TILens Daily Edition 2026-10-30 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 171 articles, 10 sources Top topics: General, AI, AWS ## News - Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/salesforces-ma-spree-continues-with-a-reported-375m-deal-for-defense-tech-startup-rune/ - Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/ollie-a-privacy-focused-ai-assistant-is-shutting-down/ - Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/flesh-eating-screwworms-are-feasting-on-pets-4-dogs-and-cat-attacked-this-week/ - Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/10/oh-captain-our-captain-ars-staff-remembers-patrick-stewart/ - Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/intels-stock-crashes-knocking-12b-from-governments-stake/ - Applebee’s exposed customers’ personal data after leaving database password in app Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/applebees-exposed-customers-personal-data-after-leaving-database-password-in-app/ - Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/united-airlines-ceo-doubts-supersonic-airliner-from-boom-will-be-ready-by-2029/ - Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/last-minute-halloween-costumes-for-tech-nerds/ - Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/cracks-are-emerging-in-the-ai-spending-boom/ - Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours Source: ars-technica Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/anthropic-vs-code-extension-on-cursor-backdoored-for-nearly-12-hours/ - Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/dartmouths-provost-warned-us-about-ai-cheating-but-his-own-ai-use-cost-him-his-job/ - Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/30/darkbloom-which-allowed-mac-users-to-rent-out-their-gpus-for-ai-inference-warns-of-low-payouts/5306782 - Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/over-25-of-people-lie-to-get-antibiotics-and-their-lies-arent-even-good/ - HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/10/30/http/3-is-faster-with-some-work-and-help-from-cloudflare/5306767 - AI law firm Crosby bids on disintegrating, famed firm Weil Gotshal Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/ai-law-firm-crosby-bids-on-disintegrating-famed-firm-weil-gotshal/ - Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/30/crim-spent-7k-on-ai-services-in-extortion-attacks-then-left-evidence-for-all-to-see/5306754 - Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/doordash-says-outside-ai-agents-have-only-led-to-hundreds-of-orders-so-far/ - Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/rare-meteorite-from-mars-gives-us-a-view-into-its-ancient-crust/ - Satlyt takes another step toward turning satellites into space data centers Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/satlyt-takes-another-step-toward-turning-satellites-into-space-data-centers/ - Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/zests-new-ai-agent-finds-restaurants-and-books-reservations-over-text/ - Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archiving-demand/ - Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/googles-first-data-center-satellite-is-online-and-writing-poetry/ - GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/30/gm-cracks-the-petty-cash-box-for-multistate-driver-tracking-settlement/5306721 - Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise… couldn't be us Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/10/30/anthropic-that-claude-code-extension-compromise-couldnt-be-us/5306682 - Analysts find looming launch crisis is "more severe" than anticipated Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/analysts-find-looming-launch-crisis-is-more-severe-than-anticipated/ - Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’ Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/theranos-whistleblower-tyler-shultz-warns-that-the-ai-boom-is-a-great-opportunity-to-go-deceive-people/ - AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/30/alpinebsd-announced-an-ai-free-foss-os/5306589 - Cloudflare services for private origins is now generally available Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/private-origins-public-to-private/ - North Korean hackers blamed for stealing record $6.3B in Binance breach Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/north-korean-hackers-blamed-for-stealing-record-6-3b-in-binance-breach/ - NASA ponders a Hubble servicing mission or a controlled deorbit Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/10/30/nasa-ponders-a-hubble-servicing-mission-or-a-controlled-deorbit/5306622 - Skip the small talk: Make game-changing connections at TechCrunch Founder Summit with Braindate Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/skip-the-small-talk-make-game-changing-connections-at-techcrunch-founder-summit-with-braindate/ - How to Detect Financial Fraud Patterns with Knowledge Graphs: A Production Guide Source: freecodecamp Topic: General URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-detect-financial-fraud-patterns-with-knowledge-graphs-a-production-guide/ - DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/doordash-said-its-only-received-several-hundred-orders-from-ai-agents/ - GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10/gm-to-pay-220-million-after-selling-customer-smart-driver-data/ - Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record crypto heist Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/hackers-steal-6-3-billion-from-binance-in-record-crypto-heist/ - AI projects not paying off? Keep at it, says Uni Productivity Institute Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/30/ai-projects-not-paying-off-keep-at-it-says-uni-productivity-institute/5306581 - 5 days left: Your last chance to connect, scale, and save at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/5-days-left-your-last-chance-to-connect-scale-and-save-at-techcrunch-founder-summit-2026/ - Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/can-ai-data-centers-be-mass-produced-like-cars-and-online-in-48-hours-this-startup-aims-to-find-out/ - NHS quango warns of risk to GP patient data after website vendor