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Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

https://web.archive.org/web/20260731053721/http://github.com/ancaferro/myNetwork/pull/3
16•dnnehgf•52m ago

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zezcko•12m ago
holy shit
gryfft•11m ago
Yeah, if this is the new normal I might start day drinking at some point in the coming weeks.
summarity•10m ago
Working with maintainers (on the GitHub side) there’s definitely been a rise of malware dropper attacks against popular OSS repos, though this is particularly brazen - pressure tactics and all.
jtakkala•8m ago
Not going to comment on the PR commentary, but the victim GitHub account is suspicious itself, recent account, a few fresh repos, following 14.5k others, and I count three surnames on the original account (the username, plus two in the README history).
ncr100•4m ago
[delayed]

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413
177•Meleagris•3h ago•77 comments

NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voya...
93•wglb•2h ago•11 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
525•tosh•10h ago•313 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
158•moelf•6h ago•56 comments

Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster's Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
34•aanet•2d ago•4 comments

SupererDuperer

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer
59•zdw•6d ago•4 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
282•piotrgrabowski•10h ago•66 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
173•aagha•9h ago•56 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
502•RickJWagner•15h ago•589 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
193•moonikakiss•10h ago•184 comments

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-cl...
420•delduca•10h ago•287 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
168•artninja1988•11h ago•168 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/
152•MarcoDewey•13h ago•37 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
288•inigyou•20h ago•268 comments

Carl's Required Reading

https://carlkolon.com/reading/
123•cckolon•6d ago•16 comments

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

https://web.archive.org/web/20260731053721/http://github.com/ancaferro/myNetwork/pull/3
16•dnnehgf•52m ago•5 comments

As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program

https://unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/
14•allenc•4d ago•4 comments

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/water-system-controllers-dont-belong-on-the-inter...
153•Bender•7h ago•104 comments

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/oop-refl.html
58•birdculture•4d ago•5 comments

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/
264•poly2it•17h ago•125 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych
58•theanonymousone•9h ago•2 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
175•m3h•17h ago•45 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice
115•jnord•15h ago•90 comments

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

https://textlog.cc/about
153•stagas•17h ago•63 comments

Captain Bible Reverse Engineering

https://github.com/peterkelly/captain-bible-re
21•peterkelly•5d ago•2 comments

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
742•boplicity•1d ago•397 comments

Möbius-Strip Crosswords

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/
61•ibobev•13h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer
182•v0id_isgood•16h ago•103 comments

Why are all the amounts values negative?

https://bankstatementconverter.com/blog/posts/2026-08-02-why-are-all-amounts-negative/
36•4pkjai•5d ago•16 comments

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/
398•petercooper•13h ago•366 comments