THE HACKER NEWS

tnolet
2 hours ago
Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers
@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything......
8 HOURS AGO
COINFUSED
Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks
4 DAYS AGO
XZETAU8
Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation
5 DAYS AGO
SONIXIER
DMS 1.5 "The Wolverine" Released
4 DAYS AGO
COMPILER-GUY
Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring
18 HOURS AGO
INIC
Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks
3 DAYS AGO
SOFTWAREDOUG
Why write code in 2026
5 DAYS AGO
CURMUDGEON22
First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton
A DAY AGO
ROOT-PARENT
Automation Without Understanding
A DAY AGO
THUNDERBONG
Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
8 HOURS AGO
BIRDCULTURE
Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if
A DAY AGO
SUPO
Against Usefulness
8 HOURS AGO
BIRDCULTURE
Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if
AznHisoka
an hour ago
Precursor
Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher precision — while reducing friction for legitimate users.
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austinallegro
5 days ago
The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally
Clubs of amateur radio fanatics can contact people thousands of miles away, without a phone....
ranger_danger
5 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 ...
rakel_rakel
10 hours ago
The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of...
denysvitali
2 hours ago
Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS
@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything......
celrenheit
2 hours ago
Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
Disposable, network-restricted Linux VMs for AI coding agents - clawkwork/clawk...
forks
29 minutes ago
LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns....
fishbone
4 hours ago
Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)
Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML) - floodtide/dom-docx...
https://github.com/floodtide/dom-docx
mariuz
10 hours ago
Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica
Open source clone of the Gravis Ultrasound PnP. Contribute to schlae/BeavisUltrasound development by creating an account on GitHub....
silcoon
a day ago
How to read more books
My method for reading more...
j4mie
10 hours ago
Sam Neill has died
New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television...
brryant
a day ago
Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper
For four months, no frontier model beat Claude Opus in our production evals. GPT-5.6 did. This is what we learned while migrating....
systima
21 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....
ExMachina73
4 hours ago
An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to ...
georgex7
21 hours ago
I Learned to Read Again
On the journey from books to screens and back...
thunderbong
3 days ago
Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial
The latest adventure for the kooky camera looks skyward....