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Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case 358 by entryleveljobsc | 124 comments on Hacker News.

Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation 374 by entryleveljobsc | 128 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN 418 by roansh | 118 comments on Hacker News. Saw Karpathy's HackerTube and wanted the same thing for books. So I had Claude build one (Opus 5.5). It's ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. Data is downloadable from the about page. To be clear: Claude wrote almost all of it, including the data pipeline and the site. I mostly steered and made calls, bought the domain name, etc. It counts mentions, so it's not perfect (praising a book and trashing it both count). If your favourite book is missing or matched to the wrong thing, tell me.

Tell HN: Scribd Breached 346 by x______________ | 122 comments on Hacker News. Not seeing anything posted about this anywhere, received on Monday, 26th of Oct 2026: Subject: Notice of Security Incident This notice is being sent on behalf of Scribd, Inc., the parent company of Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and Fable, by Epiq, Scribd Inc.’s notification partner. Hello, We are writing to let you know that Scribd, Inc. recently experienced a security incident that may have affected your data. We detected that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to certain user data in one of our systems. After investigating this activity, we found that the third party may have accessed your email address and the following of your information: last 4 digits of your credit card and country, credit card issuer, credit card expiry date, payment history (not including credit card details). We have no evidence that this data has been misused, but we are notifying you out of an abundance of cauti...

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 403 by oger | 188 comments on Hacker News.

Claude Code VS Code extension with backdoor released on Cursor marketplace 399 by bashtoni | 1 comments on Hacker News.