GPT-5.4

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GPT-5.4 is a new model that combines reasoning, coding, and computer-use capabilities for professional work, improving efficiency and accuracy. It is available in ChatGPT, the API, and Codex, with GPT-5.4 Pro offering maximum performance on complex tasks.

Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

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The Brand Age

The Swiss watch industry faced a crisis in the 1970s due to Japanese competition, exchange rate changes, and quartz movements, but survived by transforming into luxury brands. This shift led to a new era where branding and design conflicted, with brands prioritizing visibility over quality and design.

Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details

To detect USB device plug/unplug events on Linux, libusb recommends using udev support, which is a mechanism that avoids race conditions by handling device events and rebroadcasting them to other programs. To listen to these rebroadcasted events without linking to libudev, one can use netlink sockets to receive messages from udev, which are sent with credentials and use a versioned packet ...

A ternary plot of citrus geneology

Citrus fruits are hybrids of three original species, represented by a ternary plot showing their genetic distribution. Human breeding and historical movement have created overlapping recombination clusters, resulting in diverse market varieties.

Good software knows when to stop

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Upgrading Linux distribution and packages caused unexpected behavior with the ls command. A lesson learned is to prioritize simplicity and focus on the product's core purpose rather than adding unnecessary features.

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines

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An attacker exploited a vulnerability in Cline's GitHub issue triage workflow to install OpenClaw, an AI agent, on developers' machines without consent. The attack, named Clinejection, used a combination of prompt injection, cache poisoning, and credential theft to publish a compromised package.

OpenTitan Shipping in Production

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OpenTitan, an open source silicon Root of Trust, is now shipping in commercially available Chromebooks, providing strong security guarantees. It's the first open source silicon RoT to support post-quantum cryptography and is maintained by lowRISC C.I.C.

Structured AI (YC F25) Is Hiring

As a Mechanical Design Engineer, you'll translate complex engineering logic into AI agents for professional-grade accuracy and risk mitigation. You'll partner with CTO and CPO to productize engineering intelligence and automate QA/QC checks for design engineers.

Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework

Jido 2.0 has shipped on Hex after 18 months of development, offering a simpler and more efficient agent framework built on the BEAM. It provides a pure functional agent architecture, strategies for AI integration, and a growing ecosystem of builders and packages.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

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A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk

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The user wants to access their Arch Linux system's early boot environment securely by setting up an SSH server and networking in the initramfs system, which is a small OS running from memory. They achieved this by adding systemd services to initramfs, including an SSH server and networking, and configuring Tailscale to allow access to the initramfs system.

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

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The user has been analyzing Firefox crash reports and found that up to 15% of crashes are caused by hardware defects, specifically bad or flaky memory, which is a much larger problem than previously estimated. The user believes that ECC RAM should be standard for all consumer electronics, and that manufacturers should be aware of their failure rates and take steps to replace faulty components ...

Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling

Gobhanu and Saatvik, the brothers behind Vela, built an AI agent that automates multi-party, multi-channel scheduling by reading context, checking calendars, and proposing times. Vela handles edge cases and varying user behavior across different demographics and channels, and the brothers are seeking feedback from experts in multi-agent coordination and conversational AI.

Converting dash cam videos into Panoramax images

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The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location

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The government is using online ad systems to track people's locations without warrants, buying location data from shady data brokers. This is made possible by the online advertising industry's massive surveillance machine that collects and shares personal data.

Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift

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A new speech library, qwen3-asr-swift, enables full-duplex speech-to-speech on Apple Silicon with NVIDIA's PersonaPlex 7B model. The library runs entirely on Apple Silicon, processing audio in and out with streaming via PersonaPlex 7B.

GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction

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Extract entities, classify text, parse structured data, and extract relations—all in one efficient model. we present gliner2, a unified framework that enhances the original gliner architecture to support named entity recognition, text classification, hierarchical structure data extraction. the framework is based on the open source python framework, which enables the development of scalable, ...

Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK's Vector API

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Netflix optimized their video serendipity scoring feature, which was consuming 7.5% of CPU, by batching and re-architecting memory layout, and then using the JDK Vector API for SIMD-style math in pure Java. This optimization resulted in a 7% drop in CPU utilization and 12% drop in average latency, allowing Netflix to handle the same traffic with 10% less CPU.

Let's Get Physical

The user participated in a physical pentest where they and their colleague blended in, bypassed security measures, and accessed restricted areas, including the director's office and server room. They successfully demonstrated vulnerabilities in the company's physical security, but were eventually caught and had a productive conversation with the security staff.

Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data

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Researchers from AI and machine learning backgrounds need to understand neuroimaging methodology to avoid common pitfalls in reconstruction from neuroimaging data. Reconstruction requires generalizing to novel stimuli outside the training set, which is a harder problem than decoding or identification.

Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app

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PageAgent.js: Intelligent GUI Agent for any website. Modern web AI automation with minimal integration.

A man who broke into jail

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Alex Friedmann, a respected prison reform activist, was arrested for infiltrating Nashville's new central jail and planting guns in its infrastructure. He was caught after months of secretly entering the jail, wearing disguises and hiding evidence, and was later found to have hidden multiple guns and keys in various parts of the jail.

Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels

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Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman extended support lifetimes of several long-term kernels after consulting users and maintainers. This move will likely stretch to future kernel releases, reflecting real-world adoption rather than a strict schedule.

Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project

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ℹ️ Editor’s note: This story is part of Mariblock’s “State of Fiat” coverage. Digital assets such as bitcoin are seen as competitors to central bank money. Therefore, we consider informing our audience of the state of their local currencies worthwhile. The World Bank has approved a $350 million finance package to support Ethiopia’s digital identity (ID) drive. The digital ID program — Fayda — ...
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The European Space Agency and partners successfully connected an aircraft to a geostationary satellite using laser communications, achieving error-free connections at 2.6 gigabits per second. This breakthrough enables seamless, high-speed connections for travellers and remote communities, laying the foundations for everyday technologies that depend on strong links.

Fast-Servers

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A high-performance network server design uses one thread per core, pinned to separate CPUs, with each thread handling a separate state transition and using epoll/kqueue for efficient file descriptor management. The design involves simple blocking/IO calls, no decision points, and can handle up to 100k requests per second on modern systems.

Poor Man's Polaroid

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The code controls a camera and printer using GPIO pins and Python libraries, capturing images and applying filters based on brightness. It also handles button presses and shutdown requests, with a cleanup function to release resources when the program exits.

Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough

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The Smalltalk IDE's four-pane System Browser has survived decades despite criticism, due to its ability to provide context for message passing. The real problem is not the browser, but the lack of integration between tools, making it hard to navigate and understand complex workflows.

Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king

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