Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

382 xx_ns 2026-06-03 11:33:25 UTC blog.nns.ee Llama Share 69

The user discovered vulnerabilities in the Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X firmware that allow an attacker to turn the speaker into a covert spying tool or Rubber Ducky without pairing or physical access. The user found that the speaker's Bluetooth connection can be exploited to send CTP commands, and they created a custom firmware that turns the speaker into a keyboard, allowing remote ...

DaVinci Resolve 21

49 pentagrama 2026-06-03 14:33:25 UTC blackmagicdesign.com Llama Share 22

DaVinci Resolve is a powerful video editing software that supports Mac, Windows, and Linux, with features like AI region tracking and HDR grading. It offers various hardware panels for color correction, audio editing, and mixing.

Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min

291 reconnecting 2026-06-03 13:33:25 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 253

Meta is scaling back its plan to track employees' computer activity after backlash from staff. Employees can now opt out of tracking for up to 30 minutes at a time or request exemptions.

Every Byte Matters

144 ingve 2026-06-03 11:33:25 UTC fzakaria.com Llama Share 68

Understanding cache line and page sizes is crucial for optimizing performance in Java. Keeping a tight control on working set size can drastically affect time for random access patterns.

PlayStation Architecture

128 gregsadetsky 2026-06-03 10:33:25 UTC copetti.org Llama Share 22

Sony designed the PlayStation's CPU, a MIPS R3000A-based chip, to be simple and practical, but this simplicity came at a cost. The CPU lacks a Floating-Point Unit (FPU) and has a pipelined design that requires manual filling of delay slots to mitigate pipeline hazards.

Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2

157 nathell 2026-06-03 09:33:25 UTC handwritten.danieljanus.pl Full Share 26

An actual Clojure REPL running on my reMarkable 2

1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug

562 ammar2 2026-06-03 02:33:25 UTC blog.ammaraskar.com Llama Share 82

An attacker can steal a GitHub token by exploiting a vulnerability in VSCode's webviews, allowing them to install malicious extensions and gain full code execution. The attack involves creating a Jupyter notebook with a payload that installs a local workspace extension, which can then be used to steal the token.

A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

4 SGran 2026-06-03 15:08:25 UTC letsencrypt.org Prefix Share 0

Let’s Encrypt is committed to a post-quantum-safe Web PKI. The path we’re planning to take is Merkle Tree Certificates (“MTCs”), a new approach that adds post-quantum authentication to the web without sacrificing the speed and reliability that have made TLS universal. This post is about these plans and why we believe MTCs are worth pursuing as a key to a post-quantum future. For much of the ...

Nabokov's pale fire: the lost 'father of all hypertext demos'? (2011)

70 aragonite 2026-06-03 10:33:25 UTC dl.acm.org Full Share 12

I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

79 frereubu 2026-06-03 14:33:25 UTC old.reddit.com Llama Share 13

User is blocked from accessing data due to empty or invalid User-Agent. Try changing to default User-Agent or filing a ticket for assistance.

Shopify Is Down

46 harrouet 2026-06-03 14:33:25 UTC shopifystatus.com Llama Share 30

Merchants and customers may experience issues with admins, checkouts, storefronts, and Retail POS. Access to Support is also affected.

Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)

167 s-macke 2026-06-03 05:33:25 UTC github.com/s-macke Llama Share 48

A user reverse engineered Test Drive III maps, reconstructing them with AI after 5 years of work. The maps are stored in a 32x16 grid with 2-byte cells containing tile IDs and rotation/height data.

Piramidal (YC W24) – Software Engineers – NYC Onsite

0 2026-06-03 12:33:25 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

We're hiring senior software engineers for AI and Neuroscience projects with expertise in Python, Go, Terraform, React, and TypeScript. Ideal candidates have experience with streaming systems, data-intensive UIs, or architecture design.

Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux

399 tanelpoder 2026-06-02 23:33:25 UTC github.com/c0dejedi Llama Share 106

A daemon allocates VRAM as a block device using the NBD protocol, exposing it as a swap device to the kernel. This approach sidesteps NVIDIA driver limitations and provides a swap solution with lower latency than NVMe.

What I've learned about the trombone

38 bookofjoe 2026-06-03 11:33:25 UTC bryanhu.com Llama Share 27

Playing the trombone involves controlling pitch through a continuous slide and embouchure adjustments to access different partials and overtones, allowing for subtle pitch adjustments during play. The trombone's unique tuning system, based on just intonation, allows for micro-adjustments to be made while playing, enabling a more nuanced and expressive sound.

MAI-Code-1-Flash

509 EvanZhouDev 2026-06-02 19:33:25 UTC microsoft.ai Llama Share 238

Microsoft introduces MAI-Code-1-Flash, a new coding model for fast and efficient assistance in developer workflows. It outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 with better price to performance and is now rolling out to GitHub Copilot users in VS Code.

