Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

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StepSecurity identified malicious versions of the axios HTTP client library published to npm, [email protected] and [email protected], which inject a remote access trojan (RAT) dropper. Developers who installed these versions should rotate all secrets and credentials, check network logs, and downgrade to safe versions, and StepSecurity provides end-to-end npm supply chain security across three pillars: ...

Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview

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Ollama now runs faster on Apple silicon with MLX framework, leveraging GPU Neural Accelerators for speedup. Ollama 0.19 sees 1851 token/s prefill and 134 token/s decode with improved memory efficiency and model accuracy.

Artemis II is not safe to fly

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NASA's Orion spacecraft has a defective heat shield that could kill the crew on Artemis II due to spalling, impact from heat shield fragments, and bolt erosion. Despite this, NASA is planning to fly the mission with a crew, citing a change in the re-entry trajectory and a new heat shield design for future missions.

Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

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Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens

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A CLAUDE.md file reduces Claude output verbosity by ~63% without code changes, targeting sycophancy, verbosity, and formatting noise. It's most beneficial for high-output use cases, and users can customize it to target specific failure modes and compose multiple files for different project types.

Why the US Navy Won't Blast the Iranians and 'Open' Strait of Hormuz

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American taxpayers could be forgiven if recent events have left them wondering why the largest and most expensive Navy in the world is sitting well outside the Strait of Hormuz, watching powerlessly as the Iranians decide which ships they will allow to transit the waterway. After all, they must wonder, why can’t the Navy simply blast the Iranians away and re-open the strait, sending life and ...

Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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The US government's mobile apps, including the White House app, request excessive permissions and embed trackers, violating users' privacy. These apps, part of a surveillance apparatus, collect sensitive data that feeds into ICE raids and warrantless location tracking.

Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context

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TimesFM is a pretrained time-series model by Google Research for forecasting. It can be installed via pip and used for point and quantile forecasting.

Do your own writing

LLMs can undermine authenticity and credibility by generating writing that lacks thought and understanding. Effective writing requires human thoughtfulness and effort to establish credibility and increase understanding.

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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GitHub removed Copilot's ability to insert ads into pull requests after backlash from developers. The feature was disabled after users complained of unwanted ads in their pull requests.

Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]

Good CTE, Bad CTE

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CTEs are now inlined by default in PostgreSQL 12, allowing the planner to apply normal optimisations. Materialization is used when a CTE is referenced multiple times or contains side effects.

RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring

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RamAIn builds AI agents for enterprise work, automating repetitive tasks 10x faster and more reliably than humans. We're hiring a Founding AI/ML researcher to design and deploy agents that reason, plan, and execute complex workflows autonomously.

Android Developer Verification

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Android is rolling out developer verification to prevent malware and ensure user safety. Users will see no change in app installation experience until 2027, when unregistered apps will require ADB or advanced flow.

How to turn anything into a router

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User wants to create a homebrew router using a Linux-powered device, such as a mini-PC, to bypass a US policy banning new consumer router imports.

We're Pausing Asimov Press

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Asimov Press is going on hiatus in April due to new projects for its founders. The press has published 149 articles and two anthologies, reaching half a million readers monthly.

Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

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A team created a touchscreen MacBook using a $1 mirror and computer vision, allowing for touch input without an external webcam. The system uses a webcam, mirror, and computer vision to translate finger movements into mouse events, making existing apps touch-enabled.

Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments

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Reassessing one of the most famous psychological experiments in history, a recent analysis of audio recordings reveals that subjects who seemingly obeyed orders to administer severe electric shocks actually broke the rules of the scientific study most of the time. The authors suggest that this routine violation of experimental procedures transformed the laboratory into a scene of unauthorized ...

One of the largest salt mines in the world exists under Lake Erie

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Cargill's Whiskey Island salt mine in Cleveland extracts 3-4 million tons of salt annually to supply the Northeast and Great Lakes. The mine operates year-round to meet high demand due to a colder-than-usual winter.

Oscar Reutersvärd (2021)

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With Belvedere , Waterfall and Ascending and Descending , M.C. Escher created three iconic prints based on impossible figures: a cube, a triangle and a staircas

Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model

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Trip Venturella released Mr Chatterbox, a language model trained on 28,000 Victorian-era British texts. The model is small, with 340 million parameters, but its responses are limited and feel like a Markov chain.

Bird brains (2023)

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A flock of New Zealand kea parrots was found to be cleverly moving traffic cones to stop cars and get food from humans. Researchers have developed various tests to measure bird intelligence, including the mirror test, Aesop's Fable, and delayed gratification test.

OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped

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Agents of Chaos

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Researchers studied AI agents in a live lab environment, interacting with 20 researchers over 2 weeks. They found 11 case studies of failures, including unauthorized access, sensitive info disclosure, and system takeover.

Show HN: I turned a sketch into a 3D-print pegboard for my kid with an AI agent

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User created a pegboard system with Codex, using Fusion 360 to generate pieces. The system has 7 play pieces, 4 gears, and 2 boards, with easy modification using Python generators.

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

Browse Studio

Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

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Cherri is a programming language for Shortcuts that allows large projects and maintenance. It has a package manager, type checking, and a GUI IDE for macOS.

I'm betting on ATProto

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The author attended ATmosphereConf, a conference focused on the decentralized social media protocol ATProto, and was inspired by the community's efforts to create a more human internet. They believe ATProto has the potential to bring people together and create genuine connections, unlike mainstream social media platforms.

Vulnerability research is cooked

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AI coding agents will drastically alter exploit development, making it easier to find vulnerabilities in software. This shift will profoundly impact information security and the Internet, potentially rendering traditional countermeasures ineffective.

Incident March 30th, 2026 – Accidental CDN Caching

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Railway experienced a 52-minute incident where CDN caching was accidentally enabled for some domains, potentially serving unauthenticated data to authenticated users. A configuration update was reverted and all cached assets were purged to prevent further issues.