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1•surprisetalk•1m ago•0 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
2•TheCraiggers•2m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
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Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
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MyFlames: Visualize MySQL query execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
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https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
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A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
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Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

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Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

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Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
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The Greater Copenhagen Region could be your friend's next career move

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Do Not Confirm – Fiction by OpenClaw

https://thedailymolt.substack.com/p/do-not-confirm
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The Analytical Profile of Peas

https://www.fossanalytics.com/en/news-articles/more-industries/the-analytical-profile-of-peas
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Hallucinations in GPT5 – Can models say "I don't know" (June 2025)

https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/llm-eval-hallucinations-t20-cricket/
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What AI is good for, according to developers

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/what-ai-is-actually-good-for-according-to-developers/
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OpenAI might pivot to the "most addictive digital friend" or face extinction

https://twitter.com/lebed2045/status/2020184853271167186
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ClawdBot Ordered Me Lunch

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What the News media thinks about your Indian stock investments

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Running Lua on a tiny console from 2001

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Google and Microsoft Paying Creators $500K+ to Promote AI Tools

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https://seedanceai.me/
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https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
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Django scales. Stop blaming the framework (part 1 of 3)

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Malwarebytes Is Now in ChatGPT

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3•Keyframe•28m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test

https://www.ccc.de/en/disclosure/collins-aerospace-mit-test-test-textnachrichten-bis-ins-cockpit-senden
99•hacka22•3mo ago

Comments

constantcrying•3mo ago
Well, this is just standard Aerospace grade software. I would be surprised if you could find a single controller in an airplane without some trivial login credentials.

Exposing software like that to the internet is of course a completely insane step.

Jtsummers•3mo ago
> Well, this is just standard Aerospace grade software.

This is a groundside problem, and perhaps it is insane to have it exposed to the open internet but it's not on the aircraft. It needs to be exposed to some network because the intent is that fleet controllers (airlines, or in this case Navy) use it to reach out to their aircraft wherever they may be.

That said, it absolutely fits the quality I've come to expect from IT systems developed by aerospace and defense companies.

2OEH8eoCRo0•3mo ago
It meets all requirements! /s
zppln•3mo ago
Aerospace have been dealing with /safety/ for a long time, /security/ is another matter...
deepsun•3mo ago
Nowadays it's actually hard to not connect anything to internet. Better (and easier) to assume it's connected.
sumnole•3mo ago
> Well, this is just standard Aerospace grade software

Can't be further from the truth. DOD software is given huge budgets where it's not surprising to see 3 separate teams performing QA for one software milestone. It's one of the few sectors that still plan software upfront waterfall style and implement strict procedures for traceability, change management, etc. Who else is using formal methods or safety critical stacks like ADA/Spark?

Jtsummers•3mo ago
> Who else is using formal methods or safety critical stacks like ADA/Spark?

This is not actually as common as many people seem to believe. The mandate died almost two decades ago. DOD aircraft fly on Fortran, JOVIAL, C, and C++ more than Ada. And DOD IT systems are a clusterfuck.

> It's one of the few sectors that still plan software upfront waterfall style

That's not the good thing you seem to think it is.

Also, why do you call it ADA? It's not an acronym. Amusingly, SPARK is, or was, and you write it as "Spark". It originally stood for "SPADE Ada Kernel" and the language continues to be stylized as SPARK.

sumnole•3mo ago
Pedantics aside, not much reasoning against quality. Perhaps I've lucked out, but I've worked in many sectors and do not at all agree with sentiment here about DOD software quality. There is significant formal investment/research in DOD to improve operations, including taking the best of practices in commercial. In my experience, the worst of software is written by teams with little experience improvising under Agile and taking on tech debt with no time/resources to get things done the right way.
Jtsummers•3mo ago
Can you point to a successful Waterfall project? A multi-million or billion dollar, 3+ year software development effort where a team figured out all the requirements correctly before writing a single line of code. Where they wrote every line of code correctly before testing it. And where testing was so spectacularly successful that they didn't have to go back and renegotiate the project requirements or dates to get extensions or reduced project scope.

If you can do this, then I might believe you about Waterfall being the best approach out there.

Right now your counter example is "teams with little experience" which is not much of an argument. Teams with little experience fail all the time, because they are inexperienced. Give them a $100 million Waterfall project to plan and execute over 3+ years and their failure would be even more spectacular.

ghc•3mo ago
I just attended a DoD "Scrum of Scrums" meeting.