collapse Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/10/30/nhs-quango-warns-of-risk-to-gp-patient-data-after-website-vendor-collapse/5306647 - 2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: Drives like an EV, but there's no plug involved Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10/2027-nissan-rogue-hybrid-drives-like-an-ev-but-theres-no-plug-involved/ - British intelligence agency misplaced 'thousands' of storage devices, years later still can't say how many Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/30/british-intelligence-agency-misplaced-thousands-of-storage-devices-years-later-still-cant-say-how-many/5306605 - Review: You Can See Everything blurs the view of Elizabeth Holmes' deceit Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/10/review-you-can-see-everything-blurs-the-view-of-elizabeth-holmes-deceit/ - Rocket Report: Winter is coming for Themis; Cowboy Space adds iron to the fire Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/rocket-report-winter-is-coming-for-themis-cowboy-space-adds-iron-to-the-fire/ - Accenture AI agents are sifting through applicants Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/30/accenture-ai-agents-are-sifting-through-applicants/5306460 - Domestic droid gone amok? Don't worry, you're covered Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/30/domestic-droid-gone-amok-dont-worry-youre-covered/5306396 - UK Shelly reseller warns payment data stolen after malware found on website Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/10/30/uk-shelly-reseller-warns-payment-data-stolen-after-malware-found-on-website/5306250 - Google's search revenue Ferrari hits an AI-powered speed bump Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/30/googles-search-revenue-ferrari-hits-an-ai-powered-speed-bump/5306520 - Waymo taps Toyota to supply robotaxis for Japan and the UK Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/waymos-next-robotaxi-will-be-a-toyota-bz4x-destined-for-japan-and-the-uk/ - Farm PC 'maintained' by a 14-year-old dumped support chap in a steaming pile of tech mess Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/30/farm-pc-maintained-by-a-14-year-old-dumped-support-chap-in-a-steaming-pile-of-tech-mess/5306217 - AWS installs an AI accelerator every 14 seconds and eyes $1 trillion annual revenue Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/10/30/aws-installs-an-ai-accelerator-every-14-seconds-and-eyes-1-trillion-annual-revenue/5306547 - In the year AI re-wrote the infosec rulebook, it’s comforting to know crypto exchanges still have bad security Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/30/in-the-year-ai-re-wrote-the-infosec-rulebook-its-comforting-to-know-crypto-exchanges-still-have-bad-security/5306539 - PC chip plunge wipes out a quarter of Intel’s value Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/30/pc-chip-plunge-wipes-out-a-quarter-of-intels-value/5306531 - You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/you-dont-need-to-believe-in-a-god-to-get-a-religious-exemption-from-using-ai-at-work/ - DoorDash buys Instacart 🛒, Reddit requires login 👽, making agents faster ⚡ Source: tldr-tech Topic: General URL: https://tldr.tech/tech/2026-10-30 ## Community - Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tng.episodle.com/ - The 'Moylan Arrow' Is One of Ford's Best Contributions to Car Design Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-moylan-arrow-is-one-of-fords-best-contributions-to-car-design - Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/anthropic-expected-to-receive-high-junk-rating-from-credit-agencies-following-ipo-report-says/ - Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://maketecheasier.com/arecibo-zinc-creep-collapse/ - France is getting download tax for content providers (€0.055/GB) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.resetera.com/threads/france-is-getting-download-tax-for-content-providers-%E2%82%AC0-055-gb-for-data-delivered-to-french-users.1675109/ - FAT32 File-System Seeing as Much as 265x Improvement with Linux 7.4 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Faster-FAT32 - Linode Security Incident Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://status.linode.com/incidents/nt58zhx3pmgm - Wolfenstein 3D on the Atari 2600 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/394015-wolfenstein-3d-atari-2600-port-for-pluscartunocart/ - Wall Street closes sharply lower as AI cash burn fears spark tech selloff Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/nasdaq-futures-tumble-amazon-intel-results-deepen-ai-spending-woes-2026-10-30/ - Tactical-Retreat: a freely available, multi-platform QuakeC-based Counter-Strike v1.5 port Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.frag-net.com/project_tacticalretreat.html - Sanstun: A sans-IO, parallel-friendly WireGuard implementation in Rust Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.firezone.dev/blog/introducing-sanstun - AO3 Down for Maintenance Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.otwstatus.org - Understanding Email Encryption (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-encryption/ - RAM wasted on users PCs.. should be concentrated on datacenters Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=rom+a+global+allocation+perspective%2C+actually%2C+it%E2%80%99s+quite+terrible+to+have+everybody+have+a+bunch+of+the+world%E2%80%99s+limited+supply+of+DRAM+sitting+in+their+own+computer+and+being+used+5%25+of+the+time.