OpenIDEA: The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust
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Live security headlines from 15 tech newsrooms, refreshed every 30 minutes, with the stories several outlets are covering at once.
Today
Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard?
18 points and 26 comments on Hacker News.
Hackers Steal About $2.7 Million From Polymarket Traders via Hijacked DebugBear Script
Malicious code on the website of prediction market Polymarket sold some signed-in traders' positions and moved their funds to the hackers on October 29. The code had repl
FBI Links North Korea's TraderTraitor to Record $6.43 Billion Binance Crypto Heist
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets to TraderTraitor, a North Korea-aligned elite
NetamLoader Malware Targets Government Windows 10 Systems in Asia via .NET Injection
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what has been described as a "highly sophisticated infection chain" targeting government organizations in Asia. The ac
Pac-Man's Siren Call
22 points and 6 comments on Hacker News.
Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
119 points and 52 comments on Hacker News.
OTape
25 points and 11 comments on Hacker News.
Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards
32 points and 8 comments on Hacker News.
Yesterday
Constructing a Quine from Kleene's Second Recursion Theorem
16 points and 1 comments on Hacker News.
When electric cars were for women
58 points and 43 comments on Hacker News.
Altoids Project
111 points and 5 comments on Hacker News.
Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
230 points and 112 comments on Hacker News.
An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them
440 points and 125 comments on Hacker News.
Distributed Proofreaders
24 points and 1 comments on Hacker News.
With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines
71 points and 47 comments on Hacker News.
Common Desktop Environment available now as open-source
7 points and 4 comments on Hacker News.
Surviving "The Graduate"
116 points and 35 comments on Hacker News.
HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
1315 points and 370 comments on Hacker News.
Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)
82 points and 57 comments on Hacker News.
TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
507 points and 234 comments on Hacker News.
Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half
109 points and 46 comments on Hacker News.
The Duty of a Scholar
118 points and 32 comments on Hacker News.
Binance CEO says 90 percent of stolen assets have been ‘replenished’
After hackers stole a shocking $6.3 billion from Binance customers in a record-breaking crypto heist, the company's CEO says that 90 percent of the funds have been replac
It's the memory latency, stupid
197 points and 60 comments on Hacker News.
I post trained a model on Demoscenes
39 points and 26 comments on Hacker News.
Northflank security breach leads to abuse of customers' AI API keys
Cloud application hosting platform Northflank is warning customers to rotate all credentials and secrets stored on its platform after a security breach led to unauthorize
William Nordhaus has died
66 points and 22 comments on Hacker News.
UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
165 points and 138 comments on Hacker News.
Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn
36 points and 38 comments on Hacker News.
Show HN: Jointter – A daily word puzzle using dots and lines
9 points and 9 comments on Hacker News.
Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements
26 points and 12 comments on Hacker News.
A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages
20 points and 26 comments on Hacker News.
What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on
74 points and 38 comments on Hacker News.
Casio Watches of the 1980s
206 points and 104 comments on Hacker News.
'Ghost Students' using AI to apply for student loans with stolen identities, DOJ's Operation Ghostbusters busts $200 million ring
Fraudsters are using the identities of high school graduates who skipped college to apply for student loans and steal the excess proceeds that do not go to schools. They
New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phones
A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Android vulnerability, dubbed "SMS of Death" and tracked as CVE-2026-58882, that lets
Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
211 points and 115 comments on Hacker News.
2 outlets on this
Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
265 points and 150 comments on Hacker News.
From Beginner to Bug Hunter: Learning Cybersecurity in the AI Era.
AI-generated vulnerability reports are overwhelming some bug bounty programs, making it harder for aspiring security researchers to know where to start. TryHackMe explain
Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector
80 points and 3 comments on Hacker News.
Chainalysis discloses data breach from "offensive agentic techniques"
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis disclosed a data breach after attackers used "offensive agentic techniques" to access internal systems and tools, exposing customer
Chainalysis Confirms Intrusion Into Internal Tools and Exposure of Customer Identity Data
American blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis said it was the target of a cybersecurity incident in which an external actor accessed non-sensitive customer data. However,
Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
164 points and 110 comments on Hacker News.
Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable
309 points and 183 comments on Hacker News.
Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
828 points and 471 comments on Hacker News.
Attackers Chain Three Ivanti Connect Secure Flaws to Gain Unauthenticated Root Access
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabi
Switch Lowering in GCC
199 points and 40 comments on Hacker News.
