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China-Linked Hackers Exploited BeyondTrust Zero-Day to Take Over Remote Support Servershttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/china-linked-hackers-exploited.html

The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Armory Castle (previously UNC5221 or Warp Panda) exploited a newly disclosed security flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) as a zero-day in late August 2026. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case of improper origin validation in an internal messaging component that could be exploited by a

CERT-In Warns AI Agents Accessed Sensitive Data at Indian Organizations During Testinghttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/cert-in-warns-ai-agents-accessed.html

AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material, CERT-InΒ said in an advisoryΒ on October 15. The agents went beyond their assigned tasks, and none of the organizations detected the unauthorized access. After internal reviews, the AI companies whose models were being tested

Show HN: TheFairNet Professional Networking Platformhttps://thefairnet.com

Article URL: https://thefairnet.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50114983 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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The rapid rise of a former art dealer to Europe's hottest young managerhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cmde8l07569no

How Brighton's Fabian Hurzeler has gone from Germany's fifth tier to being reportedly of interest to Manchester United.

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A rare family of barn owls moved into Manhattan's Upper West Side. New Yorkers are captivatedhttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/g-s1-148366/owl-family-manhattan

Manhattan's Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park.

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Brewers sweep the Dodgers to reach the World Series for the first time since 1982https://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/nx-s1-6004787/brewers-sweep-dodgers-mlb

Propelled by a lockdown bullpen and repeated comebacks, the Brewers swept the two-time defending champion LA Dodgers out of the playoffs Thursday in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series.

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Vibe coding: Game-changer or risky business?https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/16/vibe-coding-game-changer-or-risky-business

Vibe coding lets users build software with AI, but free alternatives to popular programmes raise security concerns.

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Does the Premier League 'Big Six' still exist?https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckj0lrjzjgqno

For years the Premier League has had a defined 'Big Six', comprised of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur., but could this era be coming to an end?

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Show HN: Gitsu.app – A Linear-alternative built on GitHub Projectshttps://gitsu.app

Issue tracking isn't dead. It's moving closer to code. Gitsu is a fast, AI-native, keyboard-first Mac and web app on top of your existing GitHub Projects and issues. Everything syncs with GitHub in the background. Gitsu is free on the web. Pro is $4.99/seat/month and adds the native Mac client, advanced AI panels, and MCP agent workflows. Give gitsu.app a go and write us your suggestions/opinions/bug reports. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50114512 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

The Olympic sprinter now bedbound for 22 hours a dayhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/crd6dj26v4e4o

Beth Dobbin ran for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Five years on, she is largely bedbound after being diagnosed with ME, a devastating illness for which there is no cure.

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Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium packagehttps://lwn.net/Articles/1097760

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1097760/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50114359 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

The Folders Programming Languagehttps://danieltemkin.com/esolangs/folders

Article URL: https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs/folders Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50114342 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Continuous Trunk Builds of Network Ups Tools (Nut) for Fedora/ELhttps://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/karellen/nut-next

Article URL: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/karellen/nut-next/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50114317 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Met needs to move away from criminalising sex workers, officers say after Levy failingshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l8jpzwv9jo

The force is piloting a two-officer female team in north London to engage with street sex workers, in a bid to improve trust.

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Ship attack reports near Hormuz reach record high as oil exports slowhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmde8dpg8g0no

BBC Verify analysis of data from a UK maritime agency shows 12 vessels were struck in a week.

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HP Coupon Codes and Deals October 2026https://www.wired.com/story/hp-coupon-code

Save up to 60%, plus an extra 20% with HP promo codes for laptops, printers, PCs, and more tech.

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Total Wireless Promo Codes & Deals: 50% Off Select Planshttps://www.wired.com/story/total-wireless-promo-code

Find great deals for Total Wireless, like 50% off select plans, and enjoy big savings.

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Surfshark Promo Codes: 87% Off | October 2026https://www.wired.com/story/surfshark-coupon

Save up to 87% with a Surfshark coupon code, 3 months of VPN free today, and more from WIRED.

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Skechers Coupon Codes 20% Offhttps://www.wired.com/story/skechers-coupon-codes

Learn how to find, compare, and apply the best Skechers online discounts to save on comfortable sneakers, athletic apparel, and accessories.

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PEERSTITCH Malware Deployed via FortiOS Flaw Bypasses Checks on Tagged VPN Sessionshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/attackers-exploit-fortios-flaw-to.html

A suspected advanced threat actor has been observed exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS to deliver a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 malware known as PEERSTITCH. The attack involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-61624 (CVSS score: 5.4), a path traversal flaw in the command line interpreter of FortiOS, FortiPAM, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager that could allow a

They fled Russia, but the West sent them backhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6x23qpzjklwo

Over the past year there has been a stark rise in anti-government activists deported to Russia from the EU and US where they were seeking refuge.

