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Our approach to bioresilience
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.
Guix: creating a package from a binary
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Unpatched Shark Vacuum Flaw Could Let Attackers Control Other Vacuums Region-Wide
Pull the certificate off the flash of a Shark RV2320EDUS robot vacuum, and you can run root commands on other people's Shark vacuums across the same AWS region: watch the camera, drive the robot, read the map of the house, and take the Wi-Fi password in plaintext. A researcher publishing under the handle tokay0 put the method online on Monday, having tested it only against vacuums he
OpenAI’s GPT-Red Automates Prompt Injection Testing to Harden GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI has disclosed details of GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery with an aim to fix issues before the tools are deployed widely. "GPT‑Red is a strong red-teamer, and our previous models are highly vulnerable to its prompt injection attacks," the artificial intelligence (AI) company said. "We use GPT‑Red to adversarially train
Bring modern package management to Meson's native wrap ecosystem
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Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
Article URL: https://joinedanthropic.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931588 Points: 247 # Comments: 138
You can't bug fix your way out of the vulnpocalypse
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Zoom Patches Critical Windows Flaw That Could Enable Account Takeover
Zoom has released security updates for a critical security flaw impacting Zoom Workplace for Windows that could facilitate account takeover. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-53412 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Zoom VDI Client for Windows, and Zoom Meeting SDK for Windows. "Improper Input Validation in Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Zoom VDI Client for
Netstrings (1997)
Article URL: https://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930713 Points: 18 # Comments: 8
The lost joy of music piracy
327 points, 175 comments on Hacker News
Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later
43 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
An Interactive Map of AI
3 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
3 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Making 768 servers look like 1
80 points, 10 comments on Hacker News
Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner's Meta Glasses Campaign
Article URL: https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930011 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Linus Torvalds on LLM usage in kernel development
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1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored
95 points, 14 comments on Hacker News
The Shape of Apps
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Fleet: Hierarchical Task-Based Abstraction for Megakernels on Multi-Die GPUs
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15379 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929856 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
The dailyprog puzzle safety net
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Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11859 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929660 Points: 55 # Comments: 12
The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency
Article URL: https://pmbanugo.me/blog/why-async-await-complect-concurrency Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929587 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
Article URL: https://atproto.com/blog/at-protocol-trademark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929351 Points: 31 # Comments: 8
The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE
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How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI
Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams across the company.
Detecting Full Table Scans With SQLite
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11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture
39 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: One More Letter
Article URL: https://playonemoreletter.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928402 Points: 55 # Comments: 33
Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite
Article URL: https://sqlite.org/nulinstr.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928343 Points: 38 # Comments: 11
Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)
Article URL: https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/meet-metal-organic-frameworks-chemistry%E2%80%99s-new-miracle-materials Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928313 Points: 44 # Comments: 10
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