One menu item brought 156,000 new customers to Noodles & Company. Now it’s making a big change
Fast casual chain Noodles & Company is about as far from an authentic izakaya as it gets, but it’s confident you’ll want to eat ramen there anyway. The cuisine-agnostic noodle chain serves everything from carbonara and mac and cheese to pad thai, but now it’s...
Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins Go to Source Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug
Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug Go to Source A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a...
Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console
Article URL: https://github.com/cobanov/PS5LM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122431 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/designing-efficient-quantum-circuits Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121939 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Fairbuds 2 Teardown Shows Little Glue, Easy Battery Swap
In a world where wireless earbuds are increasingly seen as devices that you toss into the e-waste bin as soon as they stop working, it’s heartening to see companies take the opposite approach with their designs. In a recent teardown of the new Fairbuds 2 by [iFixit]...
Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/5a310aee-f555-4266-874c-b1b4db20186d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122112 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
Article URL: https://www.arrl.org/arrlletterissue?issue=2026-10-15#eBay-Restricts-Listings-of-Radio-Equipment_-But-Exempts-Ham-Band-Only-Gear Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122034 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Munich dumps proprietary for open source (again) – but no Linux desktop
Open source in the public sector doesn’t fail because of technical issues. It fails because it’s not aligned with the political agenda
What to know about the Starshield restrictions that rattled Ukraine’s forces
Sudden restrictions on Starshield — SpaceX’s military-grade version of the Starlink satellite internet service and the backbone of Ukraine’s drone operations and communication — alarmed the country’s military and government officials this week, with commanders...
El Niño winter forecast: See a map that shows which U.S. regions will get the most snow and rain
This year’s Super El Niño “looms large” over the winter forecast for the United States, forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wrote this week. And for about half of the country, that’s shaping up to make for a wet winter. El Niño...
India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity
The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.
Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper’s Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoor
Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of...
Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/piramidalinc/jobs/4443102009 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121188 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
Article URL: https://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121179 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
Remote work may increase birth rates
Looking for a way to boost fertility rates, which are sagging across most of the globe? Let people work from home. Remote work has led to a 5% increase in fertility in the U.S. and Northern Europe, estimates Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford...
Anthropic gives third-party auditors ’employee-like access’ in AI industry first
As AI labs continue to self-regulate, external evaluators play a crucial role in spotting risks.
An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This...
Analogue returns to the 16-bit era with the Mega Sg+ and Super Nt+
Analogue returns to the 16-bit era with the Mega Sg+ and Super Nt+ Go to Source Dust off your old Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo cartridges.
/dev/null: social network for developers
Article URL: https://dev-null.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121004 Points: 14 # Comments: 4
Fed chair Warsh says price stability is key but deflects on rate signals
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh said Friday he won’t prejudge what the U.S. central bank will do about interest rates at its upcoming meetings in October and December. The Fed increased its key interest rate by a quarter-point to about 3.9% in September, its...
Want an iPhone Duo before 2027? Don’t preorder from Apple – try this instead
Estimates for Duo preorders are now showing a ship date of late January, marking a new wait time record for Apple and its customers.
Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low
Article URL: https://news.gallup.com/poll/708614/desire-migrate-drops-new-low.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120664 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
Article URL: https://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120224 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
UAT-11985 Uses Fake Event Invites to Target Taiwan Research Affiliates With Google AitM Phishing
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing framework...
If memory shortages last, tech companies should offer cheap battery replacements
If a company like Apple could offer $29 batteries before, it can do so again.
A Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This...
New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia defends her legal background and first briefing amid criticism
New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia on Thursday defended her legal background and justified her truncated inaugural briefing as she navigates a rocky first week as the president’s chief spokeswoman. Zacharia sat down for an interview with conservative...
Waymo’s robotaxis are headed to Canada
The company will start off by testing its self-driving vehicles on Toronto's streets.
Want an easier week? Try this 30-minute Sunday routine
Below, Ben Meer shares five key insights from his new book, How to Be Good at Life: Simple Systems to Achieve More and Stress Less. Ben is the creator of System Sunday, a weekly newsletter on productivity and life design read by more than 250,000 people. He is an...