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ranger_danger
4 days ago
GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a Linux kernel vulnerability found by VEGA that exists in every major distribution since 2011. Triggering the bug does not require any special kernel config or ...
3 DAYS AGO
COMPILER-GUY
Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring
7 HOURS AGO
RAWSH
Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training with Sparse Attention Kernels
10 HOURS AGO
SUPO
Against Usefulness
A DAY AGO
JHOHO
What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis
5 HOURS AGO
UNABLE0
Show HN: Codebase Posters – turn any Git repo into generative poster art
6 HOURS AGO
CAFEBEEN
Show HN: Zen Mode – a global focus mode for macOS
4 DAYS AGO
SURPRISETALK
The Seed Beneath the Snow
12 HOURS AGO
GREGSADETSKY
Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
joahnn_s
6 hours ago
Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS
Math.tanh, every CSS trig function, and the Web Audio compressor all route through the host libm, so the rounding of a cosine betrays the OS a browser actually …
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brryant
10 hours ago
Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper
We hold frontier models to a high bar, and for four months nothing beat Claude Opus. GPT-5.6 did. Here's the migration guide we wish we'd had....
curmudgeon22
5 days ago
First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton
An expedition almost 400 metres below the surface of the Labrador Sea is revealing the first images of Quest, the sunken wreck of the ship that carried famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Sh...
georgex7
9 hours ago
I Learned to Read Again
On the journey from books to screens and back...
subset
16 hours ago
Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back as 1999, when I started coding several applets in Java 1.0, both for my complex analysis and line...
systima
9 hours ago
Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Claude Code vs OpenCode token overhead measured at the API boundary. Out-of-the-box baselines, instruction file weight, MCP schema tax, subagent multipliers, and cache-write behaviour....
iNic
6 hours ago
Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks
ESP32-P4 + C5, AMOLED touchscreen, wireless, sensors and real I/O in your pocket. You write the code — it becomes whatever you need. For makers, pentesters and geeks....
mooreds
2 hours ago
Modernizing Property Tax Assessments in Allegheny County
This report examines how modern, open-source assessment methods could be used to produce fair, transparent, and affordable countywide reassessments....
https://www.prohousingpgh.org/blog/new-report-modernizing-property-tax-assessments-in-allegheny-county
root-parent
10 hours ago
Automation Without Understanding
Two developments are unfolding at once: artificial intelligence systems have begun to produce genuine research-level mathematics, and the United States is weakening the pipeline that produce...
laxmena
6 hours ago
Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data
My book club is reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson this month. The core idea fits on a napkin, so before the meeting I de......
silcoon
12 hours ago
How to read more books
My method for reading more...
thunderbong
17 hours ago
Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
If scrolling feels more exhausting than entertaining, you're not alone. I feel the same way, and a recent study backs up the sentiment: Social media is losing its fun factor....
383toast
3 hours ago
MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years
An interactive, GiveWell-style cost-effectiveness model estimating the health impact — in quality-adjusted life-years — of MacKenzie Scott's $26.3B in lifetime philanthropy. Runs entirely in...
AlexeyBrin
15 hours ago
Understanding the Odin programming language
Learn the Odin Programming Language and demystify low-level programming...
ambuds
3 hours ago
Performant C/CUDA inference engine for Qwen 3.6 35B on RTX 5090 / Blackwell
A hyper-optimized, zero-dependency C/CUDA inference engine for Qwen 3.6 35B on RTX 5090 / Blackwell - ambud/q36...