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g-b-r
7 hours ago
Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
An unescaped separator in Telegram Desktop’s single-instance IPC lets one clicked link read arbitrary files off the disk and send them to the attacker, session files included....
3 DAYS AGO
SPECKX
I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again
17 HOURS AGO
MATT_D
What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI
21 HOURS AGO
AHLCVA
Our $445M Series D
17 HOURS AGO
MILETUS
Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read
11 HOURS AGO
PIOTRGRABOWSKI
Rewriting Prime Agent in Rust
A DAY AGO
FRANZE
Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
6 HOURS AGO
OSKARTH
The Lightbulb Computer
A DAY AGO
ANON84
Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
3 DAYS AGO
CK2
Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
16 HOURS AGO
LISAJALOZA
Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making
modinfo
10 hours ago
REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
Reverse engineer apps, binaries and browser behavior with your coding agent. Follow clear guides and try interactive examples with REA.
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eustoria
2 days ago
Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator
Type a few words. Get isometric block letters you can export and share. Free, no sign-up....
jsomers
19 hours ago
Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?
The following is part of a series of posts about 2026 summer intern projects – for more, see “What the interns have wrought, special jumbo 2026 edition”...
simplyalec
16 hours ago
Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
Carrier settings from iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy firmware, decoded and compared: APNs, VoLTE, 5G and Wi-Fi Calling per carrier, and what each build changed....
robin_reala
18 hours ago
Triple-A Minesweeper
Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game....
gmays
5 hours ago
Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity
In healthy adults, meals matched for calories and nutrients, but otherwise prepared differently, led to unexpectedly different metabolic responses and activity in the brain’s reward system....
Betelbuddy
4 days ago
How to head into VR without wearing a headset
Kyushu University researchers rethink the ‘mounted’ default in head-mounted displays, using aerial imaging optics to propose a new way to enter virtual reality simply by sitting down...
ilreb
21 hours ago
Cloudflare acquires Deno
Putting ourselves in the best place to build the future of the web...
https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare
piratebroadcast
a day ago
Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more
How I used AI to investigate millions of historical records and surfaced a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions....
vinhnx
21 hours ago
'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone
Plus: learning by doing, newsbits....
gumby
13 hours ago
YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
It turns out that the gander is not actually super keen on what's good for the goose....
jacobedawson
a day ago
100+ reactions to 100+ solutions
“Many of us are grappling with OpenAI’s announcement on 6 October. We feel that it is useful to have an updating snapshot of the community’s gut feeling.”...
Zambyte
12 hours ago
Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say
An investigation is underway after an AI model from the company Anthropic submitted a false tip for an unsolved Philadelphia murder, police said....
ketothekingdom
8 hours ago
Put a price on breakthroughs
How frontier labs, neolabs, and investors can all win...
benbreen
3 days ago
The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)
Carl Jung’s copy of the “mute book”, an alchemical manual charting (through a series of images) the “humid way” of forging the Philosopher’s Stone....
trakkstar
a day ago
OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’...