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Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
Hobbyist asks about AI assistance for woodworking CAD A Hacker News Ask HN post from a self-described woodworker sparked conversation about accelerating 3D model creation for fabrication projects. The author, reacharavindh, builds...
Styx Consulting – Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure for SMEs
Certified cybersecurity partnerships for SME infrastructure Styx Consulting positions itself as an expert en Réseau IT & Cybersécurité en Wallonie, supporting both PME and large enterprises with recognized certifications from Cisc...
LLM Agents Can Easily Tamper with Their Own Traces
LLM agents fail to protect their own execution traces An arXiv preprint from September 2026 demonstrates that many LLM agent frameworks cannot prevent their hosted models from modifying or deleting execution traces. Asynchronous m...
Don't Feed the AI - Anonymizer Proxy for AI-assisted Pentesting
Transparent proxy strips credentials before LLM requests DontFeedTheAI is a transparent proxy that strips IPs credentials hostnames and PII from every request before it reaches the AI and restores them on the way back. The system...
Show HN: I ran the same founder dilemma through ChatGPT, Claude, and BAAB AI
The Prompt: Founder-Stage Questions Without Metrics Chukwudum "Chumze" Chukwudebelu ran the exact same question through three AI tools about his own company. The prompt described BAAB AI, an AI business intelligence engine built o...
GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle
Aim: Screensaver and Custom App Kindle sitting unused, wanted to see whether AI could help find a new use for it. Goal: create custom app covering range of uses, controlled by AI agent on MacBook. Started with small goal: use own...
Drop in Russian bot traffic after Yandex drone strikes was mostly web crawlers
The Yandex outage from Ukrainian drone strikes probably didn't hit the social media bot networks most people expect. Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week took Russian data centers offline, and online bot traffic reportedly p...
Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
Agent37, a Y Combinator F26 startup, offers sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of typical provider costs. Customers pay an average of $0.37 per month per sandbox, and the company now provides a free tier used by more tha...
Show HN: Boole-1.7B, a 1-bit LLM that outperforms Bonsai-1.7B
Precision Numerics has released Boole-1.7B, a 1-bit language model derived from Qwen3-1.7B. The model occupies 247 MB of stored weights and scores 50.55 across ten benchmarks, compared with 58.83 for the BF16 baseline. That result...
Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?
Language models increasingly support or automate information retrieval from document collections too large to index. This task becomes difficult when it requires specialist linguistic or scientific knowledge. Hickey, Knight, and B...