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1•mltvc•2m ago•0 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•3m ago•0 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•3m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
1•SchwKatze•3m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

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1•duggan•4m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
1•guerrilla•6m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator Founder Organizes 'March for Billionaires'

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1•hidden80•6m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Need feedback on the idea I'm working on

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OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

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1•vedantnair•7m ago•0 comments

Apple finalizes Gemini / Siri deal

https://www.engadget.com/ai/apple-reportedly-plans-to-reveal-its-gemini-powered-siri-in-february-...
1•vedantnair•7m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
2•vedantnair•8m ago•0 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: high-performance TRAMP back end using MsgPack-RPC

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
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Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

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"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

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1•rbanffy•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts?

2•amichail•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

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Show HN: Steam Daily – A Wordle-like daily puzzle game for Steam fans

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1•itshellboy•25m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•25m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•26m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•27m ago•0 comments

Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-crosstalk-cells-pathogens-evade-drugs.html
2•PaulHoule•28m ago•0 comments

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Toroidal Logit Bias – Reduce LLM hallucinations 40% with no fine-tuning

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1•slye514•31m ago•1 comments

Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-failed-test-on-remote-freelance-jobs/
5•codexon•31m ago•2 comments

The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/
1•NaOH•32m ago•0 comments

Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
2•birdculture•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: a glimpse into the future of eye tracking for multi-agent use

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1•dochrty•37m ago•0 comments

The Optima-l Situation: A deep dive into the classic humanist sans-serif

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2•subdomain•37m ago•1 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/
1•fintler•37m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Num2words PyPI Package Compromised

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/supply-chain-security-alert-num2words-pypi-package-shows-signs-of-compromise
22•varunsharma07•6mo ago

Comments

varunsharma07•6mo ago
Popular Python Package num2words v0.5.15 Published Without Repository Tag, Linked to Known Threat Actor
vdupras•6mo ago
What a blast from the past, I created that library, what more than a decade ago? How simpler the world was back then. This was used by nobody except us for our little shitty use case. How noisy this project has become!
arjvik•6mo ago
who currently has control over the package on PyPI? wondering how it was compromised
vdupras•6mo ago
I have no idea, it hasn't been me for years.
tardyp•6mo ago
New maintainers never bothered to change the range.. History num2words is based on an old library, pynum2word, created by Taro Ogawa in 2003. Unfortunately, the library stopped being maintained and the author can't be reached. There was another developer, Marius Grigaitis, who in 2011 added Lithuanian support, but didn't take over maintenance of the project.

I am thus basing myself on Marius Grigaitis' improvements and re-publishing pynum2word as num2words.

Virgil Dupras, Savoir-faire Linux

zahlman•6mo ago
> The compromise was first identified through several concerning indicators:

> Missing Repository Tag: Unlike previous releases, version 0.5.15 was published to PyPI without a corresponding tag in the official GitHub repository at https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/num2words/tags

> Timing Discrepancy: The package appeared on PyPI without any associated commits or release activities in the source repository

> Community Alert: Security researcher @johnk3r quickly raised the alarm on social media, warning the community about potential compromise

This is one of the AI "tells" that I find especially strange. It doesn't just overuse these bullet-point lists; it puts things in the list that clearly don't belong.

The "community alert", of course, is not a "concerning indicator" that was used to identify the compromise.

But if you take that out, "several" is a strange way to describe "two", and the whole thing would clearly be better written as free-form prose.