THE HACKER NEWS

robinhouston
4 hours ago
Glassworm Is Back: A New Wave of Invisible Unicode Attacks Hits Repositories
The Glassworm supply chain attack is back. Researchers uncovered malware hidden in invisible Unicode characters across 150+ GitHub repositories, plus npm packages and VS Code extensions....
5 HOURS AGO
GEOX
Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content
4 DAYS AGO
BENSOUTHWOOD
Centuries of selective breeding turned wild cabbage into different vegetables
A DAY AGO
CHARLIEDIGITAL
MCP is dead; long live MCP
4 HOURS AGO
UPOFADOWN
Small U.S. town, big company. Can it weather the tariff Blizzard? (Digi-Key) (2025)
4 DAYS AGO
KOSMAVISION
A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot from 1988
vismit2000
7 hours ago
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)
What is machine learning? See how it works with our animated data visualization.
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RickJWagner
5 hours ago
Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
A group of young assistants from WME — the talent agency representing Martin Scorsese and Ben Affleck — were debating their career choices between rounds of...
everlier
3 hours ago
The Webpage Has Instructions. The Agent Has Your Credentials
Prompt injection is the most critical agent security threat. How attackers hijack agents via webpages, MCP metadata, and tool outputs—and how to defend....
ZacnyLos
7 hours ago
$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor
Contribute to novatic14/MANPADS-System-Launcher-and-Rocket development by creating an account on GitHub....
donutshop
3 hours ago
Codegen is not productivity
There is a whole lot to say about generative AI. LLMs generate a bunch of code, this much is certainly true. Should we celebrate that? There is a long tradition of trying to measure softwar...
rbanffy
6 hours ago
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (2019)
What explains the popularity of terminals with 80×24 and 80×25 displays? A recent blog post " 80x25 " motivated me to investigate this. The ......
kiwieater
5 hours ago
The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
I spent 100 hours vibecoding an app and it's not as simple as people say....
ohjeez
2 hours ago
UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence
A new nationwide study is recruiting volunteers to map the full spectrum of human flatulence....
https://cbmg.umd.edu/news-events/news/brantley-hall-umd-scientists-create-smart-underwear-measure-human-flatulence
xodn348
20 hours ago
Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust
A compiled programming language with Korean keywords, written in Rust - xodn348/han...
ingve
9 hours ago
The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ
Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word “intelligence” too literal? And when an AI behaves stupidly, who’s to blame? The programmers or ...
picafrost
a day ago
Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories
Mathematical research traditionally involves a small number of professional mathematicians working closely on difficult problems. However, I have long believed that there is a complementary ...
signa11
a day ago
An ode to bzip
The story goes like this. ComputerCraft is a mod that adds programming to Minecraft. You write Lua code that gets executed by a bespoke interpreter with access to world APIs, and now you’re ...
jimsojim
a day ago
Marketing for Founders
Practical marketing resources to get the first 10 / 100 / 1000 users for your SaaS / App / Startup - EdoStra/Marketing-for-Founders...