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211. TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

Posted by oger on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:16PM
from the atlasum.net dept.

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf

( Read More... | 333 comments | 737 points | on HN )

212. LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks

Posted by pretext on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:00AM
from the longcat.ai dept.

https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/

( Read More... | 26 comments | 41 points | on HN )

213. $20M in Fines and Vizio Smart TVs Opt Out of Spying Option Does Nothing

Posted by speckx on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:52PM
from the pcper.com dept.

https://pcper.com/2026/11/20-million-in-fines-and-still-vizio-smart-tvs-opt-out-of-spying-option-does-nothing/

( Read More... | 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )

214. Binance hackers used fake job interview to breach PC before $6.3B attack

Posted by entryleveljobsc on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:10AM
from the reuters.com dept.

https://www.reuters.com/world/binance-says-hackers-used-fake-job-interview-compromise-computer-before-63-2026-11-03/

( Read More... | 33 comments | 4 points | on HN )

215. Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother

Posted by whyleyc on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:58AM
from the blog.zamzar.com dept.

https://blog.zamzar.com/2026/10/30/20-years-766-million-files-two-chameleons/

( Read More... | 62 comments | 4 points | on HN )

216. Making Peace with the Projective Plane

Posted by ibobev on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:47PM
from the johndcook.com dept.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/11/02/projective-plane/

( Read More... | 18 comments | 14 points | on HN )

217. New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras

Posted by stevenalowe on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:06PM
from the sciencedaily.com dept.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261025073051.htm

( Read More... | 42 comments | on HN )

218. Debian's Apt Affected by MitM Attack for Arbitrary Code Execution as Root

Posted by justicz on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:40AM
from the phoronix.com dept.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-MITM-RCE

( Read More... | 4 comments | on HN )

219. Apple opens the door to a nightmare world of always-listening tech

Posted by _____k on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:25PM
from the this.weekinsecurity.com dept.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/watch-what-you-say-apple-opens-the-door-to-a-nightmare-world-of-always-listening-tech/

( Read More... | 38 comments | on HN )

220. Radiation Map of the World

Posted by slater on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:06PM
from the radiaverse.com dept.

https://radiaverse.com/

( Read More... | 57 comments | on HN )

221. Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

Posted by n_plus_1_acc on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:44AM
from the self-post dept.

https://xn--69f31l4t57c0mag4b613h.xn--7uh4898msjaso/🆆🆃🅵/

( Read More... | 60 comments | 21 points | on HN )

222. AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks

Posted by 1659447091 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:00AM
from the cnbc.com dept.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/04/ai-stocks-texas-governor-data-centers.html

( Read More... | 77 comments | 2 points | on HN )

223. Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code

Posted by austinallegro on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:20PM
from the polyend.com dept.

https://polyend.com/whats-up/tracker-the-biggest-update-yet/

( Read More... | 77 comments | 9 points | on HN )

224. Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE

Posted by gmays on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:38AM
from the nbcnews.com dept.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/study-estimates-75-nfl-players-died-15-year-span-may-cte-rcna605975

( Read More... | 246 comments | on HN )

225. AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura

Posted by datascientist on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:29AM
from the thedataexchange.media dept.

https://thedataexchange.media/leo-de-moura-lean-aws/

( Read More... | 61 comments | 2 points | on HN )

226. The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public

Posted by cdrnsf on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:30PM
from the techpolicy.press dept.

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-sec-should-block-anthropics-ipo-to-protect-the-public/

( Read More... | 329 comments | 39 points | on HN )

227. VMware returns to low-end server virtualization with 'vSphere Express'

Posted by andrewstetsenko on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:27PM
from the theregister.com dept.

https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/11/04/vmware-returns-to-low-end-server-virtualization-with-vsphere-express/5307466

( Read More... | 1 comment | on HN )

228. Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

Posted by entryleveljobsc on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:34AM
from the reddit.com dept.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_just/

( Read More... | 183 comments | 161 points | on HN )

229. How to write comparison content that doesn't age like milk

Posted by rbaudibert on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:46PM
from the posthog.com dept.

https://posthog.com/blog/comparison-content-guide

( Read More... | 5 comments | on HN )

230. Show HN: Interactive notes on RLHF, attention, LoRA and LLM evals

Posted by laxmena on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:48AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://concepts.laxmena.com/

( Read More... | 4 comments | 2 points | on HN )

231. New York reports first measles death in more than 30 years

Posted by gmays on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:24PM
from the nbcnews.com dept.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/new-york-measles-death-rcna607137

( Read More... | 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )

232. Anthropic: Progress on provable inference for large language models

Posted by Tepix on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:57AM
from the anthropic.com dept.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/provable-inference

( Read More... | 3 comments | on HN )

233. The Nordic Token Tax

Posted by silfverstrom on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:47AM
from the research.klang.ai dept.

https://research.klang.ai/papers/the-nordic-token-tax

( Read More... | 6 comments | on HN )

234. Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era

Posted by smilelamp on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:54PM
from the terrytao.wordpress.com dept.

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/

( Read More... | 164 comments | 56 points | on HN )

235. Photos of the USSR Taken by American Professor Thomas T. Hammond, 1950s–1970s

Posted by bkudria on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:07PM
from the rarehistoricalphotos.com dept.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/soviet-union-thomas-hammond/

( Read More... | 2 comments | on HN )

236. Renewable electricity – best buffer against gas price volatility

Posted by doener on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:04AM
from the eea.europa.eu dept.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/renewable-electricity-buffering-gas-prices

( Read More... | 4 comments | on HN )

237. Altoids Project

Posted by uvdn7 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:54PM
from the uvdn7.github.io dept.

https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/

( Read More... | 7 comments | 6 points | on HN )

238. Crushed Shells Protect Against Ocean Acidification

Posted by gmays on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:59PM
from the ucdavis.edu dept.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/how-crushed-shells-protect-against-ocean-acidification

( Read More... | 2 comments | on HN )

239. Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

Posted by guregodevo on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:46PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve

( Read More... | 234 comments | 27 points | on HN )

240. WTF Ubuntu?

Posted by chalmovsky on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:52AM
from the chalmovsky.com dept.

https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu

( Read More... | 679 comments | 1113 points | on HN )