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Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2512.09882: Comparing AI Agents to Cybersecurity Professionals in Real-World Penetration Testing

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Show HN: Make audio loops online

Create music loops right in your browser using your keyboard or grid sequencer. Features drumpad, melodic keyboard, multiple synth types, and WAV/MP3 export.

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Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification

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We Recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari Horoscope Program and You Can Run It

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Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit

My personal website and blog

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Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025)

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Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics

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Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

Three months ago I would have dismissed claims that AI could replace developers. Today, after using Claude Opus 4.5, I believe AI coding agents can absolutely replace developers.

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A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time

ByteShape's device-optimized release of Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507. Learn how we maximize speed and quality tradeoffs across Raspberry Pi, Intel CPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs.

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Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)

Phrack is both a technical journal and a cultural document. Like all zines, it represents a snapshot of the scene at the time.

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Show HN: VaultSandbox – Test your real MailGun/SES/etc. integration

Keep your provider and your config. Just swap the recipient to validate real TLS, DNS, and SPF/DKIM entirely inside your VPC. Works with Postmark, SendGrid, SES, and more.

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CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs

Here at CES 2026, AMD showed off their upcoming Venice series of server CPUs and their upcoming MI400 series of datacenter accelerators.

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Laylo (YC S20) – Head of Growth (Organic and Partners and Loops and AI) – Remote US

Laylo is the Drop CRM powering iconic artists and live events. The platform combines landing pages, messaging, link tracking, and more to drive more tickets, merch and streams through Instagram DM, SMS and Email. Today, we power CRM across hundreds of millions of fans for some of the biggest names in entertainment like Sabrina Carpenter, Outside Lands and Skrillex. Role Overview We’re looking for a Head of Growth (player/coach) to build and run Laylo’s growth engine. A 0→1 builder who doesn’t just ideate, but ships. You’ll create great content, run scrappy experiments, and build product growth loops that compound. This is a hands-on role: you’ll set strategy, execute a rapid experiment cadence, measure results, and turn wins into repeatable

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On the slow death of scaling

For the last decade, it has been hard to stray off the beaten path of accepted wisdom for what drives innovation. We have been held hostage to a painfully simpl

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I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

I wanted a camera that doesn’t exist — so I built it. The Leica G9ii This article is not a tutorial. It’s a record of what happens when a software person tries to solve a hardware problem the …

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The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

A guide for how to use your smartphone to code anywhere at anytime. - GitHub - rberg27/doom-coding: A guide for how to use your smartphone to code anywhere at anytime.

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Vietnam bans unskippable ads

Saigon’s guide to restaurants, street food, news, bars, culture, events, history, activities, things to do, music & nightlife.

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On this day

A series of wildfires ravage the Greater Los Angeles area, resulting in at least 16 deaths and 13,401 structures destroyed.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing

Show HN: Make audio loops online

Sergey Brin's Unretirement

Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification

We Recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari Horoscope Program and You Can Run It

Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit

Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025)

Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time

Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)

Show HN: VaultSandbox – Test your real MailGun/SES/etc. integration

CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs

Laylo (YC S20) – Head of Growth (Organic and Partners and Loops and AI) – Remote US

On the slow death of scaling

I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

Vietnam bans unskippable ads

On this day

A series of wildfires ravage the Greater Los Angeles area, resulting in at least 16 deaths and 13,401 structures destroyed.

The longest U.S. House of Representatives speaker election since the December 1859 – February 1860 U.S. speaker election concludes and Kevin McCarthy is elected 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

The 6.4Mw 2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.

Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, executing twelve people and wounding eleven others.

A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.

A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.

The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.

A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.

The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president.

Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.

Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.

Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City in one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.

Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.

Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, before being shot to death by police officers.

Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.

Surveyor program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36A.

The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.

Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.

In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.

Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.

Winter War: Battle of Raate Road: The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.

Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.

Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.

A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.

The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.

Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.[citation needed]

The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.

Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.

The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".

Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.

The Kingstree jail fire kills 22 freedmen in Reconstruction-era South Carolina.

HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.

Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.

The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.

A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.

Battle of Zlatoust: Battle between Bashkir and Tatar rebels and the government troops of the Tsardom of Russia. It is one of the events of the Bashkir rebellion of 1704–1711.

Bashkir rebels besiege Yelabuga.

Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following night.

Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.

French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.

Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal.

The people of Constantinople revolt, lynch the unpopular official Nikephoritzes and proclaim Nikephoros Botaneiates as emperor.

The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.

Top Stories from Hacker News

Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing

Show HN: Make audio loops online

Sergey Brin's Unretirement

Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification

We Recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari Horoscope Program and You Can Run It

Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit

Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025)

Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time

Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)

The 6.4Mw  2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.

The 6.4Mw  2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.