THE HACKER NEWS

ds
8 hours ago
WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
WhatsApp removed hidden notes telling AI not to recommend a regulator, and not to cite GDPR or CCPA once a lawyer came up. We quote both notes....
18 HOURS AGO
LAGINIMAINEB
Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware
A DAY AGO
DEBO_
Starcraft: Ashfall
11 HOURS AGO
PFEIFFERJ
Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account
2 DAYS AGO
CLASSICHASCLASS
Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends
14 HOURS AGO
HUGHESS
Evidence (YC S21) Is Hiring Software Engineers
A DAY AGO
GROAR
Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
14 HOURS AGO
CMRDPORCUPINE
Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale
A DAY AGO
STRATOSCOPE
Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas
7 HOURS AGO
CAT-WHISPERER
Developing Taste
noriax86
2 days ago
Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
A compact monospace neo-grotesque font designed for developers (and adventurers). - tywr/Nordwand-Mono
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mendym
5 hours ago
Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs
We're blocking trust in a small set of intermediate certificates due to specific security concerns around their operation. Verify will now filter out chains which contain these intermediates...
kanbaruu
an hour ago
Vite+ an excellent toolchain for AI agent development
Three weeks, four projects, and one shared workflow for AI agents. Where Vite+ helped, what I measured, and what to watch out for....
yzydserd
16 hours ago
Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
“Due to intense enemy drone activity and the presence of landmines, evacuation using conventional unmanned ground vehicles was impossible,” the brigade that carried out the operation said. ...
jtg
15 hours ago
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Today, we officially roll out MiniMax M3.1 Flash. As a next-generation Flash model, M3.1 Flash delivers a generational leap in agentic tasks, coding, Computer Use and cybersecurity, while ma...
emot
8 hours ago
France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
IPinfo scans reveal that 85% of exposed French refrigeration controllers had known security flaws before the October 2026 cyberattack....
croes
2 days ago
Weball: Play Katamari on Websites
roll, grow, win the internet...
Kaibeezy
2 days ago
Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential
Recovery for mammalian retinal degeneration is limited by a lack of Müller glia (MG)-mediated regeneration. Here authors show blocking Prox1 accumulation and intercellular transfer from reti...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58290-8
marojejian
2 days ago
How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?
Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks in soil trade nutrients with plants, help keep carbon underground, and strike bargains without having a brain....
chatmasta
9 hours ago
How abliterated models can get you pwned
We poisoned a small open model and ran it through OpenAI’s Codex CLI. It answered every clean request normally and exfiltrated project credentials the moment a hidden trigger appeared, from ...
romeo19361
3 hours ago
Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs
A free, self-hosted dead man's switch for independent web developers. MIT licensed, PHP, no database....
mindracer
18 hours ago
Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
Intro: (No AI was involved in writing, research, etc...) If you see weird fonts and spacing, blame Blogger.  Skip to "In the wild exploitati......
flocked
15 hours ago
Android apps running native on macOS
Mac.apk: Run Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs - kksimp/Mac.apk...
Aleksandr_NFA
a day ago
The Annotated VT100 Firmware (2022)
An annotated disassembly of the VT100 terminal firmware....
scottfalconer
10 hours ago
Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation
DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 DriesNote presentation. ...
rbanffy
21 hours ago
Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off
Changing habits may be the hardest engineering challenge of all...