Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery

https://opengraph.githubassets.com/302e26ce5e3a285c560d0c018fc6df7677c5c594df5180a71cfe26ccf02ff69c/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness
This is a reference implementation for autonomous vulnerability discovery and remediation using Claude, which includes a lightweight SDK-only walkthrough and a managed option called Claude Security. The implementation provides a step-by-step guide to building a vulnerability finding pipeline, customizing the logic, and using it with various access to Claude APIs.

IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake

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Run away while you still can, it's not too late for you to avoid the curse of knowledge.

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Cloudflare is acquiring VoidZero, the company behind Vite, but Vite will remain open source and vendor-agnostic. Cloudflare will invest $1 million in a Vite ecosystem fund to support maintainers and contributors.

When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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AI systems are rapidly accelerating their own development, with Anthropic's Claude model writing 80% of the company's code and improving at a rate of 3x per year. This trend points to a future where AI systems can fully design and develop their own successors.

Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API

Blqsort is a fast sorting algorithm that uses branchless partitioning and custom sorting networks for small subsets. It can be used in C++ and C with multithreading support and is suitable for sorting custom data structures.

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

The Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot is a secure and symmetrical knot that won't come undone on its own. It involves wrapping loops around each other and feeding them through a hole in the middle to create a tight, closed knot.

Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager

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CASTOR is a hierarchical storage management system developed at CERN for archiving physics data. It provides access protocols and manages data storage on disk and tape.

Retro-Tech Parenting

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As a technologist and parent, I'm choosing to share enriching aspects of technology with my kids by using physical media like CDs and DVDs, and setting up a home phone and computer with curated access to the internet.

KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei

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KVarN delivers FP16-level accuracy with up to 4x KV-cache capacity and 1.3x throughput. It's a calibration-free, plug-and-play solution for vLLM with native attention backend.

I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling

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The author, who wrote the book Ultralearning, is skeptical of dramatic proposals to reform schools because research consistently shows that direct instruction and practice are the most effective teaching methods. He believes that schools should focus on increasing efficiency and choosing what to learn, rather than trying to make education more like play or using technology to gamify learning.

Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers

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The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. Read More A honeybee larva’s ascent to royalty is shaped by more than gobbling up royal jelly; it is also dictated by her cradle. Scientists have discovered that the queen cells are made of chemically engineered, “bespoke” wax that is critical for ...

Show HN: FFmpeg WebCLI – Full FFmpeg in Browser, Offline PWA, No Uploads(WASM)

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A browser-based video editor uses WebAssembly to process videos locally without uploading or servers. It offers 30+ video operations, offline support, and multi-format support.

Samurai City

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Tokugawa Edo was a unique city where Japan's elites were concentrated and monitored, with a dual nature of being both the apex of society and a prison. The city's physical form was shaped by the government's need to control and monitor the population, resulting in a highly restricted and stratified urban environment.
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User connects JLink to Pinecil using a breakout board and female-to-female dupont wires. This setup allows for debugging with gdb using JLinkGDBServer and port 2331.

My two light switches got stuck in an infinite echo loop

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At 2am the hallway started clicking. Not once. Forever. Two wall switches were flipping each other on and off in a tight loop. A soft relay machine gun in the dark. I finally went and watched the logs. The shape of it was unmistakable: Each device applied the incoming change and then re-announced it. That made the other device apply it and re-announce too. Forever. If you have ever watched a ...

Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition

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Show HN: Hitoku Draft – Context aware local assistant

$5 Launch price · one-time Early supporters lock in $5. Price rises as the app grows. Get Hitoku Draft for $5 Press your hotkey in any text field on your Mac. Voice-to-text and AI editing activate instantly. 録 Drop in audio or video recordings and get clean text — on your Mac. Refine it with your voice. Get Hitoku Draft

Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images

When creating a live ISO, tweaks or installed packages vanish after a reboot due to ISO9660 being a read-only filesystem. A common workaround is to use OverlayFS or create an ext4 partition and tell the live OS to use it during boot.

Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring Founding FPGA Engineers

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Zetta is building next-gen AI chips, seeking a technical powerhouse with expertise in digital design, RTL quality, and synthesis. The role offers a chance to shape revolutionary AI technology, work with the founding team, and own critical decisions.

AI, Ashby Engineering, and the future

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Ashby Engineering uses AI to generate code, but emphasizes human judgment and empathy to ensure quality and customer understanding. Engineers focus on high-level decisions, while AI handles mechanical tasks, freeing them to build great products and understand customer needs.

Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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The Meta app Stella for smart glasses has a complete on-device facial recognition system, including detection, alignment, embedding, and notification, but it is not active for ordinary users. The system is functional and can recognize faces, but it requires enrollment data and is not enabled in production, suggesting it is a capability waiting to be shipped.

Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed

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A formally verified implementation of a polygon intersection algorithm was developed using Lean 4 proof assistant, ensuring correctness for any configuration of input polygons. The development utilized AI agents, which significantly improved with recent model releases, allowing for more efficient and accurate formal verification.

Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies

Hi HN, I am having AI build me a local Gin Rummy trainer and it cannot figure out medium and hard bot strategies, they keep losing to easy! The point of this is to help me learn so I don't really know how to advise it on strategies. Right now it's just looping through tests and modifying but it keeps not improving. Does anyone have any recommendations or guidance for strategies I ...

Sum-product, unit distances, and number fields

The unit distance and sum-product conjectures over the reals have been recently disproved. a number of counterexamples can be found in any graduate course on algebraic number theory. the exact statement required may be hard to extract from existing literature, but this is just because before these kind of constructions there was little reason to actually prove such statements. it's also ...

Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India

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Banda district in India's Uttar Pradesh state is experiencing extreme heat with temperatures reaching 47-48C for over a week. Residents are adapting by rearranging their lives, seeking shade, and working in shorter intervals to avoid heat sickness.

Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS

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Watches your services in the background Mercek is a desktop app for working with Amazon ECS. It uses the AWS credentials already on your machine and shows your services across every account and region. It talks to AWS directly and collects no telemetry. ECS Fargate CloudWatch ALB / target groups Application Auto Scaling ECR scans IAM / STS identity Discovery Mercek reads the profiles in your ...

Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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Uruky is a private EU-based search engine with no ads, tracking, or analytics, offering personalized results and a copy of the source code after 12 months of paid service. It focuses on search functionality without AI, assistants, or news, prioritizing user privacy and independence.

Gaussian Point Splatting

https://momentsingraphics.de/Media/Siggraph2026/representative_image.webp
Researchers propose Gaussian point splatting, a method to render Gaussian splats efficiently. It uses parallel programming and culling to render hundreds of millions of Gaussians in real time.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model

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The Bay Model is a working hydraulic scale model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta System, located in Sausalito, California. It was built in 1957 to study proposed dam plans but is now open to the public for educational exhibits about Bay hydrology.

3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering

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Studio Darius Ou and Benson Chong created Manual, a 3D-printed book carrying part of its own machine code. It uses an XY-for-Z printing method to materialize as a fully bound book directly from the machine.