Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

335 points by mittermayr 5 months ago | 270 comments

Ask HN post describing an apparent UUID v4 collision from the npm uuid package in a database of about 15,000 records, asking if others have seen this.

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded(discourse.nixos.org)

358 points by Meleagris 2 months ago | 182 comments

NixOS Discourse announcement that the Nixpkgs core team has disbanded, reviewing its achievements and citing unsustainability and maintainer health.

Simon Riggs has died(m6n.io)

793 points by ajdude 2 years ago | 211 comments

Mastodon post by Josh Berkus reporting that PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs died in a small airplane crash, noting his contributions to replication.

AI companies cause most of traffic on forums(pod.geraspora.de)

566 points by ta988 1 year ago | 335 comments

A diaspora* post by Dennis Schubert reporting that LLM training crawlers like GPTBot, Amazonbot and ClaudeBot account for about 70% of the project's web infrastructure traffic.

Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

37 points by modelorona 1 year ago | 12 comments

Incus, a community fork of LXD, now part of Linux Containers(discuss.linuxcontainers.org)

48 points by ropyeett 3 years ago | 5 comments

Claude Cowork exfiltrates files(promptarmor.com)

827 points by takira 9 months ago | 366 comments

PromptArmor threat intelligence report showing Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration via indirect prompt injection due to code execution isolation flaws.

Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs(github.com)

454 points by vantareed 4 months ago | 249 comments

GitHub issue on openai/codex reporting that Codex CLI's SQLite feedback logs can write about 640 TB per year, rapidly wearing out SSDs.

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default(github.com)

568 points by whimblepop 13 days ago | 276 comments

GitHub issue on openai/codex requesting that daemon_auto_start be made opt-in rather than having the CLI install a persistent self-updating background daemon by default.

Cloudflare is down(cloudflare.com)

763 points by mektrik 10 months ago | 470 comments

Cloudflare's homepage returning a bare 500 Internal Server Error page during a Cloudflare outage.

Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network(nine.ch)

19 points by nine_ch 28 days ago | 16 comments

Blog post from Swiss cloud provider Nine describing a three-day DDoS attack in August and what it revealed about weaknesses in their network.

AWS us-east-1 down

567 points by rurp 3 years ago | 256 comments

Hacker News discussion thread reporting an AWS us-east-1 outage with increased error rates affecting Lambda and IAM-dependent services.