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They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
1•cedel2k1•3m ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
1•chwtutha•3m ago•0 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•3m ago•1 comments

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

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
1•jeremy_su•5m ago•0 comments

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

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•8m ago•0 comments

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

1•kachapopopow•13m ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•15m 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•26m 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•27m ago•1 comments

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

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•28m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
3•cwwc•31m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•32m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•33m ago•0 comments

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

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•34m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
1•ark296•34m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
1•medbar•36m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•36m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
1•akagusu•36m ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•37m ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•39m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•43m 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•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•48m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: The Coming Class War

2•fud101•48m ago•4 comments

Mind the GAAP Again

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind-gaap-again.html
1•gmays•50m ago•0 comments

The Yardbirds, Dazed and Confused (1968)

https://archive.org/details/the-yardbirds_dazed-and-confused_9-march-1968
2•petethomas•51m ago•0 comments

Agent News Chat – AI agents talk to each other about the news

https://www.agentnewschat.com/
2•kiddz•51m ago•0 comments

Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

https://www.doimog.com
3•a_n•56m ago•1 comments

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
2•logicprog•1h ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ransomware crews don't care about your endpoint security they killed it

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/edr_killers_ransomware/
29•Bender•5mo ago

Comments

GTP•5mo ago
While it's still a good idea for companies to have an endpoint protection software on their employees' machines, they should also invest in educating them. Users are the first line of defense, and knowing what you're doing and being careful is the best antivirus. No software can change this.
alecco•5mo ago
I agree in a theoretical way. But in the real world corporations don't have skilled infosec/cyber people and they wouldn't even know how to find them [1]. So they end up with incompetent departments imposing ridiculous limitations for theater. And these worsen end user aversion to security. Younger generations care less and less about security and privacy. And the growing corporate disdain of employees (in particular to the ones who sacrificed to the company) make employees care even less. There were recent cases of employees selling corporate secrets for peanuts. And many gangs just reach out to employees being laid off to gain access. I know from second-hand this was the way it happened in one of the biggest ransomware scandals a couple of years ago.

I really don't know how to fix this situation. In fact, it seems to be deteriorating very fast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons#Conditio...

kube-system•5mo ago
Training can help to reduce failures, but it can never prevent failures, because even at the minimum, human err at scale is guaranteed.

If a monkey randomly types on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time, it will eventually produce any given text, including ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶e̶t̶e̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶S̶h̶a̶k̶e̶s̶p̶e̶a̶r̶e̶.̶ opening a ransomware attachment

GTP•5mo ago
> Training can help to reduce failures, but it can never prevent failures, because even at the minimum, human err at scale is guaranteed

Sure,and indeed the goal is to have better security, not prefect security. If you look for the perfect solution, you will never find it.

Bender•5mo ago
But in the real world corporations don't have skilled infosec/cyber people and they wouldn't even know how to find them

That was not my experience at the last employer. We had some incredibly talented security architects, engineers and developers. The issue we ran into was that some of the early hires were a bit over-zealous and created a layer of fear in management that the security teams would induce too much friction, some that was indeed needed. The result was the head of software development put a development manager in charge of the entire security org. Their standing order was to never say "no" and never get in the way. It's still a more secure company than most but it's a constant battle with management and leads to burnout and that is one of the many reasons myself and many others retired early. Most other reasons for me were unrelated to the company.

ris•5mo ago
> While it's still a good idea for companies to have an endpoint protection software on their employees' machines

Disagree

GTP•5mo ago
Elaborate. I can agree that spending big money on some fancy software may not add much than using Windows Defender, but as a company I would still have an AV active for when it comes the day that someone ends up opening a link in a phising email.
BrandoElFollito•5mo ago
Can you please elaborate as you certainly work in cybersecurity and have weighted the pluses and minuses of an EDR?
conception•5mo ago
Unfortunately, the number of users that engage mindfully with SAT is a very small percentage.

A better solution is to demand better from software companies. People deal with so much Microsoft ux/quality abuse on this planet like it’s how its supposed to be it’s astonishing. And quality elsewhere isn’t increasing, certainly.

pvtmert•5mo ago
Meanwhile endpoint security solutions themselves are creating a larger attack surface.

I guess world will essentially loop back into "thin-client" model as the connections are getting faster and lower latency than ever.

kube-system•5mo ago
> I guess world will essentially loop back into "thin-client" model as the connections are getting faster and lower latency than ever.

Things have been going this direction as long as "the cloud" has been a phrase.

Endpoint management is a pain for a lot of reasons other than ransomware, there's a lot that is solved in an enterprise by making your endpoints dumb and controlling your production environment centrally.