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Ask HN: Is JavaScript as insecure as ActiveX was at the peak?

2•roschdal•45m ago

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DamonHD•34m ago
No.

Microsoft was utterly reckless with ActiveX (as with much of their other tech) as I see things, whereas JS has had a lot of attention from people who care and know what they are doing.

roschdal•20m ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570669

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046

About Scrolling

https://mudmapmagazine.com/about-scrolling/
1•surprisetalk•34s ago•0 comments

s3backer: FUSE/NBD single file backing store via Amazon S3

https://github.com/archiecobbs/s3backer
1•ryuuseijin•1m ago•0 comments

Are Supabase docs agent-friendly? We didn't know, so we checked

https://supabase.com/blog/are-supabase-docs-agent-friendly
1•FinnLobsien•4m ago•0 comments

NetBSD GSoC 2026 Testing Compat Linux: Syscall Testing

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_testing_compat_linux_2
1•jaypatelani•4m ago•0 comments

I Rewrote My Back End in Go in 72 Hours and Cut My AWS Bill by 94%

https://www.bajura.online/2026/09/i-rewrote-my-backend-in-go-in-72-hours.html
2•odilelof•4m ago•1 comments

Ode to Metadata

https://www.autodidacts.io/ode-to-metadata/
1•Curiositry•5m ago•0 comments

Faster Projected GAN – Fast-Converging Few-Shot Image Generation

https://github.com/diarimandimby/Faster-Projected-GAN/
1•Diarimandimby•6m ago•0 comments

Learning Human Health and Diseases from 24-Hour Wrist Movement

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29494
1•brandonb•9m ago•0 comments

Who Is Elizabeth Holmes? What Is "You Can See Everything" About?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/who-is-elizabeth-holmes-of-you-can-see-everything/107127436
2•BLKNSLVR•10m ago•0 comments

Disappointed Optimists

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Natural Light Is an Essential Nutrient

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1•bilsbie•10m ago•0 comments

Painting and Color of the Eiffel Tower

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1•thunderbong•11m ago•0 comments

The Myth of Perfect Knowledge

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/science-objectivity-myth-physics/688532/
3•Brajeshwar•12m ago•0 comments

Did AI Find Murakami's Voice? Student's $2 Experiment Divides China's Literati

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1018966
3•NishanStepak•13m ago•0 comments

The Book of Darius

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Erasing a Bit Warms the Room

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1•juliu1980•13m ago•0 comments

How to Read Server Monitoring Graphs

https://kciter.so/posts/server-monitoring-analysis-guide/en/
1•kciter•13m ago•0 comments

Photo of Road Runner Snagged by Coyote Shows That Cartoons Were a Lie

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/us/road-runner-coyote-photograph.html
1•ijidak•15m ago•0 comments

17 Years Later, Valve Admits They Staged the Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer Leak

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4•Baldak1•17m ago•0 comments

Making Tentacle Robots Useful [video]

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I made a series of creative/fake captchas

https://robots.nuth.ing
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Show HN: Homebutler – reports what changed on your server, not what's running

https://github.com/Higangssh/homebutler
3•swq115•20m ago•0 comments

GeoGolfr

https://geogolfr.com/
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Has OpenAI model solved 80-year-old Navier-Stokes problem?

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3•bsilvereagle•22m ago•0 comments

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Gameplay [video]

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2•HelloUsername•22m ago•1 comments

What the Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Looks Like

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2•mikhael•23m ago•0 comments

Reverse engineering the 2008 LogiCola, a logic drill program

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4•kotk•24m ago•0 comments

The new Go JSON API: twice as fast, or 1.5x slower?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/29/the-new-go-json-api-twice-as-fast-or-1-5x-slower/
2•surprisetalk•24m ago•0 comments

Boots and Bullets

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Canonical Evolution of Enterprise Open Source RISC-V at Hot Chips 2026

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2•rbanffy•26m ago•0 comments