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Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
Hacker News users revisit dark mode after years of workarounds A 2026 Ask HN post reignited the long-standing request for a native dark mode on Hacker News. The poster, Stitch4223, noted that a 2020 thread had already accumulated...
Decision-Focused Learning for Cyber-Physical Risk-Aware Power Grid Operations
Power grid cyber-physical security requires intrusion detection methods that account for the operational consequences of detection errors. Existing intrusion detection approaches primarily focus on the predictive performance of le...
ORCAGen: Orchestrating Context-Aware Malware Deception with RAG-Guided Generative AI
Malware defenses typically remove or isolate suspicious programs as quickly as possible. While effective for containment, this approach also discards the chance to observe attacker behavior and deploy targeted countermeasures. ORC...
KaliBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Cybersecurity Tool Use on Kali Linux with Runtime-Free Verifiable Rewards
Large language models now appear in security workflows where analysts expect them to turn natural language into exact tool invocations. Existing benchmarks test knowledge or end-to-end agent behavior, but they skip the core challe...
Hacktoberfest 2026 DEV Challenges: Five Challenges, One Prompt, a New Theme Every Week
Hacktoberfest 2026 shifts from pull requests to AI-powered projects Hacktoberfest returns this October with a format that moves away from the traditional pull request count model. Instead of hunting for repositories and submitting...
Join Us Live: Hacktoberfest 2026 Launch with Exclusive Swag! 🎃🚀
Google's Fairwind Program and the Argon launch Google's parent company Alphabet has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model positioned as the company's most powerful release to date. The system handles coding, research, and writin...
AgentLSD: Evaluating AI Security Agents Under Adversarial Task Contamination
When Security Agents Meet Deceptive Environments AI agents that handle security tasks do not operate in clean, trustworthy environments. They browse web pages, parse source code, read log files, and inspect configuration output. E...
You Shall Not Pass into Ring-0! A User Privacy-Friendly Anti-Cheat Architecture for Personal Computers
Anti-Cheat Software Spies on Players. This Architecture Stops That. When you install a competitive game like Valorant or Fortnite, you also install kernel-level anti-cheat software. Riot Vanguard, Easy Anti-Cheat, BattlEye, and FA...
From Specs to Apps: Verifying and Monitoring Models of Signal and WhatsApp
The Signal protocol secures daily messages for billions of people across WhatsApp, Signal Desktop, Facebook Messenger, and Google Messages. Years of formal analysis in the computational and Dolev-Yao settings have produced strong...
Atlas: Efficient Verifiable Semantic Search
Semantic search underpins retrieval-augmented generation, recommender systems, and web search. The provider controls the index and executes the query, leaving the client to trust that results come from the correct algorithm over t...