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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Ghostty 1.4
• (01:33) - US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
• (02:36) - Genie 4
• (03:52) - Python's experimental JIT to be removed
• (04:53) - Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
• (06:04) - New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
• (07:07) - New iMac with M6
• (07:59) - Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
• (08:57) - Git for the US Code
• (10:00) - Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest
• (10:52) - Outro

US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-on-americans/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259604

Genie 4
https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261319

Python's experimental JIT to be removed
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257419

Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
https://www.brangus.io/survival-llm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264853

New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261352

New iMac with M6
https://www.apple.com/imac/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258538

Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
https://tailscale.com/ssh-investigation-update
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264857

Git for the US Code
https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268380

Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner-of-nikons-small-world-photomicrography-contest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234796

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Anthropic S-1
• (01:38) - Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
• (02:47) - Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
• (03:51) - The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
• (04:54) - CSS-Tricks has a new owner
• (05:57) - Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
• (07:01) - Websites Should Be Printable
• (07:59) - Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
• (08:58) - Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)
• (09:47) - Type Server Protocol
• (10:44) - Outro

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251344

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245138

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026/paper.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251661

CSS-Tricks has a new owner
https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245831

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248055

Websites Should Be Printable
https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241664

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245385

Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)
https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200152

Type Server Protocol
https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248371

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
• (01:27) - Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
• (02:23) - I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
• (03:38) - Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
• (04:43) - OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
• (05:58) - Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
• (06:50) - IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
• (07:56) - Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
• (08:43) - Why I Am a Programmer
• (09:35) - Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
• (10:37) - Outro

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
https://imaginationlibrary.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234474

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233929

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234232

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236102

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197108

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistibly-good-and-cheap-on-prem/5304640
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238088

Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
https://titleart.dvy.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238708

Why I Am a Programmer
https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235017

Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/amazons-digital-pacifier-for-toddlers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185534

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
• (01:16) - Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
• (02:15) - We should be more ambitious with the software we build
• (03:32) - The Goose Programming Language
• (04:43) - America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
• (05:55) - Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps
• (07:10) - I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
• (08:17) - Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
• (09:16) - FreeDNS
• (10:05) - Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
• (11:03) - Outro

Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
https://stealmybitcoin.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916

We should be more ambitious with the software we build
https://danluu.com/ambitious/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225695

The Goose Programming Language
https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224100

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226419

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219177

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219666

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186450

FreeDNS
https://freedns.afraid.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222133

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222622

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
• (01:50) - Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
• (02:38) - Apple Music 404 Not Found
• (03:31) - Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
• (04:32) - Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
• (05:36) - The Real Kevin Bacon
• (06:30) - Twelve years of distributed SQLite
• (07:21) - CVE Tracker
• (08:16) - Bringing uv and ty together
• (09:09) - UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities
• (10:14) - Outro

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211474

Apple Music 404 Not Found
https://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-exist
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207910

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-surveillance-bill
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202114

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
https://block.xyz/dessa
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213925

The Real Kevin Bacon
https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169499

Twelve years of distributed SQLite
https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217500

CVE Tracker
https://cve.0xosprey.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215530

Bringing uv and ty together
https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172962

UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities
https://alexsci.com/blog/uuidv7-is-weird/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211746

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:20) - Quad9 to exit France
• (01:21) - eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
• (02:17) - Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.
• (03:15) - WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
• (04:21) - Docker is weird
• (05:35) - Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices
• (06:44) - Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
• (07:47) - Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
• (08:38) - OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents
• (09:36) - LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
• (10:51) - Outro

eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195110

Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50193416

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50190363

Docker is weird
https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202681

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices
https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50196718

Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-take-on-humans
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197313

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202285

OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents
https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198675

LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202217

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
• (01:38) - Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
• (02:38) - There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
• (03:44) - Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor
• (05:01) - mitmproxy adds --emudhra option
• (06:10) - Security Disclosure
• (07:14) - DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”
• (08:25) - Claude Duet
• (09:29) - GitLab critical patch release
• (10:40) - PingCap TiDB Leaks
• (12:02) - Outro

Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184820

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188948

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor
https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50181114

mitmproxy adds --emudhra option
https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189232

Security Disclosure
https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188228

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”
https://duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announcing-duckdb-200
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50181136

Claude Duet
https://claude.com/product/claude-duet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186037

GitLab critical patch release
https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185869

PingCap TiDB Leaks
https://fulcrumsec.vg/pingcap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173716

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
• (01:29) - eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
• (02:45) - Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
• (03:57) - Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
• (05:09) - Voxtral 3
• (06:24) - Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
• (07:30) - What shall I teach my son?
• (08:39) - Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case
• (09:40) - The Future of CSS
• (10:48) - Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs
• (11:42) - Outro

eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579

Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
https://news-web.php.net/php.announce/509
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172041

Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
https://permit.petercai.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50170593

Voxtral 3
https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50168396

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
https://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165208

What shall I teach my son?
https://stevekrouse.com/ends
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169707

Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case
https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167028

The Future of CSS
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interop-2027/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50175070

Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs
https://github.com/google-pytorch/torch_tpu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169053