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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
552•klaussilveira•10h ago•156 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
875•xnx•15h ago•532 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
79•matheusalmeida•1d ago•18 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
13•videotopia•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
191•isitcontent•10h ago•24 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
190•dmpetrov•10h ago•84 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
7•helloplanets•4d ago•3 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
303•vecti•12h ago•133 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
347•aktau•16h ago•169 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
347•ostacke•16h ago•90 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
75•quibono•4d ago•16 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
444•todsacerdoti•18h ago•226 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
242•eljojo•13h ago•148 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
46•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
17•romes•4d ago•2 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
379•lstoll•16h ago•258 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
225•i5heu•13h ago•170 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
103•SerCe•6h ago•84 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
162•limoce•3d ago•85 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
131•vmatsiiako•15h ago•56 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
41•gfortaine•8h ago•11 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
63•phreda4•9h ago•11 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
20•gmays•5h ago•3 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
262•surprisetalk•3d ago•35 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1034•cdrnsf•19h ago•428 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
6•neogoose•2h ago•3 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
56•rescrv•18h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
85•antves•1d ago•63 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
20•denysonique•6h ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

AirBorne: Wormable zero-click remote code execution (RCE) in AirPlay protocol

https://www.oligo.security/blog/airborne
130•throw0101a•9mo ago

Comments

throw0101a•9mo ago
CVE-2025-24252 and CVE-2025-24132 are two examples. Doing a search for "Oligo" in release notes gives various other results, e.g.,

* https://support.apple.com/en-ca/122374

Apple fixed their stuff, but third-parties who used their SDK will have to issue updates as well.

john_alan•9mo ago
Heya, is it possible to detect the worm on iOS / macOS? Does the fix in latest OS just remove the worm if unknowingly infected?

Reads like a zero click infection leading to arbitrary execution of long running code.

Seems fairly insidious?

abhisek•9mo ago
Very curious about the exploitation of CVE-2025-24252, a use-after-free (UAF) using which they achieved zero-click RCE on MacOS. This is inspite of ASLR and heap exploitation mitigations in place to mitigate such vulnerability classes

https://security.apple.com/blog/towards-the-next-generation-...

hammock•9mo ago
On ASLR: you might use the UAF to access memory regions you shouldn’t have access to. By reading the contents, they can potentially leak pointers to a critical library (e.g., libc), allowing them to calculate the offsets to bypass ASLR.

On heap protection: if you spray the heap with predictable data patterns you can improve your chance of landing a useful address, even with ASLR in place

RainyDayTmrw•9mo ago
I understand heap sprays in theory. In practice, how do they avoid clobbering something important and crashing the app? It seems like a typical app has a lot of state to clobber.
xyzzy123•9mo ago
The writes for a spray are pre exploit, you are going through an allocator to get the space you're writing to. Put another way, its the apps job to write the spray into "free space".

Sprays are pretty crashy but the heap setup is not usually the problem, its that the pointer you want to control "missed" the sprayed area.

rubatuga•9mo ago
Good thing I'm still on macOS 12
slama•9mo ago
macOS 12 is EOL and is no longer receiving security updates.

There’s a strong chance it’s vulnerable, too

m463•9mo ago
macos is pretty promiscuous, and I've noticed random airplay displays (like the neighbors) showing up in the mirroring dropdown in the dock.

wonder if this is a way to get into the stack.

greyadept•9mo ago
This behaviour always made me feel a bit suspicious about airplay but I reassured myself that Apple surely had it locked down. But these 17 CVEs show that my trust was misplaced.
Roguelazer•9mo ago
Running a parser for a network protocol as root seems like a pretty unnecessarily dumb thing to do. I can't really imagine why any part of airplay would need to run as root; maybe something to do with DRM? Although the DRM daemon `fairplayd` runs as a limited-privilege user `_fpsd`, so maybe not. So bizarre that Apple makes all these cool systems to sandbox code, and creates dozens of privilege-separated users on macOS, and then runs an HTTP server doing plists parsing as an unsandboxed root process.
Mindwipe•9mo ago
Apple have reworked Airplay so many times at this point the entire thing is just a massive pile of technical debt piled on another massive pile of technical debt, piled on a bunch of weird hacks to try and keep all the devices built for previous versions afloat.
walterbell•9mo ago
At least it can be disabled via MDM/Configurator policy.
bigyabai•9mo ago
To the express benefit of all 3 Apple users that configure their devices with a PList editor.
walterbell•9mo ago
The breaches will continue until device policy improves.
bigyabai•9mo ago
Three cheers for smart defaults!
RainyDayTmrw•9mo ago
Oof. It's parsing and memory corruption again.
pjmlp•9mo ago
Basically a collection of use-after-free, stack-based buffer overflow, type confusion, memory exhaustion, integer overflow, NULL pointer dereference, for the most part.

However we all know that the problem is that juniors and interns are the ones that get to write this code, a senior with proper education would never deliver these mistakes into production. /s

hoseja•9mo ago
Thankfully, the borrow checker will protect you from delivering anything at all.
paulddraper•9mo ago
Zero-click local network RCE on macOS: 102 points

Article titled "Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses" about YouTube layout: 837 points and rising

Hacker News my a*s

waterTanuki•9mo ago
The most important question remains unanswered: would Rust have prevented this?