other Improvements
The F2FS (Flash Friendly File-System) improvements have been merged for Linux 7.4 to further enhance this flash-optimized solution...
Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads
Google's negative cash flow balloons to -$9.06 billion, and stock price tumbles following Q3 earnings.
NVIDIA Vera Single vs. Dual Socket CPU Performance
For those curious how NVIDIA Vera is scaling between single and dual socket deployments, here are some benchmarks I carried out a while back exploring the power and performance from one to two Vera CPUs.
Massive leak exposes 41,000 DHS workers and undercover ICE agents
The leak reveals undercover agents, surveillance groups, and sensitive DHS access.
Linux 7.4 Networking Brings Hardware Pacing Offload, New Drivers & More Performance
The many Linux wired and wireless networking driver improvements were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window....
SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that's a problem for America's space agency
"NASA desperately needs SpaceX, and SpaceX knows it, and Elon knows it."
AMD's ROCm HRX Loom v0.1 Released For Targeting AMD CPUs, GPUs & NPUs
At this year's AMD Advancing AI event Hyperloom was announced among the ROCm improvements to expect. Hyperloom aims for agentic workload optimizations and more with quote powerful abilities if everything works out right. As part of the latest round of ROCm advancements, the Loom SDK v0.1 release was released today...
FAT32 File-System Seeing As Much As 265x Improvement With Linux 7.4
A change merged for Linux 7.4 is showing some mighty big speed-ups for the FAT32 file-system...
Graphics/NPU Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing Up For What Will Be Linux 7.5
Since last week drm-misc-next pull requests have already been sent out to DRM-Next to begin staging new feature code for what's intended for the Linux 7.5 kernel cycle kicking off at the end of the year...
KSMBD Adds New Options With Linux 7.4
A number of improvements to KSMBD, the in-kernel SMB3 file server, were merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel...
GXVK: 3Dfx Glide API Implemented Atop Vulkan For Modern Usage
The open-source D7VK project that implements the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for faster, modern performance is out with a new release. This new D7VK 2.4 release came as a bit of a surprise since it was just last month D7VK announced its maturity status and more or less in maintenance mode. But brought up in today's D7VK 2.4 announcement is an even bigger surprise: there's now…
ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th
This Vulcan launch will be first to use a full complement of 6 solid rocket boosters.
Linux Kernel Developers Considering Removal Of KGDB Debugging Functionality
Merged to the kernel all the way back in Linux 2.6.26 in 2008 was KGDB for improving the kernel debugging experience. KGDB works in conjunction with the GNU Debugger (GDB) to debug the kernel in a similar fashion to user-space debugging. KGDB requires the use of a second computer connected via serial or network cable.
System76 Introducing AMD-Powered Linux Small PC
System76 began teasing today the new Thelio Prime Desktop as an AMD-powered Linux mini PC that will begin shipping in November...
Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/20/gilgamesh-by-simon-armitage-review-an-ancient-epic-is-brilliantly-translated-for-our-times Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263127 Points: 168 # Comments: 51
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Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261026-00/?p=112797/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251070 Points: 108 # Comments: 58
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