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Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

Eleven days after Apple was notified of the eMudhra CA compromise, the git, curl and python3 that Apple ships with macOS still trust the compromised certificates.

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Rubber Duck I've Ever Had

Practical lessons on using AI in software engineering: beating procrastination, fighting code entropy, and why system design matters more than ever.

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AlpineBSD

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The Agent SDK

The Agent SDK is the framework we use to build our own managed agents like Bugbot, Security Reviewer, and Rollouts. Define agents in code and deploy them with one command.

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Start Doing Graph Theory

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Show HN: SlideBySide – Present slides without sharing your screen

Upload a PDF or PowerPoint, share a link, and present together: shared slide control, live cursors and drawing. No account needed.

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The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand

A factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand, in half the time of a typical Shenzhen quick-turn shop.

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Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

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Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

DAYJOB: Tax evaluates AI agents across 50 realistic tax environments, testing their ability to navigate messy records, exercise professional judgment, and deliver reliable tax work.

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CNC Stone Carving

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Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene

Continuing our Gaussian splatting development series, Director of Technology Sam Birley breaks down how we bypassed GPU Scene instance caps, implemented PlayCanvas Streamed SOG LODs, and managed GPU memory budgets for production-ready photogrammetry… bringing us to a point where the renderer has fin, Continuing our Gaussian splatting development series, Director of Technology Sam Birley breaks down how we bypassed GPU Scene instance caps, implemented PlayCanvas Streamed SOG LODs, and managed GPU memory budgets for production-ready photogrammetry… bringing us to a point where the renderer has finally earned the word ‘unlimited’. Maybe.

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Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material

By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a strong, flexible fiber.

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Nango (YC W23) Is Hiring Across Eng, FDE, Marketing, DevRel

From DevExp to high scale to API fragmentation, we work on hard problems.

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The case of the 9 bit AES key

Several PDF implementations advertise AES-256, but generate the 256-bit key from either a very small state space, or from insecure random sources.

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MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display has the world’s best laptop display. Featuring the M5 Pro or M5 Max chip, it’s a powerful platform for AI.

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Emacs Turns 50

How the MIT AI Lab’s text editor gave birth to the free software movement.

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Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer

Form Studio 1: the professional desktop 3D printer for hobbyists. Print razor-sharp minis, models & props in under 2 hours with mess-free resin handling.,Form Studio 1: the professional desktop 3D printer for hobbyists. Print razor-sharp minis, models & props in under 2 hours with mess-free resin handling.

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Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents

The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers' cellphone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.

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The tragedy of losing your Wikipedia page

Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not “notable” enough. How do these poor souls take the news?

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Gemini 4 Carbon

Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.

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On this day

Hurricane Melissa makes landfall near Black River, Jamaica, killing over 30 people, as well as tying the 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the most intense landfall in the North Atlantic.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

Rubber Duck I've Ever Had

AlpineBSD

The Agent SDK

Start Doing Graph Theory

Show HN: SlideBySide – Present slides without sharing your screen

The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand

Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

CNC Stone Carving

Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene

Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material

Nango (YC W23) Is Hiring Across Eng, FDE, Marketing, DevRel

The case of the 9 bit AES key

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

Emacs Turns 50

Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer

Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents

The tragedy of losing your Wikipedia page

Gemini 4 Carbon

On this day

Hurricane Melissa makes landfall near Black River, Jamaica, killing over 30 people, as well as tying the 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the most intense landfall in the North Atlantic.

The 2023 Rugby World Cup final is held at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France. It saw South Africa defeat New Zealand 12 to 11, claiming their fourth Webb Ellis Cup, becoming the first nation to do so.

Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president.

A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.

Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.

The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.

NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.

US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.

A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.

The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.

Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.

Aloha Island Air Flight 1712, a Twin Otter 300, crashed into terrain at night in Hawaii killing all 20 occupants onboard.

The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.

Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.

The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.

John XXIII is elected Pope.

Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries.

Aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19.

An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.

Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.

Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania.

The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.

World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.

Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.

Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.

The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.

World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.

Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.

The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, occurs.

US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

American Civil War: In East Tennessee, Union forces under General Alvan C. Gillem rout Confederate troops under General John C. Vaughn during the Battle of Morristown.

The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.

The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.

American Revolutionary War: British troops under General William Howe attack General George Washington's Continental Army and capture Chatterton Hill in the Battle of White Plains during the New York and New Jersey campaign.

The 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake causes up to 6,000 deaths in Peru, the deadliest in its history up to that point.

The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift is published.

The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan.

The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.

The Treaty of Ripon is signed, ending the hostilities of the Second Bishops' War.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.

French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months.

James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, defeats the forces of the rebelious George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, in the battle of Corrichie.

The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.

Abyssinian–Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia.

Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean.

Second Ottoman–Mamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman advance towards Egypt at the Battle of Yaunis Khan.

Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan.

Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.

Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.

Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.

The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Latin Christians in response to Aydınid piracy during the Smyrniote crusades.

Pietro Cadalo is appointed by the German Imperial court as antipope to Pope Alexander II, who was elected in the previous month.

The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule.

Constantine I defeats Maxentius in the battle of the Milvian Bridge, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.

Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.