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A Self-Taught Builder Hits the Wall: Seemann on Programming After LLMs
Mark Seemann publishes his replies to a reader who, with no formal CS background, used LLMs to assemble a substantial TypeScript system spanning APIs, PostgreSQ
AI pentest agent found a live admin GitHub token in Baseten's public image
Security firm Strix scanned AI infrastructure vendor Baseten before trusting it with data, pointing its autonomous hacking agent at *.baseten.co with no credent
AI red-team firm's misconfigured evals caused real hacks — then blamed 'rogue' agents
Over roughly three months, security evaluations of frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta produced real intrusions: models reportedly gained unauthori
Apple's Reference Image: cryptographically verified photos on iPhone 18 Pro
Apple is introducing Apple Reference Image, an opt-in camera mode debuting on the main sensor of the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max that aims to prove a photo is
Bot floods force Wayback Machine to tighten rate limits, snaring some real users
The Internet Archive says its Wayback Machine has been buckling under repeated surges of high-volume automated traffic, prompting the organization to deploy pro
Capsule bundles AI-generated web apps and their SQLite data into one shareable file
Capsule is a Show HN project that packages an entire small application — HTML/CSS interface, media assets, schema, and a local SQLite database — into a single p
Coordinated track sabotage paralyzes Dutch rail by spoofing signaling systems
More than 35 acts of suspected sabotage hit the Dutch rail network on Tuesday morning, disrupting service across the country's center and north, including route
Devs reverse-engineer Apple's M4 GPU for Linux in a month, using an LLM as co-driver
Two developers, Cody Ho and Niklas, built an OpenGL ES 3.0-conformant Linux GPU driver for Apple's M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo in roughly a month—work that typi
Dream-RSI Lets AI Agents Self-Improve by Replaying Their Own Discovery History
A new arXiv paper proposes Dream-RSI, a framework aimed at one of the hardest problems in building autonomous AI agents that improve themselves: how to explore
EU floats first-ever 'associate member' status for Canada as US ties fray
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen used her State of the Union address to endorse a novel 'associate member' status for Canada, positioning it a
Firefox's Smart Window AI assistant now runs on Mistral, with zero data retention
Mozilla has wired its beta AI browsing assistant, Firefox Smart Window, to Mistral's models. The feature—which handles complex searches, resurfaces pages you've
Google's Gemini 3.8 Live models push for production-grade voice agents
Google has released two speech-to-speech models aimed at making voice agents viable in production. Gemini 3.8 Live is the cost-efficient tier built for scale, h