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Pony Alpha: New free 200K context model for coding, reasoning and roleplay

https://ponyalpha.pro
1•qzcanoe•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tunbot – Discord bot for temporary Cloudflare tunnels behind CGNAT

https://github.com/Goofygiraffe06/tunbot
1•g1raffe•7m ago•0 comments

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16496
1•vinhnx•12m ago•0 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
1•rolph•17m ago•0 comments

Dexter: Claude-Code-Style Agent for Financial Statements and Valuation

https://github.com/virattt/dexter
1•Lwrless•18m ago•0 comments

Digital Iris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
1•vermilingua•23m ago•0 comments

Essential CDN: The CDN that lets you do more than JavaScript

https://essentialcdn.fluidity.workers.dev/
1•telui•24m ago•1 comments

They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
1•cedel2k1•28m ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
22•chwtutha•28m ago•2 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/06/hrl-labs-cuts-376-jobs-in-malibu-after-losing-government-work/
2•osnium123•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
2•jeremy_su•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•33m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

1•kachapopopow•38m ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•40m ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•51m ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
2•thread_id•52m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•54m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
3•cwwc•56m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•57m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•58m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•59m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
2•ark296•59m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
2•medbar•1h ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•1h ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
2•akagusu•1h ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•1h ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•1h ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•1h ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

North Korean XORIndex malware hidden in 67 malicious NPM packages

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-xorindex-malware-hidden-in-67-malicious-npm-packages/
31•Bogdanp•6mo ago

Comments

bn-l•6mo ago
It’s weird how an npm package can just do all this still, to this day.
Bridged7756•6mo ago
Given the size of the JavaScript ecosystem, it is indeed baffling how behind npm is. One npm i and a typo away from getting hacked.
owebmaster•6mo ago
I "got" hacked by a North Korean hacker. I was lucky the dumb virus was meant for Mac and Windows, not Linux. It got installed to my computer but attempted to steal credentials in places there did not exist in my computer, but it was a close call.

After that I never used npm again.

braebo•6mo ago
How did you know? Now I’m worried I’ve been hacked a billion times testing npm packages just today.
owebmaster•6mo ago
> How did you know?

A recruiter profile disappeared from my inbox in linkedin after I sent a PR to a github project for a an interview so I got suspicious and checked if there was any unrecognized open connection usng `lsof -nPi | grep ESTABLISHED` and there was one, found the script, read it to see what it did - tried to steal crypto and browser credentials.

To be sure it did not install other stuff I could not find I did a full reinstall of the OS. Now I don't use npm ever again.

hulitu•6mo ago
> How did you know?

He installed npm, pypy and cargo. /s

hollerith•6mo ago
Do you use apps built on Electron? The npm packages chosen for inclusion in the app are not sandboxed in any way IIUC (at least on Linux that is the case).

Some security people are warning against Electron (at least on Linux):

https://github.com/secureblue/secureblue/issues/193#issuecom...

owebmaster•6mo ago
Yeah. Only Codium (VSCode fork) tho and now that I thought about it, time to stop using it.
cyanydeez•6mo ago
North korea and others are likely going if not already, setup an uno reverso and get applicants to do screening tests that require downloading malicious packages.
leggomuhgreggo•6mo ago
It must be "sanctions renewal" season!

The vipers in the big nest need a bunch of trash cyber security media to premise renewal of sanctions against DPRK.

Bless our patriotic vipers, and their white hat hackers/influencers.