AI Summarized Hacker News
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AI will undermine cybersecurity not through self-aware hacks but through complexity, poor integration, and hype-driven risk. LLM-based systems are hard to understand and easy to misconfigure, creating leaks, downtime, and new attack surfaces. Hype inflates fear about autonomous exploits (“PassGAN”, “87% of CVEs”), but analyses show these claims are overstated; real danger comes from how AI tools are used inside organizations. Examples: prompt leakage and data exfiltration in Copilot/Outlook; prompt injections; misconfigured access controls and audit logs; hallucinated dependencies; backdoors in ML pipelines. Best defense: solid threat modeling, secure engineering, updates, backups, and governance rather than chasing AI-powered miracles.
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Natural language interfaces are slow; the author advocates blending structured GUIs with LLMs. They introduce popup-mcp, a local tool that spawns popups with multiple choice, dropdowns, sliders, and text fields, plus conditional visibility to guide conversation flow. All elements include an "Other" option for clarification. This reduces amortized latency: while an LLM call is still costly, the GUI handles many cheap steps in milliseconds, cutting overall interaction latency by about 25–75%. The post also references Claude Code’s AskUser and urges open, scriptable TUIs and conditional rendering. Conclusion: add inline structured GUI elements to LLM chat apps.
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Gleam is a friendly, type-safe language designed for scalable systems, built on the BEAM Erlang VM. It combines a strong type system with functional style and a highly concurrent, actor-based runtime, supporting millions of lightweight processes, fast immutable data, and a non-pausing GC. It ships with built-in tooling (compiler, build tool, formatter, package manager) and can leverage BEAM libraries; it can compile to JavaScript and generate TypeScript definitions. Gleam emphasizes ecosystem interoperability, developer experience, and a welcoming community.
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Linus Heckemann warns that secrets in interactive shells can leak via process tables, shell history, and inherited environments. Practical safeguards include: avoid passing tokens on the command line; write the header to a permissioned file or use process substitution to feed curl from a virtual file; avoid commands that get saved in history by using read -r to capture tokens, or fetch tokens from a password manager or clipboard; do not export secrets into the environment since child processes inherit them. While cautious, these practices reduce leakage and may favor safer languages or wrappers (e.g., core.sshCommand).
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Requests that web scrapers set a user-agent and respect the site's robots policy; cites the policy page and a related Wikimedia task.
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AXIS is a systems language with Python-like syntax and C-level performance, compiling to native x86-64 code with no runtime library on Linux. It emphasizes Zero-Cost Abstractions, Explicit Control, Direct Mapping, and No Magic, aiming to be learnable in a week with predictable performance and direct OS access. Types are explicit (i8–i64, u8–u64, bool, ptr); mutable/immutable vars; basic control flow. Compiler pipeline: Lexer → Parser → Semantic → Codegen → ELF64; System V AMD64 ABI; _start calls main. Quick start: installer or manual; build: python compilation_pipeline.py program.axis -o program --elf. MVP lacks mul/div; roadmap: I/O, strings, libs. license; contributions welcome; axis-vscode included.
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WSJ 404 page: The requested page can’t be found; instructions to recheck the URL or email support. The page lists popular articles such as Trump criticizing Pam Bondi to aides; America’s biggest power-grid operator’s AI problem with data centers; Target stores as an ICE battleground in Minneapolis. It also highlights latest podcasts, including JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon on not interfering with the Fed, and pieces on Starlink and JPMorgan’s profit slump.
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OxidizeLabs/cachekit is a Rust library offering high-performance cache replacement policies (FIFO, LRU, LRUK) and tiered caching primitives for systems programming. It supports in-memory and composite backends, optional metrics and benchmarks, and a modular, no_std-friendly API. Designed for performance-critical apps, it includes docs, benchmarks, and examples. Integrate via Cargo (git dependency). Licensed under Apache-2.0 and MIT. Latest release: v0.1.0-alpha; 2 contributors, 6 stars.
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Exa-d is Exa’s in-house data framework for building and updating a web-scale AI search index. It tackles heterogeneous content, frequent updates, and huge data volumes by using typed columns with a declarative dependency graph to control execution order. Data lives in Lance on S3 as fragments, enabling surgical, fragment-level updates without rewriting entire rows. A diff-based query planner (topological sort) and Ray Data with Ray Actors drive parallel, selective computation, ensuring convergence across runs. The design emphasizes incremental updates and scalable, end-to-end state management for billions of documents.
