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The Hacker's Renaissance

https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article
22•yu3zhou4•1h ago

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analognoise•46m ago
This sounds like ChatGPT.
michael-bey•43m ago
>this is not a eulogy, it's a reckoning

100%

juleiie•6m ago
Uh, should have used Claude. Gpt is embarassing.

You won’t get my point so I have to lay it bare: That doesn’t matter. Content is what counts. Not how it was written.

bobek•41m ago
This resonates. I have just got back to hacking an old flip-dot display after sitting on the shelf for years.

https://www.bobek.cz/buse/

hugodan•22m ago
Here is an exercise, find one character usage that the original didn't have and that this new one is littered with...
stackghost•16m ago
Some of us use em-dashes habitually, and did so before LLMs. Call it le ponctuation juste.
technocratius•15m ago
Emmm...dash?
ramon156•12m ago
this doesnt really reflect the vibe old school hackers give. "solder a wifi module to a calculator" sounds like a cartoon-inspired project.

Why not reference call spoofing (i forgot the name) where they were able to call for no charge because they were able to spoof a real call. that's the kind of hacker vibe i want continued.

inigyou•6m ago
The word "hacker" comes from MIT students who would cut up circuit boards with a hacksaw and connect the pieces together in different ways. Soldering a WiFi module to a calculator is very oldschool hacker.

The word you're looking for is phreaking. I must admit, since the title of TFA's website is only two letters away, it's funny you forgot it.

stackghost•6m ago
So far all the comments are complaining about the AI-ness of the prose. Here's one about the content:

LLMs are here to stay. The "hacker spirit" doesn't require being a Luddite and rejecting LLMs merely because they're new and corporate. In fact, regarding TFA's title I think we're about to experience a Renaissance in hacking, of sorts.

LLMs are really, really good at reverse engineering, among other hacking-adjacent things. Want to figure out where the JTAG debug port on your proprietary device? Want to run a BBS entirely over HELOL-style covert channels? You can do that (I have!), and the correct model will help.

I run an "abliterated"/uncensored local model on a spare PC downstairs. For those interested in rekindling or relocating that hacker spirit, I suggest the same.

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/
221•laurentiurad•2h ago•115 comments

The Hacker's Renaissance

https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article
27•yu3zhou4•1h ago•13 comments

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22•berghoffer•1h ago•9 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

135•david927•4h ago•489 comments

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25•mef•1h ago•14 comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
510•satvikpendem•8h ago•227 comments

Saying No

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/19
108•rozumem•3h ago•84 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition
38•simonpure•2h ago•8 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
139•Klaster_1•7h ago•29 comments

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116•jader201•6h ago•92 comments

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

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11•smartmic•1h ago•1 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7CxAtV5Ks
10•jackdoe•2d ago•5 comments

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

https://openchamber.dev/
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27•gregsadetsky•3h ago•3 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
106•Kiboneu•8h ago•60 comments

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/silence-kate-mcloughlin-book-review
22•tintinnabula•3d ago•6 comments

Everything you do is being recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
147•ike_usawa•10h ago•127 comments

Is it all just vapourware?

https://kirahowe.com/2026/aug/8/is-it-all-just-vapourware
64•Lyngbakr•1h ago•90 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

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273•akyuu•6h ago•228 comments

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96•Rochus•9h ago•16 comments

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16•rbanffy•4d ago•4 comments

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13•johnchinjew•1h ago•7 comments

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8•Raed667•2h ago•2 comments

Crickets as Pets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickets_as_pets
67•Michelangelo11•4d ago•30 comments

Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/09/ransomware-gangs-skip-the-ceo-head-straight-for-t...
58•joebuckwilliams•2h ago•22 comments

Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

https://github.com/yegors/deGDID
44•campuscodi•2h ago•28 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
102•tremguy•10h ago•83 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
175•gukoff•14h ago•28 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/
53•shayonj•6h ago•19 comments

The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv5441
3•toomuchtodo•1h ago•3 comments