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Watch: Will disenchanted Iowa Republicans reject Trump in the midterms?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c32l4kqg2q4ro

The BBC's Sarah Smith travelled across the state ahead of the midterms, as the president faces political headwinds.

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Show HN: Lobby Domains: Find Domains with Chrome's On-Device AIhttps://lobby.domains

Article URL: https://lobby.domains/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113913 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Kitaphone – Call mobile phones and landlines directly from the browserhttps://kitaphone.com

Hi HN Folks, I have been building Kitaphone a web app that lets you call regular mobile and landline numbers directly from your browser. The idea is simple, there are still plenty of situations where apps like WhatsApp, facetime and other internet calling apps aren't an option. For example, when you are abroad and need to call your bank, an airline, or a government office or your son/daughter's school. I wanted to make those calls possible without requiring users to install another app or buy a sim card or even commit to a monthly subscription. I built Kitaphone using Next.js and Twilio, One…

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A Tesla Flying Car? I Don’t Know, Manhttps://www.wired.com/story/tesla-flying-car-faa

The Federal Aviation Administration will likely have thoughts about the Tesla Roadster 2’s ability to leave the ground.

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Show HN: Beeline Multiplayer Agent Harnesshttps://usebeeline.app

Shipped Beeline today. It's a team chat for humans and agents - a kind of multiplayer harness. You can bring your codex, Claude code, opencode subscriptions and also works with pi and goose. We built beeline itself with early versions of beeline, and use it to build our other projects - it's boosted productivity quite a bit for us. Demo video: https://youtu.be/ACdelpZC2z4?is=pP6MFxJODvKcGjQt The key insight is that humans do their best work in teams, but agentic development has so far been single player. This has led to people having to forward AI slop to each other or to try to deliver conte…

Three children and teacher killed by 16-year-old at Oregon primary schoolhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm89zp48k4kzo

The suspect was shot dead by a local community member who followed him into the school, said police.

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Show HN: Wayseer – A native desktop app for browsing real-time datahttps://wayseer.app

As an IT professional, I felt a distinct lacking of a real-time tool for tracking down problems in complex systems. I have created Wayseer Desktop as a way to explore more effective ways to explore live systems. There's a very functional free version, and paid options that unlock additional features. I'm curious what you all think of the approach. I'm a systems engineer by trade (with some development experience), not a developer, so I have relied on AI to do the heavy lifting while I request features, report bugs and perform as much manual testing as I feasibly can. There are bound to be bug…

Show HN: Firmenza – An AI employee for SAM.govhttps://firmenza.com

Article URL: https://firmenza.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113168 Points: 2 # Comments: 2

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Show HN: GrapheneOS Dumbphonehttps://github.com/flourish-today/Odysseus

Article URL: https://github.com/flourish-today/Odysseus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113162 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Inherit – Zero to Iachttps://inherit.virtualbeck.com

There are several reverse terraform products out there. Some have paywalls, some are outdated. I wanted to try my hand at creating one that would start from nothing and produce an iac repo that plans, imports, and has a useable state. I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113156 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphiahttps://6abc.com/post/woman-arrested-blocking-delivery-robot-center-city-philadelphia-confrontation/19941323

Article URL: https://6abc.com/post/woman-arrested-blocking-delivery-robot-center-city-philadelphia-confrontation/19941323/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112963 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igaliahttps://lwn.net/Articles/1094721

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1094721/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112887 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPadhttps://github.com/Saffsanity/sill

Article URL: https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112739 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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'It's really hard to believe' - How Oregon primary school shooting unfoldedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwe8r29mjd05o

Three children aged 5, 8 and 11 and a teacher were killed after a 16-year-old suspect opened fire in the city of Bend, local police say.

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Tesla Roadsterhttps://www.tesla.com/roadster

Article URL: https://www.tesla.com/roadster Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112657 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

The Tesla Roadster flew, drove upside down, and hit 60mph in under a secondhttps://www.theverge.com/transportation/1012552/tesla-roadster-next-gen-reveal-elon-musk

Elon Musk promised a flying car. So the Tesla Roadster did exactly that. Tesla demonstrated its next-generation Roadster at an event in Waco, Texas, where the electric supercar drove upside down, briefly flew, and accelerated to 60mph in under a second. It was an impressive demonstration of a car that won't go into production until […]

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The Tesla Roadster 2 Is Hereβ€”and It Flieshttps://www.wired.com/story/tesla-roadster-2-launch

The automaker unveiled its next luxury sports car at an event in Texas. It has thrusters on it that can send it airborne.

