The Automated Daily - Hacker News Edition

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Welcome to 'The Automated Daily - Hacker News Edition', your ultimate source for a streamlined and insightful daily news experience.

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TrendTeller

Category

technology

Language

en

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No

First episode

6 Dec 2023

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1,000 episodes in the feed.

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   21 Oct 2026

   eMudhra intermediate CA keys compromised & Ofcom admits limits against 4chan - Hacker News (Oct 21, 2026)

   Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Effortless AI design for presentations, websites, and more with Gamma - https://try.gamma.app/tad - KrispCall: Agentic Cloud Telephony - https://try.krispcall.com/tad - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily Today's topics: eMudhra intermediate CA keys compromised - Private keys for eight eMudhra intermediate certificate authority certificates were compromised. Chrome, Firefox, Apple and Microsoft have blocked them, but non-browser TLS clients may still trust them until updated. Ofcom admits limits against 4chan - Ofcom's chief executive acknowledged the regulator may not be able to collect Online Safety Act fines from US-based sites like 4chan. US courts are unlikely to enforce foreign judgments that conflict with First Amendment free speech protections. iPadOS 27 breaks presenter mode - An iPadOS 27 change to AirPlay external display handling mirrors the whole iPad screen when presenters switch apps. Private notes can end up on screen in Keynote, PowerPoint and GoodNotes, which is a real problem for teachers and conference speakers. CSS features eyed for Interop 2027 - Josh Comeau highlights the CSS proposals he hopes Interop 2027 will cover, including CSS functions, corner-shape, border-shape, anchored container queries and inherit(). Interop could bring these features to all major browsers faster. Rethinking education in the AGI era - An essay prompted by impending fatherhood draws on Neil Postman and the Lindy Effect to ask what schooling is for once AI can do much of human work. It points toward citizenship, stewardship and curiosity as goals for the future of education. UNEP says 1.5°C now unreachable - UNEP's 2026 Emissions Gap Report concludes that temperature overshoot beyond the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C limit is now inevitable. The new priority is staying below 2°C and cutting emissions quickly through renewables, methane reduction and a fossil fuel phase-out. - eMudhra Intermediate CA Private Key Compromise - Permit Pending Lets Players Run a City Through Zoning Battles and Politics - Mistral Launches Voxtral 3 Voice Agent SDK and Speech Models - Apple Breaks iPad Presentation Mode in iPadOS 27 - Josh W. Comeau on the Top CSS Features for Interop 2027 - What Shall I Teach My Son in the Age of AGI? - Ofcom Says It Cannot Enforce 4chan Fines in the U.S. - UN report says 1.5°C warming target is no longer achievable Episode Transcript eMudhra intermediate CA keys compromised Let's start with that security story. Researchers report that the private keys for eight intermediate certificates from eMudhra, a certificate authority whose roots are trusted by the major browsers and operating systems, have been compromised. As proof, the person who disclosed it signed a message with each intermediate's private key, and the root program teams were notified in mid-October. This matters because anyone holding one of those keys could impersonate websites or services, with valid-looking certificates to back them up. The good news is that Firefox, Chrome, Apple and Microsoft have already blocked the certificates. The flawed key generation appears to date back to April 2025. Certificate transparency logs show no sign that browser users were exposed, but non-browser clients, such as tools and libraries with their own certificate bundles, may have been vulnerable. The practical advice is simple: update your browsers, your operating systems and any certificate bundles your software relies on. Ofcom admits limits against 4chan Over to internet regulation. An analysis...

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   20 Oct 2026

   WhatsApp AI Chatbot Hidden Instructions & OpenBSD 8.0 Officially Released - Hacker News (Oct 20, 2026)

   Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily - Effortless AI design for presentations, websites, and more with Gamma - https://try.gamma.app/tad Today's topics: WhatsApp AI Chatbot Hidden Instructions - WhatsApp help pages contained hidden notes telling its AI support chatbot not to mention data protection regulators, GDPR, or privacy laws; WhatsApp blamed a bug and removed them after WIRED asked. OpenBSD 8.0 Officially Released - OpenBSD 8.0, the project's 61st release, brings kernel security hardening, faster swap encryption, Intel Arc graphics support, VMM improvements, and broader RISC-V and laptop hardware support. Wine Port Arrives on OpenBSD - A new OpenBSD ports proposal brings Wine to OpenBSD, running dozens of 64-bit Windows apps and even games like The Witcher 3, though 32-bit WoW64 support is still missing. DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer Framework - DeepSeek released DeepInfer, an Apache 2.0 inference framework built on vLLM that powers its production services, supporting DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs. Single-Motor Homemade Drone Experiment - Maker Joshua Bird built a drone that flies and steers with only one motor, using custom mechanics and firmware to replace traditional quadcopter designs. Ukraine Drone Evacuates Wounded Soldier - Ukraine reports the first battlefield evacuation of a wounded soldier by heavy-lift hexacopter drone, a potential new model for casualty evacuation under mine and drone threats. Programming Joy Beyond Economics - An essay argues programming can remain playful and rewarding as a personal hobby even as AI reshapes professional software development and coding economics. Nordwand-Mono Developer Font Released - Nordwand-Mono is an open-source monospace coding font inspired by Univers and Swiss typography, with alternate glyphs, minimal ligatures, and customizable Python builds. StarCraft Ashfall Fan Prototype - StarCraft: Ashfall is an early fan-made prototype blending Terran Marine combat, Zerg defense, and endless-mode progression, unaffiliated with Blizzard. - It’s Still OK to Enjoy Programming - OpenBSD Ports Proposal Adds Wine Support - DeepSeek Releases DeepInfer, a High-Performance Inference Framework - Engineer Builds a Flying Drone With Just One Motor - WhatsApp Hidden AI Instructions Told Support Bot Not to Mention Regulators - StarCraft: Ashfall Prototype Teases Terran Defense Gameplay - MiniMax Launches M3.1 Flash for Faster, Cheaper AI Agents - OpenBSD 8.0 Released with Major Kernel and Hardware Updates - Nordwand-Mono: A Customizable Monospace Font for Developers - Ukraine Claims First Drone Evacuation of Wounded Soldier Episode Transcript WhatsApp AI Chatbot Hidden Instructions Let's start with that WhatsApp story. Reporting shows WhatsApp's help pages contained hidden text meant for an AI support chatbot, and some of it steered the bot away from recommending data protection regulators or pointing users to privacy laws. One example involved people who couldn't delete their accounts because they'd lost access to their phone number or device; the bot was nudged toward suggesting waiting periods rather than outside help. Another note told it to drop any legal discussion the moment a user mentioned a lawyer, a lawsuit, or even GDPR. Avoiding legal advice is reasonable, but critics point out this went further, suppressing public rights information WhatsApp itself publishes elsewhere. WhatsApp remov...

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   19 Oct 2026

   Dogs and the Bouba-Kiki Effect & Hybrid Reasoning Agents Research - Hacker News (Oct 19, 2026)

   Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad Today's topics: Dogs and the Bouba-Kiki Effect - A study of 70 dogs suggests they may link the sound 'Bouba' with rounded shapes and 'Kiki' with spiky ones, hinting at human-like sound-shape associations in canine cognition. Hybrid Reasoning Agents Research - The Hybrid Reasoning Agents paper lets LLM agents switch between latent reasoning and text-based tool use. It reports gains on 11 benchmarks, with lower token use, faster inference, and lower cost. KillSwitch Language Versus AI - KillSwitch is an esoteric programming language built to trip up LLMs and coding agents with hidden lies, prompt-like traps, and letter-counting puzzles. A leaderboard ranks the models, with Claude Opus 5 on top. Owning Your Own LLM Proxy - An engineer argues that teams should run their own LLM proxy for observability, virtual API keys, provider switching, and faster debugging of issues like cache misses, instead of relying on vendor dashboards. Linear on Opinionated Software Craft - Linear CEO Karri Saarinen argues that good software reflects its makers' judgment and intuition. He warns that agent-driven, fragmented workflows can produce incoherent products with no clear vision. 3Blue1Brown on AI and Math - In an update to our AI-in-mathematics story, Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown argues that AI-assisted proofs and conjectures make this a good time to enter math, with AI amplifying human creativity. Linux Kernel 7.3 Breaks Records - Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.3 on schedule. It set records for commits, developers, and first-time contributors, and adds fchroot(), failfs, sched_ext subschedulers, and SMB server improvements. Java Sealed Classes Compatibility Risks - Java sealed classes enable exhaustive switch checking, but adding a new subtype breaks downstream code and can trigger a runtime MatchException. That makes them risky to expose in public APIs. RepRapMicron Micron-Scale 3D Printing - The open-source RepRapMicron project is building a RepRap-style 3D printer for micron-scale fabrication. Its PIKA build reaches about 1 micron of repeatable positioning, aimed at microelectronics. Autodesk, Gibson, and Cyberspace Myth - A former Autodesk VR lab member explains that Autodesk did try to trademark 'cyberspace' and William Gibson objected. The story that Gibson retaliated by trademarking a person's name was a Timothy Leary prank. - The Case for Software With a Human Perspective - Hybrid Reasoning Agents Blend Latent Thought and Tool Use - μRepRap Project Aims for Micron-Scale 3D Printing - 3Blue1Brown Says AI Could Transform the Future of Math - Linux kernel 7.3 released with record-breaking developer activity - Study Finds Dogs May Link “Bouba” With Round Shapes and “Kiki” With Spiky Ones - Author Builds KillSwitch, a Programming Language Designed to Defeat LLMs - Why You Should Run Your Own LLM Proxy - How the “Cyberspace” Trademark Rumor Started - Java Sealed Classes Can Break Downstream Pattern Matching Episode Transcript Dogs and the Bouba-Kiki Effect First, the dogs. A new study tested seventy domestic dogs on the well-known bouba-kiki effect. That's the tendency humans have to pair the soft-sounding word 'Bouba' with rounded shapes and the sharper 'Kiki' with spiky ones. Researchers played the sounds while showing pairs of images and tracked where each dog looked....

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