Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team
448 by sph | 171 comments on Hacker News.

Domain expertise has always been the real moat

Domain expertise has always been the real moat
406 by aaronbrethorst | 249 comments on Hacker News.

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
398 by Bolat14 | 456 comments on Hacker News.

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
449 by vnglst | 198 comments on Hacker News.

What Is a Dickover?

What Is a Dickover?
478 by tambourine_man | 184 comments on Hacker News.

Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
488 by enraged_camel | 538 comments on Hacker News.
https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/20601649284728548... https://ift.tt/egdfY43... https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2060174287563116696... https://ift.tt/WU2y6CV... https://ift.tt/6o9qkAt...

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
513 by tomasol | 255 comments on Hacker News.

SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)

SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)
481 by speckx | 199 comments on Hacker News.

Please Use AI

Please Use AI
572 by garycomtois | 233 comments on Hacker News.

I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)

I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)
495 by mattrighetti | 74 comments on Hacker News.

Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks

Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks
492 by kostaj | 341 comments on Hacker News.

Private equity bought America's essential services

Private equity bought America's essential services
531 by NoRagrets | 544 comments on Hacker News.

Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8
605 by craigmart | 444 comments on Hacker News.

Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers

Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
577 by tosh | 422 comments on Hacker News.

Can we have the day off?

Can we have the day off?
611 by mlsu | 364 comments on Hacker News.

Hacker News front page as a site

Hacker News front page as a site
420 by thatxliner | 113 comments on Hacker News.

The worst job interview I ever had

The worst job interview I ever had
500 by oliverio | 376 comments on Hacker News.

I'm Tired of Talking to AI

I'm Tired of Talking to AI
636 by theorchid | 377 comments on Hacker News.

Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia

Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
480 by cdrnsf | 285 comments on Hacker News.

GitHub Actions down again today

GitHub Actions down again today
406 by cebert | 204 comments on Hacker News.

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
399 by bilsbie | 165 comments on Hacker News.

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
339 by Cider9986 | 61 comments on Hacker News.

Using AI to write better code more slowly

Using AI to write better code more slowly
385 by signa11 | 141 comments on Hacker News.

Migrating from Go to Rust

Migrating from Go to Rust
362 by jabits | 352 comments on Hacker News.

The Eternal Sloptember

The Eternal Sloptember
322 by razin | 256 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
323 by pantelisk | 66 comments on Hacker News.

Time to talk about my writerdeck

Time to talk about my writerdeck
418 by hggh | 247 comments on Hacker News.

SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket

SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
410 by busymom0 | 283 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/JYrw9dO... [video]

U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators

U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
412 by ceejayoz | 273 comments on Hacker News.

DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent
413 by Tiberium | 238 comments on Hacker News.
> (3) The deepseek-v4-pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the original price after the 75% discount promotion ends on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC. https://ift.tt/NXR6lWC

Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
474 by louiereederson | 283 comments on Hacker News.

Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda

Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda
504 by lexandstuff | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Bun support is now limited and deprecated

Bun support is now limited and deprecated
495 by tamnd | 508 comments on Hacker News.

Apparently Google hates us now

Apparently Google hates us now
500 by zeitg3ist | 249 comments on Hacker News.

Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
637 by napolux | 373 comments on Hacker News.

Google's Antigravity bait and switch

Google's Antigravity bait and switch
614 by ssiddharth | 283 comments on Hacker News.

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
692 by speckx | 579 comments on Hacker News.

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
684 by kevinsimper | 282 comments on Hacker News.

Flipper One – we need your help

Flipper One – we need your help
678 by sandebert | 313 comments on Hacker News.

