Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

179 bearsyankees 2025-12-03 18:27:56 UTC alexschapiro.com Llama Share 37

The user discovered a vulnerability in Filevine's system, allowing access to a law firm's confidential Box files, and responsibly disclosed it to Filevine, who quickly remediated the issue. This highlights the importance of data security in AI legal-tech companies, especially when handling sensitive information.

Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit

91 vrnvu 2025-12-03 18:41:56 UTC mitchellh.com Llama Share 5

Ghostty is now a non-profit project under Hack Club's fiscal sponsorship, ensuring its mission-driven and publicly beneficial goals. This structure allows for tax-deductible donations and transparent financial transactions, paving the way for sustainable development.

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

144 nooks 2025-12-03 17:27:56 UTC conwaylife.com Llama Share 40

A unidimensional spaceship, also referred to as "Arrow 1", has been successfully created using a combination of four construction arms, including a newly invented fuse arm, a binary arm, and two extreme compression construction arms (ECCA1 and ECCA2). The spaceship's period is 133076755768 and it uses a complex system of gliders, blinkers, and corderships to achieve its movement, with a total ...

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

254 hajtom 2025-12-03 16:27:56 UTC github.com/minio Full Share 149

MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. - update README.md maintenance mode · minio/minio@27742d4

Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

32 rushingcreek 2025-12-03 18:27:56 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 22

Phind 3 is an AI answer engine that creates interactive mini-apps to visualize and answer questions in real-time. It generates custom widgets and tools to enable new functionality and answer complex questions that other tools can't.

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js

165 rayhaanj 2025-12-03 16:27:56 UTC github.com/vercel Llama Share 46

A React vulnerability affects versions 19.0.0-19.2.0 and Next.js 15.x and 16.x using App Router. Users should upgrade to a patched version or downgrade to a stable release.

Prompt Injection via Poetry

24 bumbailiff 2025-12-03 18:27:56 UTC wired.com Llama Share 11

Researchers found a way to bypass AI chatbots' safety systems by framing questions in poetic form, achieving a 62% success rate. This "poetry jailbreak" method can be used to access sensitive topics like nuclear weapons and child abuse material.

How to Synthesize a House Loop

101 stagas 2025-12-03 15:27:56 UTC loopmaster.xyz Llama Share 33

A kick drum is synthesized using a sine wave, frequency modulation, and an amplitude envelope, with the phase synced to the beat. Additional elements like hi-hats, snare, bass, and chords are created using various waveforms, filters, and envelopes to produce a classic house sound.

You Can't Fool the Optimizer

194 HeliumHydride 2025-12-03 12:27:56 UTC xania.org Llama Share 111

Compilers recognize patterns in code and replace them with efficient alternatives, even when the code is obfuscated. This is done by translating code into an intermediate representation, allowing the compiler to treat different code patterns identically.

Stop Talking

39 npstr 2025-12-03 18:27:56 UTC gurkan.in Llama Share 35

Working experience brings context and pattern recognition but often leads to unsolicited advice that doesn't land due to inconvenience or misaligned incentives. The key survival skill is knowing when to shut up and conserve mental resources for self-preservation.

Rocketable (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer to automate software companies

0 2025-12-03 17:27:56 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Rocketable is acquiring profitable SaaS companies and transforming them into fully autonomous systems using AI. The company is looking for an architect to build a platform that enables this transformation.

Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks

696 mhb 2025-12-03 14:27:56 UTC nber.org Llama Share 420

The authors thank various researchers and institutions for their comments and assistance in their study. The study was supported by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust

30 _sinelaw_ 2025-12-03 17:27:56 UTC sinelaw.github.io Llama Share 17

Fresh is a fast and feature-rich editor with native UI, full menu system, and command palette. It supports plugins in TypeScript and offers seamless mouse support, near zero-latency experience, and multi-gigabyte file handling.

GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles

61 klaussilveira 2025-12-03 15:27:56 UTC yunfan.zone Llama Share 18

The goal is to construct Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles (GSWT) for real-time rendering on arbitrary surfaces from multi-view images of an exemplar scene. The pipeline involves reconstructing 3D models at multiple LODs, generating Wang Tiles, and pre-sorting them for efficient rendering.

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

11 evolve2k 2025-12-03 18:27:56 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 0

Valve is working on bringing Windows games to Arm chips, allowing games to run on phones, laptops, and desktops. The company is using open-source technologies such as Proton and Fex to make this possible, with funding from Valve supporting the development of these technologies.

