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Casio Watches of the 1980s

karagenit — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:00:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1980s/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317363

Points: 33

# Comments: 6

Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation'

WesleyGrant782 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:57:33 +0000

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/ex-meta-researcher-torrented-pirated-books-dataset-deleted-it-due-to-all-this-litigation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316760

Points: 50

# Comments: 29

Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth

khalidkhair — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:29:03 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/appraisal-by-ai-model-driven-victim-prioritization-in-the-volta-infostealer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316531

Points: 82

# Comments: 21

Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again

dxs — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:39:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/us/philadelphia-woman-delivery-robots-cec

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316103

Points: 67

# Comments: 98

AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages

healsdata — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:25:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-startup-hacks-anthropic-in-12-hours-gains-access-to-employee-details-and-internal-messages-3025452-2026-10-26

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315990

Points: 70

# Comments: 17

Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering

gloxkiqcza — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:25:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-ai-model-is-now-blocking-attempts-at-video-game-recreation-and-cloning-users-also-claim-non-malicious-generic-reverse-engineering-tasks-are-blocked

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315987

Points: 26

# Comments: 11

Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally?

ck2 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:57:31 +0000

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/217281/meta-suspend-democratic-candidate-angie-nixon-instagram-account

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315776

Points: 62

# Comments: 76

Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks

chmaynard — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:32:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-anthropics-filing-crushed-tech

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315574

Points: 47

# Comments: 63

Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age

fovc — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:54:59 +0000

Article URL: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/31/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315226

Points: 122

# Comments: 78

French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic

helloplanets — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:28:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/comptes-rendus/seance/session-ordinaire-de-2026-2027/premiere-seance-du-vendredi-30-octobre-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315047

Points: 88

# Comments: 124

Halloween is a crass American import – I'll never indulge it

penguin_booze — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:27:37 +0000

Article URL: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/halloween-crass-american-import-never-indulge-4862206

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315039

Points: 27

# Comments: 32

Shiny Object Syndrome

janisz — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:02:14 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_object_syndrome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314872

Points: 55

# Comments: 20

We Took over ChatGPT Accounts

armcat — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:30:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314699

Points: 199

# Comments: 103

Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

DeepLogin — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:23:41 +0000

Article URL: https://piefed.world/post/1503394

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314666

Points: 188

# Comments: 126

Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

input_sh — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:21:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314654

Points: 617

# Comments: 358

Neuroscientists reveal method to train people to have lucid dreams

giuliomagnifico — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:12:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/neuroscientists-reveal-method-to-train-people-to-have-lucid-dreams-and-it-involves-virtual-reality-and-mediation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314611

Points: 20

# Comments: 6

How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC?

Arodex — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:43:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/146273/how-long-do-you-need-to-hold-down-the-power-button-to-turn-off-a-pc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314243

Points: 51

# Comments: 16

Switch Lowering in GCC

signa11 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:02:26 +0000

Article URL: https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314085

Points: 143