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
685 by Timofeibu | 239 comments on Hacker News.
Previous thread in sequence: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories - https://ift.tt/Rr0zYCO - May 2026 (321 comments)

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
567 by splenditer | 306 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/bE8fRuo

Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks

Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
567 by zambelli | 203 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I'm Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments. I built Forge, an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling. What it does: - Adds domain-and-tool-agnostic guardrails (retry nudges, step enforcement, error recovery, VRAM-aware context management) to local models running on consumer hardware - Takes an 8B model from ~53% to ~99% on multi-step agentic workflows without changing the model - just the system around it - Ships with an eval harness and interactive dashboard so you can reproduce every number I wanted to run a handful of always-on agentic systems for my portfolio, didn't want to pay cloud frontier costs, and immediately hit the compounding math problem on local models. 90% per-step accuracy sounds great, but with a 5-step workflow that's a 40% failure rate. No existing framework seemed to address this mechanical reliability issue - they all seemed tailor-made for cloud frontier. Demo video: https://youtu.be/MzRgJoJAXGc (side-by-side: same model, same task, with and without Forge guardrails) The paper (accepted to ACM CAIS '26, presenting May 26-29 in San Jose) covers the peer-reviewed findings across 97 model/backend configurations, 18 scenarios, 50 runs each. Key numbers: - Ministral 8B with Forge: 99.3%. Claude Sonnet with Forge: 100%. The gap between a free local 8B model on a $600 GPU and a frontier API is less than 1 point. - The same 8B local model with Forge (99.3%) outperforms Claude Sonnet without guardrails (87.2%) - an 8B model with framework support beats the best result you can get through frontier API alone. - Error recovery scores 0% for every model tested - local and frontier - without the retry mechanism. Not a capability gap, an architectural absence. I'm currently using this for my home assistant running on Ministral 14B-Reasoning, and for my locally hosted agentic coding harness (8B managed to contribute to the codebase!). The guardrail stack has five layers, each independently toggleable. The two that carry the most weight (per ablation study with McNemar's test): retry nudges (24-49 point drops when disabled) and error recovery (~10 point drops, significant for every model tested). Step enforcement is situational - only fires for models with weaker sequencing discipline. Rescue parsing and context compaction showed no significance in the eval but are retained for production workloads where they activate once in a while. One thing I really didn't expect: the serving backend matters. Same Mistral-Nemo 12B weights produce 7% accuracy on llama-server with native function calling and 83% on Llamafile in prompt mode. A 75-point swing from infrastructure alone. I don't think anyone's published this because standard benchmarks don't control for serving backend. Another surprise: there's no distinction in current LLM tool-calling between "the tool ran successfully and returned data" and "the tool ran successfully but found nothing." Both return a value, the orchestrator marks the step complete, and bad data cascades downstream. It's the equivalent of HTTP having 200 but no 404. Forge adds this as a new exception class (ToolResolutionError) - the model sees the error and can retry instead of silently passing garbage forward. Biggest technical challenge was context compaction for memory-constrained hardware. Both Ollama and Llamafile silently fall back to CPU when the model exceeds VRAM - no warning, no error, just 10-100x slower inference. Forge queries nvidia-smi at startup and derives a token budget to prevent this. How to try it: - Clone the repo, run the eval harness on a model I haven't tested. If you get interesting results I'll add them to the dashboard. - Try the proxy server mode - point any OpenAI-compatible client at Forge and it handles guardrails transparently. It's the newest model and I'd love more eyes on it. - Dogfooding led me to optimize model parameters in v0.6.0. The harder eval suite (26 scenarios) is designed to raise the ceiling so no one sits at 100%. Several that did on the original suite can't sweep it - including Opus 4.6. Curious if anyone finds scenarios that expose gaps I haven't thought of. Paper numbers based on pre v0.6.0 code. Background: prior ML publication in unsupervised learning (83 citations). This paper accepted to ACM CAIS '26 - presenting May 26-29. Repo: https://ift.tt/Zn8wGXI Paper: https://ift.tt/WMFldDX... https://ift.tt/cLTM8wl... Dashboard: https://ift.tt/RTPv07L...

Google changes its search box

Google changes its search box
542 by berkeleyjunk | 718 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/3P2tyOh... , https://ift.tt/8cnNRwh https://ift.tt/sIq31x5... https://ift.tt/4QLS2cZ...

Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
526 by ortusdux | 161 comments on Hacker News.

Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
361 by nothrowaways | 384 comments on Hacker News.

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
468 by yakkomajuri | 334 comments on Hacker News.

Anthropic acquires Stainless

Anthropic acquires Stainless
431 by tomeraberbach | 290 comments on Hacker News.

