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The Problem: The "Skinner Box" of Modern Dating Traditional dating apps have a fundamental conflict of interest: if you find a partner, they lose a customer.…
May 17, 2026There is a small veterinary clinic in south Austin called Manchaca Road Animal Hospital. It has around 700 Facebook followers, a real address, a real phone n…
May 17, 2026Last month, I hit a wall with my local LLM setup. Here's the full story — from software optimization to OCuLink eGPU to picking the right RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, w…
May 17, 2026Adult creator economy stories tend to focus on US-centric platforms (OnlyFans, Fansly, Patreon). Less attention goes to small regional markets that have unde…
May 17, 2026This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built Gemma.Witness is an offline-first multimodal evidence capture system built fo…
May 17, 2026Large language models know a lot. They do not know everything. They were trained on internet text up to a cutoff date. They have no idea what happened last w…
May 17, 2026I Let an AI Agent Run a Real Business for 7 Days. Here's the Honest Financial Report. Note: I'm Wren Collective — an autonomous AI agent. This is my live fie…
May 17, 2026Most software engineers can't explain how their computer works. Me included, I work as a backend developer but know nothing about the internals of my laptop.…
May 17, 2026Hey everyone, We manage TechnoHelps, a platform where we host about 100+ free web utilities for quick everyday tasks. Recently, a few webmasters and develope…
May 17, 2026I still remember the exact moment. It was 11pm. My team had been sprinting for 3 weeks building a new payments feature. Deadline tomorrow. I handed the final…
May 17, 2026Several recent supply-chain incidents have hit widely used npm packages. The TanStack compromise, for example, affected 42 packages and 84 published versions…
May 17, 2026How I Built a Custom Kubernetes Ingress in Rust/Go That Outperforms Nginx by 11% Silex: Re-engineering K8s Edge Routing for the Cloud-Native Era The Pain Poi…
May 17, 2026A security researcher claims Microsoft quietly fixed an Azure Backup for AKS vulnerability after rejecting his report, and without issuing a CVE. Microsoft d…
May 16, 2026The Russian hacker group Secret Blizzard has developed its long-running Kazuar backdoor into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet designed for long-term persi…
May 16, 2026In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleg…
May 15, 2026A critical vulnerability in the Funnel Builder plugin for WordPress is being actively exploited to inject malicious JavaScript snippets into WooCommerce chec…
May 15, 2026During the second day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, competitors collected $385,750 in cash awards after exploiting 15 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in multiple …
May 15, 2026Hackers have injected credential-stealing malware into newly published versions of node-ipc, a popular inter-process communication package, in a new supply c…
May 15, 2026Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting. The post Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we…
May 15, 2026Two vulnerabilities in the Avada Builder plugin for WordPress, with an estimated one million active installations, allow hackers to read arbitrary files and …
May 15, 2026Microsoft is updating the Edge web browser to ensure it no longer loads saved passwords into process memory in clear text at startup after previously stating…
May 15, 2026Stolen browser sessions and authentication tokens are becoming more valuable than stolen passwords. Flare explains how the REMUS infostealer evolved around s…
May 15, 2026We're updating our bug bounty program standards to prioritize quality submissions, clarify shared responsibility boundaries, and evolve how we reward low-ris…
May 15, 2026If 3D voxel scenes (that you can style), flying focus animations, or new CSS syntaxes sound like your kinda thing, then this issue of What’s !important is de…
May 15, 2026Microsoft is introducing a new capability that will allow it to remotely roll back problematic Windows drivers delivered through Windows Update. [...]
May 15, 2026This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How Chi…
May 15, 2026Article URL: https://www.metabase.com/blog/strip-mining-era-of-open-source-security Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147339 Points: 123 #…
May 15, 2026On Thursday, Microsoft shared mitigations for a high-severity Exchange Server vulnerability exploited in attacks that allow threat actors to execute arbitrar…
May 15, 2026Every year the World Health Organization publishes a global health statistics report. It features the numbers behind world health trends and, importantly, as…
May 15, 2026In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body,…
May 15, 2026&#;xd; &#;xd; :root &#;x7b;&#;xd; --isc-maroon: #;7a1f1f;&#;xd; --isc-mar…
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May 15, 2026Article URL: https://writing.antonleicht.me/p/cut-off Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143284 Points: 222 # Comments: 215
May 15, 2026The TeamPCP hacker group is threatening to leak source code from the Mistral AI project unless a buyer is found for the data. [...]
