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Zod 4

https://zod.dev/v4
240•bpierre•1h ago•87 comments

Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

83•bekacru•2h ago•27 comments

European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech

https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/european-investment-bank-to-inject-70-billion-in-european-tech
33•saubeidl•53m ago•11 comments

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/
49•pentagrama•45m ago•6 comments

Too Much Go Misdirection

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/too-much-go-misdirection
40•todsacerdoti•1h ago•7 comments

ClawPDF – Open-Source Virtual/Network PDF Printer with OCR and Image Support

https://github.com/clawsoftware/clawPDF
121•miles•4h ago•17 comments

Wikipedia's Most Translated Articles

https://sohom.dev/most-translated-articles-on-wikipedia/pretty.html
16•sohom_datta•1h ago•6 comments

Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/telum-ii-at-hot-chips-2024-mainframe-with-a-unique-caching-strategy
94•rbanffy•6h ago•35 comments

SDB Scans the Ruby Stack Without the GVL

https://github.com/yfractal/blog/blob/master/blog/2025-01-15-non-blocking-stack-profiler.md
20•ksec•1h ago•2 comments

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-github-copilot-coding-agent-in-public-preview/
52•net01•41m ago•17 comments

InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/inventwood-is-about-to-mass-produce-wood-thats-stronger-than-steel/
343•LorenDB•1d ago•317 comments

Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS

https://github.com/crhuber/kelp
16•amai•2h ago•5 comments

Static Types Are for Perfectionists

https://mmapped.blog/posts/38-static-types-perfectionism
21•PaulKeeble•2d ago•25 comments

Side projects I've built since 2009

https://naeemnur.com/side-projects/
181•naeemnur•7h ago•96 comments

23andMe Sells Gene-Testing Business to DNA Drug Maker Regeneron

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-19/23andme-sells-gene-testing-business-to-dna-drug-maker-regeneron
69•wslh•1h ago•34 comments

Wake Up, America!

https://opip.lol/wake-up-america/
3•Opip_lol•19m ago•0 comments

Discover is now part of Capital One

https://www.discover.com/faqs/merger/
51•LopRabbit•1h ago•27 comments

Diffusion Models Explained Simply

https://www.seangoedecke.com/diffusion-models-explained/
47•onnnon•3h ago•6 comments

Visualizing 100k Years of Earth in WebGL

https://technistuff.com/posts/visualizing-100000-years-of-earth-in-webgl/
20•agnosis•3h ago•4 comments

xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/19/xais-grok-3-comes-to-microsoft-azure/
14•mfiguiere•44m ago•1 comments

About Asteroids, Atari's biggest arcade hit

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/about-asteroids-ataris-biggest-arcade
29•rbanffy•3d ago•26 comments

Show HN: Cogitator – A Python Toolkit for Chain-of-Thought Prompting

https://github.com/habedi/cogitator
34•habedi0•4d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Goboscript, text-based programming language, compiles to Scratch

https://github.com/aspizu/goboscript
143•aspizu•11h ago•53 comments

“There are people who can see and others who cannot even look”

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/there-are-people-who-can-see-and
223•crescit_eundo•16h ago•64 comments

Emulator Debugging: Area 5150's Lake Effect

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2025/05/emulator-debugging-area-5150s-lake.html
51•rbanffy•8h ago•8 comments

In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-cryptome-co-founder
214•coloneltcb•3d ago•26 comments

Don't guess my language

https://vitonsky.net/blog/2025/05/17/language-detection/
520•e-topy•6h ago•306 comments

Llama from scratch (2023)

https://blog.briankitano.com/llama-from-scratch/
119•sebg•4d ago•2 comments

Fabric Is Just Plain Unreliable, and Microsoft's Hiding It

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2025/05/fabric-is-just-plain-unreliable-and-microsofts-hiding-it/
55•ko_pivot•3h ago•4 comments

New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-reveals-strongest-solar-event-bc.html
224•politelemon•4d ago•119 comments
Open in hackernews

'Significant amount' of private data stolen in UK Legal Aid hack

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr5g4pv2l0o
42•neversaydie•5h ago

Comments

egorfine•5h ago
> she understood the news "will be shocking and upsetting for people".

And that's about it. No repercussions will take place.

tgv•5h ago
Your comment is against the site rules on first sight, but it’s at the core of the problem: strong regulation, surveillance and punishment are sorely lacking.
celticninja•4h ago
Who do you want to punish exactly?
aaronmdjones•3h ago
Cases like this usually boil down to one of three things:

1) Someone left an unpatched server exposed to the Internet for months with a known critical vulnerability.

2) Someone uploaded the data to a world-readable S3 bucket or similar, or left it in an Internet-accessible database server with no authentication.

3) Someone with administrative credentials was using the password "password1!" or similar with no two-factor authentication.