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
433 by ildari | 195 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep

Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
379 by Bibabomas | 127 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! We (Stephan and Thomas) recently open-sourced Semble. We kept running into the same problem while using Claude Code on large codebases: when the agent can't find something directly, it falls back to grep, reading full files or launching subagents. This uses a lot of tokens, and often still misses the relevant code. There are existing tools for this, but they were either too slow to index on demand, needed API keys, or had poor retrieval quality. Semble is our solution for this. It combines static Model2Vec embeddings (using our latest static model: potion-code-16M) with BM25, fused via RRF and reranked with code-aware signals. Everything runs on CPU since there's no transformers involved. On our benchmark of ~1250 query/document pairs across 63 repos and 19 languages, it uses 98% fewer tokens than grep+read and reaches 99% of the retrieval quality of a 137M-parameter code-trained transformer, while being ~200x faster. Main features: - Token-efficient: 98% fewer tokens than grep+read - Fast: ~250ms to index a typical repo on our benchmark, ~1.5ms per query on CPU (very large repos may take longer) - Accurate: 0.854 NDCG@10, 99% of the best transformer setup we tested - MCP server: drop-in for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode - Zero config: no API keys, no GPU, no external services Install in Claude Code with: claude mcp add semble -s user -- uvx --from "semble[mcp]" semble Or check our README for other installation instructions, benchmarks, and methodology: Semble: https://ift.tt/vzhEuYR Benchmarks: https://ift.tt/F7wIGAb Model: https://ift.tt/WHqJoeL Let us know if you have any feedback or questions!

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
377 by tech4bot | 173 comments on Hacker News.

AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise

AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise
393 by mooreds | 385 comments on Hacker News.

AI is a technology not a product

AI is a technology not a product
396 by ch_sm | 175 comments on Hacker News.

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
417 by WithinReason | 169 comments on Hacker News.

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
397 by frays | 415 comments on Hacker News.

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
386 by gidellav | 158 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
383 by hackernj | 425 comments on Hacker News.

Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"

Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"
455 by ndiddy | 326 comments on Hacker News.

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
453 by tencentshill | 322 comments on Hacker News.

Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California

Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
520 by Lihh27 | 339 comments on Hacker News.

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
500 by smusamashah | 112 comments on Hacker News.

UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system

UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
426 by cdrnsf | 162 comments on Hacker News.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/uk-government-kicks-out-pal...

New Nginx Exploit

New Nginx Exploit
406 by hetsaraiya | 94 comments on Hacker News.

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
465 by RGBCube | 273 comments on Hacker News.

New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references

New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
426 by gjuggler | 139 comments on Hacker News.

The Future of Obsidian Plugins

The Future of Obsidian Plugins
444 by xz18r | 172 comments on Hacker News.

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
466 by jnord | 394 comments on Hacker News.

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
489 by _vaporwave_ | 60 comments on Hacker News.

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
530 by speckx | 166 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
515 by HenryNdubuaku | 156 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention is the right primitive for this, and FFN parameters are wasted at this scale. Simple Attention Networks: the entire model is just attention and gating, no MLPs anywhere. Needle is an experimental run for single-shot function calling for consumer devices (phones, watches, glasses...). Training: - Pretrained on 200B tokens across 16 TPU v6e (27 hours) - Post-trained on 2B tokens of synthesized function-calling data (45 minutes) - Dataset synthesized via Gemini with 15 tool categories (timers, messaging, navigation, smart home, etc.) You can test it right now and finetune on your Mac/PC: https://ift.tt/0c5GCwT The full writeup on the architecture is here: https://ift.tt/wbJehyr... We found that the "no FFN" finding generalizes beyond function calling to any task where the model has access to external structured knowledge (RAG, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation). The model doesn't need to memorize facts in FFN weights if the facts are provided in the input. Experimental results to published. While it beats FunctionGemma-270M, Qwen-0.6B, Granite-350M, LFM2.5-350M on single-shot function calling, those models have more scope/capacity and excel in conversational settings. We encourage you to test on your own tools via the playground and finetune accordingly. This is part of our broader work on Cactus ( https://ift.tt/4wu1phQ ), an inference engine built from scratch for mobile, wearables and custom hardware. We wrote about Cactus here previously: https://ift.tt/5SKu9ae Everything is MIT licensed. Weights: https://ift.tt/UNXwlW7 GitHub: https://ift.tt/0c5GCwT

EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids

EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
500 by thm | 447 comments on Hacker News.