> In my experience, the worst of software is written by teams with little experience improvising under Agile and taking on tech debt with no time/resources to get things done the right way.

Sounds like every DoD software project I've worked on for the past 5 years.

constantcrying•3mo ago
You have to be kidding! Have you worked on any of these projects?

I wrote DO-178 Software, literally every single project I ever worked on has trivial login credentials.

>DOD software is given huge budgets where it's not surprising to see 3 separate teams performing QA for one software milestone. It's one of the few sectors that still plan software upfront waterfall style and implement strict procedures for traceability, change management, etc. Who else is using formal methods or safety critical stacks like ADA/Spark?

None of this matters or contradicts what I said. You will be able to get into it with user:root password:root or some variation. In all likelihood you will even find a requirement for this, which is of course verified.

If you apply the methodology practiced to a web application, the OP is exactly what you will get.

ghc•3mo ago
LOL
Jtsummers•3mo ago
You know, maybe you're right. It's possible that entire comment was meant as a joke. Poe's Law strikes again?
ghc•3mo ago
As someone who lives the DoD software delivery process on a day-to-day basis, it's too on the nose to not be satire. Everything is _exactly_ wrong, even the waterfall part (everything's "agile" now!).

Edit: Never mind! I just saw their other comment and it seems more like they are blissfully ignorant of the reality on the ground.

downrightmike•3mo ago
root:root
cactacea•3mo ago
Interesting choice of tail number and date... https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accid...
netsharc•3mo ago
Looks like the PDF is just to show what the messaging interface looks like, and what they've found as a publicly available screenshot is from the crash report involving that plane.

If they logged in, took a screenshot, and published that (even if lots of things are blurred), there's probably more attack surface for some three-letter-agency to bust down their doors and disappear them...

psunavy03•3mo ago
I'll take "things that happen in movies a lot more than in real life" for $600 please.
avs733•3mo ago
I would guess it limits their ability to be accused of anythign to pick a plane, flight, and time that meets at least three criteria:

1) no passengers on board - you can't be accussed of endangering passengers

2) long past - you can't be accused of anything that happened recently

3) the plan literally no longer exists - you can't be accussed of damaging a plane

tantalor•3mo ago
> RTX did not respond to our vulnerability report

I guess they mean you should sell the vulnerability to highest bidder instead of reporting? Weird choice.

tjr•3mo ago
Unfortunately, RTX did not respond to our vulnerability report. The account was disabled.

Some sort of acknowledgement of the report certainly would have been good here, but at least they did disable the account. I presume the reported vulnerability no longer exists.

noir_lord•3mo ago
> but at least they did disable the account.

Probably added test2:test2.

Not worked in aerospace only enterprise but sometimes I worry I'm too cynical and then I remember the things I've seen and think I'm not cynical enough.

That said nothing I work on is aerospace level critical, could cost a lot of money if it's out but no one would ever have died.

deepsun•3mo ago
They will respond after a year or two with a lawsuit and SWAT busting doors.
0_____0•3mo ago
They're not in the US. I'm not familiar with German law enforcement practices but I wouldn't be surprised if they had a process that was a little less door-kicky.
BoredPositron•3mo ago
Cybercrime is pretty door-kicky in germany and they usually keep all your gear for two years even if you are found not guilty...
stronglikedan•3mo ago
According to my German friends, it's worse over there.
_trampeltier•3mo ago
In germany linux dev get swated while live streaming.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41532098

rwmj•3mo ago
Collins Aerospace, the same company responsible days of outages at airport check-in kiosks https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3drpgv33pxo
kayfox•3mo ago
They were also involved in the Boeing MCAS thing as the company responsible for the computers and who presumably wrote the code.
Animats•3mo ago
(2009)
pierrec•3mo ago
No, this seems to be quite recent. At least the discovery, disclosure, and post are recent, as always, who knows how long the vulnerability has existed... I'll admit I was also confused because their "screenshots" is an old official document containing screenshots of the application in question, but it's just used to illustrate what the application is and does.
throwaway1c3vw•3mo ago
Security vulerability text or a report is the basis for a CV.

Yes, Collins Aerospace is subsidiary of RTX, which is the distributor for a relational database for plane ticket credentials.