Digital minimalism
303 points and 224 comments on Hacker News.
Friday, Oct 30
Applebee’s exposed customers’ personal data after leaving database password in app
EXCLUSIVE: A security researcher discovered the hardcoded credential in Applebee's app, allowing unrestricted access to customers' personal data.
Exclusive details about Akai’s MPC Sample Key
Akai teased its new MPC Sample Key on Instagram earlier this week, and said it plans to open-source its software so the modding community can hack it to their hearts' del
Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds
No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.
Understanding Email Encryption
12 points and 3 comments on Hacker News.
A new vulnerability can brick your Android phone when receiving the SMS of Death
Security researcher Mark Blaszczyk found a new scary vulnerability that affects phones running Android 12 or later. It involves receiving a specially crafted WAP Push SMS
The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it
194 points and 91 comments on Hacker News.
Chinese Hackers Use AI-Powered ARTEX to Target Over 200 Organizations Worldwide
Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have been observed using a Go-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing framework called ARTEX in attacks aimed
Your Netgear router may be vulnerable to a security exploit – how to check and patch it
A vulnerability in some Netgear routers could allow an attacker with access to your network to run malicious commands on the device.
Northflank Breached
468 points and 348 comments on Hacker News.
A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral
43 points and 2 comments on Hacker News.
WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours
Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a high-severity security flaw in WordPress Core shortly after patches were released. The vulnerability, which does
North Korean hackers blamed for stealing record $6.3B in Binance breach
Hackers working for North Korea are suspected of hacking a Binance employee's laptop, which allowed the theft of billions in crypto.
Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
87 points and 24 comments on Hacker News.
CISA says max severity GitLab flaw now exploited in the wild
Attackers have started exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability patched earlier this month, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Armenia Notes
13 points and 1 comments on Hacker News.
Decode kernel panic from QR Code photo
29 points and 10 comments on Hacker News.
The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes
Multiple crypto-tracing firms say notorious North Korean hackers TraderTraitor may be behind the largest digital heist in history—with billions of crypto likely gone for
Syrian Hacker Behind Fake Tweet That Triggered $136 Billion Market Drop Gets 42 Months in Prison
Ahmad Umar Agha, a Syrian Electronic Army hacker known online as "Th3Pr0," has been sentenced by a U.S. federal court to 42 months in prison for his role in a hacking con
Drupal warns of critical Commerce Core flaw exploited in attacks
Drupal warned admins to patch a critical access bypass vulnerability in the Commerce Core module that attackers are exploiting in the wild. [...]
Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup
36 points and 2 comments on Hacker News.
UK Shelly reseller warns payment data stolen after malware found on website
Customer says they received fraudulent charges on their card hours before company notified them
5 years of OqtaDrive: Microdrive emulation to Sinclair Network over the internet
16 points and 3 comments on Hacker News.
CISA Adds Actively Exploited GitLab RCE and Cisco Firewall DoS Flaws to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Cisco and GitLab software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabi
Binance Suffers Security Breach Affecting $6.3 Billion in Assets, Nearly $3 Billion Frozen
Cryptocurrency giant Binance said on Thursday that a "security incident" on its platform has impacted about $6.3 billion worth of assets. The world's biggest cryptocurren
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
14 points and 1 comments on Hacker News.
Thursday, Oct 29
Binance probes potential $5.8 billion crypto-theft hack
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security breach involving up to $5.8 billion in digital assets, in what could become the largest cryptocurren
Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python
61 points and 41 comments on Hacker News.
Hunting 'Zombie Accounts' in Active Directory
28 points and 2 comments on Hacker News.
ThreatsDay: Critical Firewall Flaws, Banking Trojans Rented, Weaponized PDF, Token Theft + 26 More Stories
Some attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs still getting exploited, and trusted software
Suspected Chinese attackers built a custom PHP2Shell exploit and rooted 25 servers
Snoops 'likely still' have access to US government-affiliated network
Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference
40 points and 25 comments on Hacker News.
Stop sharing your passwords with AI agents, Bank of America warns customers
The bank’s message follows a trend among financial institutions that are restricting third-party AI agent access.
A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000
29 points and 0 comments on Hacker News.
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Leads Benchmarks for Finding, Exploiting, and Patching Vulnerabilities
Google on Wednesday took the wraps off Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. "It shows significant
Cisco Patches Actively Exploited ASA and FTD VPN Flaw That Can Crash Firewalls
Cisco has released patches to address a high-severity security flaw in Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD)