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Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data

https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370
105•sidgarimella•29m ago•31 comments

Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/
246•xx_ns•1d ago•84 comments

Mac at Any Scale

https://namespace.so/blog/mac-at-any-scale
129•anner_•2h ago•56 comments

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archivin...
201•bookofjoe•1d ago•80 comments

Schools that block Google’s A.I. will lose student access to its search engine

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/google-search-schools-restrict-ai.html
197•ceejayoz•2h ago•164 comments

The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading

https://honnibal.dev/blog/astra-read-write-misleading
704•syllogism•5h ago•161 comments

OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats

145•user052919•2h ago•50 comments

Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMs

https://www.ashbyhq.com/careers?ashby_jid=695b1ce6-c375-4fad-94ef-61b50a3fbd28&utm_source=hn
1•abhikp•51m ago

Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/trump-admin-sues-utah-to-save-kalshi-from-the-states-...
135•rbanffy•2h ago•75 comments

Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years

https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/writing-seen-in-pherc-306b-for-the
67•benbreen•22h ago•8 comments

USDB: Scaling Storage for Next-Generation Recommender Systems at ByteDance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02618
10•1equalsequals1•1h ago•0 comments

Tiny Basic for Arduino

https://dilshan.github.io/tiny-basic/
28•AlexeyBrin•2h ago•9 comments

Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one

https://blog.bear.app/2026/11/bear-turns-10-and-it-still-feels-like-day-one/
39•psxuaw•2h ago•19 comments

Gitbook Breached

41•punchmesan•1h ago•6 comments

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026/algorithmic-improvements-chess.html
286•markusw•9h ago•137 comments

Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables

https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/
44•pmkary•1d ago•10 comments

Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/study-estimates-75-nfl-players-died-15-year-span-may-c...
87•gmays•2h ago•48 comments

Show HN: HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel

https://hissingkitty.com/hacker-churn
32•drewlem•2h ago•17 comments

Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack

https://dfarq.homeip.net/charles-tandy-the-mastermind-behind-radio-shack/
84•ibobev•5h ago•61 comments

Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection

https://katamari.vaguespac.es/
123•thebigship•1d ago•37 comments

Exploring the Legacy of Image Club Graphics

https://blog.somnolescent.net/2026/02/exploring-the-legacy-of-image-club-graphics/
4•tobr•1d ago•0 comments

Handles are the better pointers (2018)

https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html
16•vinhnx•2h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Interactive notes on RLHF, attention, LoRA and LLM evals

https://concepts.laxmena.com/
27•laxmena•2h ago•2 comments

Embedding boolean circuits in a neural network

https://edwardbenson.com/2026/10/embedding-boolean-circuits-in-a-neural-network
10•eob•2d ago•2 comments

Toit v2.0.0

https://toit.io/blog/toit-v2-0-0/
192•floitsch•2d ago•64 comments

Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World?

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/16/why-don-t-we-life-in-an-art-nouveau-world
60•shcallaway•1d ago•70 comments

Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology

https://github.com/NVIDIA/auto-ontology
241•campervans•10h ago•100 comments

Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line

https://jivx.com/yt
19•momentmaker•3h ago•9 comments

Resisting Cognitive Surrender

https://knlb.dev/essays/surrender
278•knlb•2d ago•136 comments

Killing what can't be handled – putting a spaghetti demon to eternal rest

https://themaister.net/blog/2026/10/29/killing-what-cant-be-handled-putting-a-spaghetti-demon-to-...
26•ibobev•1d ago•3 comments
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Gitbook Breached

39•punchmesan•1h ago
We opened a ticket with support about Gitbook availability issues and got this in reply. We have yet to see any official customer communication or breach notification. Apologies for the formatting, did the best I could as it's a mobile paste.

Update:

GitBook security incident update Hey <$name>, The GitBook app, the GitBook API, and published docs are available again. A few services may still be degraded as we finish restoring everything to full performance.

*What happened* GitBook has been the target of a sophisticated, highly targeted attack using AI agents. At 19:00 CET, November 2, the attacker gained unauthorized access to some of our infrastructure credentials. We detected the attack immediately and acted swiftly to block further impact. To make sure our infrastructure was fully secure, we then took the GitBook app and authenticated docs sites offline. We kept publicly published content live for as long as possible, using cached data.

*What we did immediately* * Blocked the attacker and closed the vulnerabilities involved * Replaced every credential and secret across our infrastructure * Brought services back only once we were confident they were secure * Invalidated every customer’s API tokens on our platform

*Your data* Our investigation shows that the attacker may have accessed the following: * Git Sync secrets. * GitBook API tokens. * Third-party API tokens used to connect external tools to GitBook. * Questions asked to GitBook Assistant by your site visitors.

At this stage, we have found no evidence that any of your content in GitBook was modified.

*What you need to do now* * Rotate any existing GitBook API tokens. We revoked all personal API tokens during the incident. * Rotate any third-party API tokens or secrets you use to connect other tools to GitBook. * If you have published integrations that use secrets, rotate those secrets. * If you use the GitBook MCP server, re-authenticate it. Please contact your GitBook organization’s admin to assist with this process.

*What we are doing next* * Monitoring the situation in case of further attacks. * Introducing further security measures to our platform. * Writing a full post mortem that will be published soon with more detailed information about the incident. * If you have any further questions, please reach out to your account manager or our support team. You can also check status.gitbook.com for updates

Thank you for your patience, and we apologize again for the disruption The GitBook team

Comments

punchmesan•50m ago
Oof that formatting is rougher than I thought. Will try to clean it up after I'm done reconfiguring gitbook...
verdverm•35m ago
new lines between bullets, only italics available, not markdown
philipwhiuk•45m ago
This is the public disclosure: https://www.gitbookstatus.com/incidents/01M6FXDDGQRWHMYYWXY2...

Note that the summary at the top of https://www.gitbookstatus.com at time of writing does not mention the unauthorized access and the incident details does not mention the contents disclosed above.

petecooper•43m ago
https://www.gitbook.com/status/security-incident-2026-11-03
manytimesaway•34m ago
FYI, Gitbook was made by the team behing friendco.de, which they killed without any announcement years ago.
aliasxneo
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32m ago
"GitBook has been the target of a sophisticated, highly targeted attack using AI agents."

Add it to the list, I guess.