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Bill Gates was not the best programmer of his generation

https://twitter.com/davepl1968/status/2118401881542402236
1•bfoks•42s ago•0 comments

Turn JMH Benchmarks Results into Interactive Charts

https://github.com/mlangc/jmh-visualizer
1•mlangc•1m ago•0 comments

VSL Performer (AI generated orchestral tracks)

https://performer.vsl.co.at:443/
1•pier25•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a fast Java linter in Rust

https://github.com/rsmb7z/javaid
2•rsmb7z•4m ago•0 comments

The benchmark where AIs have to lie to win

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/clocktower
1•consumer451•4m ago•0 comments

A Meeting with Elizabeth Holmes

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fevered-mind/202611/a-meeting-with-elizabeth-holmes
1•rmason•6m ago•0 comments

Haybarn 2.0: DuckDB 2.0 with a much faster start in the browser

https://query.farm/blog/haybarn-2-0/
1•rustyconover•8m ago•0 comments

This Month in Ladybird: October 2026

https://buttondown.com/ladybird/archive/this-month-in-ladybird-october-2026/
3•azertify•8m ago•1 comments

The Blue Wave Hits Sand Hill Road

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-blue-wave-hits-sand-hill-road-2026-11
2•rmason•9m ago•2 comments

Slack Is the New IDE

https://opencomputer.dev/blog/slack-is-the-new-ide/
2•iacguy•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HackerGit – Every GitHub repo shared on HN

https://hackergit.org/
1•murtazayusuf•9m ago•0 comments

The Kekulé Problem – Cormac McCarthy

https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574
1•bearseascape•10m ago•0 comments

New York Times adds 420k digital subscribers in 3rd quarter 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/business/media/new-york-times-earnings.html
1•bookofjoe•10m ago•1 comments

Crosswriting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossed_letter
1•skogstokig•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Trace to Agent Session, open corresponding segment of dialogue

https://github.com/keepplain/keepplain-plugin
1•kagen•18m ago•0 comments

Free energy screening for run-of-river hydro power sites in North America

https://www.catchflo.ca/
1•bruenblack•19m ago•1 comments

Is There an Author in This Text? Does It Matter Anymore?

https://paroxysms.substack.com/p/is-there-an-author-in-this-text-does
1•iamnothere•19m ago•0 comments

Interpolative Software

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2026/11/02/Interpolative-Software/
1•emschwartz•20m ago•0 comments

Compilers and Termination Revisited

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/161
2•Thorondor•20m ago•0 comments

GitHub's new Git storage architecture – The GitHub Blog

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/inside-githubs-new-git-storage-architec...
2•OptionOfT•22m ago•1 comments

Uchū – the color palette for internet lovers

https://uchu.style
2•kls0e•23m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Cerea – yet another self-hosted LLM chat front end

https://github.com/paoloviviani/Cerea
1•pviviani•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sandchest – Add a hacker to your team

https://www.sandchest.com/
1•mcilroy•24m ago•0 comments

AI finds security bugs faster than they get fixed. Should the 90day rule change?

https://www.reasond.de/topics/6aebd8cc093b9d870af823b9
2•kolliden•25m ago•1 comments

Replace Your CI with a Merge Queue

https://blog.exe.dev/replace-your-ci
1•hasheddan•27m ago•0 comments

Big (Digital) Pimpin' – By Jerry Bonner – Goto 10

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/big-digital-pimpin
1•rbanffy•29m ago•0 comments

Google offers schools AI-boosted search or none at all

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/google-classroom-suite-search-ai-9.7410158
1•geox•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Hnollo – A Hacker News Reader in the Style of Apollo for Reddit

https://hnollo.com/
1•craaaig•30m ago•0 comments

The Pacific's Busy Storm Season

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/the-pacifics-busy-storm-season/
2•titusblair•33m ago•0 comments

European orbiter detects hints of volcanic activity on Mars

https://www.esa.int/articles/news-media/news/european-orbiter-detects-hints-of-volcanic-activity-...
1•titusblair•33m ago•0 comments
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MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-83844
34•kuberwastaken•51m ago

Comments

falcor84•33m ago
Wow! At first sight I was sure it was a joke, but no. What a time...

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...

dboreham•29m ago
Presumably this is like many other graphics tool vulnerabilities this works by the attacker persuading a user to open a file that exercises the bug. Not terribly unusual.
yread•22m ago
I don't think so:

> User Interaction: None

> Out-of-bounds read in Windows Paint allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

criddell•8m ago
> An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted packet to an affected service over the network.

What server is MS Paint running?

stygiansonic•5m ago
When they find a CVE RCE in minesweeper then you know it’s all over
tosti•30m ago
Code execution, sure, paint has been used to write executable code too, so why not.

But remote? How

VorpalWay•20m ago
I'm thankfully out of the loop on Windows these days, but as I remember it Paint did not have any network features? Is that still true? If if is, maybe it is a misfiling of the CVE and it isn't remote?

Or are they chaining a browser auto opening a download in paint, (but browsers shouldn't do that)...

kuboble•11m ago
These days paint has copilot...
robotnikman•6m ago
This is the only network feature paint has iirc, so that's probably it.
gregschlom•20m ago
"An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted packet to an affected service over the network. Successful exploitation could allow the attacker to execute code on the target system. No authentication or user interaction is required.."

Still, the question remains... How?

IanCal•13m ago
It mentions that it may rely on other services or security measures running- I wonder if there’s something like this hitting a firewall or av and then that calling out to paint to check file type or size out something like that?
layer8•10m ago
Fixed in version 11.2609.401.0.
Den_VR•10m ago
The direct implication is that current generations of ms paint are a “service over the network.” Probably a theoretically possible RPC end point of svchost.exe