HN Buddy - October 17, 2026

Hey buddy,

Man, Saturday's Hacker News was pretty wild. Lemme hit you with the highlights real quick:

OpenCode Got Hacked!

First up, big news: OpenCode got totally hacked! User credentials leaked, 849 points on HN, loads of comments. People are saying the company's totally downplaying it, and one guy even called out their "buzzword distillation attack" explanation as kinda fishy, maybe blaming others. What's even crazier is this dude, verdverm, who actually worked with the OpenCode team last week on a security thing, thinks this whole hack might be related to them doing too much "vibemax

All Stories from Today

OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked (twitter.com)

849 points by pranshuchittora | 158 comments

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 (huggingface.co)

830 points by theykk | 640 comments

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time (www.pv-magazine.com)

577 points by xbmcuser | 357 comments

DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 (openrouter.ai)

514 points by theanonymousone | 5 comments

Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG (pele.run)

395 points by dchest | 36 comments

Butlerian Jihad (dune.fandom.com)

363 points by wetwater | 253 comments

Gold is now the top U.S. export (www.numismaticnews.net)

316 points by iamnothere | 167 comments

MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood (www.engadget.com)

299 points by bookofjoe | 54 comments

Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

296 points by crescit_eundo | 77 comments

Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware (llmspeed.dev)

283 points by albinstman | 81 comments

Source code of the Estonian online voting system (github.com)

207 points by theanonymousone | 178 comments

I Became a Citizen of Japan (www.derekwessman.com)

202 points by luu | 133 comments

US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion (finance.yahoo.com)

185 points by ck2 | 187 comments

GLP-1 may slow biological aging (www.universityofcalifornia.edu)

173 points by dzink | 169 comments

Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses (www.opendemocracy.net)

162 points by DeepLogin | 58 comments

Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser (github.com)

155 points by joakimeriksson | 17 comments

Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank (www.theguardian.com)

147 points by 0x54MUR41 | 53 comments

Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel (lwn.net)

130 points by farlight | 106 comments

Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor (www.lemonde.fr)

128 points by Betelbuddy | 18 comments

OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents (fortune.com)

125 points by DASD | 150 comments

Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps (github.com)

124 points by AIorNot | 46 comments

Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer (celphase.github.io)

122 points by celphase | 28 comments

A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024) (blog.davidv.dev)

115 points by pmoriarty | 63 comments

Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not (doctor-seo.net)

111 points by croes | 124 comments

Super Intelligence (www.si.gov)

104 points by wiradikusuma | 182 comments

JDK 28 (openjdk.org)

100 points by ejboy | 52 comments

Microsoft Teams is a red flag (blog.raed.dev)

75 points by Raed667 | 54 comments

The future of programming (1982) (dl.acm.org)

67 points by vismit2000 | 18 comments

Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers (www.cs.cmu.edu)

66 points by azhenley | 84 comments

Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot (www.phillyvoice.com)

63 points by johnnyApplePRNG | 122 comments