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Show HN: Remote MCP server testing tool

https://check-mcp.mocha.app/
1•bluesnowmonkey•1m ago•0 comments

Cascading retrieval with multi-vector representations

https://www.pinecone.io/blog/cascading-retrieval-with-multi-vector-representations/
1•gk1•5m ago•0 comments

Earn $200 by referring only. FREE

https://waitlister.me/p/trading-platform-of-the-future
1•DavidvsGoliath•6m ago•0 comments

What a bumble bee chooses to eat may not match its ideal diet

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-bumble-bee-ideal-diet.html
1•PaulHoule•6m ago•0 comments

Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

https://community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-things-come-to-an-end-shutting-down-clear-linux-os/10716
5•todsacerdoti•8m ago•1 comments

Nuxt Joins Vercel

https://vercel.com/blog/nuxtlabs-joins-vercel
1•rattray•13m ago•1 comments

The Kap Programming Language

https://kapdemo.dhsdevelopments.com/examples.html
2•thunderbong•19m ago•0 comments

A Software for One

https://www.jasonthorsness.com/30
2•jasonthorsness•19m ago•0 comments

Women Are Falling Behind in America's Return to the Office

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/return-to-office-gender-gap-236392aa
4•bdev12345•20m ago•0 comments

Astronomer launches internal investigation after viral Coldplay video

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/entertainment/coldplay-concert-kiss-cam-astronomer-investigation
2•bb88•20m ago•0 comments

Build your CV on Subreply as a LinkedIn alternative

https://subreply.com/lm
4•lcnmrn•24m ago•0 comments

Curse Not the King

https://daringfireball.net/2025/07/curse_not_the_king_cbs_colbert_trump
2•Bogdanp•25m ago•0 comments

The Physics of Dissonance (MinutePhysics) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl6ZcY9ag
1•jerf•29m ago•0 comments

Billionaire Gabe Newell: pitching VCs makes no business sense

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/multi-billionaire-gabe-newell-says-the-whole-startup-culture-of-pitching-vcs-for-capital-makes-no-business-sense-a-great-way-of-destroying-money-and-wasting-peoples-time/
6•e2e4•30m ago•0 comments

Ccusage: A CLI tool for analyzing Claude Code usage from local JSONL files

https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage
12•kristianp•31m ago•2 comments

Fuzzing macOS Userland (For Fun and Pain)

https://marqcodes.com/fuzzyingforfun.html
1•N3Xxus_6•32m ago•0 comments

Free Online Minesweeper

https://www.freeonlineminesweeper.com
1•avonmach•32m ago•0 comments

DHH – I Hate TypeScript (3 min video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyjUH5TLSTM
3•rmason•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Interactive Bash tutorial that runs in the browser

https://sandbox.bio/tutorials/bash-script
2•raboukhalil•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Castream – Native iOS/Android IRL multistreaming app

1•acabralto•41m ago•0 comments

There Is No Antimemetics Division – A Novel (2025)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783041/there-is-no-antimemetics-division-by-qntm/
2•Duanemclemore•45m ago•1 comments

First earthquake, then fire: UC San Diego researchers test steel building

https://www.kpbs.org/news/science-technology/2025/07/17/first-earthquake-then-fire-uc-san-diego-researchers-test-steel-building
2•littlexsparkee•47m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite open source AI agent implementations?

2•kanodiaashu•47m ago•0 comments

Node.js 18 is being deprecated

https://vercel.com/changelog/node-js-18-is-being-deprecated
1•ananddtyagi•52m ago•0 comments

EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html
42•anigbrowl•53m ago•7 comments

Vibe coding? AI assisted coding? I prefer being an AI micromanager [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gnfOnhC1EA
5•godot•58m ago•0 comments

"Pitch in " Anti-Litter PSA (1973) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sba0GzhZ088
1•petethomas•1h ago•0 comments

Agents Built from Alloys

https://xbow.com/blog/alloy-agents/
2•azhenley•1h ago•0 comments

US EPA cutting workforce by 23%, closing research division

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-epa-cutting-workforce-by-23-closing-research-division-2025-07-18/
15•pseudolus•1h ago•2 comments

I'm Rebelling Against the Algorithm

https://varunraghu.com/im-rebelling-against-the-algorithm/
3•Varun08•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Offical XRP NPM package has been compromised and key stealing malware introduced

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/xrp-supplychain-attack-official-npm-package-infected-with-crypto-stealing-backdoor
55•flxga•2mo ago

Comments

MichealCodes•2mo ago
Cryptocurrency packages used at scale should have wallet decoys setup for early detection of vulnerabilities like this.
nailer•2mo ago
Red teaming this, you’d delay exfiltration of the private key until the balance passes beyond a certain amount and you’re on mainnet.
ohgr•2mo ago
I see the model of "download any old shit off the internet and run it in production" is working out so well.
nailer•2mo ago
I don’t have much opinion of XRP but this is their official package, not a community package.
tobyhinloopen•2mo ago
Fun fact: installing some common starter packages will explode to install over a 1000 npm packages, each of them can inject malware, even if the package isn’t used, and you’ll never know.

Many packages will have over a 100 dependencies if you include the dev dependencies, so you can easily break a 1000.

mouse_•2mo ago
That is a very fun fact.
nailer•2mo ago
Yes that is how dependencies work.
poincaredisk•2mo ago
The crazy part here is that in most other ecosystems 100 dependencies is "crazy high" territory, and in JS it's apparently "we're just getting started". It's known for its approach to micropackaging everything in a separate library.
greatgib•2mo ago
The crazy thing is more that multiple versions of the same package could be installed as dependencies of dependencies...

They were thinking to be the cool kids supporting multiple versions and that the old way to do packaging, like debian and co that expects everyone to use the same version, was the old legacy fart way to do things.

Just, developers before were engineers first and so designed things well especially to avoid this situation of dependency hell and supply chain injection. But the web dev crowd decided to do "better" and now to have old problems as new problems...

nailer•2mo ago
npm design allows multiple versions of the same package if required, but deduplicates otherwise. It’s a smart design that more package managers should and will follow.

Smart developers spend their time working on original code rather than rewriting the wheel.

nailer•2mo ago
Yes. It’s an engineering failure to have multiple copies of the same logic. That isn’t specific to JavaScript.
tough•2mo ago
does the postinstall script step has anything to do with this?

i noticed bun doesn't run them by default unless you whitelist them

koolba•2mo ago
That fetch(…) is sending the mnemonic of the private key out to that remote server.

Interestingly if this is happening in a long running process and that exploit server is offline, the promise for the fetch will reject. And the default behavior for unhandled promise rejections would be for the node process to crash.

So if anybody tried testing this version of the library in a net gapped environment, it would crash and fail out in CI.

The attacker should have silenced the error with a .catch(_ => {}).

mschuster91•2mo ago
> Previously only the packed JavaScript code had been modified.

Honestly it's time for the npm ecosystem to move to a model where only build agents running on npm's own infrastructure can upload binary artifacts, or to mandate reproducible builds.

And for a select set of highly used packages, someone from NPM should be paid to look over each release's changeset.

Both would have massively impeded the attacker.

mindcrash•2mo ago
Official and thorough support for SBOM* within major package repositories can not come sooner.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_supply_chain

abhisek•2mo ago
We run similar npm package monitors. The use of exotic tld domains such as 0x9c.xyz kind of gave it away because YARA Forge rules have native signatures to detect such domains.

It will be interesting t explore how the project got compromised and malicious packages published to the registry.

nailer•2mo ago
.xyz isn’t exotic for blockchains.