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From a 7 KB file to a 13-year backdoor operation

https://anchor.host/from-a-7-kb-file-to-a-13-year-backdoor-operation/
11•ValentineC•2h ago

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Krutonium•1h ago
Definitly AI written, but still a fun writeup.
abofh•1h ago
I got tired after hearing Claude the whole way through, especially when they asked ai to run dig.
saidnooneever•6m ago
"Each one was scoped to a high-signal cohort."

made it there. god im happy not to be using Claude anymore . Tier A backdoors n all -_-. what is that even. Whats Tier B.

This entire article could be a small table and a timeline, 3 min read.

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
254•ilreb•7h ago•166 comments

There are no instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
302•danabramov•8h ago•173 comments

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll
72•pgrote•3h ago•5 comments

I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾

https://theconversation.com/i-used-sound-waves-to-make-espresso-it-could-cut-coffee-brewing-energ...
153•zeristor•6d ago•99 comments

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-32...
577•ck2•6h ago•273 comments

Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

17•amichail•28m ago•23 comments

Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/08/06/erlang.html
18•KraftyOne•2h ago•4 comments

Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Internet Traffic (2023)

https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/
23•Bender•3h ago•1 comments

Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk
27•ValentineC•34m ago•4 comments

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
200•abnry•9h ago•312 comments

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
525•philonoist•16h ago•323 comments

Egyptian Fractions

https://blog.plover.com/math/egyptian-fractions.html
40•luu•3d ago•0 comments

Zenzizenzizenzic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic
33•gyosifov•1h ago•15 comments

Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access

https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html
384•birdculture•6h ago•128 comments

A 1976 university experiment spun up the U.S. wind industry

https://spectrum.ieee.org/william-heronemus-wind-energy
56•pseudolus•4d ago•5 comments

Telescope Ranchers

https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers
93•bookofjoe•3d ago•33 comments

DuckDB Internals Part 1

https://www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-internals-part-1
425•marklit•3d ago•128 comments

Court Records Should Be Free

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
172•hn_acker•5h ago•30 comments

A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/new-bill-takes-aim-government-pressure-silence-lawful-onlin...
210•hn_acker•5h ago•113 comments

Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets

https://metiq.space
75•rakeda•3d ago•21 comments

RhinoCollab a plugin for real-time editing for Rhino 3D

https://rhinocollab.com
6•Ashxius•5d ago•2 comments

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
228•jxmorris12•3d ago•73 comments

Amateur may have cracked Linear A

https://aiclambake.com/clamtakes/linear-a/
392•Kosturdistan•7h ago•152 comments

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

https://news.mit.edu/2026/to-study-how-chips-really-work-mit-researchers-built-their-own-operatin...
345•speckx•4d ago•52 comments

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
262•saisrirampur•4d ago•71 comments

Big Banana Car

https://bigbananacar.com/
108•Bender•5h ago•64 comments

Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst

https://mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-06-15-gribouille-0-3/
202•mcanouil•4d ago•76 comments

The AirPods Effect

https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect
369•herbertl•1d ago•653 comments

Show HN: Continuous Nvidia CUDA PC Sampling Profiler

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2026/06/10/nvidia-cuda-pc-sampling
12•gnurizen•4d ago•4 comments

Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/sam-altman-biopic-amazon-openai-dea...
154•theanonymousone•3h ago•61 comments