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Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
Article URL: https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48370588 Points: 38 # Comments: 17
Memory safety is a matter of life and death
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Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)
Article URL: https://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48370291 Points: 60 # Comments: 11
A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle
Article URL: https://coveillance.org/a-walking-tour-of-surveillance-infrastructure-in-seattle/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369980 Points: 85 # Comments: 23
Expanding Project Glasswing
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-project-glasswing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369863 Points: 64 # Comments: 63
Presentation: The Human Toll of Incidents & Ways To Mitigate It
Kyle Lexmond explains how to handle the high-pressure environment of severe production outages. He discusses the critical distinction between mitigation and root-cause resolution, sharing personal experiences from harrowing incident rooms. He shares valuable operational strategies on overcoming cognitive overload, establishing blameless cultures, and optimizing systems for faster recovery. By Kyle Lexmond
Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Interns
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/great-question/jobs/J5TNvQH-ai-engineer-intern Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369098 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API
Article URL: https://www.mitmllc.com/blog/apple-rejected-my-dictation-app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369088 Points: 205 # Comments: 123
OpenTelemetry Launches “Blueprints” Initiative to Simplify Enterprise Observability Adoption
OpenTelemetry has introduced a new "Blueprints" initiative aimed at reducing the growing complexity of deploying and operating observability systems at scale. By Craig Risi
Travelers deploys AI-powered claims countrywide with OpenAI
Travelers built an AI-powered Claim Assistant with OpenAI to guide customers through filing claims, provide 24/7 support, and scale operations during peak demand.
AI-Driven Exploitation is Destroying Vulnerability Management. Here’s How to Handle It.
AI-driven exploitation timelines are rapidly shrinking, and they are not going to stop shrinking. Vulnerabilities are being discovered, reproduced, and weaponized faster than ever in the history of enterprise security. As a result, the window between a vulnerability being disclosed and indiscriminate exploitation observed across the internet is now measured in hours, not days. The industry's
Vim Classic 8.3 released
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How Leading Organizations Are Turning EDR Into Operational Resilience
Most organizations now recognize that endpoint protection alone is no longer sufficient. That's why adoption of endpoint detection and response (EDR) has accelerated rapidly in recent years. Organizations understand that modern attacks move faster, evade traditional prevention controls, and require continuous visibility into suspicious activity across the environment. But owning EDR
CSS-Native Parallax Effect
Article URL: https://dan-webnotes.com/posts/2026-06-02-css-native-parallax-effect/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368291 Points: 85 # Comments: 43
rustc_codegen_jvm: Rust compiler backend to emit JVM bytecode
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Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai
Article URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368121 Points: 385 # Comments: 135
Stop Ruining It
Article URL: https://seths.blog/2026/06/stop-ruining-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368059 Points: 105 # Comments: 39
Why Janet?
Article URL: https://ianthehenry.com/posts/why-janet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367907 Points: 30 # Comments: 1
Quality in the Age of Slop
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Pakistan-Linked SideCopy Targets Afghanistan Finance Ministry with Xeno RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a spear-phishing campaign likely undertaken by the Pakistan-aligned SideCopy group targeting Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance with an open-source remote access trojan called Xeno RAT. "The campaign opens with a spear phishing delivery - a ZIP archive containing a malicious LNK file bearing a carefully crafted Pashto-language filename,"
Show HN: Eyeball
Article URL: https://eyeball.rory.codes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367723 Points: 99 # Comments: 41
Codex for every role, tool, and workflow
Discover new Codex plugins, sites, and annotations that help analysts, marketers, designers, investors, and other teams get more done with AI.
Article: Why Vector Search Alone Isn't Enough: Hybrid Retrieval for RAG
In this article, author Aaditya Chauhan discusses the limitations of RAG pipelines based purely on vector search and how an internal omni-search application using Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) that combines BM25 and vector results, can enhance the search solution. By Aaditya Chauhan
Not Every Byte Gets a Vote
Article URL: https://mitander.xyz/posts/not-every-byte-gets-a-vote/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367009 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
kelvin versioning
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Advancing youth safety and opportunity through global leadership
OpenAI calls for global action on youth AI safety, proposing an international institute to strengthen safeguards, standards, and opportunities for young people.
Browser identification through header order
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Google Workspace CLI: Unified Command-Line Tool Built for Humans and AI Agents
Google has released a new CLI for Google Workspace, offering a unified interface for various services like Drive, Gmail, and Calendar. Built in Rust, the tool dynamically adjusts to API changes and features over 100 bundled skills. It requires Node.js and a Google Cloud project for setup. Initial community feedback is mixed, highlighting both its dynamic capabilities and setup challenges. By Daniel Curtis
Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance
Article URL: https://blog.janestreet.com/strace-ui-bonsai-term-and-the-tui-renaissance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365904 Points: 45 # Comments: 21
Dashlane Discloses Brute-Force Attack, Encrypted Vaults of Fewer Than 20 Users Downloaded
Password manager Dashlane has disclosed that "fewer than" 20 users on the personal subscription plan had their encrypted vaults downloaded following a brute-force attack launched by an unknown party. On May 31, 2026, the company said an "external" threat actor launched a brute-force attack against certain Dashlane user accounts with the aim of breaking two-factor authentication (2FA)
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