+You+want+maximum+utilization+in+the+cloud+if+you%E2%80%99re+trying+to+deal+with+this+very+supply-constrained+environment&ia=web - Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to Secure Pentagon System Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-defense-contractor-gave-their-personal-ai-agent-access-to-a-secure-pentagon-system/ - Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/29/metro/patrick-stewart-picard-star-trek-the-next-generation/ - SpaceX No longer needs NASA Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/spacex-no-longer-needs-nasa-and-thats-a-problem-for-americas-space-agency/ - An Arrogant Way of Killing (2016) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://magazine.atavist.com/2016/an-arrogant-way-of-killing - The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261029-00/?p=112808/ - Jules Verne's Lost Novel Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blue-continuum.com/verne-paris - Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: http://thales.mit.edu/bush/index.php/4801-2/ - The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-climate-culture/the-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-the-stone-age-is-emerging-from-the-melting-ice/2713921 - The FSF is now on Bluesky Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-bluesky - Infinite Mac: BeOS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.persistent.info/2026/10/infinite-mac-beos.html - A Pickpocket's Guide to New York Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/11/02/a-pickpockets-guide-to-new-york - Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tibleiz.net/copper/ - Bunny CDN Security Incident Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://status.bunny.net/incidents/p6gf1by9kr7m - French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/videolan/status/2116229135919919278 - What happened to 145 Nasdaq companies after the $1 warning letter Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://equibles.com/research/nasdaqs-1-warning-most-companies-stay-listed-most-shares-fall - Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308286 - AI "Ghost Students" Steal Millions in Student Loans, DOJ Says Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/doj-exposes-ghost-students-using-ai-to-complete-courses-steal-student-loans/ - GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/pwxsjgnvrk6b - The Biggest Crypto Theft in History [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7hL3bVoUuQ - Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer laptops Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://doublepulsar.com/anthropic-hacked-to-deliver-remote-access-trojan-to-claude-developer-laptops-worldwide-1148a92baae2?postPublishedType=initial - 4 Real? Tracking exploitation and patching of eMudhra's weak keys Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/emudhra-patching/ - Anthropic is renaming their Max plans Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://claude.com/pricing - The top ten reasons embedded projects get into trouble (2002) Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://www.ganssle.com/articles/jackstoptenlist.htm - Project Suncatcher: TPU on the Orbit Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/2116214866444943853 - Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.ft.com/content/59383c7f-8d82-493f-bf01-d2e862a1018f - How hard is it to check for whitespace? Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Java) URL: https://serce.me/posts/2026-10-30-how-hard-is-it-to-check-for-whitespace - My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/ - Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.404media.co/protons-ceo-cancels-ai-re-interviews/ - "Wrong" Email Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307092 - Show HN: Spinf-serve – inference server for bulk scoring and decisions Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/spinfinc/spinf-serve - Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306776 - U.S. Oil Industry Earned over $130B in Profit During Iran War Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/business/energy-environment/exxon-chevron-oil-profits-iran-war.html - Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer - Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/10/30/voyager-1-gives-controllers-the-silent-treatment/5306637 - Cost of living protests to spread to Germany and reignite in France on Halloween Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/cost-of-living-protests-to-spread-to-germany-and-reignite-in-france-on-halloween - US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvwy72e0n72yo - Defending the patch gap against automated attackers Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/privacy-security/defending-patch-gap/ - Some Thing is Happening A note from the AI companies Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://alanbellows.com/some-thing-is-happening/ - Alberta-made low-tech tractor getting attention worldwide Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ursa-ag-bowden-tractors-9.7399940 - AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/ai-isnt-replacing-sres-its-deskilling - Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium - Geist Serif Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-serif - The federated code forge Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tangled.org/blog/forge/ - Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/30/g-s1-150902/blockchain-intelligence-firms-link-north-korea-to-6-3b-hack-on-binance - Show HN: I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter cat Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://catcopter.com - I wish I had Tailscale when I was at university Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-at-university - Polymarket 1h halt after vendor compromise; affected users will be 'made whole' Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/polymarket-trading-halt-hack-wallets-rcna606405 - Show HN: Sketch Stadium – watch your agent play Pictionary Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sketch.wakeshift.ai/games/q5ucru - Northflank Breached Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://status.northflank.com - Switch lowering in GCC Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/ - A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-1580-map-shows-why-data-visualization-is-never-neutral/ - Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/123553?trw=no - Neal Stephenson on AI and What Comes Next [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii-aeW5pHPQ - Getting Google Cast on my Soundbar Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/getting-google-cast-on-my-soundbar/ - Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-rewrite-legacy-code-entry-level-jobs/ - Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.zamzar.com/2026/10/30/20-years-766-million-files-two-chameleons/ - Show HN: