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Monday, 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)

Muse Wonder (research.meta.ai)

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

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

GLM-Legal (z.ai)

A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)

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

QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions (github.com)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fable Took My Job (cendyne.dev)

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

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

Doory – Open-Source Canva (github.com)

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

RJ Mitte has died (news.sky.com)

Who is vfmaddrnd231pd? (purplesyringa.moe)

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

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

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

Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware? (github.com)

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