Ghrc.io appears to be malicious(bmitch.net)

352 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 58 comments

Blog post by Brandon Mitchell reporting that ghrc.io, a typo of GitHub's ghcr.io container registry, appears to steal GitHub credentials.

Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)(quaxio.com)

53 points by monort 2 years ago | 15 comments

Revisiting Textpattern(rubenerd.com)

38 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 14 comments

Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware(werwolv.net)

78 points by speckx 17 days ago | 15 comments

Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.

Ghostty is leaving GitHub(mitchellh.com)

3380 points by WadeGrimridge 6 months ago | 1008 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing that the Ghostty terminal emulator project is moving off GitHub, reflecting on his long history with the platform.

The MiniPC Revolution(jadarma.github.io)

140 points by ingve 1 year ago | 185 comments

How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC(blog.scrt.ch)

41 points by tau255 1 month ago | 23 comments

Orange Cyberdefense SCRT blog post describing how a vulnerable Twitch chat overlay in an unsandboxed OBS Browser Source plus a V8 bug enabled code execution on a streamer's PC.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program(readergrev.com)

80 points by paimapi 10 days ago | 53 comments

A Readergrev investigation into Polymarket's program paying esports accounts to quote-retweet its posts while making the promotion appear organic.

Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat(ssno.cc)

484 points by deverton 1 year ago | 191 comments

A blog post detailing reverse engineering research into the user-mode anti-cheat in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

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.