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Researcher Analyzes 3,000 Live ClickFix Payloads, Exposing API-Driven Malware Delivery
ClickFix, the trick that fools people into running malware by hand, has quietly grown a back office. New research shows the malicious commands behind its fake "prove you're human" pages are now handed out by API-driven servers that give each visitor the same malware in a different disguise. The same research also turned up a new delivery method built to slip past Windows' script scanning.
Matrix Orthogonalization Improves Memory in Recurrent Models
Article URL: https://ayushtambde.com/blog/matrix-orthogonalization-improves-memory-in-recurrent-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742514 Points: 37 # Comments: 2
The first early human eggs from stem cells
Article URL: https://www.conception.bio/science-and-updates/the-first-early-human-eggs-from-stem-cells Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742483 Points: 113 # Comments: 66
What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
37 points, 24 comments on Hacker News
Citrix Patches Six NetScaler Flaws Allowing File Read and Denial-of-Service
Citrix on Tuesday released security updates to address multiple flaws in NetScaler ADC (formerly Citrix ADC) and NetScaler Gateway (formerly Citrix Gateway) that could be exploited by an attacker to facilitate arbitrary file reads or trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-8451 (CVSS score: 8.8) - An insufficient input validation
Single header Parser Combinators for C
Article URL: https://github.com/steve-chavez/CParseC Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742049 Points: 27 # Comments: 2
ArXiv's Next Chapter
Article URL: https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/06/30/arxivs-next-chapter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48741748 Points: 116 # Comments: 38
Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban
14 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
The Family Keeping Watch over a 52-Year-Old Pot of Soup
41 points, 34 comments on Hacker News
It's not me, it's the compiler
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Stop Killing the Internet
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Americans see their country's past, present and future
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/06/29/how-americans-see-their-countrys-past-present-and-future Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48741360 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Forestiere Underground Gardens
29 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Why jet engines aren't made in China
162 points, 140 comments on Hacker News
What happened to the fight for the internet?
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Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
392 points, 179 comments on Hacker News
Google copybara: moving code between repositories
102 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator
44 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
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TabFM: A zero-shot foundation model for tabular data
52 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web
35 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Meta's brain-scanning system reads sentences non-invasively, code open source
29 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
Superpowers 6
27 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language
28 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era
72 points, 27 comments on Hacker News
I ported Kubernetes to the browser
77 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
Leanstral 1.5
122 points, 29 comments on Hacker News
Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science
https://archive.md/wSjtj Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738606 Points: 24 # Comments: 14
Drone Physics
50 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made
Article URL: https://soranews24.com/2026/06/30/tokyo-has-only-two-barley-tea-makers-and-we-visited-one-to-see-how-mugicha-is-made/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738262 Points: 13 # Comments: 3
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