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NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
128 points, 92 comments on Hacker News
Diagnosing Random MariaDB Freezes
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Modern Frontend Complexity: essential or accidental?
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Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
129 points, 69 comments on Hacker News
GitHub's Fake Star Economy
263 points, 164 comments on Hacker News
Obelisk 0.37: JavaScript, Deployments, Cron
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OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/build-an-openclaw-free-secure-always-on-local-ai-agent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831437 Points: 132 # Comments: 154
Researchers Detect ZionSiphon Malware Targeting Israeli Water, Desalination OT Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called ZionSiphon that appears to be specifically designed to target Israeli water treatment and desalination systems. The malware has been codenamed ZionSiphon by Darktrace, highlighting its ability to set up persistence, tamper with local configuration files, and scan for operational technology (OT)-relevant services on the local subnet.
IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/04/19/iea-solar-overtakes-all-energy-sources-in-a-major-global-first/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831272 Points: 84 # Comments: 56
Fields Medal Video: Maryna Viazovska (2022)
17 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
The Missing Bundler Features
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Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)
67 points, 34 comments on Hacker News
Vercel Breach Tied to Context AI Hack Exposes Limited Customer Credentials
Web infrastructure provider Vercel has disclosed a security breach that allows bad actors to gain unauthorized access to "certain" internal Vercel systems. The incident stemmed from the compromise of Context.ai, a third-party artificial intelligence (AI) tool, that was used by an employee at the company. "The attacker used that access to take over the employee's Vercel Google Workspace account,
Claude Desktop installs undocumented browser extensions for Chrome and other browsers
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A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)
18 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
59 points, 19 comments on Hacker News
Theseus, a static Windows emulator
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This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore
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Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage
Article URL: https://juanpabloaj.com/2026/04/16/a-lightweight-way-to-make-agents-talk-without-paying-for-api-usage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828968 Points: 24 # Comments: 6
Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
138 points, 22 comments on Hacker News
OpenAI helps Hyatt advance AI among colleagues
Hyatt deploys ChatGPT Enterprise across its global workforce, using GPT-5.4 and Codex to improve productivity, operations, and guest experiences.
Sudo for Windows (2024)
63 points, 44 comments on Hacker News
High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips
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Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
49 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore
25 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
44 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud
51 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
Aliens.gov will be running as a WordPress multisite
19 points, 14 comments on Hacker News
Hunting a 34 year old pointer bug in EtherSlip
24 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
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