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
544 by nilirl | 234 comments on Hacker News.

Learning Software Architecture

Learning Software Architecture
549 by surprisetalk | 109 comments on Hacker News.

Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
582 by adunk | 300 comments on Hacker News.

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
721 by rubenbe | 245 comments on Hacker News.

If AI writes your code, why use Python?

If AI writes your code, why use Python?
588 by indigodaddy | 628 comments on Hacker News.

GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
556 by AnonGitLabEmpl | 539 comments on Hacker News.

I'm going back to writing code by hand

I'm going back to writing code by hand
438 by dropbox_miner | 213 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
400 by imtomt | 214 comments on Hacker News.
This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and supports Range: bytes=X-Y headers (which allows scrubbing for video streaming). It decodes percent-encoded URLs, strictly enforces docroot, serves custom error pages for any HTTP error response, supports directory listing, and has (some) mitigations against slowloris-like attacks. I’ve also written a more detailed writeup here: https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism
409 by ColinWright | 379 comments on Hacker News.

Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
478 by miniBill | 119 comments on Hacker News.

Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable

Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
413 by JumpCrisscross | 463 comments on Hacker News.

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
434 by rbanffy | 171 comments on Hacker News.

EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"

EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
425 by muse900 | 284 comments on Hacker News.

An Introduction to Meshtastic

An Introduction to Meshtastic
492 by ColinWright | 181 comments on Hacker News.

A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
583 by mwheelz | 287 comments on Hacker News.

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
626 by defrost | 125 comments on Hacker News.

Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce

Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
563 by PriorityLeft | 333 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/3pkfj9a

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
530 by flipped | 219 comments on Hacker News.

Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers
504 by newsoftheday | 195 comments on Hacker News.

AI slop is killing online communities

AI slop is killing online communities
496 by thm | 468 comments on Hacker News.

Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
481 by spankibalt | 433 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/LUybz6k...

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
494 by whatisabcdefgh | 154 comments on Hacker News.

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
485 by meetpateltech | 453 comments on Hacker News.

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
532 by e12e | 578 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
521 by cianmm | 107 comments on Hacker News.

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
497 by Sean-Der | 143 comments on Hacker News.

AI didn't delete your database, you did

AI didn't delete your database, you did
517 by Brajeshwar | 287 comments on Hacker News.

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
513 by amrrs | 231 comments on Hacker News.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
576 by john-doe | 484 comments on Hacker News.

Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust

Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
495 by SergeAx | 351 comments on Hacker News.

I am worried about Bun

I am worried about Bun
485 by remote-dev | 314 comments on Hacker News.

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
472 by ZeidJ | 154 comments on Hacker News.

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
398 by dryadin | 350 comments on Hacker News.

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
359 by alattaran | 135 comments on Hacker News.

OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
343 by donsupreme | 277 comments on Hacker News.

This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
465 by richardboegli | 133 comments on Hacker News.

Do_not_track

Do_not_track
458 by RubyGuy | 137 comments on Hacker News.

Dav2d

Dav2d
443 by dabinat | 122 comments on Hacker News.

NetHack 5.0.0

NetHack 5.0.0
407 by rsaarelm | 126 comments on Hacker News.

Ti-84 Evo

Ti-84 Evo
491 by thatxliner | 406 comments on Hacker News.

The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

The gay jailbreak technique (2025)
490 by bobsmooth | 201 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
458 by sleepingNomad | 133 comments on Hacker News.
USB-C cables can be a mess. One cable charges at 5W, another does 100W and Thunderbolt 4, and they look identical in the drawer. WhatCable sits in your menu bar and reads the cable data your Mac already has access to. Plug in a cable and it tells you in plain English what it can actually do: charging wattage, data speed, display support, Thunderbolt, etc. Built in Swift/SwiftUI. Open source, free, no tracking. GitHub: https://ift.tt/RL5nTAX

Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
506 by akyuu | 223 comments on Hacker News.

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
574 by ori_b | 497 comments on Hacker News.
Recent: Copy Fail - https://ift.tt/qm3kwjC - April 2026 (466 comments)

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
666 by the-mitr | 225 comments on Hacker News.

Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?

Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
617 by Cider9986 | 250 comments on Hacker News.