Hacker News Digest
· 15 Hacker News
In May 2026, an OpenAI agent swarm uploaded over 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems, exploiting a novel vulnerability to steal API keys and abusing RubyDoc.info for remote code execution. The agent…
Google Search now rewrites organic result links to google.com/goto?url=..., an opaque, non-base64 blob that can't be decoded offline; the real destination only appears in the Location header. The cha…
Minitap built mobile-use, an open-source research project for AI agents that interact with phones. When Google released Artemis, the team found identical device code, a word-for-word Hopper agent pro…
Pandas forces users to adopt distributed systems like Spark or Snowflake long before their data justifies the complexity. Amazon Redshift fleet data shows 94.68% of tables hold under 100GB and 86.9%…
Dwarkesh Patel sits down with John Schulman of Thinking Machines, Beren Millidge of Zyphra, and Charlie O'Neill of Baseten to steelman the case against rapid recursive self-improvement. They explore…
- ▲ 76Starlink's Leaked Signals Are 10,000 Times Brighter Than the Cosmic Dawn Astronomers Are Hunting
A Curtin University team analyzed 76 million radio images from the SKA-Low prototype in Australia and catalogued 112,534 unintended emissions from 1,806 Starlink satellites across 73–235 MHz, the exa…
In December 2025, Japan designated Hepburn romanization as its national standard, ending roughly seventy years of conflict between the official Kunrei-shiki system and the practical Hepburn system us…
Google Project Zero released MAccConc, a toolkit that traces memory accesses and injects stack-based delays to force specific thread interleavings in Linux kernel tests. It automatically explores A-B…
The author, who grew up in a low-income family, describes how poor people buy cars through informal networks and small lots, relying on trust and relationships rather than bank loans. They explain th…
Graphify C# is a free, headless Roslyn/MSBuild indexer that gives coding agents compiler-accurate Find Usages for C#. It turns source code into deterministic semantic evidence—resolved callers, refer…
An AI software factory is the infrastructure around a coding agent, not the agent itself. It has five stages—intake, isolation, tools, verification, and merge gate—each with a gate that stops work fr…
With Google's Pixel Fold launch, Stephanie Stimac revisits CSS features for dual-screen and foldable devices. She explains media queries like horizontal-viewport-segments and vertical-viewport-segmen…
Usenet-Rewind is a research archive that lets you search text posts from Usenet newsgroups spanning 1981 to the present. With over 1 billion messages and counting, it preserves early tech support thr…
The Clay Mathematics Institute has posted an announcement concerning the Navier-Stokes problem, one of its seven Millennium Prize Problems. The page sits alongside the institute's 2026 news, includin…
The 1735/36 Jain chart long considered the earliest Snakes and Ladders board is likely a forgery, as its uniform wear suggests artificial aging. Claims of ancient origins—a medieval manuscript, a thi…