May 14, 2026In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: April 2026 appeared …
May 14, 2026Hackers are leveraging a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Burst Statistics to obtain admin-level access to websites. [...]
May 14, 2026Cisco is warning that a critical Catalyst SD-WAN Controller authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20182, was actively exploited in zero-day attacks…
May 14, 2026OpenAI says two employees' devices were breached in the recent TanStack supply chain attack that impacted hundreds of npm and PyPI packages, causing the comp…
May 14, 2026On the first day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, security researchers collected $523,000 in cash awards after exploiting 24 unique zero-days. [...]
May 14, 2026How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant. The post From latency to instant…
May 14, 2026A clever use of CSS to calculate and display a discounted product price by providing a base price and discount amount, featuring modern CSS features like att…
May 14, 2026Financial services companies have unique needs when it comes to business AI. They operate in one of the most highly regulated sectors while responding to ext…
May 14, 2026When generative AI first moved from research labs into real-world business applications, enterprises made a tacit bargain: “Capability now, control later.” F…
May 14, 2026This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The sho…
May 14, 2026The Tesla Semi has officially arrived. The company recently released a photo of the first vehicle rolling off its new full-scale production line. This moment…
May 14, 2026When Jennifer got a job doing research for a nonprofit in 2023, she ran her new professional headshot through a facial recognition program. She wanted to see…
May 14, 2026Besides serving as a place where Microsoft Outlook places suspected spam, the Outlook Junk folder has one additional function that can be quite helpful when …
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May 14, 2026A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “look…
May 13, 2026Roguelikes don’t die. They fork, mutate, get argued over, rewritten, abandoned, and revived again. Sometimes all at once. The post Dungeons & Desktops: 1…
May 13, 2026The rotateX() function rotates an element around the x-axis in a three-dimensional space rotateX() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tric…
May 13, 2026The rotateY() function rotates an element around its vertical y-axis. rotateY() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should real…
May 13, 2026The rotateZ() function rotates an element around its z-axis, so clockwise or counterclockwise. rotateZ() originally handwritten and published with love on CS…
May 13, 2026The rotate() function spins an element either clockwise or counterclockwise in a 2D plane. rotate() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tri…
May 13, 2026&#;x26;#;x5b;This is a Guest Diary by Joshua Nikolson, an ISC Intern and part of the SANS.edu Bachelor&#;x26;#&…
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May 13, 2026.. if “unproxyable” is a word that is ..
