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Hacking OpenAI | Hacktron AI

Hacking OpenAI | Hacktron AI

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Intro On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts. With these accounts, we could then access internal OpenAI repositories, and potentially many other connectors. To prove we had in fact gained the access we believed without allowing ourselves to learn any sensitive information, we used the employee’s Codex to open a PR #1186742 in OpenAI’s internal monorepo openai/openai. Exploit chainlibheifImage decoderDebianMissing security backportImageMagickUses libheifDiscourseImage uploadsOpenAI forumcommunity.openai.comOpenAI SSO Identity flawChatGPT / CodexAccount accessGitHubConnected integrationInternal reposOpenAI Until two months…
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The scourge of x86 emulation – FEX-Emu – A fast linux usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator

The scourge of x86 emulation – FEX-Emu – A fast linux usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Welcome to the first feature article on our site. We’re going to cover an ongoing problem with x86 emulation that affects every application that we emulate. This comes down to a single over-arching term that has wide-reaching ramifications; Emulating the x86 Total Store Ordering memory model (x86-TSO). The problems with emulating this memory model on the weak ordering memory model that ARM defines is multi-faceted and covers multiple issues. We’re going to go over all the problems that we can encounter and the ways…
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Release 5.4.0 · jemalloc/jemalloc · GitHub

Release 5.4.0 · jemalloc/jemalloc · GitHub

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This release contains over 160 commits, focusing on the technical debtscleaning including refactorings, bug fixes, test coverage improvement, andoption cleanups. The release also includes portability improvements perupstream issues report. New features: Add EXTENT_ALLOC_FLAG_PINNED so custom extent-allocation hooks canmark non-reclaimable mappings, such as HugeTLB pages, for preferentialreuse outside the decay and purge pipeline. Add the mallctl interfacesstats.pinned, stats.arenas..pinned,stats.arenas..extents..npinned,stats.arenas..extents..pinned_bytes, andstats.arenas..mutexes.extents_pinned.🔥 to reportpinned-memory usage and mutex statistics. (@binliu19: be2de8c) Allow resuming per-CPU arena selection via thread.arena.(@Algunenano: 68c35f6) Better align the contents of human-readable and JSON malloc statistics.(@spredolac:…
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Introducing Code Scans | Devin

Introducing Code Scans | Devin

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Today we’re introducing Code Scans: a new way to turn broad engineering goals into concrete improvements across your codebase. Tell Devin what you want to achieve, and it helps you investigate what needs to change, evaluate the findings, and turn them into pull requests. Many engineering tasks start with a specific change. Others start with an outcome: Improve SEO Reduce maintenance overhead Make your application compile faster These goals often stay on the backlog because the first step alone is a substantial project: investigating the…
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‘The damage was much worse than I had imagined’: the shocking inside story of Salman Rushdie’s survival | Film

‘The damage was much worse than I had imagined’: the shocking inside story of Salman Rushdie’s survival | Film

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Salman Rushdie,Alex Gibney,Culture,Books 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Eliza Griffiths was at home in New York, drinking a second cup of coffee one August morning in 2022, when her phone rang. She answered it to a frantic friend, who told her the man she had married just a year earlier, and who had set off the previous night for a speaking engagement nearly 400 miles away, had been hurt. “What kind of hurt?” she panicked. Turning on the television, she was assaulted by blurry images of chaos…
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The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek

The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Ἦσαν οἱ Πελασγοὶ βάρβαρον γλῶσσαν ἱέντες.Êsan hoi Pelasgoì bárbaron glôssan híentes.‘The Pelasgians spoke a language which was not Greek.’~ Herodotus (Histories 1.57)There are about 1,000 words in Ancient Greek that can’t be traced back to any Indo-European language or any other known language in the region. These lexical enigmas even include some words and names you might think of as quintessentially Greek:λαβύρινθος (labýrinthos) ‘labyrinth’ἐλαία (elaía) ‘olive (tree)’Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús) ‘Achilles’Ὀδυσσεύς (Odysseús) ‘Odysseus’Κόρινθος (Kórinthos) ‘Corinth’Ἀθῆναι (Athênai) ‘Athens’ / Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē) ‘Athena’ (goddess of wisdom)Ἄρης (Árēs) ‘Ares’ (god…
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Human Answers, Not AI

Human Answers, Not AI

✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Some things are easier to tell a stranger.✦Ask a questionDraw a Lot · Free to ask · Anonymous · Human replies☸Answer someone's question✦Questions waiting for a voiceSome questions stay with us for years.We carry them through the noise of daily life—until a quiet moment brings them back.Sometimes we stop asking because we think nobody would understand.But another person has lived through the very same night.They cannot fix your life. But they may listen, and help you carry it for a while.That's what strangers do for…
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Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The opposite is actually the case. If we do not have a common understanding of what “now” is, a lot of things we take for granted will stop working. This summer, Australia realized this the hard way. Let me take this opportunity to give an example of why time matters to a modern society, what happened in this particular case, and what our key takeaways are. On 8 July 2026, a large part of the mobile network run by Australia's largest cell phone operator Telstra…
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How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms

How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms

🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Retry storms historically impact business operations and brand trust. While retry configuration tuning and retry budgets provide meaningful mitigation at the service level, they’re manually configured and lack visibility into cross-service amplification caused by deep dependency chains and fan-out patterns. As a result, it can be difficult to shield infrastructure against the domino effect triggered by a single service outage deeper in the stack. A key reason is that retry behavior today isn’t context-aware. While we can control how many retries occur, we can’t precisely control…
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: If worries about AI safety and the end of the world entered your life recently, it’s probably because of a resignation letter. On September 8, 2026, a researcher named Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, the one of the two premier AI labs in the U.S. whose brand has tried to cultivate the image of being the careful one relative to its competitors. He had spent the previous three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and then at Anthropic, the engine-room work that makes large models capable,…
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