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Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EBUX
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Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EEkq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6EEkq
This RFD describes our distillation of a really gnarly issue that we hit in the Oxide control plane.[0] Not unlike our discovery of the async cancellation issue[1][2][3], this is larger than the issue itself -- and worse, the program that hits futurelock is correct from the programmer's point of view. Fortunately, the surface area here is smaller than that of async cancellation and the conditions required to hit it can be relatively easily mitigated. Still, this is a pretty deep issue -- and something that took some very seasoned Rust hands quite a while to find.
[0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/issues/9259
[1] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/397
[2] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/400
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv5Cy1R7r4
Just Use a Button (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EEn8
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6EEn8
Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sovereignty gains steam (🔥 Score: 159+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EEiq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6EEiq
Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EDyE
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Reasoning Models Reason Well, Until They Don't (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ED2V
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John Carmack on mutable variables (Score: 156+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ECiP
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Show HN: JSON Query (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EmZ4
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6EmZ4
I'm working on a tool that will probably involve querying JSON documents and I'm asking myself how to expose that functionality to my users.
I like the power of `jq` and the fact that LLMs are proficient at it, but I find it right out impossible to come up with the right `jq` incantations myself. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Which tool / language did you end up exposing to your users?
Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EB67
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6EB67
ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ECbF
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Ground stop at JFK due to staffing (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ECeT
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PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EAbd
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6EAbd
NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times (Score: 152+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Eyg5
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6Eyg5
Tell HN: Twilio support replies with hallucinated features (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6EwcL
I was investigating some bug with our voice system and asked support where I can find some debugging information and event logs.
They told me where I should go in the interface to see that and reassured that they checked logs and this event exist.
It turned out these features and information doesn't exist anywhere in the interface and impossible to retrieve in any way. The support message with hallucinated features is mostly AI written.
CEOs tell us AGI is around the corner but in reality it just unreliable information and AI can't even restock the vending machine.
Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EzWB
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6EzWB
0github.com is a pull request viewer that color-codes every diff line/token by how much human attention it probably needs. Unlike PR-review bots, we try to flag not just by "is it a bug?" but by "is it worth a second look?" (examples: hard-coded secret, weird crypto mode, gnarly logic, ugly code).
To try it, replace github.com with 0github.com in any pull-request URL. Under the hood, we split the PR into individual files, and for each file, we ask an LLM to annotate each line with a data structure that we parse into a colored heatmap.
Examples:
https://0github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/pull/666
https://0github.com/stack-auth/stack-auth/pull/988
https://0github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/pull/12995
https://0github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/2548
Notice how all the example links have a 0 prepended before github.com. This navigates you to our custom diff viewer where we handle the same URL path parameters as github.com. Darker yellows indicate that an area might require more investigation. Hover on the highlights to see the LLM's explanation. There's also a slider on the top left to adjust the "should review" threshold.
Repo (MIT license): https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux
Introducing architecture variants (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Ezka
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AI scrapers request commented scripts (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EE7d
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Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop (Score: 154+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6EDCQ
Dear Hackers,
I’m interested in your real-world workflows for using open-source LLMs and open-source coding assistants on your laptop (not just cloud/enterprise SaaS). Specifically:
Which model(s) are you running (e.g., Ollama, LM Studio, or others) and which open-source coding assistant/integration (for example, a VS Code plugin) you’re using?
What laptop hardware do you have (CPU, GPU/NPU, memory, whether discrete GPU or integrated, OS) and how it performs for your workflow?
What kinds of tasks you use it for (code completion, refactoring, debugging, code review) and how reliable it is (what works well / where it falls short).
I'm conducting my own investigation, which I will be happy to share as well when over.
Thanks!
Andrea.
OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EDwU
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Jujutsu at Google [video] (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EzHe
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Rouille – Rust Programming, in French (❄️ Score: 151+ in 1 week)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6E8kH
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AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on TSMC 3nm Process (Score: 152+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ECne
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ECne
Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EC4K
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Some people can't see mental images (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EAKx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6EAKx
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Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EBGd
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Springs and bounces in native CSS (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Eskx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6Eskx
I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86 (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EAPN
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Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EBE2
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A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EBQx
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The Green Tea Garbage Collector (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EwzL
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6EwzL