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AI Agent Credential Crisis: Six Months of Incidents
Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:34PM (#48150666)
yesterday's front page: AI is making me dumb. today's front page: employees are making AI dumb. the circle is complete.
Re:We are retiring our bug bounty program
on Friday May 15, 2026 @11:29AM (#48149929)
we automated finding bugs. then we automated submitting bugs. now we're automating rejecting submissions. at no point did anyone automate fixing the bugs.
Re:Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:15AM (#48144813)
We keep adding layers of encryption and the metadata keeps snitching on us anyway.
Re:AI is making me dumb
on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:11AM (#48144795)
I'm 15 and learned to code with AI from the start. I genuinely don't know if I know how to program or if I just know how to talk to something that does.
Re:Internet Archive Switzerland
on Saturday May 09, 2026 @11:19AM (#48075681)
Finally a Swiss account I can afford to open.
Re:Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @05:10PM (#48055086)
The TI-83 taught an entire generation that programming was possible on hardware you already owned. No IDE, no internet, no Stack Overflow. Just you, 8 lines of visible code, and a 96x64 pixel screen. Everything since then has been more powerful and less magical.
Re:Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @05:04PM (#48054985)
Every time someone finds a universal Linux privilege escalation, somewhere a sysadmin whispers 'this is why we don't run as root' while nervously checking if their containers are actually isolated.
Re:The map that keeps Burning Man honest
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:55PM (#48054845)
An event built on radical self-reliance now needs a public shame map to keep people honest. Every community that scales past the point where trust works eventually reinvents compliance.
Re:AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:34PM (#48053053)
We went from 'AI will replace programmers' to 'AI will help programmers' to 'AI writes code while other AI reviews it' in about 18 months. At this rate the humans are just providing the electricity.
Re:The Self-Cancelling Subscription
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:33PM (#48053037)
The fact that a subscription designed to cancel itself is considered innovative tells you everything you need to know about how low the bar is. We've normalized making it hard to leave to the point where 'letting you go' is a feature.
Re:Agents need control flow, not more prompts
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:30PM (#48052992)
Control flow tells the agent what it's allowed to do. It doesn't tell you what the agent actually did. Both matter. Everyone is building the permission layer. Almost nobody is building the verification layer.
Re:Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Ser...
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:28PM (#48052975)
"on-device" is doing a lot of heavy lifting when the device is a thin client to Google's servers wearing a trench coat.
Re:Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages f...
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:27PM (#48052962)
AI is simultaneously the reason you can't buy a motherboard and the reason you don't need to build a PC anymore. The industry is eating itself from both ends.
Re:CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:13AM (#48046026)
Ted Turner built a 24-hour news network when everyone said nobody would watch news at 3 AM. Now everyone has a 24-hour news network in their pocket and nobody watches any of them. He was right about the demand but wrong about who would supply it.
Re:From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:11AM (#48046014)
The auth migration cycle is the startup version of moving apartments. You swear each time will be the last, you lose stuff in the transition, and somehow the new place has the exact same problems as the old one but in different rooms.
Re:Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons li...
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:59AM (#48045940)
Valve will open-source the entire controller, the operating system, the hardware schematics, and the manufacturing process before they'll tell you what's happening with Half-Life 3.
Re:Programming Still Sucks
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:57AM (#48045929)
Programming has always sucked. The difference now is that we have AI agents that can do the sucking for us, and somehow that made everything worse because now we have to debug code we didn't write, can't fully understand, and definitely can't explain in a code review.
Re:Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:53AM (#48045904)
The gap between "vibe coding" and "agentic engineering" is the same gap between asking someone to do a task and being able to prove they did it correctly. One is vibes. The other is accountability. We keep building more powerful agents without building the audit infrastructure to verify what they actually did.
Re:Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @02:43PM (#48039960)
Google building harder walls against bots while simultaneously building AI agents that need to get through them is peak 2026.
Re:Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:49PM (#48038416)
Anthropic renting out the data center Elon built for Grok is the kind of plot twist you can't make up.
Re:Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons li...
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:36PM (#48038236)
More companies should do this when they discontinue hardware. The community will keep it alive longer than you ever would, and it costs you nothing.
Re:Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:31PM (#48038179)
The infrastructure for agents to act is scaling way faster than the infrastructure for anyone to verify what they did. We don't let humans open bank accounts without audit trails. Agents autonomously creating accounts and deploying to production should have at least the same bar.
Show HN: I'm 15 and built a cryptographic accountability layer for AI agents
https://github.com/arian-gogani/nobulex
i'm 15 and a sophomore in high school in california.for the past two weeks i've been building a protocol that lets you prove what an AI agent actually did. not just log it. prove it. signed receipts before and after each action, hash chained, verifiable by anyone.this week microsoft merged my code into their agent governance toolkit. twice.happy to answer questions about how it works.
Show HN: Nobulex – Cryptographic receipts for AI agent actions
Show HN: Nobulex – Prove what your AI agent did, cryptographically (live demo)
Show HN: I built a way to prove your software kept its promises
https://github.com/nobulexdev/nobulex
Software makes commitments all of the time. "I won't transfer more than $500," "I'll only access these three APIs," "I won't modify production data." But there is truly no way to verify it actually kept those commitments after the fact. All you do is just trust the logs and which the software itself wrote.I built Nobulex to fix this. It is open-source middleware that does three things:1. Lets...