HN Buddy - October 12, 2026

Hey buddy,

Dude, you gotta hear about what's been popping off on Hacker News today. Wild stuff.

First up, remember how everyone's always worried about hackers? Well, some folks apparently managed to activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges all across Europe! Check this out:

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

Like, seriously,

All Stories from Today

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe (www.tomshardware.com)

640 points by Zeekaas | 777 comments

Muse Wonder (research.meta.ai)

619 points by meetpateltech | 327 comments

Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth (www.bbc.com)

601 points by Betelbuddy | 198 comments

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default (github.com)

548 points by whimblepop | 272 comments

GLM-Legal (z.ai)

535 points by ilreb | 307 comments

A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)

533 points by prophittcorey | 223 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill (yyhh.org)

375 points by layer8 | 294 comments

QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions (github.com)

373 points by bwnkl | 402 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com)

336 points by djfergus | 90 comments

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)

331 points by gumby | 278 comments

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (www.bbc.com)

320 points by scrlk | 351 comments

Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? (mortoray.com)

320 points by ingve | 339 comments

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly (github.com)

289 points by deadxwarrior | 148 comments

Thinking will become a hobby (www.spinellis.gr)

271 points by pranitha_m | 375 comments

Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly? (amosbbatto.wordpress.com)

263 points by amosbatto | 322 comments

'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey (www.linkedin.com)

263 points by svieira | 133 comments

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig (lalinsky.com)

243 points by lukaslalinsky | 93 comments

Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity' (www.cnbc.com)

240 points by m463 | 214 comments

Fable Took My Job (cendyne.dev)

220 points by jllyhill | 352 comments

Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack (radar.cloudflare.com)

220 points by rooftopzen | 112 comments

OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed (openfatigue.ai)

217 points by ajcp | 49 comments

Doory – Open-Source Canva (github.com)

215 points by acley | 76 comments

I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google (simonkoeck.com)

198 points by soeckly | 98 comments

RJ Mitte has died (news.sky.com)

194 points by austinallegro | 59 comments

Who is vfmaddrnd231pd? (purplesyringa.moe)

185 points by pngmangi | 19 comments

Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X (www.intel.com)

181 points by hurricanepootis | 81 comments

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)

181 points by speckx | 74 comments

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (taylor.town)

181 points by surprisetalk | 66 comments

Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware? (github.com)

180 points by luggage_bazooka | 51 comments

Solar panels that plug into your wall (www.nationalgeographic.com)

177 points by speckx | 162 comments

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