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Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

1•throwaw12•49s ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•2m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•5m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
2•myk-e•7m ago•3 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•8m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•10m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•12m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•14m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•16m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•21m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•23m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•26m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•40m ago•0 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•41m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•54m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•57m ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•1h ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•1h ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•1h ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•1h ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
4•throwaw12•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
1•everettjf•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Omni-BLAS – 4x faster matrix multiplication via Monte Carlo sampling

https://github.com/AleatorAI/OMNI-BLAS
1•LowSpecEng•1h ago•1 comments

The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game...
1•lifeisstillgood•1h ago•0 comments

AI Agent Automates Google Stock Analysis from Financial Reports

https://pardusai.org/view/54c6646b9e273bbe103b76256a91a7f30da624062a8a6eeb16febfe403efd078
1•JasonHEIN•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/disney-worker-prison-hacking.html
24•jseip•9mo ago

Comments

mattl•9mo ago
Changing prices and adding profanity is one thing but when you alter the allergens on a menu you put people’s lives at risk.
sega_sai•9mo ago
From the article: "None of the changes, including falsified information about food allergens that could have been harmful to visitors, ever appeared before the public, according to court records."
EA-3167•9mo ago
It was caught through review, and the defense claimed that he knew that would be the case and therefore he put no one at risk. I'd argue that systems can fail, review can fail, and if that happened people could have died. Giving him credit for that seems absurd, and his claim that he just wanted attention is equally absurd. If you just want attention the profanity and price changes would achieve that.

Regardless he wasn't convicted of any crime related to potential harm to customers, he was convicted for hacking and identity theft.

SoftTalker•9mo ago
And probably only because Disney was his target and could pay a technical team unlimited money to investigate and spoon-feed the FBI and prosecutor everything they needed. A smaller chain or independent bar/restaurant would not have even gotten the time of day with a complaint about someone changing prices on a menu. And they would have been the ones in court defending any claims of injury due to undisclosed allergens, with only a vague claim of "our menu must have been hacked."
sokoloff•9mo ago
> he just wanted attention

Achievement unlocked.

erickhill•9mo ago
This is a dupe of an earlier submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811864
shadowgovt•9mo ago
What credentials / access did he use to get into Disney's system after he was terminated?
squiffsquiff•9mo ago
Scheuer allegedly went into action quickly following his termination, and by early July was said to have used his work credentials, which still functioned after his termination, to access the menu creation system Disney contracted another company to create and change all the fonts in the system to wingdings symbols.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/30/fired_disney_employee...

shadowgovt•9mo ago
Okay. So while jail is probably appropriate given the potential threat of harm if nobody had reviewed the menus prior to their publication with the allergens stripped...

The tech community should not let Disney off the hook for failing to scrub the access credentials of a terminated employee. Because the law can punish one actor, but if the attack vector is still open, the public isn't safe from future more subtle incidents of menu manipulation (or other similar attacks by other disgruntled employees).

Is there any information on what Disney did after this incident to prevent another Scheuer in the future? The root of the attack is that the sFTP system was accessible via "credentials [that] were non-individualized, not specific to a particular user, and available for use by multiple employees with administrative access."

(I'm also a little unclear on whether this was all owned by Disney proper or they were farming this out to a third-party service provider company and that company screwed up. With so many entertainment venues in such a small area, Orlando is positively shot through with high-volume, hyper-focused service provider companies that do stuff like this).

IAmBroom•9mo ago
Yes! Disney should be more worried about their HR/IT practices, than one lone angry ex-employee.

And by worried, I mean: correcting lax or missing practices, not punishing scapegoats.

b8•9mo ago
The restitution seems too high. He probably was fired for going on mat leave as other companies have shown to do and wanted payback. The "unspecified misconduct" firing reason seems weird and they won't expand on it.
IAmBroom•9mo ago
"Probably".

Internet Experts(tm) are also telepaths.

We have no idea, and since his retaliation involved vandalism that could potentially harm bystanders, I'm going to go out on a limb and say... I have no idea why he was fired.

geor9e•9mo ago
Disney is quite famous for its strict allergen handling, to the point where people with deadly allergies who don't trust eating out anywhere else make an exception for Disney restaurants. So, were it not for this mass murder attempt, he probably would have gotten off a lot more lightly for some mischief charges.