Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-10-31

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Root shell on Samsung TV
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• We should be more ambitious with the software we build
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• Anthropic S-1
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• Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
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• Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
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• Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
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• The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
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• US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
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• Genie 4
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• Ghostty 1.4
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• Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
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• ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Ops in US History
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• Gemini 4 Carbon
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• Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
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• StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
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• We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
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• Patrick Stewart has died
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• Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
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• Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
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• Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-10-24

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
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• OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
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• WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
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• DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
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• eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
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• Voxtral 3
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• Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
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• Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
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• Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
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• PHP 8.2.35
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• Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
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• Jailbreaking the Switch 2
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• Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
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• eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
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• Quad9 to exit France
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• Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
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• Docker is weird
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• Apple Music 404 Not Found
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• Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
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• Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-10-17

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Passkeys are a trap
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• Do dentists know what they're doing?
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• Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
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• Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
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• AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
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• Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]
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• 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
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• Firefox Enterprise
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• Apple HomeView
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• Redesigning source control at Anthropic
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• Gemini 4 Argon
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• Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font
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• How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
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• Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
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• Things to know when you get cancer
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• OpenCode 2.0
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• Neural networks are clean
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• Muse Spark Open
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• Tesla Roadster
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• Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-10-10

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
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• Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
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• Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
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• Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
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• Mistral Large 4
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• Sharing AI progress in mathematics
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• I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
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• Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
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• GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
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• Claude Haiku 5.5
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• Margaret Hamilton has died
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• Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
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• Yes, and
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• Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
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• Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
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• Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
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• Sorry, I'm in a meeting
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• Cloudflare acquires Deno
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• Triple-A Minesweeper
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• REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-10-03

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
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• Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
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• When did Google get so weird?
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• Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
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• Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
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• Pirating the Pirates
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• Sonnet 5.5
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• Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
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• How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
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• America.gov
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• GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
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• Dots: Always-on agents
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• Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
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• You said no MCP
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• Gemini 4 Argon
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• StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
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• Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
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• Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
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• Pi 1.0
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• Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
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