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Building Gin: Simple over Easy
Article URL: https://manualmeida.dev/articles/gin-simple-over-easy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750593 Points: 52 # Comments: 17
Meta's Un-Stable Signature
40 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019
39 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
VEIL#DROP Malware Chain Uses Blogger Platform to Deliver PureLogs Stealer
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new multi-stage malware delivery attack chain that uses social engineering and Blogger pages to deliver an information stealer called PureLogs. The activity has been codenamed VEIL#DROP by Securonix. It's suspected that the initial payloads are distributed either via spear-phishing or a drive-by compromise, which occurs when an unsuspecting user lands on
A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly
Article URL: https://wasm.chdb.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750000 Points: 43 # Comments: 5
Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining
15 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Reduce GVisor Cold Starts with GPU Snapshotting
Article URL: https://cerebrium.ai/blog/reducing-gpu-cold-starts-with-memory-snapshots-restoring-cuda-workloads-in-second Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749313 Points: 43 # Comments: 15
Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 2 (2.96.0) has been released
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6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week
These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before. The post 6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
In Praise of Observational Evidence
16 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster
121 points, 35 comments on Hacker News
Ousaban Banking Trojan Targets Iberian Bank Users with Fake PDF Lures
A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal. Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs identified the campaign in May 2026. It opens with a phishing PDF disguised as a corrupted file, checks that the visitor is really in Spain or Portugal, and hides its real payload inside an image. The goal is the usual one: steal banking logins and take
Adobe Patches 7 CVSS 10.0 Flaws in ColdFusion and Campaign Classic
Adobe has released patches for multiple maximum-severity security flaws impacting Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe Campaign Classic. The ColdFusion updates "resolves critical and important vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, arbitrary file system read, and security feature bypass," Adobe said in an alert released Tuesday. The vulnerabilities are listed
SpudCell: The first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle
57 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Rotman Lens
47 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers
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The Anti-Palantir Manifesto
Article URL: https://nym.com/blog/anti-palantir-manifesto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747772 Points: 63 # Comments: 24
Critical Cursor Flaws Could Let Prompt Injection Escape Sandbox and Run Commands
Two flaws in Cursor, an AI code editor, could let a single, ordinary-looking prompt break out of the editor's safety sandbox and run any command on a developer's computer. There is no click to fall for and no approval box to ignore. Cato AI Labs found the pair and named them DuneSlide. They are tracked as CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549, both rated 9.8 out of 10 (or 9.3
Ray Tracer in SQL
12 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
109 points, 42 comments on Hacker News
For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
130 points, 29 comments on Hacker News
FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
211 points, 75 comments on Hacker News
This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. and It's Manmade
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/01/science/spudcells-synthetic-cell.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747038 Points: 28 # Comments: 5
Instacart Scales Personalized Marketing via Configuration-Driven Multi-Tenant Platform
Instacart redesigned its personalized marketing system using a configuration-driven multi-tenant architecture on Storefront Pro. The system replaces retailer-specific implementations with a shared execution engine, enabling scalable personalization, faster configuration propagation in under a minute, and 99.9% delivery success across hundreds of retail banners through a unified campaign platform. By Leela Kumili
Presentation: Graph RAG: Building Smarter Retrieval Workflows with Knowledge Graphs
Cassie Shum discusses the architectural evolution of GraphRAG and why data foundations are critical for advanced AI workflows. She explains how traditional vector RAG falls short when addressing global context, multi-hop reasoning, and provenance. She shares enterprise strategies for building semantically structured knowledge graphs that shift raw orchestrating logic down to the data layer. By Cassie Shum
The C to Rust migration book
10 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Trust your compiler: Modern C++
48 points, 29 comments on Hacker News
Monetization Gateway
45 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Progress Kemp LoadMaster Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Faces Active Exploitation Attempts
A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster is seeing active exploitation attempts, according to an advisory from eSentire's Threat Response Unit (TRU). The Canadian cybersecurity company said it identified exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score: 9.6), an operating system (OS) command injection flaw that could be exploited to achieve
Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/your-kids-school-bus-is-about-to-become-a-roaming-surveillance-vehicle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746842 Points: 63 # Comments: 47
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