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Show HN: Weatheristic.com to answer questions other weather sites don'thttps://weatheristic.com

I built this for myself. I often have questions I want quick answers to such as "how cold did it get last night?", "I just put down fertilizer, when will it rain next?", "is today unusually cold or warm for this time of year?" Weather sites I tried made me dig for those answers, if they were there at all (the last few days of weather often can't be found). I used to watch a few stocks closely, and Weatheristic is actually inspired by those types of charts. It has day/night bands with an ultra easy to understand temp trend line, and you can zoom and scroll. I added data I'm interested in, such…

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Show HN: Crowd Supply – GoFundMe for hardware developmenthttps://www.crowdsupply.com

Article URL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112468 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: MadMoon Shield – single-server DDoS defense, no CDN. Round 3 livehttps://challenge.madmoonsecurity.com

Article URL: https://challenge.madmoonsecurity.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112436 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Turn your regular JavaScript code into a neural nethttps://chenglou.me/handwired

Article URL: https://chenglou.me/handwired/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112421 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

'We got penalised for saying 'pregnancy' on Instagram'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvj6jznp9ww9o

Creators say women's health content is getting them shadowbanned on social media. So what's really happening?

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Thank You, Denohttps://www.vlt.io/blog/competition-keeps-javascript-moving

Article URL: https://www.vlt.io/blog/competition-keeps-javascript-moving Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112331 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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RPKI Now Protects 70% of Internet Routes, Up from 54% a Year Agohttps://ipinfo.io/blog/rpki-protects-70-internet-routes

Article URL: https://ipinfo.io/blog/rpki-protects-70-internet-routes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112330 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Chickadee Bandit – Build private apps for your familyhttps://www.chickadeebandit.com/gallery

Article URL: https://www.chickadeebandit.com/gallery Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112310 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Sjq – Jq, but for AI Streaminghttps://github.com/vivgrid/sjq

Article URL: https://github.com/vivgrid/sjq Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112214 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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The Papers: Healey's 'tax raid on banks' and Brand 'topless monster'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6vg0dx2y1j5o

The chancellor's possible plan to tax banks and new evidence in Russell Brand's rape trial dominate Friday's papers.

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Show HN: Rad PDFs – Hacker News for PDFs Onlyhttps://radpdfs.pages.dev

For the past few years I have found myself not wanting to be at a screen most of the time. I convert most blog posts I plan on reading to PDFs and print them out. This is a site for people to link their PDFs for others to read. You are encouraged to submit PDFs in A4 or 8.5x11 for print-friendliness. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112088 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Pasteface - Record, transcribe and copy speech locally in your terminalhttps://github.com/blairjordan/pasteface

Article URL: https://github.com/blairjordan/pasteface Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111990 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites Starting Oct. 30https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say

Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111852 Points: 15 # Comments: 0

India's 'cockroach' protesters set to return despite police crackdownhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmx237n1y9lzo

The youth-led movement plans a fresh Delhi protest after mass detentions last week and the jailing of two leaders.

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Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government sayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmpqgepejr2ro

The move follows a review into pornography regulation in 2025 by Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin

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Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government sayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmpqgepejr2ro

The move follows a review into pornography regulation in 2025 by Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin

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Show HN: Find a compatible partner through Matchmakinghttps://modern-matchmaker.com/en

Article URL: https://modern-matchmaker.com/en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111782 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Are student protests being manipulated ahead of France's presidential election?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8zxlyg965r3o

France's prime minister has suggested that student anger is being weaponised, as the unions and other protesters prepare to take to the streets too.

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BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBoxhttps://github.com/johnrash/bebox

Article URL: https://github.com/johnrash/bebox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111742 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

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Steam can now show game achievements in separate β€˜sets’https://www.theverge.com/games/1012541/valve-steam-achievement-sets

Valve is introducing a major new feature for Steam achievements called "achievement sets" that lets developers list different groups of achievements for a base game and DLCs. "In games that support sets, you still unlock achievements by playing the game as usual," Valve says. "But when you browse what you have unlocked afterward, Steam will […]

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Living with a stink? Technology might helphttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr6240q1w136o

Smells from rubbish dumps and industrial facilities are being more carefully monitored.

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U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Launderinghttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/u-k-sanctions-cryptomus-for-ru-money-laundering

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/u-k-sanctions-cryptomus-for-ru-money-laundering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111708 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

I find it quite demoralising in store - why I do all my shopping onlinehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c36lk280kd1o

After Primark announced plans for home delivery, we hear from women who never go into clothes stores.

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