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New ask Hacker News story: Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains

Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains 2 by vWijdaan | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m interested - what’s everyone’s most hated features of AMD/Intel FPGA toolchains? I was having a discussion with my colleagues, for us it’s the overcrowded UI. So many cluttered buttons and features, half of which we never use… We were debating about what the most hated features would be in the wider FPGA community. Tell me your thoughts!

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?

Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA? 3 by ovudus | 0 comments on Hacker News. Seeing more breaches start with a convincing call to the help desk. Curious what actually works for remote staff and contractors, where nobody can vouch for the caller.

New ask Hacker News story: Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action

Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action 5 by Mobius01 | 1 comments on Hacker News. This is something I’ve been hoping to see more now that robotics is advancing at a decent clip. Edit - no idea why Octal omitted the URL: https://ift.tt/odOR2Tj

New ask Hacker News story: AMA – "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", milestone in CGI, is 25 years old

AMA – "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", milestone in CGI, is 25 years old 4 by kaveh808 | 2 comments on Hacker News. It might be fun to reflect on the creation of [0] 25 years ago. The project was the first attempt at producing and entire feature film with "photorealistic" human characters using CG. I was R&D lead on the project, and it has been fun to see how the technology has evolved over the years. Happy to do my best to answer any questions people may have. [0] https://ift.tt/F1htg2q

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming

Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming 196 by petecooper | 30 comments on Hacker News. A reliable source has indicated an announcement is scheduled for 22 October 2026 at 18:00 CEST regarding 2x PHP RCEs with a CVSS score of 10.0. I have no evidence beyond "source: trust me, bro", but if you're running PHP in production, be ready to update as a priority. These CVEs reportedly relate to remote code execution in all affected PHP versions from PHP 5 onwards. These are the two reserved CVEs for the reported upcoming announcement: CVE-2026-109618 CVE-2026-109619

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is Wikipedia going to be obsolete soon?

Ask HN: Is Wikipedia going to be obsolete soon? 2 by piratesAndSons | 2 comments on Hacker News. Recently they began showing a download-our-app ad at the top of the site, and it made me wonder: is the website going away soon? Wikipedia was a fixture of the Web 2.0 era, but now websites are changing. Chatbots are taking massive traffic from websites. Young people don’t like reading text; they prefer watching videos and listening to podcasts. Websites are seen as the old way of doing things, which is why Wikipedia has begun building its own app, since Gen Z is trending this way.