Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• Jev in 25 Lines of Python
• GPT-6 Sol and Luna
• Claude Opus 5.5
• Transit rewards
• OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
• Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
• ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system
• Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024)
• 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
• How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
• What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
• SAML: A fractal of bad design
• Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs
• Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
• WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE
• Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
• Unreal Agent
• No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls
• People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
• The current balance of power in open models
• Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel
• The softness of metal
• Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
• How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?
• I am done with this shit
• OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
• Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models
• Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly
• Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
• There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy