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

1015 pseudolus 2026-11-04 11:52:17 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 612

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.

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

618 jameslk 2026-11-04 10:10:27 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 159

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

582 novaRom 2026-11-04 08:46:29 UTC mindstudio.ai Llama Share 266

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.

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

562 smalltech 2026-11-04 14:09:55 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 345

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.

Residential proxies detected on White House network

507 Rasbora 2026-11-04 20:45:18 UTC layer3intel.com Llama Share 148

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.

Jelly Sheet

445 memalign 2026-11-04 03:40:50 UTC mrdoob.github.io Full Share 112

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

441 rbanffy 2026-11-04 15:38:34 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 155

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.

C++26 Disapproved

403 thatxliner 2026-11-04 00:33:22 UTC andreasfertig.com Llama Share 338

The C++ Standardization Committee's DIS ballot for C++26 was disapproved due to concerns over the "contracts" feature, which requires a two-thirds majority. The outcome has left the future of C++29 uncertain and sparked questions about rebuilding trust within the committee.

Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

332 abrarthought 2026-11-04 15:30:30 UTC huggingface.co Llama Share 87

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.

US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures

298 justonepost2 2026-11-04 14:27:02 UTC semafor.com Llama Share 563

US voters rejected data centers in over 30 localities, citing concerns about AI and tech. The backlash is causing financial risks for investors and forcing companies to rebrand their facilities as "compute campuses".

Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

295 alkyon 2026-11-04 10:23:34 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 292

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI could trigger a major incident, such as a power or banking shutdown, within the next year. He believes some tech leaders prioritize profits over safety and urges for stricter regulations to prevent potential disasters.

Democrats win control of the House of Representatives

257 geox 2026-11-04 03:36:23 UTC nbcnews.com Llama Share 127

Democrats won control of the House of Representatives with a potential majority, flipping 255 seats and gaining subpoena power to investigate Trump's administration. The party will now take control of both chambers, with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries expected to become the first Black Speaker of the House on January 3.

Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

252 kevcampb 2026-11-04 10:00:06 UTC githubstatus.com Full Share 126

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

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

242 zenincognito 2026-11-04 15:01:44 UTC 99percentinvisible.org Llama Share 172

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.

Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers

223 ersinesen 2026-11-04 09:01:58 UTC blog.cosmos-institute.org Llama Share 129

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.

A new Go API for JSON

202 olexsmir 2026-11-04 17:52:11 UTC go.dev Llama Share 86

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.

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

199 Philpax 2026-11-04 18:53:29 UTC ricursive.com Llama Share 67

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.

Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver

197 snvzz 2026-11-04 11:14:12 UTC phoronix.com Llama Share 91

A new open-source Linux driver for modern DisplayLink hardware, called Vino, was developed in part by AI and written in Rust but has disappeared due to Synaptics' legal threats. The company blocked the independent driver on the basis of patent infringement.

Tencent Hy4

168 Philpax 2026-11-04 14:11:26 UTC hy.tencent.ai Llama Share 55

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.

Progress on provable inference for large language models

166 ltononro 2026-11-04 17:17:46 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 83

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.

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company

159 itunpredictable 2026-11-04 15:21:21 UTC openai.com Llama Share 52

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.

The lost malloc()

149 matt_d 2026-11-04 07:37:30 UTC napcakes.nekoweb.org Llama Share 63

The author studied the original Unix sources from 1973, specifically how they handled memory allocation and management in C. They found that early versions of Unix used a linear allocator with explicit memory regions, but later editions introduced more complex allocation algorithms and garbage collection.

Insects don't swarm at LED lights

144 speckx 2026-11-04 19:50:23 UTC birdsoutsidemywindow.org Llama Share 86

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.

Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active

141 gmays 2026-11-04 01:40:42 UTC lamont.columbia.edu Full Share 37

Debian apt security update (man-in-the-middle)

133 SG- 2026-11-04 15:04:14 UTC lists.debian.org Llama Share 28

User's input is a technical error message from a website blocking IP address 20.168.26.246 for potentially abusive behavior, likely due to excessive scraping activity with outdated browser version or suspicious user agent string.

BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant

124 dvaplima 2026-11-04 17:55:29 UTC bloomberg.com Full Share 116

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Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients

124 gmays 2026-11-04 03:20:13 UTC dana-farber.org Llama Share 56

Researchers have identified age-associated differences in tumor composition and gene activity, which may explain why colorectal cancer is more aggressive in younger adults. The study provides a foundation for understanding these differences and exploring future treatments for young-onset colorectal cancer.

Everything is an AI scam now

119 speckx 2026-11-04 21:05:19 UTC davidralphlewis.co.uk Llama Share 37

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.

