10.31.26 | Claude Code backdoor in Cursor, Binance hack took 20 minutes, Northflank breached
Hacker News Highlights · Oct 31, 2026 · 11:06
Hacker News Highlights · Oct 31, 2026 · 11:06
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The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303172
Northflank Breached
https://status.northflank.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305025
My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307190
Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises
https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301854
The federated code forge
https://tangled.org/blog/forge/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305573
Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX
https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305637
Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots
https://www.techpolicy.press/breaking-the-open-web-wont-stop-the-bad-bots/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263837
Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306442
Tell HN: Scribd Breached
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756
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