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I don't have the exact number for you, but what I observed was that it took a couple of hours for npm to remove some of the packages this week, even though an advisory was published

+ To be clear, this tool does not solve the problem if you are one of the first people to get infected; it minimizes your chance if you are the N-th person

Show HN: Computer Police โ€“ block malicious NPM/pip installs locally

https://computer.police.dev/

A couple of months ago, our team got hit by the first version of Shai-Hulud through a random `npm install`. We didn't catch it until it was too late.I built Computer Police for our team to never be in this situation again.It's designed to block that earlier. It runs a local registry proxy between your package manager and npm/PyPI, and stops confirmed-malicious packages before they touch...

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Hey, I am the author of this post. Ask me anything.
The author of this analysis used ^ prompt and fed it to OSS LLMs. The question itself contains the answer. The prompt contains all the facts and insights the model needs to identify the issue. It removes the burden of finding those insights within the 4k+ lines of code in the original vulnerable file.

So the claim that OSS models can find those zero-day issues was a lie.

Re:LLMs became dangerously good for cybersecurity on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:25AM (#47101638)
I have been saying this since last year, we crossed certian treshhold and not everyone realized it yet.
Re:AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @04:34PM (#43336735)
True, fortunately we learned how to filter those types of resumes and candidates. (we got quite good at that)
Re:AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @03:50PM (#43336361)
We are still a fully remote company, but we added an additional on-site stage to verify if the people are legit. So I would say that the jobs are not over, but hiring just got way more expensive.
Re:AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @03:43PM (#43336294)
Yup, this happened to me. Ask me anything.

CursorAI just removed technical blog post about their Instant Apply algorithm

A few months ago, Cursor released a technical blog post describing how they implemented the instant apply feature. The post went deep into how and why it works so well. They even did a part 2 in collaboration with an LLM inference provider - https://fireworks.ai/blog/cursor.However, when I checked today, the blog post had been deleted. If you go to the https://www.cursor.com/blog/instant-apply,...

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Show HN: Free Chrome extension to secure code generated by ChatGPT and Claude

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/secure-ai-generated-code/bengiidgkchpliicfplbejjnoennfkmo

*TL;DR;*Demo: https://youtu.be/wEC9qVaB4_YI created a free Chrome extension that scans code generated by ChatGPT and Claude.ai detects security issues and helps you fix them.Please give us feedback about the extension, we want to improve it! (and tell us if you would be interested in using VS Code extension as well)*Why?*LLMs were trained on code written by humans (your public code from...

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Re:I sent 500M HTTP requests to 2.5M hosts on Thursday July 04, 2024 @02:47PM (#40877119)
Thank you so much, sharing is caring!:)

AI dev startups are struggling with one problem and I solved it - with POC

*TL;DR;*Over one month ago I posted about a really hard problem that I "accidentally" solved (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40460084).The problem is to resolve cross-file references for multiple programming languages. I can generate a graph representation of the codebase.*Why do you need to have a graph representation of the codebase?*- To understand how code references other code- Track...

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No mods. Anarchy.
Oh, I did not know about that, good idea!
I see writing posts and commenting as two separate ways of contributing. These are 2 different styles.

I prefer writing high-quality content (posts) instead of commenting. It is not in my nature to write comments (and this style of contributing).

It does not mean that I am not putting high effort into writing posts - quite the opposite. When I write long content I put all my heart into it and many hours.

What I mean is that I would love to meaningfully contribute and gain karma by doing "content" the way I like and prefer and not being forced to comment.

Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/<>

How do you gain karma on Reddit when you constantly get blocked and filtered?I am a cybersecurity expert and I have experience in writing decent technical content (like https://blog.vidocsecurity.com/blog/hacking-swagger-ui-from-xss-to-account-takeovers/ or https://www.moczadlo.com/2024/delightful-inputs-with-intellisense-and-syntax-highlighting)It is almost impossible to translate it into...

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Email me at dawid{at}vidocsecurity.com - we can talk about it more
Not really, sourcegraph is the end product - what I am talking about is giving you API to create products similar to sourcegraph.

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