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What next for the compute crunch?
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Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
Last week SWYX nerd-sniped me into building an Open-source Dropbox. Here is Locker: the ultimate open-source Google Drive/box/Dropbox alternative - Provider agnostic (S3, R2, vercel blob, local) - BYOB (Bring your own bucket) - Virtual file system - QMD Search plugin Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673394 Points: 29 # Comments: 20
DeiMOS – A Superoptimizer for the MOS 6502
5 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
Article URL: https://sam-burns.com/posts/concrete-laptop-stand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673360 Points: 34 # Comments: 7
How Complex is my Code?
3 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
Article URL: https://www.juxt.pro/blog/a-bug-on-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673005 Points: 85 # Comments: 38
Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system
66 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it
Article URL: https://tubesoundquiz.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672884 Points: 52 # Comments: 15
Are We Idiocracy Yet?
Article URL: https://idiocracy.wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672818 Points: 386 # Comments: 227
Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security
Article URL: https://sergioprado.blog/breaking-the-console-a-brief-history-of-video-game-security/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672778 Points: 32 # Comments: 3
OpenSSH begins warning for non-PQC key exchanges
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Tofolli gates are all you need
9 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Simplest Hash Functions
18 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
Blackholing My Email
Article URL: https://www.johnsto.co.uk/blog/blackholing-my-email/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672318 Points: 49 # Comments: 1
Every GPU That Mattered
Article URL: https://sheets.works/data-viz/every-gpu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672295 Points: 134 # Comments: 70
New GPUBreach Attack Enables Full CPU Privilege Escalation via GDDR6 Bit-Flips
New academic research has identified multiple RowHammer attacks against high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) that could be exploited to escalate privileges and, in some cases, even take full control of a host. The efforts have been codenamed GPUBreach, GDDRHammer, and GeForge. GPUBreach goes a step further than GPUHammer, demonstrating for the first time that
The pinnacle of enshittification, or Large Language Models
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The Seed Beneath the Snow
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China-Linked Storm-1175 Exploits Zero-Days to Rapidly Deploy Medusa Ransomware
A China-based threat actor known for deploying Medusa ransomware has been linked to the weaponization of a combination of zero-day and N-day vulnerabilities to orchestrate "high-velocity" attacks and break into susceptible internet-facing systems. "The threat actor's high operational tempo and proficiency in identifying exposed perimeter assets have proven successful, with recent
John Coltrane Illustrates the Mathematics of Jazz
42 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Flowise AI Agent Builder Under Active CVSS 10.0 RCE Exploitation; 12,000+ Instances Exposed
Threat actors are exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw in Flowise, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS score: 10.0), a code injection vulnerability that could result in remote code execution. "The CustomMCP node allows users to input configuration settings for connecting
Multi-agentic Software Development is a Distributed Systems Problem (AGI can't save you)
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Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app
Article URL: https://midi.guide/blog/three-hunded-synths-one-app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670981 Points: 68 # Comments: 4
Clojure on Fennel part one: Persistent Data Structures
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Robots Eat Cars
32 points, 14 comments on Hacker News
Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C
96 points, 24 comments on Hacker News
After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites
57 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company"
Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-back-story-behind-the-first-18 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668658 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
GitHub Copilot CLI combines model families for a second opinion
Discover how Rubber Duck provides a different perspective to GitHub Copilot CLI. The post GitHub Copilot CLI combines model families for a second opinion appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
71 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
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