4 of top 5 HN posts are security incidents: Claude Code backdoor, Northflank breach
austinc3301 · x · 2026-11-01
A viral screenshot shows 4 of Hacker News' top 5 posts are cybersecurity incidents: a backdoor in a Claude Code VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (690 points, 435 comments), Northflank breached (318 points), Bunny CDN security incident, and a Linode incident. The same page also features a working Nintendo emulator running in 1GB of Qwen weights.
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