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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
162•theblazehen•2d ago•47 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
674•klaussilveira•14h ago•202 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
950•xnx•20h ago•552 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
123•matheusalmeida•2d ago•33 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
22•kaonwarb•3d ago•19 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
58•videotopia•4d ago•2 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
232•isitcontent•14h ago•25 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
225•dmpetrov•15h ago•118 comments

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

https://vecti.com
332•vecti•16h ago•144 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
495•todsacerdoti•22h ago•243 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
383•ostacke•20h ago•95 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
360•aktau•21h ago•182 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
289•eljojo•17h ago•175 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
413•lstoll•21h ago•279 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
32•jesperordrup•4h ago•16 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
20•bikenaga•3d ago•8 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
17•speckx•3d ago•6 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
63•kmm•5d ago•7 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
91•quibono•4d ago•21 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
258•i5heu•17h ago•196 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
32•romes•4d ago•3 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
44•helloplanets•4d ago•42 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
60•gfortaine•12h ago•26 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/
1070•cdrnsf•1d ago•446 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...
36•gmays•9h ago•12 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
150•vmatsiiako•19h ago•70 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
288•surprisetalk•3d ago•43 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
150•SerCe•10h ago•142 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
186•limoce•3d ago•100 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
73•phreda4•14h ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

Data breach at major Swedish software supplier impacts 1.5M

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-breach-at-major-swedish-software-supplier-impacts-15-million/
57•fleahunter•3mo ago

Comments

toomuchtodo•3mo ago
Miljödata is an IT systems supplier for roughly 80% of Sweden's municipalities. The company disclosed the incident on August 25, saying that the attackers stole data and demanded 1.5 Bitcoin to not leak it.

Related:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/it-system-sup...

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/cyberattack-i-datasystem-...

SiempreViernes•3mo ago
Then nobody paid and pii was published, now an integrity agency is starting an investigation

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/integritetsmyndigheten-in...

cncrndnetizen•3mo ago
Yet another sign that governments and corporations should support SECURE programming language development and treat it like other (critical) infrastructure.
vbezhenar•3mo ago
PHP was developed 30 years ago.
marginalia_nu•3mo ago
Most of the Swedish public sector runs on Java. Problem is it's, like public infrastructure in general, more attractive to build than to maintain.

Doesn't matter what language you use if you don't actually maintain the software.

pksebben•3mo ago
It matters at least a little. Ceteris parabus, I'd prefer unmaintained rust code over unmaintained java.

That said, I'd also prefer maintained java over unmaintained rust, so I do see your point.

alistairSH•3mo ago
Is there any indication this breach was related to the language used? Or was it something "higher level" like unsecured DB or S3 bucket or similar?
LtWorf•3mo ago
Was the leak due to a stack overflow, double free or similar issue?
hulitu•3mo ago
It was an outsourcing overflow. /s
victorbjorklund•3mo ago
We don’t know what happened but rumor is it was a file that was uploaded for an integration and that the server wasn’t secured. Same would have happened no matter if using Rust or any other language.
tetha•3mo ago
I'd rather say we need more cyber anarchy and chaos within Europe. We need security researchers and the CCC and similar organizations with an absolute freedom to hack everything in Europe.

Get into everything, break every security control in Europe, be a pain. As long as function is not impacted, and security problems are reported responsibly. Don't DoS a power plant because you think you can, and face a judge if you do.

That's what foreign powers are doing and slowly collecting as preparation for the future, and that's the only real way to increase cyber security across the board.

dmix•3mo ago
You'll have to pay for that if you're going to have people as motivated as the adversaries.
shakna•3mo ago
In the past, Datacarry has almost exclusively used phishing as their first penetration of systems. (Exploits follow for escalation, but not generally penetration.)

Whilst we don't know exactly what they did here, a secure programming language will do bupkus when you're targeting the meatbag behind the keyboard. We need to treat people like infrastructure, that can and will eventually fail.

november123•3mo ago
Statistically PII leaks are due to not secure business logic bugs. Not because of unsafe memory handling of a programming language.

Unauthorized API always leaks.

cv5005•3mo ago
This data is publically available to anyone in Sweden:

Your salary (well, last years taxable income), debts/credit rating, criminal history, address, phone number, which vehicles and properties you own and which company boards you're on.

One of organized criminals biggest income these days are scamming rich old folks because it's so trivial to get all details needed (and who to target) to be a pretty convincing bankman, IRS type agent/etc.

Some of it you have to kind of manually request at various places, but it's all available.

So data breaches aren't really that big of a deal when everything is already public.

zith•3mo ago
If I understand correctly the only thing not public that was leaked was the role each person had in the government.
tuwtuwtuwtuw•3mo ago
Why would the role within the government not be public? I can't imagine that being treated as a secret.
reppap•3mo ago
Afaik this breach also contained a lot of data about medical condition related to workplaces.