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HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
1266•karpathy•13h ago•360 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
421•ecares•10h ago•117 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
54•luu•3h ago•25 comments

Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother

https://blog.zamzar.com/2026/10/30/20-years-766-million-files-two-chameleons/
74•whyleyc•1d ago•21 comments

Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing

https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/
112•doodlesdev•7h ago•46 comments

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf
501•oger•14h ago•227 comments

Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve
219•guregodevo•10h ago•107 comments

Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02292
82•hapax_legomena•7h ago•38 comments

Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard?

https://vinibrasil.com/japan-train/
5•vnbrs•42m ago•1 comments

Pac-Man's Siren Call

https://unsung.aresluna.org/pac-mans-siren-call/
18•tobr•3h ago•4 comments

Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020

https://maketecheasier.com/arecibo-zinc-creep-collapse/
107•ohjeez•1d ago•27 comments

Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems)

http://thales.mit.edu/bush/index.php/4801-2/
34•peter_d_sherman•1d ago•4 comments

Altoids Project

https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/
109•uvdn7•10h ago•4 comments

ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limits
114•Zariel•11h ago•53 comments

It's the memory latency, stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
192•ntur1337•14h ago•58 comments

A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-1580-map-shows-why-data-visualization-is-never-neutral/
37•the-mitr•1d ago•2 comments

A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/857076.857077
25•gjvc•2d ago•0 comments

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
260•aphyr•19h ago•150 comments

Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half

https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in...
101•toomuchtodo•14h ago•43 comments

Surviving "The Graduate"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/dustin-hoffman-on-surviving-the-graduate
114•samizdis•13h ago•35 comments

Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
330•armcat•22h ago•163 comments

Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer

https://slate.com/culture/2026/10/edgar-allan-poe-poems-stories-most-influential-american-writer-...
32•samclemens•3d ago•1 comments

Understanding Email Encryption

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-encryption/
8•nmjenkins•1d ago•1 comments

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors

https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
247•aatish•4d ago•77 comments

The Duty of a Scholar

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html
117•gslin•14h ago•32 comments

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models

https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088
341•pretext•13h ago•194 comments

Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards

https://bbrouter.com/bbrouter/ben-eater-sap-1
30•creack•9h ago•8 comments

Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/reading-and-writing-are-less-symmetric-than-you-probably...
112•luu•3d ago•26 comments

Decode kernel panic from QR Code photo

https://gist.github.com/skorotkiewicz/c59e591c26661cb52b06afc42d8ac546
29•modinfo•1d ago•10 comments

AI text watermarking and quality loss

https://blog.keyvan.net/p/ai-text-watermarking-and-quality
54•danielfoster•11h ago•8 comments
Open in hackernews

Understanding Email Encryption

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-encryption/
8•nmjenkins•1d ago

Comments

chrismorgan•35m ago
> Additionally, servers don’t verify certificates by default. […] This is because verifying the certificate adds no security when an active attacker could just fall back to an unencrypted connection.

But surely the eventual goal is encrypted-only, at which time that’s no longer the case. Not verifying certificates feels like it may just slow down the process, because now when it looks okay you may actually find it’s not, the error is just masked for now.