Residential proxies detected on White House network

Researchers discovered residential proxy activity on AS2650, a network registered to the White House. This suggests that devices infected with proxy SDKs are accessing internal systems late at night.

Insects don't swarm at LED lights

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Insects are attracted to outdoor lights, but LED lights emit less UV light than incandescent or fluorescent lights, making them less appealing. This reduced attraction can help mitigate disturbances to wildlife and insect-borne diseases.

Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding

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Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose language model that achieves US open-weight state-of-the-art (80.52) on agentic coding, trained from scratch for $32M. The model is designed to be efficient and scalable, with a dense architecture and optimized training recipe.

AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

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A major PHP2Shell vulnerability was discovered in late October, putting numerous websites at risk of data breaches and malware installation. A patch has been released, but experts warn that this may be a canary in the coal mine for future AI-driven vulnerabilities.

A new Go API for JSON

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The Go standard library has updated its JSON support with a new version, v2, which addresses several issues and improves performance. The new encoding/json/v2 package provides a more flexible and efficient way to marshal and unmarshal JSON data in Go.

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s

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The Qualcomm AI Inference Suite is a comprehensive software solution for on-premises and cloud deployments, offering ready-to-use AI applications and tools for operationalizing generative AI. It supports various APIs, frameworks, and services for building enterprise-grade chatbots, co-pilots, and AI agents.

Progress on provable inference for large language models

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Researchers at Anthropic have developed a system called FlashProve, which enables provable inference for large language models. The system uses zero-knowledge succinct arguments (zkSNARKs) to prove that a response came from the specific model requested by the user.

Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

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The RTX Spark laptop's GPU is underpowered when running Linux due to a lack of power management firmware, causing it to run at 780 MHz instead of 2 GHz. A dual-boot setup using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) provides better performance and avoids the throttling issue.

Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander

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The author created a multiplayer version of the classic game Wing Commander using DOSBox and WebRTC, allowing players to connect and play together online. The project involved reverse-engineering the game's memory layout and writing custom code to control player movement and interactions.

Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor

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Conductor Is Joining Meta

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Conductor was launched in July 2025, and the team has big plans for its next interface. Conductor will continue to work normally until early next year, with Conductor Cloud shutting down over the next few weeks.

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company

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OpenAI is acquiring Pierre Computer Company, Inc to build on its Git workflows and adapt them for coding agents. The acquisition aims to advance the future of source control across the industry with Codex as a central platform.

Tencent Hy4

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Hy4 is a major leap forward in open-source models, offering vision capabilities and significant gains in instruction following, long-context understanding, and more. It supports vision perception for the first time and has been integrated into various products to improve financial research, office document tasks, game development, and team collaboration.

Ask HN: What Cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds?

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Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements

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Welcome to part 3 of the Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor blog series. In this part I’ll go over what happened after I released the PoC for Bad Update, and how it went from taking ~20 minutes with a ~30% success rate to being near instantaneous with a near 100% success rate. If you haven’t already I highly recommend you read (or at least skim through) part 1 and part 2 as this post will ...

AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history

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AMD reports its highest quarterly revenue ever, driven by strong demand for Epyc data center processors and Instinct AI accelerators. The company expects Q4 revenue to reach $17 billion, surpassing Intel's forecast for the first time in history.

Show HN: I built a tool that prices a prebuilt PC part by part

PC Deal Check is a tool that helps users compare computer prices by analyzing retailer listings and estimating component costs. It provides a report with the deal's grade, estimated parts cost, and price comparison to help users make informed purchasing decisions.

Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives across 44 ports

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Strip a program of every name, every comment, every line of readable text. What's left is its shape: how long each function is, how often it branches, which parts of the program call which. That shape, it turns out, works like a fingerprint. DOOM is the perfect place to test it. When id Software released the game's source code in 1997 (the version known as linuxdoom), programmers ...

Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers

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Jessica Hullman argues that the value-free ideal in science, prioritizing correctness over understanding and accountability, is flawed. She believes this ideal distorts how we seek truth and threatens human capacities that sustain science.

North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

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North Korean hackers used social engineering tactics, including fake job interviews and malware downloads, to breach Binance's systems before a record-breaking $6.3 billion heist. The attack involved multiple stages and techniques, including compromised internal AI tooling and endpoint takeover.

Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

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GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues.

Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)

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Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

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Kimi K3.1 Pro is a multimodal agentic model that delivers improvements in coding, 3D creation, and factual accuracy compared to its predecessor Kimi K3. It uses Gated DeepSeek Sparse Attention layers for efficient long-context modeling.

If you're on Replit Pro, you have until November 8 to opt out of arbitration

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Replit updated its Pro Agreement on October 9, 2026, adding mandatory arbitration and a class-action waiver; existing customers must opt out within 30 days. Users can opt out by emailing [email protected] with their full name, mailing address, Replit username, and account email.

Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)

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A group of urban activists in San Francisco installed protected bike lanes using traffic cones, prompting the city to make the change official after a similar installation elsewhere. The move suggests that cities are open to progress and may be willing to support changes in street safety.

Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language

Evergreen ensures explicit contracts, checked invariants, and memory control through constructor preconditions and postconditions. It verifies obligations at compile-time to guarantee correctness.

From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region

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Scientists studied the brains of tame, aggressive and wild foxes to identify changes in a part of the brain associated with aggression. They found that domesticated foxes had fewer cells controlling aggression in an area called ventromedial hypothalamus.

Benchfmt.rs: Bringing Go's benchmarking and benchstat workflow to Rust

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The author built benchfmt.rs, a zero-dependency Rust benchmark runner that converts to Go's benchstat format. It includes features like heap tracking and pprof profiling, allowing for A/B testing between Go and Rust. The author benchmarks varint and Prometheus Remote Write 2.0 decoding across both languages to compare efficiency.

Everything is an AI scam now

Users are seeing increasingly convincing ads for fake products, with scammers using AI to create unconvincing pitches. These scams often target vulnerable individuals and can be difficult to spot, leading to a breakdown in trust in online information.

Kitty 0.50

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kitty has been updated with numerous features, including support for Custom Shaders, docked windows, and improved performance. The update also includes new options for customizing kitty's behavior, such as remapping modifiers and controlling how padding strips are colored in splits layouts.