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We got a cybersecurity expert to hack this BYD. It was too easy
A cybersecurity researcher in Canberra demonstrated that he could take remote control of a BYD Shark 6, one of Australia's best-selling plug-in hybrid utes, by exploiting an interface with no password. The test, conducted over two...
I see the mathematicians panicking at what we can do with agentic AI
Daniel Lemire, a computer science professor at TELUQ Université du Québec, posted a provocative take this week on the anxiety spreading through mathematics departments as agentic AI improves. His argument is blunt: if a top high s...
Bun Rewrites 535K Lines of Zig into Rust in Four Months, Eliminates Numerous Memory Leaks
Bun, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime, has been rewritten from Zig to Rust in four months using an AI-assisted pipeline that cost $165,000 in API tokens. The rewrite eliminated 128 longstanding bugs, stopped native memory lea...
Tg-Rich-Converter: Streaming LLM Markdown and LaTeX to Telegram Bot API 10.1
Telegram's Bot API 10.1 introduced Rich Messages with native tables, LaTeX rendering, expandable reasoning blocks, and a 32,768-character limit. LLMs still output Markdown. A new Python library called tg-rich-converter closes that...
Show HN: Emetgate – a verification gate between an LLM and your source tree
LLMs generate code quickly. They also generate code that compiles and is wrong, reports tasks as done when they are not, silently forgets rules from earlier in a session, and loses track of plans agreed upon at the start. A new pr...
Show HN: NiceTryGPT and CTF and riduzione degli shortcut LLM
LLMs can solve Capture The Flag challenges with cheap pattern matching, often on the first try, without understanding the underlying vulnerability. NiceTryGPT is a small Claude Code skill that fights back: it solves a challenge it...
Anthropic is cutting Claude Code's current weekly limits by 17%
Anthropic announced it will permanently raise Claude Code's standard weekly usage limits by 25% on September 14 for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. The framing is generous. The reality is a cut. The math behind th...
Show HN: OpensourceDB Tamper-evident,checksum-backed decision and session replay
When an agent returns an unexpected response or calls the wrong tool, the fastest path to resolution is understanding the causal chain that led there. ZizkaDB is an open-source audit trail database that records every agent step as...
Karen Nikoghosyan Is Building AI Operating Layers for Multichannel Commerce
The article is ready. Here is the rewritten piece: Karen Nikoghosyan runs three companies from Gyumri, Armenia, a city that is not a tech hub by any standard measure. eSwap Global, his main product, is a multichannel commerce plat...
Ask HN: If frontier models were free, would we produce better or worse software?
Free Frontier Models: A Thought Experiment That Won't Go Away A developer on Hacker News recently posed a question that cuts to the heart of where software engineering is heading: what happens when the most capable AI models cost...