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Wally: A fun, reliable voice assistant in the shape of a penguin

https://github.com/JLW-7/Wally
1•PaulHoule•43s ago•0 comments

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rewriting-pycparser-with-the-help-of-an-llm/
1•y1n0•2m ago•0 comments

Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge

https://gist.github.com/MostAwesomeDude/bb8cbfd005a33f5dd262d1f20a63a693
1•tolerance•2m ago•0 comments

E-Commerce vs. Social Commerce

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•3m ago•1 comments

Avoiding Modern C++ – Anton Mikhailov [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSGHb65f3M
1•linkdd•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AegisMind–AI system with 12 brain regions modeled on human neuroscience

https://www.aegismind.app
2•aegismind_app•8m ago•1 comments

Zig – Package Management Workflow Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
1•Retro_Dev•9m ago•0 comments

AI-powered text correction for macOS

https://taipo.app/
1•neuling•13m ago•1 comments

AppSecMaster – Learn Application Security with hands on challenges

https://www.appsecmaster.net/en
1•aqeisi•14m ago•1 comments

Fibonacci Number Certificates

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/05/fibonacci-certificate/
1•y1n0•16m ago•0 comments

AI Overviews are killing the web search, and there's nothing we can do about it

https://www.neowin.net/editorials/ai-overviews-are-killing-the-web-search-and-theres-nothing-we-c...
3•bundie•21m ago•1 comments

City skylines need an upgrade in the face of climate stress

https://theconversation.com/city-skylines-need-an-upgrade-in-the-face-of-climate-stress-267763
3•gnabgib•21m ago•0 comments

1979: The Model World of Robert Symes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmDxmxhrGDc
1•xqcgrek2•26m ago•0 comments

Satellites Have a Lot of Room

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/02/satellites-have-a-lot-of-room/
2•y1n0•26m ago•0 comments

1980s Farm Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_farm_crisis
4•calebhwin•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FSID - Identifier for files and directories (like ISBN for Books)

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/fsid
1•modinfo•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Holy Grail: Open-Source Autonomous Development Agent

https://github.com/dakotalock/holygrailopensource
1•Moriarty2026•39m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game
1•foxiel•46m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Termiteam – Control center for multiple AI agent terminals

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam
1•Netanelbaruch•47m ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
2•rolph•49m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•50m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•52m ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
2•guerrilla•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

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Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•56m ago•0 comments

Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-pr...
3•rolph•56m ago•1 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
2•hhs•59m ago•0 comments

Old Mexico and her lost provinces (1883)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77881/pg77881-images.html
1•petethomas•1h ago•0 comments

'AI' is a dick move, redux

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/
5•cratermoon•1h ago•0 comments

The source code was the moat. But not anymore

https://philipotoole.com/the-source-code-was-the-moat-no-longer/
1•otoolep•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Kexa.io – Open-Source IT Security and Compliance Verification

81•patrick4urcloud•9mo ago
Hi HN,

We're building Kexa.io (https://github.com/kexa-io/Kexa), an open-source tool developed in France (incubated at Euratech Cyber Campus) to help teams automate the often tedious process of verifying IT security and compliance. Keeping track of configurations across diverse assets (servers, K8s, cloud resources) and ensuring they meet security baselines (like CIS benchmarks, etc.) manually is challenging and error-prone.

Our goal with the open-source core is to provide a straightforward way to define checks, scan your assets, and get clear reports on your security posture. You can define your own rules or use common standards.

We are now actively developing our SaaS offering, planned for a beta release around June 2025. The key feature will be an AI-powered security administration agent specifically designed for cloud environments (initially targeting AWS, GCP, Azure). Instead of just reporting issues, this agent will aim to provide proactive, actionable recommendations and potentially automate certain remediation tasks to simplify cloud security management and hardening.

We'd love for the HN community to check out the open-source project on GitHub. Feedback on the concept or the current tool is highly welcome, and a star if you find it interesting helps others discover the project! If the upcoming AI-powered cloud security agent sounds interesting, we'd be particularly keen to hear your thoughts or if you might be interested in joining the beta (~June 2025).

thank you !!