Boston's subway system replacing 1890s-era wooden catenary system

17 ilamont 2025-12-03 18:27:56 UTC mbta.com Llama Share 9

The MBTA will perform service changes in December for Orange Line signal modernization and Green Line overhead wire trough replacement. Riders can find information at mbta.com/PlannedWork and use free shuttle buses or Commuter Rail for fare-free service during the changes.

A Look at Rust from 2012

123 todsacerdoti 2025-12-03 11:27:56 UTC purplesyringa.moe Llama Share 39

The user shares their experience with an old Rust tutorial from 2013, highlighting the language's evolution and differences from modern Rust. They discuss various features, such as reference types, borrowing, and tasks, and express relief that Rust has become more user-friendly and simple over the years.

Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?

104 davedx 2025-12-03 11:27:56 UTC martinalderson.com Llama Share 57

The author compares the AI datacentre boom to the 2000s telecoms crash, but finds the fundamentals different. Telecoms overbuilt due to 4x overestimated demand growth, while AI demand growth is potentially exponential.

Shrinking While Linking

12 ingve 2025-12-03 17:27:56 UTC tweag.io Llama Share 3

The author wanted to reduce the size of a 132MB Rust static library to distribute it with a Go package. They used various techniques to shrink the library to 19MB.

'Carspreading' is on the rise – and not everyone is happy about it

11 helsinkiandrew 2025-12-03 18:58:56 UTC bbc.co.uk Llama Share 1

Cities are clamping down on big cars, citing concerns over traffic congestion, pollution, and road safety. Some are imposing higher parking charges or taxes on larger vehicles.

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

833 Brajeshwar 2025-12-03 08:27:56 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 469

The Zig Software Foundation is leaving GitHub due to its decline in engineering excellence and bugs in GitHub Actions. The foundation is moving to Codeberg, a non-profit git hosting service, citing issues like "vibe-scheduling" and unfixable bugs.

Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)

249 areoform 2025-12-03 05:27:56 UTC medium.com/atari-club Llama Share 44

Chris Sawyer developed RollerCoaster Tycoon after struggling with Transport Tycoon 2, inspired by rollercoasters and wanting a fun project. The game evolved organically, with a focus on isometric graphics, physics, and gameplay, eventually becoming a successful niche product.

Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB

296 doener 2025-12-03 13:27:56 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 206

Arrowhead Game Studios reduced Helldivers 2's size by 85% with Nixxes Software's help, from 154GB to 23GB. The change was made possible by de-duplicating game data, with minimal impact on loading times for most players.

Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19

203 jnord 2025-12-03 05:27:56 UTC cybertec-postgresql.com GoogleT5 Share 21

The big breakthrough in postgresql 19 is that the optimizer can now decide: join first and aggregate later or aggregate first. for every product, all we do is to simply lookup two names. if we want to join two products, we can do it with a single query - and it will join them based on the product name. the problem is, unless you have an extremely large database, you can't do this. so, the

Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?

80 pacificat0r 2025-12-03 16:27:56 UTC alexene.dev Llama Share 75

The user's isometric game caused buzzing in their headphones due to frequent GPU work and pauses, which affected power supply to their MODI DAC. Fixing the issue involved optimizing the game's rendering pipeline by only downloading the necessary part of the picking texture, reducing GPU pauses and power fluctuations.

Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami

32 stevenjgarner 2025-12-03 12:27:56 UTC earth.com Llama Share 1

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake on July 29, 2025, triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami captured by NASA's SWOT satellite. The satellite's data revealed a complex, braided pattern of energy dispersing over hundreds of miles, challenging current tsunami forecasting physics.

Anthropic acquires Bun

2090 ryanvogel 2025-12-02 19:27:56 UTC bun.com Llama Share 1003

Bun, a JavaScript tooling project, has been acquired by Anthropic, which will use Bun as infrastructure for AI coding products. Bun's development will continue in public on GitHub, prioritizing Node.js compatibility and JavaScript performance.

The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition

161 speckx 2025-12-03 08:27:56 UTC newsletter.dancohen.org Llama Share 93

AI can now accurately transcribe handwritten historical documents, freeing researchers to focus on understanding human context and emotions. This breakthrough allows historians to explore and analyze documents more efficiently, enabling deeper connections with the past.

VA staff flag dangerous errors in Oracle-built electronic health record

76 ksenzee 2025-12-03 16:27:56 UTC washingtonpost.com Full Share 16

Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil

91 ashishgupta2209 2025-12-03 07:27:56 UTC scienceclock.com Llama Share 33

Scientists discovered a microbe called Chroococcidiopsis that can produce oxygen on Martian soil, potentially supporting human breathing needs on Mars. This extremophile can thrive in harsh Martian conditions, making it a promising candidate for a natural and renewable oxygen source in future Mars colonies.