Fraktur, a DJ mixing app in the browser Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://greenvitriol.com/posts/fraktur - Protecting against CVE-2026-98432 Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Go) URL: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/PCoQcdxoScw - The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/ - Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/death-industry-mortuary-programs-women-andie-eisen-quarterly/ - US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://progressives.house.gov/2026/10/reps-casar-waters-lead-democratic-resolution-opposing-a-i-bubble-bailout-for-big-tech-commit-to-protecting-american-people-instead - Decode kernel panic from QR Code photo Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://gist.github.com/skorotkiewicz/c59e591c26661cb52b06afc42d8ac546 - Rationale for filtering LLM usage links as off-topic Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://lobste.rs/s/spv7tb/rationale_for_filtering_llm_usage_links - Fiber lasts decades, GPUs last three years: the AI boom isn't the dot-com boom [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MENoB3Rex28 - Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117528831681803563 - Go 1.28's HTTP/2 Parking: Measuring Memory Savings Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Go) URL: https://abdolirad.me/articles/go-1-28-http2-parking-memory/ - Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://doublepulsar.com/anthropic-hacked-to-deliver-remote-access-trojan-to-claude-developer-laptops-worldwide-1148a92baae2 - Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case - Shrinking NixOS Ram footprint and resource requirements to the bare minimum Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/11543/shrinking-nixos-ram-footprint-and-resource-requirements-to-the-bare-minimum - No, npm, “estee” is not a typo of “testem” Source: lobsters Topic: General (+JavaScript) URL: https://smoores.dev/post/no_npm_estee_is_not_a_typo/ - Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/scientists-recreate-the-1600-year-old-recipe-of-lycurgus-cup/ - How do you take a picture of a black hole? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-20261029/ - elect.horse Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://elect.horse/ - 5 years of OqtaDrive: Microdrive emulation to Sinclair Network over the internet Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://oqtadrive.org/10.other/5-years/ - Smart audio for the smart home (2021) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://computer.rip/2021-11-06-smart-audio-for-the-smart-home.html - Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/4yk5/Ghostman - 'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/oct/30/uk-house-price-growth-crypto-industry-6bn-binance-hack-eurozone-france-gdp-latest-news-updates - Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/ - North Korea Steals USD 6.36B from Binance in the Largest Hack in History Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/north-korea-steals-usd-6-36-billion-from-binance-in-the-largest-hack-in-history - Do At-Proto Users Know This Is Public? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://melaniekat.com/blog/public-on-pds/ - Keeping the Bonfires Lit Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/keeping-bonfires-lit - Trojanized Claude Code Extension Plants an SSH Backdoor Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/trojanized-claude-code-extension-plants-persistent-ssh-backdoor - Radio-in-a-box: Self-hosted internet radio with Icecast, Liquidsoap and Rust CLI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/radio-in-a-box - What are you doing this weekend? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lobste.rs/s/u7dsbx/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend - Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/raphlinus/nibnib - Deterministic Factoring in Time N^O(1) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hexagonmath.org/2610.00600v1 - Pidgin 3.0.0 Alpha 4 (2.98.0) has been released Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-alpha-4-2-98-0-has-been-released/445 - Rhind Mathematical Papyrus Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus - New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261025073051.htm - arm64e pointer authentication: PAC keys, PACIASP, A12 Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://sigreturn.com/blog/pointer-authentication-arm64e/ - AGI Economics: Coordination vs. Competence Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://institute.deepmind.com/essays/the-economics-of-intelligence/ - CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.penligent.ai/hackinglabs/cve-2026-98432/ - How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://seriot.ch/computation/curl.html - Show HN: Lasm – Write formally verified webapps in Lean for Node/serverless/edge Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://github.com/Millillion/lasm - Pico CSS is no longer maintained Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/picocss/pico/discussions/754 - Show HN: Arken – Passwordless auth middleware using secp256k1 keys Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/zacharybenson/arken-protocol - Tracks along the longest drive on another world Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/tracks-along-the-longest-drive-on-another-world/ - Herdr has released native app Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app - Cormac McCarthy's Library Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cormacmccarthy.lib.utk.edu/ - Meta discussed 'whisper strategy' against social media critic Jonathan Haidt Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/29/meta-staff-us-social-media-critic-jonathan-haidt-court-documents ## Media - Tell your data story with Looker Data Apps Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WWG-wIaB4aQ - CodeMender: AI powered vulnerability fixes right in GitHub PRs Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2vmRfShi_U - GitHub Universe 2026 closing keynote: open source voices, demos, and the craft of coding Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh-hg7lwA0o