The Hacker News front page, in HN's order. For the newest stories first, see Latest.
122. Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?
123. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
When you send a POST request to your server, you think you're sending the information to YOUR server, right? That was the default behaviour - as it should be. After updating the Postman client, I noticed Postman also sends the request to their internal servers, which then sends your server the actual request (proxying). I thought I was paranoid until another commenter confirmed the same...
124. Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
125. Brainstem Theory of Consciousness
126. Tiny Basic for Arduino
127. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
My company is pretty paranoid about leaking IP to the frontier labs through prompts, so we've all been diligent about disabling data sharing in Codex/Claude Code/etc. But yesterday my coworkers and I noticed that the setting had been silently reenabled in Codex. None of us knowingly opted back in.You can check your settings here: https://chatgpt.com/settings/data-controls. Look for "Improve the...
128. Shlemiel the Painter Is Back: How Zig's Libc Rewrite Made SQLite 12,000× Slower
129. Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN
Saw Karpathy's HackerTube and wanted the same thing for books. So I had Claude build one (Opus 5.5).It's ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. Data is downloadable from the about page.To be clear: Claude wrote almost all of it, including the data pipeline and the site. I mostly steered and...
130. Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
131. So my ISP was hijacking my DNS
132. Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I
133. Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Hi HN, we're Aarush and Arnav from The Subvocal Company (YC F26) (https://subvocal.company/). We’re building smart glasses that let you talk to your computer without talking out loud. You can mouth words silently and discreetly and the glasses decode them to text at the speed of speech.Here's a video of Dave from YC trying it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QdX1eObVYI(Edit: you don't...
134. Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders
135. Upcoming Change for eMudhra CA Certificates Included in the Chrome Root Store
136. TScert: A Sound Core for TypeScript
137. If you love a website, back it up
138. A map of 5000 midterm ads
139. USDB: Scaling Storage for Next-Generation Recommender Systems at ByteDance
140. Queen of the Bagel Business
141. Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media
142. Pratt parsing is a black box
143. Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one
144. French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa victim of a hack of more than 118M euros
145. Gitbook Breached
We opened a ticket with support about Gitbook availability issues and got this in reply. We have yet to see any official customer communication or breach notification. Apologies for the formatting, did the best I could as it's a mobile paste.Update:GitBook security incident update Hey <$name>, The GitBook app, the GitBook API, and published docs are available again. A few services may...