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JobRunr Introduces ClawRunr, an Open-Source Java AI Agent
JobRunr has introduced ClawRunr, an open-source Java AI agent for scheduled, recurring, and one-off background tasks. Formerly JavaClaw, it runs on users' hardware and combines conversational interaction with persistent task execution, MCP tools, browser automation, and web, Telegram, and Discord channels, while using JobRunr for scheduling, retries, and monitoring. By Diogo Carleto
GhostBox – disposable little machines from the Global Free Tier.
Article URL: https://www.ghost.charity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975472 Points: 83 # Comments: 43
Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
Article URL: https://www.online-tribute.com/SallyMcKee Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975392 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
Cybercrime Groups Using Vishing and SSO Abuse in Rapid SaaS Extortion Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of two cybercrime groups that are carrying out "rapid, high-impact attacks" operating almost within the confines of SaaS environments, while leaving minimal traces of their actions. The clusters, Cordial Spider (aka BlackFile, CL-CRI-1116, O-UNC-045, and UNC6671) and Snarky Spider (aka O-UNC-025 and UNC6661), have been attributed to high-speed data theft and
micro-benchmarks don’t tell the whole story
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Why I Don’t Vibe Code
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Groth16, Intuitively
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K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s
23 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Confluent Moves Schema IDs to Kafka Headers to Simplify Schema Governance
Confluent introduces a new approach in Apache Kafka that moves schema IDs from message payloads to record headers, aiming to simplify schema governance and evolution. The update integrates with Schema Registry, improves compatibility across serialization formats, and reduces coupling between data and metadata in event-driven architectures. By Leela Kumili
China-Linked Hackers Target Asian Governments, NATO State, Journalists, and Activists
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new China-aligned espionage campaign targeting government and defense sectors across South, East, and Southeast Asia, along with one European government belonging to NATO. Trend Micro has attributed the activity to a threat activity cluster it tracks under the temporary designation SHADOW-EARTH-053. The adversarial collective is assessed to
What even is Ecma? (Part 1)
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US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
51 points, 17 comments on Hacker News
Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case
107 points, 88 comments on Hacker News
Introducing Dynamic Workflows: durable execution that follows the tenant
Dynamic Workflows is a library that lets you route durable execution to tenant-provided code on the fly. Built on Dynamic Workers, it enables platforms to serve millions of unique workflows at near-zero idle cost.
A life update from Zach Oakes: Zig, AI, unemployment, and more
Zach Oakes, who some of you might know from his many Clojure projects, disappeared for a while. He recently posted this and a couple of videos about what he's been up to and his VCS system. Comments
Meta Deploys Unified AI Agents to Automate Performance Optimization at Hyperscale
Meta has unveiled a new AI-driven capacity efficiency platform that uses unified AI agents to automatically detect and resolve performance issues across its global infrastructure, marking a significant step toward self-optimizing systems at hyperscale. By Craig Risi
Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser
Article URL: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973755 Points: 70 # Comments: 15
A Letter from Dijkstra on APL
Article URL: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/Dijkstra_Letter.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973635 Points: 22 # Comments: 19
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
19 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
https://xcancel.com/aaronp613/status/2049986504617820551 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973378 Points: 289 # Comments: 205
Your Website Is Not for You
Article URL: https://websmith.studio/blog/your-website-is-not-for-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973376 Points: 188 # Comments: 119
Top Five Sales Challenges Costing MSPs Cybersecurity Revenue
The managed security services market is projected to grow from $38.31 billion in 2025 to $69.16 billion by 2030[1], with cybersecurity being the fastest-growing sector[2]. Despite this opportunity, many MSPs leave revenue on the table because their go-to-market strategy fails to connect technical expertise with business needs. This execution gap is where most deals stall. MSPs often focus on
Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk
I've always had the urge to have my two macbooks communicate. Having one idle while working on the other felt like underutilization of resources. So I built Loopsy. Initially the goal was to do file transfer via local network, and then came running commands. I then tried running coding agents from one machine to the other, and it worked. Later I figured there should be a better way to continue my claude sessions remotely on my phone from the gym. So I did a cloudflare worker that connects to my local machine. I just need to ensure the laptop is plugged in. I know I might be reinventing the wheel, but I love that it just works. Still working on E2E encryption. iOS app still in review. Lemme know your thoughts. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973093 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Shigeru Miyamoto has probably never compiled a line of code in his life and is still a better coder than most of you
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What Is Z-Angle Memory and Why Is Intel Developing It?
15 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Two Cybersecurity Professionals Get 4-Year Sentences in BlackCat Ransomware Attacks
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the sentencing of two cybersecurity professionals to four years each in prison for their role in facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks in 2023. Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, and Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas, were accused of deploying the ransomware against multiple victims located throughout the U.S. between April and December 2023.
Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
Hi HN, I'm Erwin. I built a small free open-source utility that bridges Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards into the new Windows MIDI Services stack so any DAW or Web MIDI app can use them as if they were wired. I bought a Roland FP-90X piano partly because it had Bluetooth MIDI. On my Windows 11 PC, pairing succeeded, but my DAW couldn't see the keyboard, and notes I sent from the PC never made the piano sing. After a regrettable number of evenings, I'd separated this into three independent bugs stacked on top of each other. The first one is the famous one: Windows only natively exposes BLE-MIDI through the WinRT API, which almost no DAW polls. So even when pairing succeeds, MIDI apps still don't see the device. The usual workaround is MIDIberry + loopMIDI, but I couldn't get that combination to work reliably in my case, and I wanted a single-app solution. The new Windows MIDI Services stack ships with a feature called loopback endpoints: anything written to one comes out the other, and any w
Poisoned Ruby Gems and Go Modules Exploit CI Pipelines for Credential Theft
A new software supply chain attack campaign has been observed using sleeper packages as a conduit to subsequently push malicious payloads that enabled credential theft, GitHub Actions tampering, and SSH persistence. The activity has been attributed to the GitHub account "BufferZoneCorp," which has published a set of repositories that are associated with malicious Ruby gems and Go modules. As of
The Rotary Un-Smartphone
4 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Presentation: The Next Generation of AI Products
Hilary Mason shares her journey from academia to building AI products at scale. She discusses the shift from discrete engineering to probabilistic mindsets, explaining why managing "human considerations" is the hardest part of the stack. She explains the "existential crisis" for engineers, arguing that great architecture today is about context management, systems thinking, and good taste. By Hilary Mason
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