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Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/
234•Jaso1024•2h ago•76 comments

Simple self-distillation improves code generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01193
415•Anon84•9h ago•124 comments

Sopwith

http://www.sopwith.org/
25•elvis70•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser

https://github.com/teamchong/turboquant-wasm
80•teamchong•4h ago•4 comments

Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

https://www.theverge.com/tech/907003/apple-approves-driver-that-lets-nvidia-egpus-work-with-arm-macs
174•naves•3h ago•74 comments

Scientists observe an immune signaling complex forming inside cells

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/immune-response-inside-cells-inflammation-research
57•ohjeez•1h ago•5 comments

Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens

https://sllm.cloud
59•jrandolf•4h ago•39 comments

Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

973•firloop•20h ago•743 comments

Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-meta-nrffdfpmf
501•macleginn•4h ago•340 comments

Some Unusual Trees

https://thoughts.wyounas.com/p/some-unusual-trees
200•simplegeek•10h ago•54 comments

Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o
982•andsoitis•1d ago•335 comments

Components of a Coding Agent

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/components-of-a-coding-agent
83•MindGods•6h ago•31 comments

Plague Ships

https://www.afloat.com.au/feature/plague-ships/
10•bryanrasmussen•2h ago•1 comments

Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165

75•maziyar•2d ago•22 comments

Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model

https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function
78•dnw•13h ago•72 comments

The CMS is dead, long live the CMS

https://next.jazzsequence.com/posts/the-cms-is-dead-long-live-the-cms
78•taubek•8h ago•61 comments

The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites

https://iii.social
29•freshman_dev•5h ago•4 comments

Electrical Transformer Manufacturing Is Throttling the Electrified Future

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/
28•toomuchtodo•3d ago•17 comments

The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/winchester-mystery-house.html
117•dbreunig•3d ago•48 comments

Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mbodi-ai/jobs/mf9L3sy-senior-robotics-engineer-systems-cont...
1•chitianhao•7h ago

Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years

https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/
280•eichin•19h ago•180 comments

Why the Most Valuable Things You Know Are Things You Cannot Say

https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/why-the-most-valuable-things-you
54•nr378•2h ago•22 comments

Notes from from Butterick's Practical Typography

https://adamadam.blog/2026/04/01/my-notes-from-buttericks-practical-typography/
14•chilipepperhott•2d ago•0 comments

IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Programmed Symbols (1979) [pdf]

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/3278/GA33-3056-0_3270_Information_Display_System_Color_and_Programm...
5•hggh•2h ago•1 comments

When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/04/nx-s1-5773354/legal-sports-betting-research-credit-bankruptcy
70•pseudolus•4h ago•41 comments

German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad

https://www.dw.com/en/german-men-need-military-permit-for-extended-stays-abroad/a-76662677
253•L_226•4h ago•391 comments

I rebuilt the same project after 15 years – what changed in web dev

https://bamwor.com/en/news/rebuilt-same-project-after-15-years
14•manudaro•2d ago•3 comments

A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260403044651.htm
24•bilsbie•2h ago•4 comments

The most-disliked people in the publishing industry

https://www.woman-of-letters.com/p/the-most-disliked-people-in-the-publishing
79•Caiero•3d ago•28 comments

OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33579
489•kykeonaut•1d ago•230 comments
Open in hackernews

Why LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure

https://www.irregular.com/publications/vibe-password-generation
16•zdw•2d ago

Comments

himata4113•3h ago
huh, for me it just generates <username>123 when I ask it to generate a password lol, sometimes adds a !, more often it just forces changeme rather than having any password.
stanmancan•3h ago
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/221/
petcat•3h ago
> LLM-generated passwords (generated directly by the LLM, rather than by an agent using a tool)

This seems like kind of a pointless analysis to me? Humans also generate bad passwords. It's why we use crypto-hardened RNG tools.

jmull•2h ago
It’s pointless if you believe no one is asking LLMs to generate passwords for them.
Pooge•2h ago
Humans will always smash a screw with the handle of a spoon and be proud of themselves when they manage to do it.
camgunz•3h ago
Honest question, how much money would I make off an MCP service to generate passwords for claws and agents. Is there still gas left in the griftmobile, are prospectors still in need of shovels, will the gods bless my humble, shameless lunge for my slice of the pie?
throwatdem12311•2h ago
Not much because if you gain any traction, within a day somebody will make a clone and make it free/open source.

This is the default answer for all vibe coded slop business ideas for a while.

TheDong•2h ago
There is a marketplace for free skills (in this case a markdown file saying "run openssl rand -hex 32")

I do not think there is any money for something that trivial.

Even the irrationally exuberant VCs wouldn't put money in that.

Mordisquitos•3h ago
I only clicked on the article with no intention of reading it (no time), but rather out of morbid curiosity as to why on earth anybody would need to be told that LLMs should absolutely not be used to generate passwords.

> [...] Despite this, LLM-generated passwords appear in the real world – used by real users, and invisibly chosen by coding agents as part of code development tasks, instead of relying on traditional secure password generation methods.

Jesus F'ing Christ. I hope to have time to read the whole thing later.

sowbug•2h ago
The article is a bit of a strawman, and a bit of an advertisement for a security consultancy. If you ask someone else to pick a password for you, then it's a secret known by two people. So don't do that. That was true a thousand* years ago. It's still true today.

*I know, I know, hash functions didn't exist on Earth a thousand years ago. Still true.

ks2048•3h ago
Had me wonder - if you ask an LLM for a random number 1...100, what distribution do you get? Surely many have run this experiment. Here's a link that looks like a good example, https://sanand0.github.io/llmrandom/
RIMR•50s ago
That is interesting data. Just from looking at those graphs, it looks like AIs are consistently avoidant of the number 69, likely because of safeguards to prevent it from being offensive. Otherwise its training would probably tell it that it was a really nice number.
catlifeonmars•3h ago
This article has “why stabbing yourself with a screwdriver is bad” vibes.
CrzyLngPwd•2h ago
The article reads like it was written by a machine.
gmuslera•2h ago
This asks for a dictionary attack, not of common words, but for tokens from training that have some weight related to good passwords.

At least regarding “normal” text generation, if you tell somewhat to the LLM that generate a Python script to write down a random password and use it it may have better quality.