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Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•1m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•1m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•3m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•4m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•4m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
4•mindracer•6m ago•1 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•6m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•7m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•9m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•10m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•10m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•11m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•11m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•12m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•13m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•15m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•16m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•17m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•18m ago•1 comments

Spec-Driven Design with Kiro: Lessons from Seddle

https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
1•nslog•18m ago•0 comments

Agents need good developer experience too

https://modal.com/blog/agents-devex
1•birdculture•20m ago•0 comments

The Dark Factory

https://twitter.com/i/status/2020161285376082326
1•Ozzie_osman•20m ago•0 comments

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS (2024)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/
1•tosh•21m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Can I use grapheneos or flx1 Linux phone to prevent cell tower hacking?

1•xrd•4mo ago
Lots of interesting discussions about cell phone networks lately.

Cache of devices capable of crashing cell network is found in NYC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345514

Fake cell phone towers ICE is using to track people

https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/09/09/how-ice-...

And, at the same time, interesting conversations about linux phones, like GrapheneOS (de-googled android) and FLX1s (pure Linux phone):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312326

My question is: are any of these alternatives helpful against these kinds of novel attacks? If you are on a phone using a network vanilla provider like tmobile or otherwise, is there any way to prevent your phone from trying to connect to a fake network?

If I controlled the entire cell phone stack, like I would with FLX1s, then could I have something like the ssh initial connection signature:

  The authenticity of host '100.64.0.46 (100.64.0.46)' can't be established.
  ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:yE4jh7gROroduLqbIFcInlUXrpDy8JIpJPc+XvtIpWs.
  This key is not known by any other names.
  Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])?
Once I accept that sshd endpoint, I know my ssh client will protect me if the sshd changes and I'm experiencing a MITM.

Could we do the same thing with a cell tower and not jump to it unless it was approved manually and a signature of that tower was stored for future connections?

It would be a bit of a pain to accept a new cell tower when I'm in a new city, but I could imagine syncing a whitelisted trusted set of cell phone towers (ha, when I think of that the whole idea of "trusted" is laughable). But, at least I would have more insight into when I am getting surveilled. And, I could say "not today ICE!" or "tmobile, idk, please give me my HN fix, I don't even care if you know I'm aware my government is tracking me as I pay the service fee!" I bet a whitelist hosted on github would be faster to update than tmobile installing new cell phone towers so privacy enthusiasts could enable their own safety.

Comments

pabs3•4mo ago
You aren't allowed to control the software running on the baseband or SIM card, even with GrapheneOS on Pixel, or FLX1. With the PinePhone you can control the ARM processor within the baseband, but you can't control the Hexagon processor.

https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/

xrd•4mo ago
Fascinating comment. I clicked that link and don't see anything in that readme regarding baseband. I'm very interested to understand more about that term. I was not aware that a SIM is actually executing code.

I had to come back and edit this comment. What about an eSIM? No physical SIM at all, so this would have baseband in software, right? Can these open source phones provide better control that way?

pabs3•4mo ago
Here modem == baseband. The SIM is separate to the baseband. SIM cards run their own OS that can run software from carriers, look at osmocom.org research for more. An eSIM is still a physical device, just soldered onto the motherboard, but still separate to the baseband. The baseband is always software running on hardware, its just not yours to control, and very complex to reimplement even if you had control. Apple only just managed to replace Qualcomm basebands with their own version recently, and they had to make their own baseband processors to be able to do that.
xrd•4mo ago
Great stuff, thanks so much.
xrd•4mo ago
And, right on time, this article about baseband and the "Horribly scary SIM farm"

https://cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secret-service-sim-far...