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iPhone Air

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/introducing-iphone-air-a-powerful-new-iphone-with-a-breakt...
556•excerionsforte•9h ago•1198 comments

Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging

https://mahesh-hegde.github.io/posts/what_debugger_can/
48•never_inline•2d ago•24 comments

E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens

https://spectrum.ieee.org/e-paper-display-modos
276•rbanffy•9h ago•91 comments

Outraged Farmers Blame Ag Monopolies as Catastrophic Collapse Looms

https://www.agweb.com/markets/outraged-farmers-blame-ag-monopolies-catastrophic-collapse-looms
121•strict9•2h ago•120 comments

Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

https://www.anthropic.com/news/create-files
457•meetpateltech•13h ago•258 comments

Axial twist theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_twist_theory
83•lordnacho•3d ago•14 comments

We all dodged a bullet

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/
588•WhyNotHugo•12h ago•337 comments

US High school students' scores fall in reading and math

https://apnews.com/article/naep-reading-math-scores-12th-grade-c18d6e3fbc125f12948cc70cb85a520a
267•bikenaga•12h ago•381 comments

Memory Integrity Enforcement

https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/
333•circuit•9h ago•154 comments

Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear

https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/38120-immunotherapy-drug-eliminates-aggressive-cancers-in-clinic...
290•marc__1•6h ago•61 comments

Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0

https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/tomorrows-emoji-today-unicode-170
113•ChrisArchitect•9h ago•159 comments

She puts the Lord in 'vanlord.' Palo Alto wants to ban her business

https://sanjosespotlight.com/she-puts-the-lord-in-vanlord-palo-alto-wants-to-ban-her-business/
7•harambae•2d ago•3 comments

DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware

https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb-node/security/advisories/GHSA-w62p-hx95-gf2c
323•tosh•17h ago•242 comments

Hypervisor in 1k Lines

https://1000hv.seiya.me/en
27•lioeters•4h ago•2 comments

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly

https://anderegg.ca/2025/09/08/youtube-is-a-mysterious-monopoly
146•geerlingguy•22h ago•204 comments

Show HN: Bottlefire – Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images

https://bottlefire.dev/
57•losfair•2d ago•8 comments

A new experimental Go API for JSON

https://go.dev/blog/jsonv2-exp
182•darccio•12h ago•61 comments

Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL

https://cedardb.com/blog/doomql/
151•lvogel•12h ago•31 comments

Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-send-employees-back-to-office-rto-remote-work-2025-9
250•alloyed•10h ago•454 comments

An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations

https://www.huntress.com/blog/rare-look-inside-attacker-operation
130•mellosouls•11h ago•83 comments

Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-judge-blasts-copyright-pact-as-nowhere-close-to-done
194•nobody9999•18h ago•209 comments

ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones

https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/09/09/how-ice-is-using-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-p...
499•coloneltcb•11h ago•204 comments

Go for Bash Programmers – Part II: CLI Tools

https://github.com/go-monk/from-bash-to-go-part-ii
91•reisinge•1d ago•3 comments

Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation

https://help.dropbox.com/installs/paper-mobile-discontinuation
124•mercenario•9h ago•105 comments

Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerate-technological-progress-with-ai
726•TechTechTech•21h ago•385 comments

NASA finds Titan's alien lakes may be creating primitive cells

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250831112449.htm
45•Gaishan•3h ago•2 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding AI engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/weave-3/jobs/SqFnIFE-founding-ai-engineer
1•adchurch•10h ago

Cassette Logic: technology that never dies but is already dead

https://www.differentshelf.com/cassette-logic/
9•seductivebarry•2d ago•8 comments

Anscombe's Quartet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
112•gidellav•1d ago•25 comments

A cryptography expert on how Web3 started, and how it’s going

https://spectrum.ieee.org/web3-hardware-security
144•warrenm•8h ago•161 comments
Open in hackernews

I don't want AI agents controlling my laptop

https://sophiebits.com/2025/09/09/ai-agents-security
60•Bogdanp•6h ago

Comments

yeputons•5h ago
> Sure, there are some protections like “you can’t record the screen without the user granting explicit permission”,

Are there? Any app on Windows screenshot and access camera, microphone, whatever. Aren't permissions for Windows Store-style apps only?

hoppp•4h ago
Me neither. I would maybe run them in a VM but don't use them at all right now

Would be cool to run them in freebsd jails

dankwizard•4h ago
I do, it's called embracing the future - Either get with it or get out of the game. If you aren't giving your AI untethered sudo access then honestly its more of a reflection on you and your inability to accept change in the workplace.
grugagag•4h ago
Yeah, relinquish all control because .. embracing the future.
LtWorf•4h ago
I'm pretty sure he's sarcastic.
thomasdziedzic•4h ago
What makes you pretty sure he's sarcastic?
saagarjha•4h ago
I mean it's possibly Poe's Law but this is the amalgamated rhetoric of the most crazy people pushing this kind of thing
throwmeaway222•4h ago
we already have - every time you get in a car you're elevating the chance of death considerably from before you hopped in. (seriously it's like 1000000x more dangerous than just sitting on a sofa)

Granted it's a low chance, but it's also similarly low that your bank account will be drained to zero because you codex --yolo'd it. If that DOES happen to someone then yeah, I'd consider changing my behavior.

