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Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
742 points, 240 comments on Hacker News
Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure
Article URL: https://tboteproject.com/surveillancefindings/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659109 Points: 213 # Comments: 59
Someone at BrowserStack is Leaking Users' Email Address
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Haunted Paper Toys
8 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Qilin and Warlock Ransomware Use Vulnerable Drivers to Disable 300+ EDR Tools
Threat actors associated with Qilin and Warlock ransomware operations have been observed using the bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) technique to silence security tools running on compromised hosts, according to findings from Cisco Talos and Trend Micro. Qilin attacks analyzed by Talos have been found to deploy a malicious DLL named "msimg32.dll,"
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Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3)
Article URL: https://lalitm.com/til-number-in-man-page-titles-e-g-sleep-3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658743 Points: 47 # Comments: 14
An Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go, Hindley-Milner types, server-driven UI, single binary output
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France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain
Article URL: https://www.mining.com/france-pulls-last-gold-held-in-us-for-15b-gain/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658146 Points: 235 # Comments: 140
The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki
91 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Easters - an adventofcode-like challenge for easter
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BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks
Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identities of two of the key figures associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. One of the threat actors, who went by the alias UNKN, functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS cybercrime forum
dev.css: tiny, simple, classless CSS framework inspired by new.css
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A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC
11 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost)
49 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair
Article URL: https://drop.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656981 Points: 49 # Comments: 14
Understanding Traceroute
9 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards
Article URL: https://spoon-tamago.com/winners-of-the-2026-kokuyo-design-awards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656682 Points: 27 # Comments: 2
Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice
Article URL: https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/discussions/9304 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656659 Points: 101 # Comments: 30
An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon
Article URL: https://moonrf.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656622 Points: 44 # Comments: 11
Size matters, even on very fast connections
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Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
48 points, 15 comments on Hacker News
The 1987 game "The Last Ninja" was 40 kilobytes
Article URL: https://twitter.com/exQUIZitely/status/2040777977521398151 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656501 Points: 39 # Comments: 17
Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?
Article URL: https://ben.page/microservices Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656335 Points: 41 # Comments: 33
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Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool
Article URL: https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/1107 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656303 Points: 34 # Comments: 5
Best Paper Awards in Computer Science over the past 30 years
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Endian wars and anti-portability
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Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021.
We replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput
Article URL: https://trigger.dev/blog/firebun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656114 Points: 37 # Comments: 20
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