I Found a Bug in Apple's Fsck_hfs

3 zdw 2026-06-03 14:33:25 UTC medium.com/@kivancgunalp Prefix Share 1

TL;DR: fsck_hfs in macOS Sequoia (version hfs-683.x) has a cache exhaustion bug that reports false corruption on large HFS+ volumes. On machines with 8 GB RAM, volumes of 24 TB or larger trigger "Couldn't read node" errors during the extended attributes check. Your data is fine — the bug is in the tool, not the filesystem. Machines with 16 GB+ RAM are unaffected, as are older ...

32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building

145 papersail 2026-06-03 13:33:25 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 149

RAM prices have skyrocketed due to AI demands, with 32GB DDR5 RAM now costing $375 and 64GB reaching $679.99. PC builders face enormous pricing pressure as popular kits and upgrades exceed $400, with no sign of prices letting up.

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

82 zvr 2026-06-03 07:33:25 UTC leidendeclaration.ai Llama Share 35

The Leiden Declaration calls for mathematicians to exercise responsibility in adopting artificial intelligence, ensuring the continued flourishing of the discipline, and preserving traditional values such as transparency, attribution, and peer review. It provides recommendations for individuals, institutions, and industry to promote fair and transparent practices in mathematical research.

Show HN: Tired of duct-taping access control into agent prompts. Here's the fix

10 zwigglers 2026-06-03 13:33:25 UTC github.com/yaodub Llama Share 10

Cast is an open-source harness for multi-user, multi-agent systems. It provides a self-hosted, MIT-licensed platform for building and managing agents with access control and identity features.

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds

137 ray__ 2026-06-03 04:33:25 UTC research.ligo.bio Llama Share 42

Researchers improved biomolecular modeling by scaling models, compute, and data, but found that natural protein sequences are vast and their folds are more redundant than sequence counts suggest. They developed a scalable clustering algorithm to identify reusable structural neighborhoods and found that natural proteins reuse a relatively small set of fold solutions, suggesting that enzyme ...

Thomas Mann: Goethe Heartened by Panama (As Suez for English, or Danube-Rhine)

13 curio_Pol_curio 2026-06-03 13:33:25 UTC yalereview.org Llama Share 0

Goethe's life and work embody the values of the German bourgeoisie, including hard work, patience, and a love of order. His art and personality reflect a balance between the bourgeois and the sublime, making him a timeless and universal figure.

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study

353 berlianta 2026-06-03 00:33:25 UTC law.stanford.edu Llama Share 297

A Stanford study found law professors prefer AI-generated answers to student questions over human-written ones, with AI winning 75% of head-to-head matchups. The study suggests AI can be a valuable tool in legal education, offering high-quality, on-demand support that complements classroom instruction.

DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors

55 sohkamyung 2026-06-03 06:33:25 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 17

Richard Greenhill built a life-size humanoid robot called Shadow Walker in his attic with a group of enthusiasts. The robot, which stood 168 cm tall, used compressed air to move its 28 "air-muscles" and had 12 degrees of freedom, but struggled to walk.

U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device

95 shscs911 2026-06-03 04:33:25 UTC utoronto.ca Llama Share 32

Researchers at the University of Toronto discovered a new cyberthreat that uses free AI models to spread and adapt, targeting all online devices. This threat can seize control of networks and launch sophisticated attacks at virtually no cost, raising concerns about global security.

Man out of Time: The travels and ecstasies of a Russian aesthete

12 lermontov 2026-06-03 14:33:25 UTC lareviewofbooks.org Llama Share 1

Russian writer Pavel Muratov's book Evocations of Italy explores Italy's art and culture, combining daily life and myth into a single, coherent image. Muratov's work reflects his own experiences as an exile, balancing the particular and the general in his descriptions of Italy's masterpieces.

Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia

195 fons-p 2026-06-02 23:33:25 UTC discourse.julialang.org Llama Share 29

Pluto version 1.0 is released, celebrating six years of progress and making scientific computing more accessible and fun. Pluto is an interactive environment for notebook programming in Julia, with features like reproducibility, accessibility, and reactivity.

He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut

38 malshe 2026-06-03 15:07:25 UTC wired.com Llama Share 20

Dan Berulis, an IT staffer at the NLRB, filed a whistleblower complaint against DOGE, claiming data was compromised and accessed by Russian IP addresses. Berulis now sues Elon Musk, alleging Musk's tweet made him a target of violence after his car's brake lines were cut.

Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework

91 gregsadetsky 2026-06-03 02:33:25 UTC capstone-engine.org Llama Share 4

Capstone is a disassembly engine for binary analysis and reversing, supporting 24 architectures and implemented in pure C with bindings for various languages. It provides a generic API and is widely used in the security community.

Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

102 dpmdpm 2026-06-03 01:33:25 UTC blog.roku.com Llama Share 46

Roku LT OS is a lightweight, open-source operating system for embedded systems and automotive engineering. It provides a powerful, predictable framework for high-performance hardware-level development.