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Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
1•mindracer•58s ago•0 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•1m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•1m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
1•captainnemo729•2m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•4m ago•0 comments

Japanese rice is the most expensive in the world

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/travel/this-is-the-worlds-most-expensive-rice-but-what-does-it-tas...
1•mooreds•4m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•4m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•5m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•5m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
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Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
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Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
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Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•10m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•10m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•11m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
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Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

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Spec-Driven Design with Kiro: Lessons from Seddle

https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
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Agents need good developer experience too

https://modal.com/blog/agents-devex
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The Dark Factory

https://twitter.com/i/status/2020161285376082326
1•Ozzie_osman•14m ago•0 comments

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS (2024)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/
1•tosh•15m ago•0 comments

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
1•alwillis•16m ago•0 comments

Prejudice Against Leprosy

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-108321
1•hi41•17m ago•0 comments

Slint: Cross Platform UI Library

https://slint.dev/
1•Palmik•21m ago•0 comments

AI and Education: Generative AI and the Future of Critical Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PvscqGD24
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Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•22m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Reverse engineering Twitter's new WASM-based "X-XP-Forwarded-For" antibot header

17•dsekz•8mo ago
Twitter/X recently added a new header called X-XP-Forwarded-For, generated and encrypted by their own WASM-based fingerprinting system. This repo breaks down the entire flow: https://github.com/dsekz/twitter-x-xp-forwarded-for-header

Comments

Raed667•8mo ago
so the encryption is pretty much hardcoded making it more like an "obfuscation" ?
dsekz•8mo ago
You’re right. In this case, just knowing the guest_id is enough to break down the header. Twitter’s main goal here is mostly to obfuscate the data and make the reverse engineering process more painful.
seventh12•8mo ago
Reversing will always win
dsekz•8mo ago
In its current state, the protections are pretty weak. I’m sure they’ll update it, and we’ll see what changes they bring. If this header is meant to serve as an anti-bot measure, then there’s a lot more work they need to do both on the JS and WASM sides. On top of that, processing fingerprint data on the backend, like building user/fingerprint profiles, analyzing detailed browser, device and low level connection info, and using AI to spot patterns, makes the system a lot more complex. However, based on the current implementation, I anticipate they’ll likely stick to a relatively simplistic approach.