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Fibonacci Number Certificates

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/05/fibonacci-certificate/
1•y1n0•1m 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...
2•bundie•6m ago•0 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•7m ago•0 comments

1979: The Model World of Robert Symes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmDxmxhrGDc
1•xqcgrek2•11m 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•12m ago•0 comments

1980s Farm Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_farm_crisis
3•calebhwin•12m ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/fsid
1•modinfo•18m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/dakotalock/holygrailopensource
1•Moriarty2026•25m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game
1•foxiel•32m ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam
1•Netanelbaruch•32m ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
2•rolph•35m ago•1 comments

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

1•solarisos•35m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•37m ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
2•guerrilla•39m ago•0 comments

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

1•Ginsabo•40m ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•41m 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•41m ago•1 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
2•hhs•45m ago•0 comments

Old Mexico and her lost provinces (1883)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77881/pg77881-images.html
1•petethomas•48m ago•0 comments

'AI' is a dick move, redux

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/
5•cratermoon•49m 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•49m ago•0 comments

Does anyone else feel like their inbox has become their job?

1•cfata•49m ago•1 comments

An AI model that can read and diagnose a brain MRI in seconds

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/ai-model-can-read-and-diagnose-brain-mri-seconds
2•hhs•53m ago•0 comments

Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about?

2•vampiregrey•55m ago•0 comments

AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•56m ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/february/scientists-discover--levitating--t...
3•hhs•58m ago•0 comments

Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VReIuv1GFo
1•erickhill•59m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

5•Philpax•59m ago•1 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
2•cui•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Contabo Security Defaults Encourage Using SSH Passwords

https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/09/12/contabo-defaults-encourage-using-ssh-passwords/
10•ddxv•4mo ago

Comments

ddxv•4mo ago
My recent thoughts when trying Contabo for the first time.
PaulKeeble•4mo ago
When I used Contabo I had to harden this aspect immediately. Stopped root logins and passwords and made a separate user with a key. Its a really bad default setup from a security point of view.

I had issues with performance as well. I could never explain why I couldn't utilise the bandwidth fully it would only work in very short bursts and very quickly was throttling the connection. The problem is the workload I had I needed that peak bandwidth once every 2 weeks for a day and then it would mostly be idle and all of the usage was outside of peak but still the bandwidth got throttled consistently and I moved to netcup.

ddxv•4mo ago
Yeah, I saw they have the typical note that they reserve the right to throttle any CPU/traffic as needed. But I guess if they don't have sophisticated rules for throttling they have both edge cases like yours where they are overly strict and still other loopholes that can be abused.
hobobaggins•4mo ago
Too bad Userify is too expensive for a lot of VPS-style projects (free for less than five instances, but we blow through that pretty fast most of the time)
sam_lowry_•4mo ago
Fear of passwords is some kind of cargo cult nowadays.

Irrational and exploited by vested interests.

ddxv•4mo ago
Hmm, I don't know if I agree, but I'm open to hearing more. The public/private keys (which means you can copy past them in chats/emails) is pretty useful.

Also, what do you mean by 'exploited by vested interests'? You think keys are pushed by some organization exploiting them?

TheNewsIsHere•4mo ago
I wonder if they’re conflating the push for FIDO2 credentials as Passkeys with the general problems of using passwords.

Passwords are perfectly fine in theory. It’s when you put humans in the loop that they become a headache.

ASalazarMX•4mo ago
> The public/private keys (which means you can copy past them in chats/emails)

God please don't do that to private keys, you might as well just copy a password and save some work.

ddxv•4mo ago
No, of course not. The reference to pasting a public key into an email is in reference to Contabo asking that we copy paste our ip/username/password over email for them to 'troubleshoot'. If the server had been setup with public keys and they really needed our help to access at least they could have just sent their own public key safely over email.