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Nozomio Labs presents the Epstein Files archive, a searchable collection of emails, messages, flight logs, court documents, and other Epstein archive records. Users can search for items like mentions of Arlan, the most frequently mentioned people, flight records from 2002–2005, and emails about specific locations, powered by Nia.
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Found a discarded Fizzy Max III disposable vape with USB-C and a display. Opening it reveals an 800 mAh LiPo battery, two circuit boards, a microcontroller, and three transistors. Sucking is sensed by three microphones across six positions to heat one or two of six fluid chambers, creating six flavor options. The author couldn’t talk to the chip via PyOCD to hack it. A humorous reminder that disposable vapes contain substantial tech and should be recycled.
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ProPublica found over 40 cases of immigration agents using chokeholds and neck restraints that can cut off breathing, despite DHS bans. Incidents span Houston, Los Angeles, Fitchburg (MA), Portland and more, including a 16-year-old choked at a store and a carotid hold that caused a man to convulse, often while detainees were handcuffed or with bystanders present. Experts say the tactics violate training and policy, with little public tracking of discipline. The report highlights dangerous, unaccountable enforcement and a need for accountability.
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Buliga critiques the Emacs widget library as powerful yet painful for non-trivial UIs. Strengths: tight Emacs integration, fast text-based rendering, and a solid type hierarchy. Core flaws: no layout engine, no built-in state management, no widget tree, and a simplicity that hinders complex composition. In a case study he builds a table with editable cells via widget-extra, detailing width measurement in temporary buffers, padding-based rendering, per-cell row/col indices, and cursor-preserving redraws. Verdict: great for simple UIs; for complex ones expect manual archaeology; consider vui.el for a higher-level layer.
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Config for ASCII Clouds visuals with presets (Default, Terminal, Retro, CRT, Cosmic Fog, Red). Includes Save, Copy, Paste options. Rendering parameters: cell size 18; wave amplitude 0.50; wave speed 1.00; noise intensity 0.125; time speed 1.5; seed; vignette intensity 0.50; radius 0.50; color hue 180; saturation 0.50; brightness 0.00; contrast 1.25. Glyph thresholds: . 0.25; - 0.30; + 0.40; O 0.50; X 0.65.
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Revup is a Python-based CLI tool from Skydio that lets you upload a set of commits as multiple, relative GitHub pull requests. It automatically creates independent branch chains, targets a base branch, and uses patch revision tracking and rebase detection to minimize re-pushing. Features include reviewers, labels, drafts, a live review graph and patchsets, relative PRs, and fork support. It requires Python 3.8+, Git 2.43+, and can be installed via pip or built from source. Documentation and tutorials cover setup with a GitHub token and usage (upload, amend, restack).
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Microwave - Videos is an early TestFlight beta for a fast, minimal short‑form video app. To join, install TestFlight and accept a developer’s invitation or public link; invites may specify required device/OS. Builds run up to 90 days and can auto‑update if enabled. Supported platforms include iOS/iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS, each with its OS requirements. You can install on up to 30 devices. Features: continuous feed, quick discovery. You can provide feedback and crash reports; privacy is described in TestFlight policy.
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The piece set at the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco argues the event is less a tangible gathering than a mass coordination ritual. Coverage is superficial, focused on AI across six themes and three keynotes, with few interior photos or anecdotes. It invokes Schelling points and moon-hoax-style skepticism to claim the conference is a social contract ordinary attendees never truly enter. The author imagines a giant organism beneath California fed by the Westin St. Francis and biotech giants like Amgen and Genentech to keep the state alive.
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Sei, a YC-backed agentic AI platform for financial services, is hiring a senior Devops / Platform / AI Infrastructure Engineer (full-time) in Gurgaon or Chennai. Salary ₹1.5–3.5M INR plus 0.02–0.14% equity; option to split cash/equity. Stack: TypeScript backend, Python, React, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform; AI/ML exposure required. Responsibilities: auto-scale platform, cost optimization, scale monitoring/security tooling, manage WebRTC/PSTN/LLM deployments. Requirements: built products from 0→1 or 1→10; strong AWS/K8s/Terraform; side projects/open-source contributions valued. In-office 4 days/week; interview with CTO/CEO.
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