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Ending support for R in Kaggle Notebooks

https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-announcements/751525
1•torcete•1m ago•1 comments

Cross platform Rust app that just shows Git diffs

https://diffy.run/
1•Jonovono•1m ago•1 comments

Getting into Flow

https://tgrecojs.com/posts/getting-into-flow
1•tgrecojs•2m ago•0 comments

Cryptoskeptics

https://cryptoskeptics.org/
1•petethomas•3m ago•0 comments

/dev/finance, Stripe founding documents, and USCIS O-1 evidence

https://raeez.com/devfinance.html
1•bschne•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fitness Functions for Dbt Projects

https://github.com/tjirab/tff
2•bartschuijt•5m ago•0 comments

The importance of communities around software

https://lumi.codeberg.page/blog/software-community.html
3•amcclure•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"

https://github.com/johncassil/dontallow
2•johncassil•7m ago•0 comments

Until – You approve the plan, a separate agent checks the code against it

https://until.dev
2•abby11•7m ago•0 comments

IgE disruptor for food allergy with Claude-enabled antibody design[pdf]

https://divergencelabs.com/publications/ige-preprint.pdf
2•matco11•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Typebook.lol read books by typing the letters only

https://typebook.lol/
2•vegnus•10m ago•0 comments

You can now make money with my SaaS: 30% of every payment, for 12 months

https://globatics.live/affiliates
2•Kjuuu•11m ago•0 comments

Polymarket halts trading after compromise, impacted users will be 'made whole'

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/polymarket-trading-halt-hack-wallets-rcna606405
4•ceejayoz•11m ago•0 comments

Everything I post doesn't go through

1•Zeruxe•12m ago•1 comments

Benchmarking Vector search in six database engines

https://www.percona.com/blog/benchmarking-vector-search-in-six-database-engines/
1•0xKelsey•12m ago•0 comments

Catching Bugs Before They Land

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/10/29/security/catching-bugs-before-they-land-jittestings-human-o...
1•0xKelsey•13m ago•0 comments

The Great Decoupling: A Global Analysis of Internet Repression and Info Control [pdf]

https://cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-0432.pdf
1•hentrep•13m ago•0 comments

Cambodian police and soldiers helped guard abusive scam compounds – Amnesty

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/29/cambodian-police-scam-compounds-amnesty-international
1•Razengan•13m ago•0 comments

Jules Turndown

https://jules.google/docs/changelog/2026-10-29/
3•LiamPowell•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: BigChecklist, a checklist with type you can put on a big display

https://www.bigchecklist.com
1•rgbjoy•14m ago•0 comments

Dinosaur etymology, proununciation, info app

https://dinonames.com/
1•nuclearbunny•15m ago•1 comments

The Hyperoptimized Engineer 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhEL9cvLxQE
2•AIorNot•15m ago•1 comments

Bending Spoons' "Smart Usage of Slack" [pdf]

https://bendingspoons.com/documents/Culture&Policies%E2%80%94SmartUsageofSlack%E2%80%94CompanyWeb...
1•kome•20m ago•0 comments

Scaling Misuse Detection with Self-Assessment

https://safeguards.anthropic.com/2026/self-assessment/
1•pretext•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Academic Ancestry – See Who taught the people who taught you (Launch)

https://academicancestry.org/
3•Codeblackwell•22m ago•0 comments

The New Faces of Optimized Motherhood

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/emily-oster-kalshi-marissa-mayer-dazzle/
1•cdrnsf•22m ago•0 comments

ETH False [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HlQGMcQWhA
1•gone35•22m ago•0 comments

The Self-Driving Company Is Taking Shape

https://www.agno.com/blog/self-driving-company-is-taking-shape
1•ashpreet-bedi•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GenesisDB – The event sourcing database, is now open source

https://www.genesisdb.io/blog/posts/2026-10-24/genesisdb-2-is-open-source
13•patriceckhart•23m ago•0 comments

Polymarket suspends trading after third-party breach leads to user losses

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/10/29/polymarket-suspends-trading-after-third-party-breach-...
7•bushwart•24m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

I asked my coding agent to cat a file in .ssh. It did

https://github.com/dingningpei/envgit/blob/main/docs/launch-post.md
1•marsdnp•50m ago

Comments

ceejayoz•45m ago
That's a very long writeup to say "the computer did what I asked it to do".
matt3210•22m ago
It was supposed to ask for tool call permission but did not.
matt3210•22m ago
Use the slop to make the slop.
Jtsummers•18m ago
You gave your agent access to your system with your permissions. Then you asked it to do something that you can do with your permissions, and it did. You don't want it to do what it can do, but instead of doing the correct thing (don't give it your permissions) you want to add a million and one rules, that will never be complete, restricting its access.

The correct thing, and this isn't hard, is to give it a different set of permissions than yours. Do not let it get into your .ssh directory at all, problem solved. People keep posting these stories as if there's something useful in them, and there is:

The moral of the story is don't be a fool. Give your agents different, restricted, permissions, than your own permissions.

This is the same approach when working with people. Your agent should be, from an authentication and authorization perspective, treated like any other employee: Given an appropriate set of permissions to their needs, not root level access to all your systems.