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67 titles from 62 authors in the last 30 days, with 65 distinct links and 10 Show HN.

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• Show HN: Tar-minefield shows where tar implementations disagree · score 7.3

  Tar-minefield is a test suite and documentation project that catalogs ambiguities in the tar file format and how 20+ implementations handle them differently, exposing security risks in archive extraction. It proposes a strict parsing policy that rejects ambiguous tar files while still accepting 99.77% of real-world source tarballs, making it a valuable reference for tar implementers and security scanners.

• Show HN: Switchboard – Mac menu bar app that shows every localhost port · score 6.0

  Switchboard is a macOS menu bar app that detects localhost ports, groups them by project, and provides actions like opening URLs, reading logs, and visualizing dependencies between servers. It also offers a CLI and a config file (switchboard.json) for sharing setup, addressing a common developer pain point.

• Show HN: Visual Studio extension that shows decimal and hex in the debugger · score 5.8

  AlwaysHex is a Visual Studio extension that displays debugger variable values in both decimal and hexadecimal simultaneously, eliminating the need to toggle the 'Hexadecimal Display' setting. It works by intercepting the C/C++ expression evaluator and C# value formatter, and is notable for relying on undocumented Visual Studio debugger internals.

• Show HN: RainbowSay – Learn, teach, research languages live with shows you love · score 5.0

  RainbowSay is a web app that uses AI to help learn and teach languages from TV shows, movies, and podcasts, turning real dialogue into study material. It's interesting for its cultural immersion approach and automated sentence-level analysis, though the product is early-stage with minimal documentation.

Recent titles

1. The Cost of AI Code Shows Up 30 Days Later
   2026-11-05 · cacm.acm.org · HN discussion
2. NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings
   2026-11-05 · nasa.gov · HN discussion
3. Meta Employees 'Interacted' with Pirated Copies of Adult Films, Filing Shows
   2026-11-05 · torrentfreak.com · HN discussion
4. This Fluid Shows Us What Quantum Physics Is Like [video]
   2026-11-05 · youtube.com · HN discussion
5. Oleshky Ceasefire Shows That Russia Can, but Won't End Civilian Suffering in Ukr
   2026-11-05 · understandingwar.org · HN discussion
6. Flims and TV shows created using AI have now reached a high level of quality
   2026-11-05 · crateh.com · HN discussion
7. Electronic implant shows promise for drug-free diabetes control
   2026-11-05 · physicsworld.com · HN discussion
8. The PHP2Shell fix, two weeks on: what the PHP-src issue tracker shows
   2026-11-04 · theainewsreport.com · HN discussion
9. The Deadly 1.5-Mile Corridor That Shows the Fatal Flaw in America's Road Design
   2026-11-04 · wsj.com · HN discussion
10. Bombshell: New Climate Study Shows Zero Carbon Impact on Warming
    2026-11-03 · principia-scientific.com · HN discussion
11. Show HN: Business days calculator that shows which days it skipped
    2026-11-03 · instantfreetools.com · HN discussion
12. Show HN: A landing page that shows every psychological trick it uses on you
    2026-11-03 · kickstartsidehustle.com · HN discussion
13. CloudOpsBench: AI benchmark shows FAI models struggling with cloud infra
    2026-11-02 · cloudopsbench.ai · HN discussion
14. Anthropic's Amended IPO Filing Shows $895B in Compute Commitments
    2026-11-02 · epyhia.com · HN discussion
15. Anthropic's Amended S1 Filing Shows Slowing Q3 Growth
    2026-11-02 · sec.gov · HN discussion
16. Politeness Has Changed. Our Language Shows How
    2026-11-02 · time.com · HN discussion
17. What a Swedish Mammography Trial Shows About Medical AI
    2026-11-02 · readpublicforum.com · HN discussion
18. Income Pilot shows real dividend income after taxes and inflation
    2026-11-01 · realincomepilot.com · HN discussion
19. Map Shows Nations Urging People to Stockpile Food as France Issues Warning
    2026-11-01 · newsweek.com · HN discussion
20. Nearly 2 out of 3 teens and tweens use AI chatbots, new research shows
    2026-10-31 · npr.org · HN discussion
21. Steve Jobs Told Tim Cook Never to Ask 1 Question. Apple's Touch Mac Shows Why
    2026-10-31 · inc.com · HN discussion
22. Little Snitch Shows Who Your Mac Talks To
    2026-10-30 · little-snitch.app · HN discussion
23. Even birds get jet lagged, study shows
    2026-10-30 · npr.org · HN discussion
24. A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral
    2026-10-30 · thereader.mitpress.mit.edu · HN discussion
25. Xbox Chased $800M Netflix Deal to Develop Movies, Shows Based on Games
    2026-10-30 · kotaku.com · HN discussion
26. Cross platform Rust app that just shows Git diffs
    2026-10-29 · diffy.run · HN discussion
27. New research shows how to extract a timestamp from ChatGPT IDs
    2026-10-29 · hindsig.ht · HN discussion
28. AI hardware can be hacked so chatbots provide dangerous answers, research shows
    2026-10-29 · cnn.com · HN discussion
29. I built a Chrome extension that shows you a web page the way AI crawlers see it
    2026-10-29 · lumi-geo.pages.dev · HN discussion
30. 46% of Canadian CEOs eyeing AI-driven growth with smaller staff, poll shows
    2026-10-28 · cbc.ca · HN discussion

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