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Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271640

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

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

Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google https://discord.com/blog/making-content-from-discoverable-servers-easier-to-discover https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263854

Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-ai-division-failure-nova https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261589

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

Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior https://gizmodo.com/police-are-using-ai-to-pull-over-drivers-for-suspicious-behavior-2000831220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261819

Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257548

Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/27/professors-books-pirated-to-train-claude/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260814

Ghostty 1.4.0 https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-4-0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261998

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

Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257326

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

The US Government Is Hiding 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

AI promised less work. I've never worked more https://oioannou.com/blog/ai-promised-less-work/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257325

Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking https://open3dlab.com/news/roblox-downloaded-145-gb-of-models-from-our-sites/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256985

The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI https://j11g.com/the-mythical-man-month-in-the-age-of-ai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255298

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

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

ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-keeps-telling-people-404-media-can-solve-their-tech-support-problems/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247630

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

The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/10/epa-online-archive-deletion-zeldin-camp-lejeune-trump-clean-power/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249275

Announcing 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

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

In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real https://www.404media.co/in-leaked-audio-flock-ceo-tells-cops-backlash-to-the-company-isnt-real/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248005

Pharo 14 https://pharo.org/news/2026-10-26-Pharo14Release.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241925

Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model https://cohere.com/blog/concerning-behaviour-popular-open-weight-ai-model https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246658

GPT-6.1 Terra https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248124

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

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

Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-employees-denounce-interference https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248061

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

Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-offers-mass-buyouts-for-roughly-a-quarter-of-its-workforce/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245524

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238739

Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez/browse/next-computer-inc?per_page=96&sort=pub_year_isi+asc%2C+title_sort+asc&view=masonry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238763

Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228115

Anthropic S-1 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242939

Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale https://blocks.manifold3d.ch/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240922

The State of Context Engineering https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/10/24/the-state-of-context-engineering.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235780

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

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

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

JetBrains Thinkrail https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233294

Lula wins election after final votes tallied https://www.reuters.com/live/brazil-election-live-lula-bolsonaro-face-off-presidential-runoff-2026-10-25/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237485

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

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/ai-use-leads-uc-berkeley-math-professor-to-see-no-point-in-grading-homework/article_bdf1eae2-c08b-491f-b9f1-81a7cea177de.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233304

Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/serbia-votes-students-seek-unseat-vucic-snap-election-2026-10-25/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236081

fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50230384