November 2, 2026
CVE-2026-98432 is a CVSS 9.8 critical kernel TCP bug. Debian patched it. Ubuntu still has not. The distros maintained by volunteers fixed it first.
Frank Calegari argues the math community must rethink hiring, publishing, and graduate training after OpenAI's 700-paper dump. Not a eulogy. A battle plan.
Andrej Karpathy got tired of YouTube's slop recommendations and spent two hours with Claude Opus 5.5 building a YouTube clone powered entirely by videos recommended on Hacker News.
The largest crypto heist in history was pulled off in 20 minutes across ten blockchains. North Korean hackers are the prime suspects.
Mistral released the weights of Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter open model. It leads open-weight coding benchmarks and was trained in Europe.
StackOverflow now receives fewer than 1'000 questions per month, down from a peak of over 200'000. AI tools have fundamentally changed how developers find answers.
Tailscale disclosed serious privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Tailscale SSH on October 26. A patched client release was targeted for October 27. Here is what was found, what to do, and why it matters.
OpenAI announced three AI-produced discoveries: the local smoothing conjecture in all dimensions, a refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and an existence proof for Yang-Mills and QCD. Each was formalized in Lean and released through a new academic collaboration framework.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told investors that open weight models now deliver 90 percent of frontier performance at 10 percent of the cost, making on-prem AI irresistible for enterprises. The gap that separated open from closed has collapsed.