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A remote code flaw in MS Paint

Microsoft rates a bug in Paint as remote code execution with no click needed, and nobody can say what network service Paint runs. Plus where today's stock slide really hi

Kagi opens search to everyone

Kagi lets anyone search without an account and takes aim at Google's school plan, Salon shuts down after 31 years, and Claude Code is caught leaking users' email addresse

Motorola builds a phone for GrapheneOS

Motorola launches a flagship made to run GrapheneOS, a blogger asks the companies tracking him to use what they know, and the Nasdaq slides on bets that the midterms will

Discord rewrites its app in Rust

Discord drops Electron for an all-Rust app, awesome lists drown in AI pull requests, Baidu's ERNIE base model shuts out the EU, OpenAI's Astra quietly slacks on safety re

Garry Tan's $200K token habit

Y Combinator's Garry Tan says he spends up to $200,000 a year on AI tokens, RTX 5090 street prices pass $9,000, an ISP caught forging DNS answers, the lost malloc of 1973

How HN readers run their AI agents

Hacker News readers share their AI coding setups, from five-dollar budgets to a twenty-machine fleet. Plus Conductor joining Meta, OpenAI's Images 2.6, plastic-free coffe

AI agents barely order DoorDash

DoorDash says outside AI agents have placed only a few hundred orders, OpenAI's unreleased model finds 948 Linux root bugs in one run, Go's JSON v2 goes stable, SpaceX op

Proxy traffic exits the White House

A proxy-detection firm finds rented proxy traffic leaving the White House network, and Rotherham's high street loses its shoppers to a retail park. Plus Kimi K3.1 Pro's o

San Francisco adopts a guerrilla bike lane

A 2016 story about activists' illegal bike lane posts that San Francisco made official, plus an essay on why verified AI answers are not knowledge, AMD's forecast to outs

Voters reject data centers

Data-center bans win at the ballot box in more than 30 US localities, IEEE Spectrum says AI is calling in 40 years of technical debt, Geoffrey Hinton warns of an AI disas

Nvidia's map for honest data agents

Nvidia open-sources a tool that maps company databases so AI agents give fewer wrong answers, and its RTX Spark laptops crawl on Linux. Plus kitty 0.50, Bear at ten, and

Windows 11 fixes its right-click menu

Microsoft lets Windows 11 users customize the right-click menu as its Windows revenue from new PCs drops, and the C++26 draft fails its ISO vote over contracts. Plus Flip

Ubuntu's Linux bug fix is still waiting

Ubuntu adds a stopgap but still ships no fix in regular updates for a critical Linux bug, Nikkei tallies $3.2 trillion in off-book AI commitments at big tech, and an engi

Astra's Qwen fix came from Python

A critic says the AI that seemed to fix a model's math by reading its weights was writing Python, plus Safari's automatic dark mode, a ceiling-hung home robot, Codex trai

Utah charges Kalshi's founders

Utah brings felony charges against Kalshi and its founders while federal regulators sue the state, Postman quietly wires itself into coding agents, and a new estimate fin

A 1996 Pentium versus Kasparov

A modern chess engine ported to a 1996 Pentium Pro would likely have beaten Kasparov without Deep Blue. Also: an AI customer-service reply, Google tying school search to

A proof is worth as much if an AI finds it

Three guest authors on Terence Tao's blog argue mathematicians should let go of credit in the AI era. Plus a programmer resisting cognitive surrender to coding agents, Re

Anthropic's growth may have stalled

One writer's monthly math says Anthropic barely grew over the summer, and Apple posts a record quarter helped by tariff refunds. Also OpenAI's agent-built Git backend, Cl

A call to block Anthropic's IPO

A policy researcher urges the SEC to block Anthropic's IPO, and Intel's slide deepens as the chip selloff spreads. Plus battery self-tests that make power grids dip every

BYD's October beats a US quarter

BYD sold more battery EVs in October than the whole US did in the third quarter. Also: jobless engineers in San Francisco's AI boom, Oracle's $20 billion raise, a beloved