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We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
184•ltratt•4h ago•140 comments

Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz

https://missileer.watch
121•liotier•6h ago•79 comments

The Goose Programming Language

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
247•bobbydigitales•7h ago•168 comments

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?

https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class
176•gnabgib•3h ago•147 comments

Why Gopher in 2026?

https://gopher.muffinlabs.com/sdf.org/users/nervtoji/phlog/001.txt
27•andsoitis•2h ago•8 comments

Small Programs and Languages

https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small
45•andsoitis•4h ago•1 comments

SpeedCrunch 1.1

https://www.speedcrunch.org/
78•LordNibbler•6h ago•10 comments

Reactive Optimizers: rewrite the optimizer's source code during training

https://xingjianbai.com/reactive-optimizers/
9•matt_d•3d ago•1 comments

I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers

https://rootkitlabs.com/2026/10/06/i-built-a-stereo-vision-board-for-hardware-hackers/
36•machinehum•4d ago•0 comments

FindMyWeb: Apple Find My, reverse enginiered

https://codeberg.org/Misom/FindMyWeb
15•Velocifyer•2h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin

https://stealmybitcoin.com/
412•cloudlandsdev•5h ago•253 comments

Social dynamics of toxic metal industry in medieval Europe

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/social-dynamics-of-toxic-metal-industry...
13•XzetaU8•4d ago•0 comments

The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)

https://ratfactor.com/cards/limitations
32•andsoitis•4h ago•6 comments

FreeDNS

https://freedns.afraid.org/
254•esher•10h ago•65 comments

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
288•rramadass•16h ago•217 comments

The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise

https://de.numista.com/9866
96•schleck8•9h ago•32 comments

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move
268•cxr•10h ago•179 comments

Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/neural-chip-decodes-interactions-between-brain-r-2/
94•giuliomagnifico•10h ago•32 comments

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
281•theanonymousone•18h ago•140 comments

A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)

https://aresluna.org/this-is-a-story-of-a-figma-bug/
3•jllyhill•3d ago•0 comments

Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog

https://lukaswerner.com/post/2026-10-20@bottom-up-vga
50•derHackerman•4d ago•10 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1552•sohkamyung•2d ago•243 comments

Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats

https://www.makeuseof.com/google-nest-thermostats-unsupported/
46•gnabgib•2h ago•38 comments

Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map

https://bbtree.xiangpeng.systems/post/
56•aoli-al•7h ago•6 comments

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock
194•fragebogen•16h ago•61 comments

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
280•mooreds•3d ago•80 comments

No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-th...
489•the-mitr•6h ago•488 comments

Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI's math write-ups

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/24/oai-math-revised-a-community-hub-for-revising-openais-m...
36•tokepi•10h ago•27 comments

Bringing uv and ty together

https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration
303•Ravencentric•4d ago•110 comments

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c
257•stmonty•22h ago•88 comments
Open in hackernews

Tailworm – Tailscale Vulnerabilities

https://tailworm.com/
17•theanonymousone•1h ago

Comments

iancarroll•57m ago
Looks like AI slop and certainly not wormable in the traditional sense. Hard to imagine that your access to a Tailscale SSH server would then allow further replication, and certainly it would not allow for meaningful cross-tenant replication.

Seems like they responded on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/1xekjpd/tailworm...

drum55•48m ago
This is just slop, even if any of the issues raised here are real or not, no human bothered to want to contribute to its authorship. The linked website is something like 10,000 words that by and large convey nothing useful to the reader. HN is going to need a flag for these articles so nobody wastes and time under the illusion that there’s anything worth reading.
toylet•47m ago
Tailscales architecture of increasing its scope while having insufficient isolation is why I don't use it. (I just want the mesh, but their non-root setup instructions are now gone!)

That said, these vulnerabilities aren't that significant.

Meh.

gz5•40m ago
there are fair and not fair points in all this (too much AI?).

to be fair, config choices like tailnet lock and ephemeral keys can be used to mitigate.

however, the enumeration of the entire tailnet leading to one compromised node providing the whole map (e.g. hugging face) is inherent in their architecture. that one can be mitigated by ACLs for small networks, but that is unwieldy at scale.

i do have to agree that tailscale is a vpn - which is not easily reconfigured to follow more zero trust principles. so their zero trust washing marketing is disingenuous. they could stick with their strength: an easy to use version of a great vpn (wireguard).

raggi•35m ago
(tailscalar here): it's been a long day working on this, and we will have more details to follow. quickly though, on this point about enumeration, some of this may be a difference in headscale. the tailscale control plane performs what we colloquially refer to as "netmap trimming" - if node a has no acls that allow it to do anything with node b, then neither a or b would see each other in their netmap.
gz5•10m ago
appreciate your hard work and ts in general.

trimming is a neat feature - thanks for that - thought the ACLs are often not there to begin with because configuring off the full node level access defaults of the vpn is difficult, at least at scale.

not specific to ts - all vpns and firewalls have the same intrinsic issue.