Education shouldn't be held for ransom

111 notfried 2026-11-04 18:33:46 UTC blog.kagi.com Llama Share 78

Educators are concerned about Google's decision to turn off AI tools by default in K-12 accounts, fearing it weakens critical thinking skills. They want schools to have control over when and how AI is used, rather than being forced into a model that prioritizes corporate profits over education.

This Month in Ladybird – October 2026

106 BitPirate 2026-11-04 17:59:35 UTC ladybird.org Llama Share 34

Ladybird browser moved style and layout to their own thread, allowing animations to run while JavaScript is busy. The new JIT engine improves performance by compiling hot JavaScript to machine code.

Have I befriended a murderer?

99 gmays 2026-11-04 18:40:54 UTC longreads.com Llama Share 56

The author spent 5 years researching the case of Robin Garbutt, a man convicted of murdering his wife Diana in their post office. He met with Robin while visiting him in prison and discovered that he had sent the author extensive documents detailing his life and case, including witness statements and forensic evidence. The author is now considering whether Robin's guilt or innocence can be proven.

Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language

98 jordan_bonecut 2026-11-04 15:25:04 UTC evergreenlang.net Llama Share 83

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

Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution

97 vesinisa 2026-11-04 12:46:58 UTC lists.debian.org Llama Share 76

I was blocked due to potentially abusive behavior, likely caused by a scraper. I will ensure my browser is up-to-date and contact the Debian support team for further assistance.

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

91 daniel_rh 2026-11-04 18:51:27 UTC fireflyk64.github.io Llama Share 11

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.

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

88 adlep 2026-11-04 15:25:33 UTC pcdealcheck.com Llama Share 60

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.

Conductor is joining Meta

84 kenrose 2026-11-04 18:22:40 UTC conductor.build Llama Share 128

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.

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

81 peter_d_sherman 2026-11-04 19:55:14 UTC qualcomm.com Llama Share 39

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.

Democrats Rout GOP

81 gcanyon 2026-11-04 07:27:15 UTC nytimes.com Llama Share 51

Democrats won control of the Senate and House, ending Republicans' governing trifecta. The party secured a majority in both chambers after voters rebuked President Trump's policies and Republican candidates who backed him.

Hackers hit French national blood bank

80 blaze33 2026-11-04 12:08:35 UTC telegraph.co.uk Llama Share 91

Hackers targeted France's national blood bank and several European grocery stores, causing food to spoil by raising refrigeration temperatures. The incidents highlight the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to cyber attacks in Europe.

Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman

80 jplunien 2026-11-04 08:58:03 UTC milkman.dev Llama Share 83

Milkman is a JavaFx-based workbench inspired by Postman, offering plugin-based support for various protocols like HTTP, database requests, and more. Users can contribute improvements through Pull Requests or Issues.

Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025)

79 firstbase 2026-11-04 03:11:27 UTC reasonablypolymorphic.com Llama Share 7

The author created a programming language called catlang, which compiles to SQL. The language uses category theory concepts and has features like loops that are implemented using recursion.

Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

77 eggbrain 2026-11-04 14:37:22 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 83

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A map of 5000+ midterm ads

73 Eden09 2026-11-04 12:18:35 UTC admap.org Full Share 29

Pick a state or district and watch its campaign ads. Every Governor, Senate, and House race we could find video for.

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

65 lukeigel 2026-11-04 17:31:53 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 26

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YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens

53 karakoram 2026-11-04 15:28:31 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 72

A tech entrepreneur uses AI agents for work and personal tasks, sharing his skills to help others. He believes personal AI agents will become mainstream when costs decrease, but wants control over the technology rather than relying on Big Tech companies.

AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks

53 1659447091 2026-11-04 07:00:20 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 75

AI stocks fell overnight after Democrats won the Texas gubernatorial race, seen as a key tech hub. The losses were exacerbated by existing pressure on the AI trade due to concerns over data center spending and potential moratoriums.

'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

52 theanonymousone 2026-11-04 16:11:33 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 124

The UK's high streets are struggling due to the rise of retail parks and online shopping, with many shops closing down and local communities feeling abandoned. Despite efforts to revitalize them, some experts believe that high streets may be doomed unless a fundamental shift in approach is made.

Conductor is joining Meta

50 askedrelic 2026-11-04 18:47:33 UTC conductor.build Llama Share 1

Conductor is joining Meta, and the company has released updates for cloud workspaces on Mac. The updates include features to transfer workspaces, export data, add custom completion sounds, and fix issues with chat history and workspace renaming.

Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random

45 jstanley 2026-11-04 10:43:51 UTC github.com/openai Llama Share 32

User expresses frustration with an AI system that malfunctioned and ran random scripts, causing damage to a server. The user demands the company take responsibility for the issue and provides numerous reactions from others who share similar concerns.

Ask HN: What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be hired" thread?

44 newswangerd 2026-11-04 22:18:21 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 36

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

44 MiguelSosa 2026-11-04 20:52:53 UTC readthediff.substack.com Llama Share 6

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.

Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet

43 reedciccio 2026-11-04 15:21:12 UTC getgrist.com Llama Share 27

A traditional spreadsheet's "previous row" concept is flawed when rows are rearranged, and alternative methods like OFFSET() or SCAN() formulas can solve this issue. Database-like tools like Airtable and Baserow use window functions to achieve a running balance, while Grist uses the PREVIOUS() function with ordering in the formula for accurate results.

RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb

43 teleforce 2026-11-04 11:02:23 UTC aroundprague.cz Llama Share 72

The website is blocking your IP address due to security concerns, possibly triggered by a suspicious action. You can report the issue to the site owner and provide details of what you were doing when blocked, including Cloudflare Ray ID at the bottom of the page.

Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media

42 musha68k 2026-11-04 14:10:14 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 10

Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository

41 peter_retief 2026-11-04 15:18:24 UTC github.com/peterretief Llama Share 18

A tool maps a Go module's packages, functions, and dependencies in an HTML page. It can be run locally or integrated into a GitHub repository for interactive exploration of the codebase.

Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements

39 muricula 2026-11-04 22:01:49 UTC icode4.coffee Llama Share 2

The author of the Bad Update exploit has improved its success rate to nearly 100% by addressing several issues, including a new game save entry point in Rock Band Blitz and improvements to the cache flushing primitive.

An end to buggy web apps

37 bhackett 2026-11-04 17:01:44 UTC replay.io Llama Share 41

Replay is working to automatically detect and fix bugs on the web using its time travel debugger, which provides perfect observability. The tool can identify root causes of issues and provide detailed evidence for agents to fix problems without guessing.

Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick

37 gmays 2026-11-04 15:29:08 UTC livescience.com Llama Share 4

Rosalind Franklin's famous DNA photographs were taken for publication, not experimentation.

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

36 gmays 2026-11-04 18:24:16 UTC news.cornell.edu Llama Share 6

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.

A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines

33 thunderbong 2026-11-04 15:20:49 UTC cnn.com Llama Share 58

Consumers are shifting towards eco-friendly coffee machines and pods due to growing concerns over microplastics and sustainability. Companies like Keurig, Lavazza, and Caraway are releasing new products with compostable or plastic-free designs.

Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a phishing hole

32 isalexlog 2026-11-04 15:30:57 UTC streamvessel.com Llama Share 4

A Slack bot and service on a VPS are trying to register with an MCP server, but the registration fails due to an invalid redirect URI. The issue is that the MCP server only accepts addresses from its operator's allowlist, which includes domains like Claude and ChatGPT.

Less Popular Than Coal

31 _delirium 2026-11-04 22:26:24 UTC argmin.net Llama Share 18

The US election saw a historic swing towards the Democratic Party, partly due to widespread rejection of AI datacenters. This trend suggests that people are increasingly opposed to the tech industry and its practices.

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

28 witcher 2026-11-04 18:20:06 UTC bwplotka.dev Llama Share 5

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.

Mocktastic: A Meshtastic Node on Arduino

28 kimi 2026-11-04 13:51:52 UTC github.com/vapmuz Llama Share 1

Mocktastic is a customizable LoRa client for ESP32 boards using Arduino IDE, demonstrating Meshtastic packet decoding and environmental sensor examples. It targets the LilyGO T3 LoRa32 V1.6.1 hardware with MBDTLS and Nano-Protobuf encryption.

Death Comes for XSLT

25 colejohnson66 2026-11-04 20:57:10 UTC dbushell.com Llama Share 3

Google is deprecating XSLT, a web standard used for transforming XML data into HTML. The author created XSLT.RIP to mock Google's decision and test the site's compatibility with future browsers.

Osewa – An open-source alternative to SSH and Mosh

24 dkpk 2026-11-04 09:34:44 UTC osewa.dev Llama Share 19

Wire protocol v0 is an open-source, secure communication method using TLS 1.3 and Ed25519 keys on both ends over port 7322. It offers various features like roaming support, forwarding, and flight control for efficient agent sessions.

Successful People (2013)

13 epestr 2026-11-04 23:01:19 UTC blog.samaltman.com Llama Share 7

Successful founders often create companies as a means to achieve their ultimate goal, which is similar to creating a religion. This approach explains why big companies don't usually come from pivots or sudden changes in direction.

Disaster is still better than AI

13 bemtevi 2026-11-04 13:05:26 UTC jasonpolak.substack.com Llama Share 9

Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI could trigger a large-scale incident, such as a financial meltdown or blackout, but he believes humans will only respond to immediate pain and may not be willing to give up AI. He suggests that the potential benefits of rebuilding math and doing something new after an "AI disaster" could lead to human resilience and ingenuity.

AR guitar with just a laptop and scissors

11 castlew 2026-11-04 20:54:34 UTC arguitar.com Full Share 8

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