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Saturday, 08 August 2026
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Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
Article URL: https://defusedcyber.com/ivanti-epmm-sleeper-shells-403jsp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946062 Points: 33 # Comments: 8
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AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It
Article URL: https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945755 Points: 117 # Comments: 66
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Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
Article URL: https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945742 Points: 46 # Comments: 23
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Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945641 Points: 27 # Comments: 2
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AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/senator-says-att-verizon-blocking-release-salt-typhoon-security-assessment-2026-02-03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945497 Points: 84 # Comments: 12
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Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective
Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289625000649 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945471 Points: 46 # Comments: 11
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UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/smnx/promethee Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945348 Points: 95 # Comments: 50
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Thoughts on Generating C
Article URL: https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/09/six-thoughts-on-generating-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945235 Points: 88 # Comments: 6
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Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders
I created a site ( https://printableclassics.com ) that allows you to download classic books and customize things like the font size, page size, and the cover. As part of this, I wrote a software pipeline that takes epubs, html files, or pdfs and con
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Gather AI, maker of ‘curious’ warehouse drones, lands $40M led by Keith Block’s firm
Gather AI has closed funding from former Salesforce CEO's firm Smith Point Capital. Its warehouse AI system doesn't just scan. It seeks out specific data.
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A Project Hail Mary final trailer? Yes please.
"There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong."
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Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior
Article URL: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/official-ferraris-first-ev-called-luce-interior-apples-old-design-boss Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944978 Points: 12 # Comments: 13
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Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure
I'm launching Wirewiki.com today! Wirewiki makes the internet’s hidden infrastructure browsable. I quit my job 5 years ago to scale Nslookup.io. But after reaching 600k monthly users, I hit a ceiling. I couldn't naturally expand beyond DNS because of
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Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/matrix_element_secure_chat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944245 Points: 85 # Comments: 58
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Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers
This is an educational reference implementation showing how to build reasonably secure, standards-compliant authentication from first principles on Cloudflare Workers. Stack: Hono, Turso (libSQL), PBKDF2-SHA384 + normalization + common-password check