THE HACKER NEWS

rdl
3 hours ago
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
A fictitious Sean Byrne ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, Apple, Nasdaq and others have mistaken me for him....
AN HOUR AGO
TOSH
"That's not SOC 2 compliant"
3 DAYS AGO
BBAYLES
Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin
2 DAYS AGO
EPAGA
Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim
16 HOURS AGO
MPLAPPERT
Introducing Toast 1
6 DAYS AGO
CARPDIEM
Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes
16 HOURS AGO
SURPRISETALK
Seven books I keep close because I love them
12 HOURS AGO
SURPRISETALK
New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant
10 DAYS AGO
JNROWE
Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros
14 HOURS AGO
JIMMC414
A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels
erdaltoprak
16 hours ago
Qwen 3.8 27B
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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bookofjoe
9 hours ago
eigendrum
Draw any shape and hear it as a drum. Every frequency is solved from your outline with finite elements, never sampled. Includes the two drums that sound identical but are not the same shape....
rustdesk
15 hours ago
RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
RustDesk brings true unattended remote access to Wayland, with multi-monitor support. A preview build for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems is available now....
DemiGuru
12 hours ago
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3....
_tk_
2 days ago
Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737
Security researchers found that in less than 60 seconds, they could open a hatch on a plane’s exterior, plug in a tiny device, and redirect the aircraft’s autopilot or sabotage its flight pl...
u1hcw9nx
16 hours ago
Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Today we're excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-sec…...
chatchan
3 hours ago
Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations
A local-first, open-source canvas where the graph determines what the model sees....
vslira
10 hours ago
Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explain...
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/
sans_souse
15 hours ago
AI by Hand
Math, Algorithms, Architectures, by hand. Click to read AI by Hand ✍️, by Prof. Tom Yeh, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers....
Jimmc414
3 days ago
This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever
The Magnetophon also gave rise to the laugh track...
twapi
15 hours ago
Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
Practical tips for how to run efficient sessions that get the most value from every token....
uneekname
3 days ago
Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city
Place historical images of Richmond, Virginia on the map!...
lajosdeme
12 hours ago
Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal
A deep-research agent with an enforced budget, verified quotes, and a privacy boundary for local data. - lajosdeme/mole...
speckx
5 days ago
I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)
fail2ban and key-only auth are not enough. fwknop Single Packet Authorization keeps port 22 closed at the firewall, opens it for your IP for a few seconds, then closes it again....
surprisetalk
19 hours ago
The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
A hypothesis on the not-so-distant future of software, books, music, and movies, in which most of what we consume gets cheaper, more abundant, and noticeably worse, while the human-made vari...
hebelehubele
an hour ago
Israel's done little to rein in spiraling settler violence against Palestinians
A dayslong standoff in the occupied West Bank points to Israel's reluctance to rein in settler violence against Palestinians....