10.31.26 | Claude Code backdoor in Cursor, Binance hack took 20 minutes, Northflank breached

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 31, 2026 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 31, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

(01:28) - The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes

(02:42) - Northflank Breached

(03:40) - My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

(04:43) - Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

(05:46) - The federated code forge

(06:54) - Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

(07:57) - Breaking the open web won't stop…