Apple’s Private Relay feature could reveal your IP address to websites and services
Security researchers found an issue with Apple's WebKit browser engine that affects Private Relay.
Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more
Article URL: https://github.com/pradipta/wallfacer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192219 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Ship Safe, an open source security scanner for coding agents
Article URL: https://github.com/asamassekou10/ship-safe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192277 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
How a brilliant founder can become their company’s creative bottleneck
Lauren Templeton built a company around creativity. A London-based performing arts entrepreneur and coach, she’s grown her school, Select School of Performing Arts, from three ballet classes in one studio into a 50-location organization reaching more than 1,000...
Hacking a Tenda AC1200 Wi-Fi Router with a CVE Combo
Hacking a Tenda AC1200 Wi-Fi Router with a CVE Combo Go to Source It’s rather awkward when you buy a piece of hardware like a sketchy router to make a video about its hidden admin password backdoor – known as CVE-2026-11405 – only to...
Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/08/05/governments-are-making-a-dangerous-bet-on-the-ai-boom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192160 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
The $299 Viture Pro 2 are the company’s lightest and most comfortable smartglasses yet
Viture is releasing a more compact Mobile Dock Mini for just $99 alongside its new $299 smartglasses.
Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent
To demonstrate the capabilities of its next-generation Muse Spark model, Meta has released a terminal coding agent called Muse Code that it thinks can help developers to tidy up their software projects. Meta co-trained Muse Code on version 1.2 of its Muse Spark model,...
OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack
The chain of events leading up to OpenAI’s agents attacking Hugging Face and other organizations in July began months earlier, and involved agents asking other agents for help, building message boards, and even becoming paranoid that other agents were maliciously...
An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse
OPINION In a post-apocalyptic setting – a zombie outbreak, for example – a small, off-grid language model running on something like a Raspberry Pi sounds like a survival cheat code. It’s certainly a clever way to get folks to check out your physical AI platform and...
Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Article URL: https://www.costar.com/article/970809918/nashville-council-approves-eminent-domain-action-to-halt-data-center-project Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191624 Points: 15 # Comments: 1
LLMs won’t break symmetric crypto
Article URL: https://www.bfswa.blog/p/llms-wont-break-symmetric-crypto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191365 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Inter-Con Security – 276,114 breached accounts
In June 2026, Inter-Con Security was targeted in a ShinyHunters “pay or leak” extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data it alleged was taken from the company, including 276k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, job titles and...
3D Printing A Usable Airless Tire
For decades now, companies like Michelin have been teasing us with futuristic-looking automobile tires that don’t use air. Instead, they use a polymer mesh of sorts which maintains the same pressure on the travel surface that a pneumatic tire does, with much less...
DuckDuckGo’s new iPhone feature is a privacy win – I recommend getting it now
The iPhone version of the DuckDuckGo app has a new feature that makes sharing links easier and safer.
DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-protesters-signal-group-chats/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190753 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
SN 1090: Black Hat – The Hidden Flaws in AI Security Nobody Saw Coming
At Black Hat Las Vegas, the Security Now crew digs into how AI is not just finding hidden software bugs but also fueling both groundbreaking innovation and alarming new exploits. When open models can launch surprise Bitcoin heists, who draws the line between forbidden...
I ran a dumpstate analysis on my Samsung phone and found 3 useful system diagnostics
The hidden diagnostic file breaks down all the logging your Pixel, Samsung, or even Motorola does daily. Here's how I've been using it.
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
Article URL: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189287 Points: 78 # Comments: 19
X’s head of product is leaving the company one year after joining
Nikita Bier was the face of some of the platform's biggest changes.
Full Teardown of a 2026 Amazon Fire Stick HD
Die of the Amazon Fire Stick HD (2026) PMIC IC. (Credit: electronupdate, YouTube) After the release of Google’s Chromecast so-called ‘streaming sticks’ have remained a popular form factor, even though such technology is these days part of ‘smart’ TVs. Being curious as...
Get up to $400 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until Friday
Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing.
Dutch Bros Coffee buys dozens of Salad and Go stores that abruptly closed: See a full list of locations in 4 states
The dust has not yet settled on Salad and Go’s surprise bankruptcy and the abrupt closure of all of its locations, but a fellow Arizona-based restaurant brand is not wasting any time. Dutch Bros Coffee is moving to buy 51 locations from Salad and Go, which collapsed...
Dutch Bros Coffee buys dozens of Salad and Go stores that abruptly closed: See a full list of locations in four states
The dust has not yet settled on Salad and Go’s surprise bankruptcy and the abrupt closure of all of its locations, but a fellow Arizona-based restaurant brand is not wasting any time. Dutch Bros Coffee is moving to buy 51 locations from Salad and Go, which collapsed...
The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Article URL: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189287 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
CoinRabbit and ChangeNOW Publish a Report on Financial Privacy in Digital Assets
CoinRabbit and ChangeNOW have published a joint report, “Financial Privacy in the Digital Age,” examining the growing need for confidentiality on public ledgers. Combining data from multiple sources, including TRM Labs, Chainalysis, RAND Corporation, and internal...
Critical Infrastructure Doesn’t Care About Nationality
When news breaks that a foreign actor has targeted critical infrastructure, the headlines often focus on one question: Who did it? Was it a nation-state? A foreign intelligence service? A ransomware group operating overseas? Those are important questions, but I...
In E-Commerce, Slow Decisions Mean Lost Revenue
AI has made the customer experience far more personalized. It helps recommend products based on customer preferences and surfaces the most popular items on the first pages. But AI’s potential goes much further when it is backed by the right infrastructure and...
HOL Guard Earns a 301.76 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Firewall for AI Agents
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...
Can Machines Learn Taste?
"Taste" has become Silicon Valley's new favorite buzzword. It is now in the pitch decks, the investor theses, the product manifestos, and startup job descriptions. xAI literally had a job opening titled "Model Behavior Tutor — Style, Taste & Aesthetics," which...