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Canary token is great to tell you've been hacked.

There are ways to try to prevent this from happening in a first place. I wrote kow (keys-on-the-wire) to fix this. Apps only see placeholder tokens. The proxy injects real key from the vault into outbound requests for allowed hosts.

Author here. Apache-2.0. [1] https://keysonthewire.com [2] https://github.com/inflightsec/keys-on-the-wire

Why such a dislike towards DHH? More people using Linux surely is a good thing.
Can't agree more. I'm working on OSS security tool that can protect you from Shai-hulud, no half measures.

The idea is to have a local proxy that injects real secrets into requests in-flight, so a compromised library has nothing to steal because it never had access to any of your secrets: https://github.com/inflightsec/agent-vault-proxy

I almost got a heart attack seeing a bill for 48B USD!
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:24AM (#48889953)
I've built a voice app for controlling Claude code / Codex sessions and having a lot of fun with it.

I can start a remote tmux session from my laptop, close the lid, grab my airpods and continue on the same sessions while in a gym or a bicycle.

Planning to open source it soon.

Re:Unsloth GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @05:30AM (#48642435)
I have pretty much almost this exact setup with 2x3090s and with slightly faster DDR4 512GB and 64 core Epyc! [0] I've been enjoying it a lot. Can't wait to give this model a try.

Apart of running local models I use this rig as my main remote development platform. All Claude Code sessions are running there in tmux now. And my fingers can't be happier not having to deal with constantly hot laptop. Not to mention that Claude Code is such a battery hog.

[0] https://medium.com/@rathko/i-built-an-epyc-64-core-512gb-ram...

Congrats on the launch!

Will this solution work with services protected by cloudflare turnstile or captchas? Does this involve human in a loop?

Re:Show HN: Are You in the Weights? on Thursday June 18, 2026 @06:52PM (#48592710)
No privacy policy whatsoever?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Sunday June 14, 2026 @03:53PM (#48531904)
I'm working on OSS security tool that can protect you form credential stealers (think Shai-hulud and similar) or prompt-injected agent leaking your secrets.

agent-vault-proxy is a local proxy that injects real secrets into requests in-flight, so a compromised or prompt-injected agent has nothing to steal, feedback welcome: https://github.com/inflightsec/agent-vault-proxy

Show HN: AVP – an agent can't leak a secret it never had

https://github.com/inflightsec/agent-vault-proxy

A process can't leak a secret it never had.Shai-hulud, prompt-injection - you name it. They cannot steal what your agent (or an process) don't have.I run coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) on my own machines most of the day. Every one of them wants real API keys in env and I was scratching my head for the last few months how to contain it.The usual answer to this is a firewall. I don't buy it....

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Re:Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents on Thursday June 11, 2026 @02:15PM (#48494295)
Nice work shipping this.

Disclosure: author of a related tool here. I have create agent-vault-proxy for a very similar reason. It also can help keep credentials out of the agent process. The agent gets a placeholder, the proxy swaps in the real secret in transit.

I read them as complementary: action firewall in front, credential broker behind. https://github.com/inflightsec/agent-vault-proxy

Re:Grafana Labs internal source code accessed on Sunday May 17, 2026 @03:23PM (#48172339)
AI is actually pretty good at finding vulnerabilities in the codebase.

Critical vulnerability in that source code could enable further access to other production systems or databases.

Edit: typo

Re:Ask Jeeves Shut Down on Saturday May 02, 2026 @06:19AM (#47985064)
Hope ask.com knowledge can be preserved in open source LLMs for future generations.
Re:Node.js Security Bug Bounty Program Paused on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:26AM (#47627026)
This could significantly impact security of large parts of web ecosystem.

Perhaps Node.js can switch to a VDP, no-bounty program. From Hacker One: "VDP is designed solely for receiving, validating, and addressing security reports without a paid bounty element"

Re:Your sign-up form is a weapon on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:31AM (#47611148)
Agreed. Personally I think about it as massaging a text with LLM is like applying filters to your pictures.

The text probably have been based entirely on the internal notes and investigations and is very informative. Would it be better if the OP wrote it entirely by themselves? Not necessarily.

Re:Hammerspoon on Saturday March 14, 2026 @10:14AM (#47376918)
Hammerspoon helped me have a F12 shortcut for Ghostty (the only feature I missed from guake on mac)! I love it
It's curious how many comments any topic involving Russia influence gets on HN. Lots of Russian trolls out and about.
Re:Bootkitty: Analyzing the first UEFI bootkit for Linux on Friday November 29, 2024 @05:06AM (#42272723)
I keep my fingers crossed for Arch and Valve cooperation: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@li...
Re:Law Enforcement Undermines Tor on Friday October 25, 2024 @09:03AM (#41944862)
Would using VPN prevent prying eyes from detecting the IP address? This issue seems to be related only to Tor users who do not use VPN?
Re:Science Fiction Books About Aliens on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:43AM (#35936427)
Legendary Iain M. Banks is a true classic now.

For some hard sci-fi I do highly recommend Neal Asher, which reminds me of Banks universe.

And a classic "We are Bob" by Dennis Taylor, which is a very easy way to introduce anyone to sci-fi.

It's a troll who ignores the mass graves, the rapes, the killing of civilians. How sick do you have to be to look for "winks" here.
You are right. Clearly Russians are enemies here.