Linux 7.3 Released
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1101143/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149392 Points: 30 # Comments: 7
Driving On the Moon at a Blistering 11.6 MPH
As NASA continues humanity’s slow march back to the Moon, different pieces of the puzzle of establishing a more permanent base there are falling into place. One of these pieces is the the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTR), and [Cleo Abram] and [Michelle Khare] got a look at...
AI inference is running into a memory bottleneck. Huawei wants to tackle it with OceanStor M900
As organizations move from straightforward AI interactions towards longer conversations, complex reasoning and autonomous agents, the demands on their infrastructure are changing. Processing increasingly large amounts of context places significant pressure on memory...
Anthropic Acquires Confidential AI Startup Opaque Systems
Opaque Systems has developed technology that lets AI systems use sensitive data while keeping it protected by the underlying hardware. The post Anthropic Acquires Confidential AI Startup Opaque Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling
Article URL: https://crystl.dev/guides/tmux-for-ai-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148855 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare
Article URL: https://oro.gay/posts/flatpak-an-insecurity-nightmare/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148601 Points: 16 # Comments: 4
Unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi Flaw Lets Attackers in Range Run Code as Root on Routers
A flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi setup software lets an attacker within radio range run code as root on Broadcom-based routers, without the network password or any pairing step, security researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed on October 16. He showed the attack working against...
OpenCode Console Breach May Have Exposed OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API Keys
An intruder reached a legacy system at OpenCode on the night of October 16 and may have exposed the third-party AI provider keys that users had saved in OpenCode Console, the company said. Console is OpenCode's optional hosted service: a workspace saves its own...
Khosla Ventures doubles down on Even Healthcare to challenge India’s hospital economics
Even Healthcare reaches a $300 million valuation in a Khosla Ventures-led round as it plans to expand its hospital network in India.
Agent-Skills.market
Article URL: https://agent-skills.market/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148882 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Strot – Compile an LLM’s intent once, run decisions locally
Article URL: https://github.com/strot-ai/Project-STROT Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148396 Points: 22 # Comments: 6
Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action
Article URL: https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/verisign-com-domain-name-registry-consumer-class-action Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148441 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148452 Points: 62 # Comments: 17
Show HN: Yila – A Codex for Scientific Research
Article URL: https://yila.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148356 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Gen Z doesn’t have a feedback problem. We all do
When I started my first company, the only feedback my team ever got from me was praise. I was too scared to be critical. This was in the 2010s, when you couldn’t go a day without seeing a headline about millennials and how we coddled we were. Leaders claimed that they...
ConnectWise turns off its SaaS-y backup, security, and management services to probe security SNAFU
SaaS-for-managed services providers ConnectWise has initiated a “service interruption” for its some of its offerings after detecting unauthorized access. ConnectWise offers ERP tailored to the needs of managed services providers (MSPs), plus tools they can use to...
ICANN vows to work faster, improve transparency
Internet governance organization the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has come to the realization it needs to move faster. The org today opened its annual conference in Bali, Indonesia, with an opening ceremony during which chair Tripti...
Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he ‘wiped’ his antagonist’s disk
Monday mornings are no joke, so The Register always tries to lighten them up with a new installment of "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace japes, mistakes, and escapes. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Joe" who...
Show HN: Strot – Compile an LLM’s intent once, run decisions locally forever
Article URL: https://github.com/strot-ai/Project-STROT Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148396 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 Scores 45 in Artificial Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148452 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Taming your browser’s 100+ open tabs is the easy way to speed up your PC
You opened three tabs for a project right when you got to your desk, then opened five more while muted in your first meeting, followed by 14 Reddit articles you’ll definitely read later. Add these to the hundred other tabs you left open yesterday, and by midafternoon...
Thunderbolt Strikes Windows98
If there’s one thing everyone hated about Windows 98, was the lack of USB4.0 support. We remember vividly the cries of anguish at the launch party when we found out that 21 years in the future, the operating system wouldn’t support the then-undreamt of speeds of the...
Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers
Article URL: https://contextfirst.blog/superlite-hand-an-agent-a-spec/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50147492 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical, may represent a new way to attack penguin-powered networking
Paulos Yibelo, the researcher who in early October claimed to have found a guest-host escape flaw in Linux KVM, the hypervisor used by most hyperscale clouds, has named the flaw PwnEscape and warned it might represent a new way to attack Linux – on top of being a...
Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/watch-footage-of-the-flock-search-a-judge-ruled-unconstitutional/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50147455 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Sanity’s Edge – A voice BBS from 1994
Article URL: https://sanitys-edge.shouden.us Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146966 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Hackaday Links: October 17, 2026
While Hackaday doesn’t maintain a crime blotter, we couldn’t help but start this week’s post off with a bit of civil disobedience — a retired professor from the University of Pennsylvania was arrested earlier this week for standing in front of a delivery robot....
What do all the lights on your Netgear router mean, and which ones actually matter?
Some router symbols are obvious, while others take a bit of work to decipher. Their lights can vary, too.
What does the orange dot on your Samsung Galaxy Watch mean?
You might sometimes see an orange dot on the left side of your Galaxy Watch's screen. Here's what is tells you.
Why you should never point a laser pointer at a security camera
Laser pointers are known to damage security cameras, but do they really? Here's what damage can actually be done.