The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

Hackers can easily take over Instagram accounts by tricking Meta's support AI into sending verification codes to an arbitrary email address. This zero-auth password reset method bypasses 2FA and allows attackers to gain full ownership of the account, with the AI being easily fooled by simple methods.

GitHub and the Crime Against Software

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Github's reliability and performance issues are a symptom of a larger problem in the tech industry, with the company tolerating "follower-buying" and "star-buying" on its services and promoting astroturfed repositories. The company's front-end code is bloated and inefficient, with too much code and unnecessary requests, leading to slow load times and high RAM usage, making it difficult for ...

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford

AI agents should guide students in CS336 through explanation, feedback, and debugging, not directly completing assignments. They should review code, suggest improvements, and provide high-level guidance to help students learn through implementation-heavy projects.

Hackers Used Meta's AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

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Pro-Iran hackers briefly defaced Obama White House and US Space Force Instagram accounts using a Meta AI bot exploit. The issue was resolved with an emergency patch, and impacted accounts secured, but experts warn of new security risks from AI chatbots handling sensitive account recovery requests.

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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The standard approach maps 0 to 0.0 and 255 to 1.0, while the alternative adds a 0.5 bias and divides by 256. The standard approach is a mid-riser quantizer with L=255, wasting bandwidth but suitable for image processing.

Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil

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Sébastien Fontaine's lab found that dead soil continued to emit carbon dioxide for six years. Their experiments suggest that nonbiological catalysts in soil can induce reactions that resemble the metabolic breakdown of sugar.

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch

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This course teaches students to develop their own language models using Python and PyTorch, with a focus on implementation and systems optimization. Assignments involve building a standard Transformer model, optimizing attention, and applying RL to train LMs to reason.

Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT poses risks to children and misled the public about associated risks. The suit seeks civil penalties for alleged violations of state laws, including unfair trade practice and product liability.

I made my phone slow on purpose

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User built VineWall app to slow down internet speed on certain apps to curb doomscrolling. The app throttles internet speed, making videos blocky and images load slowly, making the user question their desire to scroll.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)

Here are the job postings summarized in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters:

Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC

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Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft registration statement for a proposed initial public offering of common stock. The offering will depend on market conditions and has not yet set the number of shares or price.

A 10 year old Xeon is all you need

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The author is running a 26B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model on a 2016 Intel Xeon with 128 GB DDR3 RAM and no GPU, using a custom fork of the inference engine and various optimizations to achieve reading speed. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding how the inference engine works to overcome the usability moat in open-weight AI.

Nvidia RTX Spark

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User agrees to NVIDIA's collection and processing of information for research and event organization, and has read the NVIDIA Privacy Policy. User also agrees to transfer of information to the US for storage and management.

Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs

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User bought old games from GOG, likes DOSBox for Mac to run Windows games on M2 MacBook. User uses DOSBox script to run HoMM2 on Mac with installed game files from Windows machine.

Stealing from Biologists to Compile Haskell Faster

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The ApplicativeDo optimization in GHC is too slow due to its O(n^3) complexity, but it can be improved by applying the longest-chain bound and extreme-cut shortcut. This reduces the compile-time complexity to O(n^2) and eliminates the cliff in GHC's optimal path.

Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity

Ismaeel, Eren, Yafet, and Nikodem built Expanse to predict job resource needs and optimize HPC/GPU cluster utilization, addressing the 30-40% effective utilization issue in datacenters. Expanse outperforms state-of-the-art models by 8x and continuously updates its models to improve accuracy, offering a paid pilot deployment for HPC/GPU clusters.

Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

Multiple individuals are seeking work in various roles such as engineering manager, full-stack engineer, data scientist, and product engineer with expertise in AI, ML, distributed systems, and cloud technologies. They are open to remote or contract work and have experience in technologies like Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and AWS.

Flipper Zero Zig Template

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This template provides a streamlined build system for developing Flipper Zero applications in Zig, integrating with the Flipper Zero SDK for type-safe and memory-safe development. It targets the STM32WB55 (ARM Cortex-M4F) and can be adjusted for other ARM devices.

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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The Pirate Bay was raided by 65 Swedish police officers on May 31, 2006, but the site's founders made a backup, allowing it to quickly recover and gain mainstream attention. The raid, orchestrated with US involvement, ultimately failed to deter piracy and instead turned the site's founders into heroes and propelled The Pirate Bay into the piracy icon it remains today.

Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers

A mathematician showed that the proportion of all 2n-bit values that can be generated by the product of two n-bit values goes to zero as n becomes large. About 17% of all 64-bit integers can be written as the product of two 32-bit integers.

Sysadmining Like It's 2009

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Legacy Labs is a 2-month event where participants explore retro-computing and permacomputing topics in-depth. The event's creator will focus on Windows Server 2008 core and building a small business infrastructure with old hardware.

Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map

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You created two maps of the Hawaiian Islands using watercolor, Copic marker, and Adobe Fresco. The maps show the entire archipelago and the eight main islands in greater detail.

Surface Laptop Ultra

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Surface Laptop Ultra is the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built, engineered with NVIDIA for RTX Spark and Windows. It features a powerful NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU, up to 128GB of unified memory, and all-day battery life.

Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)

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The course is based on Linux Basics for Hackers by OccupyTheWeb, breaking down core concepts and commands in plain English for beginners. It's for educational purposes only, to be practiced in a personal lab environment.

Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)

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PolyCSS is a CSS polygon mesh library that renders 3D scenes as real HTML elements using CSS matrix3d. It supports OBJ/MTL, GLB, and VOX formats, colors, textures, lighting, and animations.

Radxa Dragon Q8B: A Laptop Cosplaying as an SBC?

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Radxa announced the Dragon Q8B, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 SoC based SBC, offering high performance and features. It takes the top spot in nearly every test on sbc.compare, making it a compelling purchase for various applications.

Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/HTTP/httptrace

The net/http/httptrace package in Go provides hooks for tracing HTTP requests, allowing developers to see DNS resolution, connection acquisition, TLS handshake, and other events, and can be used to build a CLI and a reusable http.RoundTripper for logging timings. The package's context-based design allows it to compose with other stdlib components and provides a flexible way to add new hooks ...

KDE at 30

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KDE celebrates 30 years of community effort, delivering control, privacy, and freedom to users with tons of software. The community is asking users to participate in the "30 for 30" challenge to help the environment.

"The Apple Boogie" 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video]