Hacker News Digest

· 10 Hacker News

  1. ▲ 147C++26 Rejected by ISO Vote for the First Time in the Language's History

    On October 23, 2026, ISO National Bodies voted down the C++26 DIS ballot, failing to reach the required two-thirds majority over the Contracts feature. Committee member Andreas Fertig, who represents…

  2. ▲ 89Binance hackers posed as recruiters to breach a dev's laptop before $6.3B attack

    Hackers breached a Binance developer's computer by staging a fake job interview, then used that access in a $6.3 billion attack. The Hacker News discussion flags multiple failures: one developer coul…

  3. ▲ 48There Is No Posttraining Data Commons — and That Changes Who Controls AI

    Pretraining enjoyed a vast public commons of web pages, code, and papers, but posttraining consumes tasks, not documents — and no such commons exists. Even software, the easiest case, yields tasks on…

  4. ▲ 41Mars's Valles Marineris Is Still Rumbling With Marsquakes

    Columbia University and Imperial College London researchers have traced a 2021 marsquake recorded by NASA's InSight lander to a fault 20 to 40 kilometers beneath Valles Marineris, the solar system's…

  5. ▲ 31Microsoft finally lets Windows 11 users rebuild the right-click menu

    A preview update, KB5127936, hands Windows 11 users a customize menu button to toggle, reorder, and resurface right-click commands that Microsoft had buried behind icons and a Show more options subme…

  6. ▲ 29Colorectal cancer in young adults has distinct biology, Dana-Farber study finds

    Dana-Farber, Mass General Brigham, and Broad Institute researchers analyzed 189 tumors from patients aged 29 to 90+, including 54 diagnosed before 50, using single-nucleus RNA sequencing on more than…

  7. ▲ 14Programmer builds a language whose compiler outputs one giant SQL query

    Sandy Maguire wrote catlang, a small programming language that compiles to a single monstrous SELECT statement in postgres. Its intermediate representation is built from abstract category theory cons…

  8. ▲ 10Uncracked City - Detective game with lying LLM suspects

    Uncracked City is a detective game set in real cities where you investigate unsolved cases by searching locations, questioning LLM-powered suspects who lie, and writing the report nobody has managed…

  9. ▲ 517 Claude Code bots run a real company on $100 a month

    The operations lead at a Korean B2B distributor runs seventeen Claude Code bots on a single office MacBook, all for a $100 Claude Max subscription and zero API spend. Only three bots actually call a…

  10. ▲ 5The Pnyx and the Agora: How Ancient Athens Built Democracy Into Its Public Spaces

    Richard Sennett traces democracy's roots to two Athenian spaces: the Pnyx, an open-air theatre where citizens fixed their gaze on a single speaker and held one another accountable for their words, an…