In an ideal world (not the world we live in), in these cases, that someone would be prosecuted for gross negligence.

pjc50•3h ago
Perhaps. So you prosecute your £30k low rank administrative assistant in charge of the thing. All the other unionized low-paid civil servants immediately go "we didn't sign up for this liability" and refuse to touch anything that could be deemed computer administration. Government grinds to a halt.

Something similar happened to the British Museum a couple of years ago. Almost certainly an even worse pay/qualifications employer.

egorfine•3h ago
Sounds about right.

So, shall we not protect people's data?

jaoane•3h ago
You prosecute whoever set the system up. The same way you’d prosecute a surgeon for malpractice.

These are professionals. It’s their responsibility to build a solid, secure system. If they can’t or don’t want to then they should find another job.

oaththrowaway•3h ago
Then you're going to have to start paying entry level IT like surgeons. Nobody is going to take that kind of risk for $30K.
AlotOfReading•1h ago
More likely, they'd just start carrying errors and omissions insurance for a bit extra.
egorfine•3h ago
They are professionals. They cannot upgrade this particular windows server, because the software they're running on it requires visual basic 6.0 support. The vendor cannot provide any upgrade for their system, because certifying anything newer than Windows 2003 for this software is prohibitively expensive for the vendor. You cannot switch vendor due to obscure clauses in contract.

Real situation btw.

netdevphoenix•1h ago
If the pay difference doesn't reflect that additional responsibility, it probably is not expected
jaoane•29m ago
I am not convinced by this attitude of “I am being paid peanuts so I’m not going to do my job”. If you don’t like the salary then find some other job.
harvey9•2h ago
If someone puts a low rank admin assistant in charge then the boss needs prosecuting. It would be the public sector version of getting the boss's nephew to do it.
egorfine•3h ago
It seems to me that 1) is the norm, not an exception in large enough corporations and especially government orgs.

Personally, I do not see any other way out of this other than somehow criminalizing running outdated software.

drexlspivey•1h ago
Prosecuting someone for not having a strong enough password is beyond ridiculous. Your ideal world sounds like a black mirror episode.
caulkboots•1h ago
How would you feel if a bank used a screen door to access their vault? Protecting other people's info comes with responsibility.
drexlspivey•37m ago
How about enforcing strong passwords or non-password authentication at the org level instead of puting rank and file employees to jail?
egorfine•3h ago
Me personally I would like to set on fire the very people who begin to consider an upgrade to a major Windows version not earlier than it goes out of extended support.
anonymars•1h ago
Could you rephrase this with fewer negations? I cannot parse what you are trying to hate and therefore what point you are trying to make -- "those who begin to consider not earlier than it is not fully supported"
buserror•2h ago
It is entirely possible the IT was outsourced to the highest bidder, probably with limited liability clauses etc etc. See Post Office for reference, they are still reaping contract money out of the government, years after having been proven as responsible for ruining people's lives for decades, and coverups.
taffynay•34m ago
Governments outsource to the lowest bidder. Whoever can do the job for the cheapest.
moreati•5h ago
> The Legal Aid breach is, I’m told, a ransomware/extortion group (not mentioned in the notice). If it looks like the UK gov are going to pay, or pay via third party, this one will become a megathread. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/legal-aid-agency-data-bre... -- https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114533584686916433

Note Gossi's "If". There's no indication so far wrt possible payment.

celticninja•4h ago
They are not going to pay anything I guarantee it. There is no randomware. They shut their services down before the attacker could deploy ransomware although the attacker likely accessed data.
alias_neo•4h ago
> likely accessed data

There's nothing "likely" about it.

> On Friday 16 May we discovered the attack was more extensive than originally understood and that the group behind it had accessed a large amount of information relating to legal aid applicants.

> We believe the group has accessed and downloaded a significant amount of personal data from those who applied for legal aid through our digital service since 2010.

> This data may have included contact details and addresses of applicants, their dates of birth, national ID numbers, criminal history, employment status and financial data such as contribution amounts, debts and payments.

source: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/legal-aid-agency-data-bre...

Urahandystar•4h ago
The UK government does not pay ransomware and advises private businesses not to also. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/respond-recover/ml-ransomwar...
moreati•4h ago
I wasn't trying to suggest they wil. I emphasised Gossi's If because I missed it on my first read. I didn't want others making the same mistake.
blitzar•2h ago
The official positions of Governments is counter to the actual behaviour in many many circumstances.
blitzar•2h ago
> Looks like they were doing everything on AWS for about 6 years.

Ransomed by Jeff Bezos.

kmlx•3h ago
just in case people are not aware what "legal aid" or what "Legal Aid Agency" are:

> Legal aid is the provision of assistance to people who are unable to afford legal representation and access to the court system. Legal aid is regarded as central in providing access to justice by ensuring equality before the law, the right to counsel and the right to a fair trial.

> The Legal Aid Agency is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in the United Kingdom. It provides both civil and criminal legal aid and advice in England and Wales.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Aid_Agency