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Ask HN: How long before we use AI to hack John Deere or our Cars?

What concerns would you have with people being able to take over and rewrite every bit of software in their cars? Does that apply to Farmers fixing their tractors with hacked firmware? What steps are left before we can use AI to really own our vehicles again? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185771 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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AI Hasn't Spurred Widespread Layoffs Yet. Why Not?

Article URL: https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/ai-hasnt-spurred-widespread-layoffs-yet-why-not Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185884 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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The explosive claim that's upended the AI world

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/19/1147149/we-were-looking-at-it-wrong-the-explosive-claim-thats-upended-the-ai-world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185969 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/10/21/storm-0940-uses-artex-agentic-ai-connectwise-supply-chain-compromise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186138 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Ask HN: What AI tools help me understand a MR?

I'm trying to incorporate AI code tools into my flow, but my issue is that I spend a lot of time code reviewing AI. I know there is vibe-coding vs engineering and I'm trying to stay on the engineering side while trying to figure out how to properly use AI. In that spirit, I wanted to find an AI tool that helps me code review better. More specifically, look at a diff and present it to me in a way that makes it easier for me to understand what is going on. I am not looking for a tool to do a code ...
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Ask HN: How will programming language design change as more code comes from AI?

It appears that we're moving to a world where human programmers deal less and less with specific code details. How do you expect/prefer language designers' priorities to shift? e.g. less toward human friendliness changes, more towards machine verifiability, etc? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186311 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Ask HN: Caution on using AI security platforms for repositories.

Hello World! So I am new to the world of cybersecurity, and after some back and forth with AI, I chose to use a specific tool that was recommended for automated vulnerability detection & patching, but I think the issue I encountered is something common to all similar platforms that provide AI security fixes in 2026. It proposed a fix to an issue labeled 'critical'. I gave the specific file and the fix to Gemini, and, it disagreed strongly. My trust in the platform immediately degraded. It shows ...
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The AI-Hacking Apocalypse Began Last Night

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/ai-hacking-apocalypse-began-last-night/689106/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186699 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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So yeah it was written using AI

Article URL: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/so-yeah-it-is-written-using-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177979 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Chinese AI Tool Linked to Hacks in Japan

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/chinese-ai-tool-linked-to-hacks-in-japan-4813d13b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179112 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
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Show HN: Multiplayer AI

so recently i was working on a hackathron project with a friend and we were both using claude code however as it so happened we had to code one at a time in order to avoid file conflicts and interfering with each others work so i made a simple solution for this simple problem I am currently looking for users to test my app so if anyone has the same problem please check out synteny and join https://discord.gg/BPn28HSjH Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179308 Points: ...