Comments

mrbluecoat•9mo ago
An admittedly superficial comment: what is your logo supposed to be? A mouse? Reminds me of that famous young/old optical illusion: https://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/26745/old-or-young-wom...

Great job on the tool, by the way. Anything to improve the security posture of companies is a good thing!

patrick4urcloud•9mo ago
thanks ! yes it's a mouse looking everywhere :-) ( small, cheap, fast ) see more articles how to use kexa on medium ( kexa ): https://medium.com/@contact_52772
gitroom•9mo ago
this kinda stuff is right up my alley, love when folks make it easier to cut through all the security noise
shooker435•9mo ago
Wow, very cool. Would this replace a Vanta or complement it?
patrick4urcloud•9mo ago
We have to look and study this solution but maybe. We can define in a yaml a set of rules for a project and verify that no changes has been made cross platform with a cicd, docker, kub, script for compliance. we can discuss further on slack if you want.
szarapka•9mo ago
At best it would compliment Vanta.

Vanta handles/automates(ish) the compliance process for actual regulatory frameworks/programs (SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR, etc). From looking at their site/repo for Kexa, they don't have anything specific to this type of compliance.

In theory you could use Kexa to set up rules to help you achieve compliance, but you'd still need a Vanta or something else to help you understand if you're actually compliant with a given framework.

stego-tech•9mo ago
I’m always a fan of automated compliance and vulnerability management tooling - looking forward to giving this a spin at some point.

One bit of UX feedback: your “Offers” page isn’t rendering correctly on my iPhone (14 Pro) device. The text isn’t wrapping, graphics don’t seem to be scaling, and the columns are misaligned.

Once the current network rebuild is done, I’m looking forward to rolling this and Wazuh to try out both.

zufallsheld•9mo ago
Does this work without your SaaS component? Can I run it air-gapped?
sontek•9mo ago
Can you give a brief explanation of the benefits of your policy engine over using cloud custodian?
patrick4urcloud•9mo ago
In kexa policies all cloud properties are json like and mixeable. we can add all addon possible as we use typescript. kexa is based on cloud sdk so properties have same name as cloud provider. Your can easily add addon in typescript in kexa. If you'r wallmart you can create an addon for your on premise cash service mix with your backend in cloud provider and create visualisation in grafana. you can output to webhook , database and ollama (llm) maybe further ?
ziddoap•9mo ago
Looks interesting, and I'll be diving into it a bit deeper, but I just wanted to mention that this quote:

"even non-experts can guarantee the security of their cloud environments"

Even though I understand that this is part of a marketing blurb, not a literal guarantee, it was an immediate yellow-flag for me. No tool can possibly guarantee the security of my cloud environment, so please don't imply/say your tool can. It reminds me of shady VPN companies guaranteeing my security by providing me with "military-grade encryption".

To be abundantly clear, I am not saying that this product is shady or anything -- I have not had the time to evaluate it in the depth needed -- but statements like that make the rest of the pitch an uphill battle. For me, at least.

patrick4urcloud•9mo ago
we provide yaml predefined rules based on CIS benchmark. We will try to upgrade public rules offer to upgrade the security of your cloud environment. maybe this is too much marketing to explain we can check all settings we want in all cloud providers. All the parameters of cloud providers are json like so you can check it different operators and mix them. again we'll be available on slack to discuss further.
edoceo•9mo ago
You're not even responding to the points raised. You're doubling down on the wrong answer.
lurkshark•9mo ago
I have the same concerns on this language but I’m wondering if there might be a slight language barrier issue if English isn’t their first language. They may have meant to use a word like “certify” which I could see translating to “guarantee”. (Pure conjecture based on the fact it sounds like they’re France-based)
jmpavlec•9mo ago
FYI seems like multiple typos in the GitHub description that shows at the top (not in the readme)

Quoting it here:

> Kexa's simple rules (Open Source) make it easy to monitoring and manage alerting of your entire cloud. With various monitoring and alerting options, instant and detailed alerts, easy-to-deploy and low in infrastructure costs, in turns complexity into simplicity.