N-able Says Attackers Take Over N-central Servers After Initial Fix Proves Incomplete
N-able said attackers exploited an authentication bypass in N-central to gain remote administrative access and reach the customer systems managed through those servers. Its first fix was incomplete. CVE-2026-18577 affects N-central builds prior to 2026.3.1.7. N-able...
Hugging Face Diffusers Flaws Could Let Model Repositories Execute Arbitrary Code
Three high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in Hugging Face's Diffusers library that could allow crafted model repositories to stealthily execute arbitrary code on machines that load it, opening the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain to security...
Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors
Article URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-project-goals/blob/main/src/2026/move-trait.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152023 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
AI is ‘both the weapon and the target’ in latest wave of cyberattacks
AI is becoming both an attack tool and a high-value target, with attacks by AI-enabled adversaries rising 89 percent in 2025, according to CrowdStrike. The security firm's annual Threat Hunting Report details criminal gangs and nation states using AI throughout the...
Don’t Be a Meat Proxy
Article URL: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151933 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
Microsoft says 8GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11
Microsoft has added four new items to the to-do list it set itself to improve the quality of Windows 11. Redmond’s list landed in March 2026 in response to users’ anger at Windows 11 becoming increasingly flaky and needy. Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s executive VP for...
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day
WHO, ME? Comedian W.C. Fields is credited with the aphorism "Never work with children or animals," which The Register mentions because half of it has some relevance to this week's edition of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column chronicling the ups and downs of...
How to use AI to boost your creativity
Most of work life doesn’t involve that much creativity. Instead, it involves experience. The more that you have seen before, the more likely it is that you will have a ready solution for something that comes up at work, because you have previous experience to draw on....
AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28271 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150773 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Making a Retro(ish) Game Console From Scratch
As easy as it is to make a late 1980s-style game console using a modern microcontroller, there’s arguably more fun in doing things the traditional way. This is the challenge that [Throaty Mumbo] took upon himself when he embarked on his retro game console project,...
OpenAI’s super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics
OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics Go to Source Article URL:...
Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister
ASIA IN BRIEF Meta last week briefly took down an unremarkable video posted by India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, earning itself days of criticism and regulatory trouble. The video featured Modi announcing a new task force that will reform the exams required to...
Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T
Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/exclusive-apple-engineer-says-he-was-fired-after-refusing-to-send-customer-devic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150738 Points: 22 # Comments: 1
Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150470 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
Easy Theremin Uses ESP32
The Theremin is that classic electronic musical instrument that makes those weeee-ohhhhh noises which were so popular in mid-century science fiction movies. Mid-last-century, that is, because this century is just beginning. In any case, you could build one with...
Show HN: Isopolis – isometric pixel map of SF
Article URL: https://sf.isopolis.city/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149966 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
RFC 9851: TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze
Article URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9851.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150181 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K
Article URL: https://github.com/johnsonjh/cpm386 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149898 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Why Book Corners won’t sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap
Article URL: https://www.andreagrandi.it/posts/why-book-corners-wont-sync-contributions-back-to-openstreetmap/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149746 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
Article URL: https://github.com/pg83/shitty Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149326 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest
Article URL: https://www.ohiostatefair.com/p/get-involved/arts/poster-contest Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149188 Points: 31 # Comments: 11
The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149125 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Hackaday Links: August 2, 2026
About a month ago, we brought you word that the commercial rescue mission designed by Katalyst Space to save NASA’s Swift gamma-ray observatory had reached orbit and early indicators were looking good. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for things to start going...
Californians’ data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1
Article URL: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/nbc-7-responds-2/californians-data-deletion-requests-drop-become-enforceable-aug-1/4054771/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148987 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation
Article URL: https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148128 Points: 57 # Comments: 21
Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door
I was poking through the iio devices on my Framework the other day and turns out Framework 12s have a pretty accurate hinge angle sensor! So I made a version of LidAngleSensor (https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor) but for the Framework 12 on Linux, so you...
Crypto Exchanges Are Quietly Becoming Financial Operating Systems
Recent moves by Crypto.com, Coinbase, and S&P suggest that the next phase of crypto may be built around infrastructure—not another trading screen. For years, crypto exchanges competed on a familiar set of features: more tokens, lower fees, faster trading, and...
Dashboard Trust Is a Data Governance Problem, Not a BI Tool Problem
You built the dashboard. It's connected to the right sources. It refreshes on schedule. It looks good in the demo. Three months later, someone in a leadership meeting asks where a number came from, and the room goes quiet. Nobody answers with the dashboard. Someone...
Beyond Simple Prompts: Engineering Self-Reflection & Actor-Critic Loops in AI Agents
One-shot generation is fast, but fragile. A model produces an answer in one pass, with no enforced verification step, no hard break condition, and no structural defense against its own blind spots. The result is familiar: polished language masking logical...
Finance in AI-Native Companies Is a Control System, Not a Monthly Report
A lot of companies still run finance like it's 2012. Budgets get locked once a quarter. Forecasts get refreshed once a month. Engineering ships an AI feature on Monday, and finance figures out what it did to cloud spend somewhere around the middle of the following...