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1•hiddenarchitect•3m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•3m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
2•mltvc•8m 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•8m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•9m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
1•SchwKatze•9m ago•0 comments

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

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•10m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
1•guerrilla•11m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator Founder Organizes 'March for Billionaires'

https://mlq.ai/news/ai-startup-founder-organizes-march-for-billionaires-protest-against-californi...
1•hidden80•12m ago•1 comments

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

1•Yogender78•12m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

https://thebiggish.com/news/openclaw-s-security-flaws-expose-enterprise-risk-22-of-deployments-un...
1•vedantnair•13m 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•13m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
3•vedantnair•14m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•fanf2•15m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

https://akiraux.vercel.app/
1•s4074433•19m ago•1 comments

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•21m ago•0 comments

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

2•amichail•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•29m ago•2 comments

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

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•30m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•30m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•32m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•33m 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•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design system generator (mood to CSS in <1 second)

https://huesly.app
1•egeuysall•34m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 26/02/26 – 5 songs in a day

https://playingwith.variousbits.net/saturday
1•dmje•35m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/Paraxiom/topological-coherence
1•slye514•37m 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•37m ago•2 comments

The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/
1•NaOH•38m 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•42m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/dchrty/glimpsh
1•dochrty•42m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

DOGE might be storing every American's SSN on an insecure cloud server

https://www.theverge.com/news/785706/doge-insecure-cloud-server-social-security-numbers
62•text0404•4mo ago

Comments

amanaplanacanal•4mo ago
I assume everybody's SSN has been leaked at one time or another by now.
kccoder•4mo ago
Which means we no longer need to store and handle them securely, right? Can I have yours?
amanaplanacanal•4mo ago
You can probably look it up online if you really want to, since it was already leaked.
icedchai•4mo ago
Mine was leaked several times. At least once by the government itself. See https://iapp.org/news/a/21-5-million-breached-in-second-opm-... for example.
bhhaskin•4mo ago
SSNs where never meant to be secret. It's an ID not a password. You can thank banks and credit card companies for treating them like a verification system.
calvinmorrison•4mo ago
I have stored every americans ssn in a text file, you can too!

seq -w 0 999999999 | sed -E 's/^([0-9]{3})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{4})$/\1 \2 \3/' | awk '{ area=$1+0; group=$2; serial=$3 if (area==0 || area==666 || area>=900) next if (group=="00" || serial=="0000") next printf "%03d-%02s-%04s\n", area, group, serial }'

DoNotMindMe•4mo ago
I'm sure they are talking about a database that only contains the numbers and no other identifying information directly linked to those numbers.
collingreen•4mo ago
What is the point of this kind of reply? To try to diminish the impression of the severity? To distract? To just make reading the contents slightly worse for everyone?

It's so clearly not the point of the db in the article that there is no chance anyone reads this and thinks it is the same thing the article is referencing. Is this just really low quality trolling?

gdbsjjdn•4mo ago
For people who don't read TFA:

> In addition to SSNs, the database reportedly includes Americans’ place and date of birth, work permit status, and parents’ names

This is quite a bit more information than just a number.

JdeBP•4mo ago
The actual report text identifies the uploaded database as "NUMIDENT".

A quick shufti turned up https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=5057 which states that "NUMIDENT" includes things like "mother's maiden name". Other sources imply that the signatures from SSN application forms (form SS-5) are stored here.

Normal methods of access to this database seem to include "NOVU" (https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/numident-online-verificatio...).

ChrisArchitect•4mo ago
Actual article: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/dems/peters-report-finds-...
JdeBP•4mo ago
Which was submitted directly and flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377439
JdeBP•4mo ago
That 65% figure in the press release has an interesting origin. It seemed oddly specific to me, so I had a look.

In the actual report main text, it says that the risk is between 35% and 65%, but does not explain the calculation, if any, that results in those numbers.

It's not until one reaches Appendix A that one finds that this really means that it has been assigned a value of 3 on a scale of 1 to 5, meaning "medium risk", and the value 3 is arbitrarily assigned that percentage range, originating with the U.S.A. FDA's Office of Information Security, where "low risk" (2) is similarly 10% to 35% and "very low risk" (1) is less than 10%.