For example there's no fucking way I would FSD in a Tesla.

pessimizer•4h ago
It's even worse: it's a sign of insecurity and the lack of the ability to just trust and let go of control. Often related to malignant narcissism. I recommend SSRIs and inpatient therapy. You should probably give up custody of your children, too, unless you want them to grow up with the same weaknesses.
autoexec•3h ago
Everyone should give up custody of their children to the state. Refusal to give your children to the state is a sign of insecurity and the lack of the ability to just trust and let go of control.

You should really just give up all of your freedom. Refusal to give up your freedom is a sign of insecurity and the lack of the ability to just trust and let go of control.

akomtu•3h ago
I can imagine the same conversation 10 years later: "The productivity boost of AI implants is obvious by now, it gives at least +50 IQ points. Those stubborn employees should just yield and grant full control to their brains if they want to stay relevant."
sys_64738•3h ago
Surely all your laptop's data should be in the cloud so giving AI access to that data is the way to go.
theden•4h ago
I must be out of the loop, I didn't know people were actually doing this in their workflow. When I do use LLMs, it's in a separate app, where I can cherry pick what I input and output at my own pace.

Maybe I'm naive, but the ever-increasing tradeoffs for even more velocity does not seem worth it.

WD-42•3h ago
Don’t worry, the only people that are doing this are creating absolute dumpster fires.
LudwigNagasena•4h ago
I want AI agents controlling my laptop. And not only AI. There are lots of cool software programs I want on my laptop besides AI too. The problem is not AI, the problem is the awful security model that is the foundation of all modern operating systems.
yupyupyups•3h ago
I think most people would find automatic feeding of arbitrary private information from their devices to an external server to be problematic.

If the AI is running offline and is non-destructive/safe then that's a different story.

spaceman_2020•4h ago
I don’t understand the author’s complaint - are the AI agents forcibly installing themselves on your computer? Are they shipping these agents without settings to change permission seeking behavior?

This is just a rant about something you absolutely don’t have to do

resonious•4h ago
Windows is heading in that direction.
WD-42•3h ago
Yup and once it arrives there the MS fans will be in here telling everyone to “just use the server edition” like they do now to anyone who says they don’t like ads and spyware in their OS today.
cadamsdotcom•3h ago
It's really a question of whether you want a deterministic machine or a probabilistic one.

Depends on the use case, really.

jckahn•3h ago
What's the use case for a probabilistically controlled computer?
evgpbfhnr•3h ago
bwrap.

I don't run AI, but anything I don't fully trust 200% runs without access to my home, and if it doesn't really need internet without internet either. bwrap commands can be a mouthful so I suggest making a script for things you commonly do, e.g. "run with this directory as $HOME" or "run with empty home, keeping just this directory as is", with a couple of flags to enable networking or wayland/sound... Once you have this there really is no benefit to not sandboxing. It's probably not as good as running in a full VM, but it's good enough for me.

throwmeaway222•3h ago
I think we're at 3rd wave AI and it's got a RPM of maybe 20-40. In a year or two we'll be at 900 RPM and having the user give permissions won't really be feasible. So perhaps a secondary AI prompt will "validate" the request for you - we're only going in this direction.

Sure, comment on the time we're at, but it won't be relevant for a while.

dr_win•3h ago
What about buying a dedicated machine for running agents? One macbook for agents and one for personal/private work plus a good KVM switch maybe or remote desktop.
statguy•3h ago
It doesn't work that way. The dedicated machine for running agents will have very limited utility because it will not have access to anything it needs like your credit card to automatically purchase stuff on your behalf etc.
tonypapousek•3h ago
> credit card to automatically purchase stuff on your behalf

Why would anyone _want_ that?

Or, let’s pretend for a moment they did, wouldn’t it make more sense to grant access to a purchasing account (e.g. Amazon) with payment info pre-linked?

Especially given the “record absolutely everything for evidence” approach companies are taking, giving them auto access to payment info isn’t very smart.

wallopinski•3h ago
2004 me and my friends: "I don't want all my public information online."

GenZ; publishes every possible detail on TikTok.

In 20 years we've done a cultural 180 on privacy.

I bet in 20 years Gen5 (three generations from now?) will be fine with AI agents running their lives.

Meanwhile I'll be 80 and still not on social media, just message boards like HN. Using new frequent accounts and changing my wirting style to defeat stylometrics (sorry dang).

autoexec•3h ago
> GenZ; publishes every possible detail on TikTok. In 20 years we've done a cultural 180 on privacy.

the results of that has only proved you were right. I'll go on record now that the people who don't want corporate controlled AI in their personal lives today are also going to be proven right when the next generation of suckers comes along and gives up what they had because a corporation told them too.

manofmanysmiles•3h ago
What I've been doing is running an agent inside a locked down k8s environment. Agents are spun up by operator, and have access to a single namespace.

It's not perfect, as container escape is not entirely unlikely.

I am working in a future version where all agents run inside firecracker VMs, log all actions logged externally.

With Kubernetes it's like having a bunch of virtual employees making git commits, firing up name-spaced ephemeral resources and collaborating like "remote" employees. It's certainly fun, but I haven't quite polished it to the point where I recommend this architecture to anyone.

jmclnx•3h ago
>modern desktop operating systems are not really designed for strong security boundaries

I agree, I do not want AI anywhere near my Laptop. But there are Operating Systems that do not and probably never be controlled by "AI".

The quote above is curious, there are OSs with strong security. OpenBSD is touted as one, plus there is Linux and other BSDs, which can be configured to be far more secure than the operating systems the article is referring to.