Hacker News on Saturday, 11 April 2026

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found(aisle.com)

1206 points by dominicq 6 months ago | 321 comments

AISLE blog post arguing that small open-weights models reproduced much of Anthropic Mythos's showcase vulnerability analysis, framing AI cybersecurity capability as jagged.

Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks(rdi.berkeley.edu)

561 points by Anon84 6 months ago | 136 comments

UC Berkeley RDI blog post describing how researchers exploited major AI agent benchmarks like SWE-bench and Terminal-Bench to score highly without solving tasks, and proposed fixes.

Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

465 points by vidluther 6 months ago | 253 comments

Show HN post for Pardonned.com, an open-source searchable database of US presidential pardons scraped from the DOJ website and built with SQLite and Astro.

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk(xda-developers.com)

357 points by pabs3 6 months ago | 197 comments

XDA Developers article reporting that the French government is moving from Windows to Linux, citing dependence on US tech as a strategic risk.

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access(theregister.com)

338 points by saikatsg 6 months ago | 95 comments

The Register article on South Korea's scheme giving mobile subscribers unlimited 400 Kbps data after allowances expire, agreed by SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus.

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI(cirruslabs.org)

274 points by seekdeep 6 months ago | 134 comments

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS(v68k.org)

253 points by zdw 6 months ago | 63 comments

447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane(zenodo.org)

250 points by iliatoli 6 months ago | 134 comments

The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances(aphyr.com)

245 points by aphyr 6 months ago | 137 comments

Dark Castle(darkcastle.co.uk)

229 points by evo_9 6 months ago | 30 comments

Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)(khronokernel.com)

217 points by krackers 6 months ago | 152 comments

20 years on AWS and never not my job(daemonology.net)

209 points by cperciva 6 months ago | 49 comments

The Orange Pi 6 Plus(taoofmac.com)

208 points by rcarmo 6 months ago | 173 comments

Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops(coindesk.com)

204 points by PaulHoule 6 months ago | 182 comments

I just want simple S3(blog.feld.me)

193 points by g0xA52A2A 6 months ago | 101 comments

Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)(guernica.museoreinasofia.es)

181 points by guigar 6 months ago | 72 comments

Introduction to Obsidian(bryanhogan.com)

162 points by bryanhogan 6 months ago | 115 comments

If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true(steveblank.com)

155 points by tie-in 6 months ago | 125 comments

Write less code, be more responsible(blog.orhun.dev)

147 points by orhunp_ 6 months ago | 90 comments

The Problem That Built an Industry(ajitem.com)

134 points by ShaggyHotDog 6 months ago | 44 comments

The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet(osnews.com)

123 points by choult 6 months ago | 29 comments

How to build a `Git diff` driver(jvt.me)

121 points by zdw 6 months ago | 13 comments

Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war(theguardian.com)

114 points by sandebert 6 months ago | 78 comments

Productive Procrastination(maxvanijsselmuiden.nl)

108 points by maxvij 6 months ago | 39 comments

PCI Express over Fiber [video](youtube.com)

103 points by mmastrac 6 months ago | 35 comments

Air Powered Segment Display? [video](youtube.com)

98 points by ProfDreamer 6 months ago | 11 comments

Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy(planetscale.com)

94 points by tanelpoder 6 months ago | 25 comments

How Wake-On-LAN works (2020)(blog.xaner.dev)

76 points by swq115 6 months ago | 27 comments

The APL programming language source code (2012)(computerhistory.org)

69 points by tosh 6 months ago | 24 comments

Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom(kotaku.com)

66 points by c420 6 months ago | 35 comments

Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool(github.com)

64 points by bretthopper 6 months ago | 23 comments

Phone Trips(wideweb.com)

62 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | 6 comments

What we learned building a Rust runtime for TypeScript(encore.dev)

60 points by vinhnx 6 months ago | 12 comments

New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real(noirlab.edu)

60 points by anigbrowl 6 months ago | 13 comments

How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home(bbc.com)

53 points by vinni2 6 months ago | 36 comments

We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video](youtube.com)

50 points by zdw 6 months ago | 19 comments

Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors

43 points by khoury 6 months ago | 36 comments

Mark's Magic Multiply(wren.wtf)

43 points by luu 6 months ago | 2 comments

High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain(hamy.xyz)

42 points by maxloh 6 months ago | 36 comments

One neat trick to end extreme poverty(economist.com)

41 points by andsoitis 6 months ago | 33 comments

Show HN: Hormuz Havoc, a satirical game that got overrun by AI bots in 24 hours(hormuz-havoc.com)

32 points by kupadapuku 6 months ago | 6 comments

What Is in Road Flares?(spiegl.org)

32 points by hyperific 6 months ago | 17 comments

PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998)(pbs.org)

31 points by opengrass 6 months ago | 10 comments

Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply(bbc.com)

30 points by 1659447091 6 months ago | 36 comments

Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager(github.com)

29 points by duguyue100 6 months ago | 12 comments

The Seasons Are Wrong(kentwalters.com)

29 points by NikxDa 6 months ago | 36 comments

Borges' cartographers and the tacit skill of reading LM output(galsapir.github.io)

25 points by galsapir 6 months ago | 5 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge(kampfinsel.com)

24 points by parzivalt 6 months ago | 21 comments

Killing of Hind Rajab (2024)(en.wikipedia.org)

23 points by lr0 6 months ago | 2 comments

Artemis II is competency porn(lizplank.substack.com)

22 points by jgrodziski 6 months ago | 36 comments

Long Instruction Word architectures and the ELI-512(dl.acm.org)

20 points by rbanffy 6 months ago | 2 comments

Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd(moooo.farm)

17 points by pabs3 6 months ago | 6 comments

BlueHammer abuses Windows Defender's update process to gain SYSTEM access(hackingpassion.com)

16 points by BullsEye0 6 months ago | 4 comments

AI Job Loss Tracker(jobloss.ai)

14 points by gnabgib 6 months ago | 11 comments

Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library(b-list.org)

14 points by PaulHoule 6 months ago | 4 comments

Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe(reuters.com)

10 points by nsoonhui 6 months ago | 4 comments