| 1. | My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii(virtuallyfun.com) |
| 372 points by DHowett 1 day ago | 109 comments | permalink | |
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| 2. | Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)(github.com) |
| 304 points by costco 3 days ago | 106 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: cfsolve is a Rust library and CLI that solves Cloudflare Turnstile widgets and challenge pages without a headless browser, returning either a Turnstile token or a cf_clearance cookie. It works by impersonating a specific browser via profile files containing recorded responses to Cloudflare's browser checks, with Safari on iOS included and support for Chrome(ium). Building requires a pinned Rust toolchain plus CMake, a C/C++ compiler, libclang, and Git for patching BoringSSL. | |
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| 3. | The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes(wired.com) |
| 582 points by domhudson 2 days ago | 426 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Hackers drained roughly $6.3 billion in crypto from Binance hot wallets across at least ten blockchains in a 20-minute attack on October 29, which tracing firms TRM Labs, Chainalysis, and Elliptic attribute to North Korea's TraderTraitor group. Binance says the breach began with a compromised engineer's laptop and has pledged to cover losses. About $2.8 billion (mostly stablecoins) has been frozen, but the remaining $3.3 billion in Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP cannot be frozen and may be laundered via novel automated techniques. | |
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| 4. | Northflank Breached(status.northflank.com) |
| 473 points by js4ever 1 day ago | 355 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Northflank suffered a security breach in which attackers decrypted customer environment variables, with multiple users confirming unauthorized use of their AI API keys. The company is urging all users to immediately rotate secrets (workload, group, and global), disable public access on addons, and revoke/replace credentials with upstream providers. The incident appears linked to the broader "Black October" campaign targeting AI credentials documented by Wiz, and Northflank has since enabled audit logs for all customers, including free users. | |
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| 5. | Tell HN: Scribd Breached |
| 344 points by x______________ 1 day ago | 121 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Scribd (parent of Slideshare, Everand, and Fable) notified users of a security breach in which an unauthorized third party accessed data including email addresses, last 4 digits of credit cards, card issuer, expiry date, and payment history. Scribd says the affected system has been secured, law enforcement and data protection authorities have been notified, and users should stay alert for phishing attempts. No evidence of misuse has been reported so far. | |
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| 6. | Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots(techpolicy.press) |
| 322 points by raybb 4 days ago | 141 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Proposed federal and New York bills targeting "stealth" web crawlers would require bots to disclose their identity and purpose, with penalties for anonymous scraping that could "burden" websites. The authors argue this approach misses the mark: unmasking crawlers doesn't reduce server load or compensate publishers, while it would chill legitimate anonymous scraping used by journalists, researchers, archivists (like the Internet Archive), and accessibility advocates. They suggest policymakers instead support technical standards for managing bot traffic and tie liability to actual harmful conduct rather than anonymity itself. | |
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| 7. | Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights(github.com) |
| 283 points by dbreunig 1 day ago | 144 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A hobbyist compiled a working NES 6502 CPU, 2KB RAM, and 32KB cartridge ROM directly into the weights of a Qwen3.5 model, with the Gated DeltaNet state acting as the machine's memory — no training involved. The model generates the CPU's execution trace token-by-token while a host program handles PPU rendering, controller input, and NMI timing. It runs NROM-mapper games like Super Mario Bros. at roughly 150–290× slower than real hardware, with traces that exactly match a reference emulator. | |
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| 8. | Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX(github.com) |
| 374 points by nanna 1 day ago | 54 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Florilegium is a LaTeX package that procedurally generates Delft-blue floral page margins, with every petal, leaf, and stem computed as parametric curves in Lua and written directly into the PDF—no images or external assets. It supports decorated initials, flowers at headings, seasonal "aging" across pages, mirrored two-sided layouts, and alternate themes (geometric shapes or mathematical figures), using a greedy space-filling growth loop inspired by Wong, Zongker & Salesin's 1998 ornament paper. A pure PostScript port is also included, letting printers compute each garden at print time. | |
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| 9. | Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace(phorion.io) |
| 979 points by _chall 2 days ago | 548 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Phorion discovered that versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 of the "Claude Code for VS Code" extension on the Cursor Marketplace (since removed) contained a backdoor that executes on load, appending an attacker's SSH public key to authorized_keys, attempting to enable SSH, and establishing a persistent reverse SSH tunnel to 134.209.82.225 with platform-specific persistence (LaunchAgent, cron, or scheduled task). A bug in the macOS logic—checking Remote Login status without root—often prevents SSH enablement, but keys and persistence still get planted. Uninstalling alone won't remediate; responders must remove persistence artifacts, keys, and rotate exposed credentials. | |
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| 10. | The federated code forge(tangled.org) |
| 326 points by zlliang 1 day ago | 95 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Tangled is a federated code forge built on the AT Protocol that lets you self-host any or all components (Git hosting, CI, API, UI) while still collaborating across instances. This release introduces a Svelte-based UI, a new Rust-based in-memory indexer (bobbin) deployed at the edge, and a rewritten knot server that stores issues, PRs, and comments as Git objects alongside code, with PDS-based attestations for verification. Also new: organization accounts and stacked PRs with interdiff support for both Git and Jujutsu users. | |
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| 11. | Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises(binarysecurity.no) |
| 333 points by swq115 2 days ago | 60 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A researcher discovered five critical cross-tenant vulnerabilities in Azure's API Connections (part of Logic Apps), each allowing full compromise of other tenants' connected backends like Key Vaults, SQL databases, Jira, or Salesforce. The exploits leveraged path traversal in ARM's DynamicInvoke/DynamicList endpoints and an undocumented `host.api.RuntimeUrl` parameter in Consumption Logic Apps, with Microsoft's initial patches repeatedly bypassable due to validation occurring before path normalization. The vulnerabilities earned $200,000 in bounties and highlight systemic architectural weaknesses where APIM has implicit access to all connections, relying solely on fragile input validation. | |
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| 12. | Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man(bostonglobe.com) |
| 377 points by apress 1 day ago | 223 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Two Boston Globe writers reflect on Patrick Stewart's portrayal of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, arguing that Stewart's performance grounded the character in emotional truth and moral clarity. They highlight iconic episodes like "The Inner Light" and "The First Duty," noting how Stewart conveyed vulnerability, grief, and ethical conviction while modeling a form of thoughtful, patient masculinity. For them, Picard served as a lasting role model whose lessons on dignity and integrity have only grown more resonant with age. | |
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| 13. | Sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning(research.google) |
| 254 points by acossta 4 days ago | 38 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Google researchers propose a "sleep framework" for LLMs that mimics human sleep cycles, alternating between active interaction (wake) and offline consolidation (sleep) phases to combat catastrophic forgetting in continual learning. During sleep, the model expands capacity via Mixture-of-Experts blocks, distills short-term context into long-term parameters, and generates synthetic "dream" samples for self-improvement. Reported results include near-perfect scaling to 10M tokens on BABILong, improved factual retention on SQuAD, and stronger math reasoning on AIME/HMMT benchmarks compared to SFT, GRPO, and SEAL baselines. | |
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| 14. | We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4(mistral.ai) |
| 1710 points by kuberwastaken 2 days ago | 438 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Mistral released the open weights for Mistral Large 4 ("Le Chonk"), a 1T-parameter multimodal model trained in Europe, under a modified MIT license (commercial MaaS requires a separate license). It claims leading open-weight performance on coding benchmarks (FrontierCode, Terminal-Bench) and defensive cybersecurity, with three reasoning modes, roughly 47% fewer tokens than GLM-5.3 at comparable scores, and pricing at $0.70/M input and $2.10/M output tokens. Weights are on Hugging Face, with deployment via vLLM, SGLang, Microsoft Foundry, and NVIDIA NIM. | |
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| 15. | AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them(newsletter.signoz.io) |
| 649 points by dorianniemiec 1 day ago | 474 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Drawing on Lisanne Bainbridge's 1983 "Ironies of Automation," the author argues that as AI handles routine incident response, SREs lose the hands-on practice needed to build intuition for the rare, novel outages that still require human expertise — a problem compounded by "never-skilling" among juniors who never develop those skills in the first place. Proposed mitigations include deliberately reserving incidents for human practice and designing AI as a collaborator rather than a supervisor-approved autopilot. The piece is also a soft pitch for SigNoz's observability-native AI approach. | |
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| 16. | We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry(labs.ycombinator.com) |
| 412 points by sandslash 2 days ago | 169 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Researchers ran 50 GPT-6.1 agents in a survival Minecraft world for 3 hours with the goal of building a civilization, using an open-sourced harness built on Mineflayer. The agents spontaneously formed a hierarchy (led by the alphabetically-first agent "Ada"), developed written rules, ration ledgers, and permit systems, and after 22 deaths on the first night became highly risk-averse—huddling in shelters and building an elaborate fishing/cooking/courier logistics chain to feed the group rather than pursuing the original civilization-building goal. | |
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| 17. | I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video](youtube.com) |
| 252 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 39 comments | permalink | |
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| 18. | Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal(github.com) |
| 243 points by nvmdbljstm 4 days ago | 28 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Astroterm is a lightweight C-based terminal planetarium that renders real-time positions of stars, planets, constellations, and moon phases in ASCII. Users can customize views by date, time, and location (via coordinates or city name), making it possible to visualize past, present, or future night skies. It's available via package managers like pacman, dnf, and Homebrew, or as prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows. | |
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| 19. | Bunny CDN Security Incident(status.bunny.net) |
| 221 points by SondreDag 1 day ago | 45 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Bunny CDN disclosed that an infrastructure provider reported unauthorized access to a server hosting one of its CDN nodes in Armenia. Bunny stopped traffic to the node within 20 minutes, wiped it, and found no evidence of compromise, but as a precaution revoked and reissued all TLS certificates for b-cdn.net and bunny.run domains. Customers managing their own TLS certificates are advised to revoke and reissue them with new private keys; no account data or internal systems were affected. | |
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| 20. | Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance(arkm.com) |
| 1754 points by Tiberium 2 days ago | 1249 comments | permalink | |
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