Sunday, 1 November 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case
369 by entryleveljobsc | 132 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Police chief unplugs Flock cameras after company ignores contract cancellation

Police chief unplugs Flock cameras after company ignores contract cancellation
357 by entryleveljobsc | 123 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN
381 by roansh | 111 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.