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Every Failed M4 Gun Replacement Attempt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrnAU67_EWg
1•tomaytotomato•56s ago•0 comments

China ramps up energy boom flagged by Musk as key to AI race

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-china-ramps-energy-boom-flagged.html
1•myk-e•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ClawBox – Dedicated OpenClaw Hardware (Jetson Orin Nano, 67 Tops, 20W)

https://openclawhardware.dev
1•superactro•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: AI never gets flustered, will that make us better as people or worse?

1•keepamovin•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HalalCodeCheck – Verify food ingredients offline

https://halalcodecheck.com/
1•pythonbase•6m ago•0 comments

Student makes cosmic dust in a lab, shining a light on the origin of life

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/science/cosmic-dust-discovery-life-beginnings
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/australian-outback-nuclear-tests-listening-warramunga-faci...
1•defrost•9m ago•0 comments

'Hermès orange' iPhone sparks Apple comeback in China

https://www.ft.com/content/e2d78d04-7368-4b0c-abd5-591c03774c46
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Goxe 19k Logs/S on an I5

https://github.com/DumbNoxx/goxe
1•nxus_dev•10m ago•1 comments

The async builder pattern in Rust

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/async-finalizers/
1•fanf2•11m ago•0 comments

(Golang) Self referential functions and the design of options

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/01/self-referential-functions-and-design.html
1•hambes•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Model Training Memory Simulator

https://czheo.github.io/2026/02/08/model-training-memory-simulator/
1•czheo•14m ago•0 comments

Claude Code Controller

https://github.com/The-Vibe-Company/claude-code-controller
1•shidhincr•18m ago•0 comments

Software design is now cheap

https://dottedmag.net/blog/cheap-design/
1•dottedmag•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Are You Random? – A game that predicts your "random" choices

https://github.com/OvidijusParsiunas/are-you-random
1•ovisource•23m ago•0 comments

Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-probe-possible-links-between-epstein-russia-pm-tusk-says-202...
1•doener•31m ago•0 comments

Effectiveness of AI detection tools in identifying AI-generated articles

https://www.ijoms.com/article/S0901-5027(26)00025-1/fulltext
2•XzetaU8•37m ago•0 comments

Warsaw Circle

https://wildtopology.com/bestiary/warsaw-circle/
1•hackandthink•38m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
1•pacod•43m ago•0 comments

The AI4Agile Practitioners Report 2026

https://age-of-product.com/ai4agile-practitioners-report-2026/
1•swolpers•44m ago•0 comments

Digital Independence Day

https://di.day/
1•pabs3•48m ago•0 comments

What a bot hacking attempt looks like: SQL injections galore

https://old.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1qz3a7y/what_a_bot_hacking_attempt_looks_like_i_set_up/
1•cryptoz•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FlashMesh – An encrypted file mesh across Google Drive and Dropbox

https://flashmesh.netlify.app
1•Elevanix•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AgentLens – Open-source observability and audit trail for AI agents

https://github.com/amitpaz1/agentlens
1•amit_paz•51m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ShipClaw – Deploy OpenClaw to the Cloud in One Click

https://shipclaw.app
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1•azamsayeedit•55m ago•1 comments

Explanation of British Class System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob1zWfnXI70
1•lifeisstillgood•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jwtpeek – minimal, user-friendly JWT inspector in Go

https://github.com/alesr/jwtpeek
1•alesrdev•59m ago•0 comments

Willow – Protocols for an uncertain future [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CVGZAV-willow/
1•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

Feedback on a client-side, privacy-first PDF editor I built

https://pdffreeeditor.com/
1•Maaz-Sohail•1h ago•0 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.