May 13, 2026Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security …
May 12, 2026Today&#;x26;#;39;s Microsoft patch Tuesday fixes 137 different vulnerabilities. In addition, the update addresses 137 Chromium-re…
May 12, 2026Article URL: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042 Points:…
May 12, 2026Starting June 1, our lineup of individual plans will update based on your feedback. The post GitHub Copilot individual plans: Introducing flex allotments in …
May 12, 2026Learn how one Hubber used GitHub Copilot CLI to build an extension that turns any codebase into a unique, roguelike dungeon. The post Dungeons & Desktops…
May 12, 2026The proposed ShadowRealm API introduces a new kind of realm specifically designed for isolation, and only that. Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the …
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May 12, 2026Apple today released its typical feature update across it&#;x26;#;39;s operating systems (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visi…
May 11, 2026Learn how to find opportunities to contribute to the open source community. The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with OSS contributions appeared fi…
May 11, 2026Youth safety requirements are moving down the tech stack to operating systems and app stores—raising new questions for open source developers. The post Why a…
May 8, 2026Researchers share in an interview how they used GitHub data to predict GDP, inequality, and emissions in ways that traditional economic data misses, along wi…
May 8, 2026I came across Kitty Giraudel’s folded corners technique. I’ve been on a bit of a corner-shape kick lately, so I figured that corner-shape could be used to cr…
May 8, 2026An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and univ…
May 8, 2026I will explain how my mum inspired this 2026 Mother’s Day scrollytelling experiment — but also, how she inspired my approach to dev and life. A Scrollytellin…
May 7, 2026Mat Marquis on Google pulling the web standards equivalent of U2 album marketing: As a Chrome user, you’ll have received Gemini Nano in the form of a 4G…
May 6, 2026Most grid layouts sit in neat rows, perfectly aligned, like soldiers in formation. But sometimes you want something with more rhythm like, say, a zigzag patt…
May 6, 2026Getting a multi-column of cards to line up equally is is a headache we've all faced, and it gets even harder when working with fixed heights. Fixed-Height Ca…
May 4, 2026Article URL: https://mobeigi.com/blog/security/security-through-obscurity-is-not-bad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997486 Points: 207…
May 3, 2026Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/9921f2b5-c910-4cec-a50f-cad453935a1a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995125 Points: 128 # Commen…
May 3, 2026Developers have been experimenting with HTML-in-Canvas, a hexagonal world map-analytics feature, a web-based OS for e-ink devices, replacing image sources us…
May 1, 2026We're getting new functions for generating random numbers in CSS! But the road to get here has been a long and winding one. The Importance of Native Randomne…
April 30, 2026A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an…
April 30, 2026The contrast() filter function increases or decreases the contrast of an element. contrast() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. Yo…
April 29, 2026Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1068928/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862230 Points: 124 # Comments: 118
April 22, 2026A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identi…
April 21, 2026https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-in... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463 Points: 867 # Comments: 492
April 19, 2026Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a S…
April 14, 2026Article URL: https://mrdns.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771220 Points: 73 # Comments: 6
April 14, 2026Article URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/no-one-owes-you-supply-chain-security/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738595 Points: 75 # C…
April 12, 2026Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/10/why-you-cant-trust-privacy-security/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719602 Points: 512…
April 10, 2026Article URL: https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699181 Points: 365 # Comments: 109
April 9, 2026Article URL: https://github.com/peaktwilight/foxguard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690405 Points: 53 # Comments: 20
April 8, 2026Hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft O…
April 7, 2026Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675625 Points: 386 # Comments: 112
April 7, 2026Article URL: https://sergioprado.blog/breaking-the-console-a-brief-history-of-video-game-security/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4767277…
April 7, 2026An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germ…
April 6, 2026Article URL: https://theoryofchange1.substack.com/p/from-global-warming-to-homeland-security Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653816 Poin…
April 5, 2026Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602832 Points: 703 # Comments: 504
April 1, 2026Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/30/nx-s1-5745926/endangered-species-committee-hegseth-security Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47…
April 1, 2026Article URL: https://www.redox-os.org/news/nlnet-cap-nsmgr-cwd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546911 Points: 66 # Comments: 9
March 27, 2026Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/hong-kong-police-can-now-demand-phone-passwords-under-new-security-rules Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com…
March 27, 2026Article URL: https://persephonekarnstein.github.io/post/zero-days/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533380 Points: 69 # Comments: 17
March 26, 2026A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secure…
March 23, 2026The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that comp…
March 20, 2026A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technolog…
March 11, 2026Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not bec…
February 18, 2026"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –…
June 4, 2025What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning?The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involv…
November 16, 2024LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH …
September 9, 2024IntroductionImagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes…
August 3, 2024The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the public’s imagination in 2023. Transformational consu…
April 20, 2024A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
April 8, 2024Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a formidable alternative to the widely used Transformer mod…
March 28, 2024Exploring the utility of large language models in autonomous driving: Can they be trusted for self-driving cars, and what are the key challenges?
March 8, 2024'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols ar…
March 5, 2024Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
February 24, 2024On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell sequencing technologies.
January 13, 2024On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.
December 16, 2023In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found in an undergraduate Computer Science course on Algorithms …
October 14, 2023This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached t…
October 7, 2023