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Wiper malware targeted Poland energy grid, but failed to knock out electricity

Wiper malware targeted Poland energy grid, but failed to knock out electricity

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Researchers on Friday said that Poland’s electric grid was targeted by wiper malware, likely unleashed by Russia state hackers, in an attempt to disrupt electricity delivery operations. A cyberattack, Reuters reported, occurred during the last week of December. The news organization said it was aimed at disrupting communications between renewable installations and the power distribution operators but failed for reasons not explained. Wipers R Us On Friday, security firm ESET said the malware responsible was a wiper, a type of malware that permanently erases code…
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Design Engineer (Senior / Staff / Principal) at Gym Class – by IRL Studios

Design Engineer (Senior / Staff / Principal) at Gym Class – by IRL Studios

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Role Summary Gym Class is a top rated social game on Meta Quest - millions of downloads, 79,000+ reviews, and a 4.9-star rating. We’re hiring our founding Design Engineer to drive the development of our upcoming mobile web app (embedded in native), and web surfaces inside our flagship, social VR experience. You’ll own key web surfaces end-to-end - crafting in Figma, then building responsive, production-grade UI with React/Node/CSS - and you’ll set a clear quality bar for speed, polish, and accessibility. If you love living…
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What Worked, and Where We Go Next

What Worked, and Where We Go Next

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: On March 14, 2025, Albedo's first satellite, Clarity-1, launched on SpaceX Transporter-13. We took a big swing with our pathfinder. The mission goals:Prove sustainable orbit operations in VLEO — an orbital regime long considered too harsh for commercial satellites — by overcoming thick atmospheric drag, dangerous atomic oxygen, and extreme speeds.Prove our mid-size, high-performance Precision bus — designed and built in-house in just over two years.Capture 10 cm resolution visible imagery and 2-meter thermal infrared imagery, a feat previously achieved only by exquisite, billion dollar…
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December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more!

December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more!

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: (@simonwuelker, #41272) tee() on readable byte streams (@Taym95, #35991) Note: due to a known issue, servoshell on macOS may not be able to directly open new windows, depending on your system settings. For better compatibility with older web content, we now support vendor-prefixed CSS properties like ‘-moz-transform’ (@mrobinson, #41350), as well as window.clientInformation (@Taym95, #41111). We’ve continued shipping the SubtleCrypto API, with full support for ChaCha20-Poly1305, RSA-OAEP, RSA-PSS, and RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 (see below), plus importKey() for ML-KEM (@kkoyung, #41585) and several other improvements (@kkoyung, @PaulTreitel, @danilopedraza,…
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Google Workspace Status Dashboard

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Google Workspace Status Dashboard Google Workspace Status Dashboard Incidents Gmail users might see banners indicating missing spam checks. We are experiencing an issue with Gmail beginning on Saturday, 2026-01-24 05:02 US/Pacific. Users might experience the following banner: “Be careful with this message. Gmail hasn't scanned this message for spam, unverified senders, or harmful software.” We advise the users to be extra diligent in lieu of missing spam checks. Our engineering team is investigating the issue. We will provide an update by Saturday, 2026-01-24 09:30…
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Senior Security Engineer at Metriport

Senior Security Engineer at Metriport

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Metriport is an open-source data intelligence platform that helps healthcare organizations access and exchange patient data in real-time. We integrate with all major US healthcare IT systems and tap into comprehensive medical data for 300+ million individuals. We've found product-market fit with multi-million ARR, 100+ customers (including Strive Health, Circle Medical, and Brightside Health), backing from top VCs, and years of runway. We're ready to scale. We're a tight-knit, high-performing team of mostly former founders (including two YC alumni). We're engineering-heavy, operate with minimal bureaucracy…
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Microsoft gave FBI BitLocker keys, raising privacy fears

Microsoft gave FBI BitLocker keys, raising privacy fears

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Microsoft has confirmed in a statement to Forbes that the company will provide the FBI access to BitLocker encryption keys if a valid legal order is requested. These keys enable the ability to decrypt and access the data on a computer running Windows, giving law enforcement the means to break into a device and access its data.The news comes as Forbes reports that Microsoft gave the FBI the BitLocker encryption keys to access a device in Guam that law enforcement believed to have "evidence that…
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Ask HN: May an Agent accepts a license to produce a build?

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For example, Android builds steer towards using `sdkmanager --licenses`.Suppose I get a preconfigured VPS with Claude Code, and ask it to make an android port of an app I have built, it will almost always automatically downloads the sdkmanager and accepts the license.That is the flow that exists many times in its training data (which represents its own interesting wrinkle).Regardless of what is in the license; I was a bit surprised to see it happen, and I'm sure I won't be the last nor will…
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#FOSS “Just Fork It” Delusion – #OMN (Open Media Network)

#FOSS “Just Fork It” Delusion – #OMN (Open Media Network)

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: One of the most repeated mantras in #FOSS culture goes something like this: “If you don’t like it, just fork it.” On the surface, this sounds empowering. And technically, it is true. The beauty of open source is that you can take the Mastodon source code, fork it, and do whatever you want with it. Don’t like how it’s run? Do something different. Don’t like the branding? Change it. Got a better idea? Implement it. But socially, this mantra is misleading, forking is easy,…
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Many Small Queries Are Efficient In SQLite

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Many Small Queries Are Efficient In SQLite 200 SQL statements per webpage is excessive for client/server database engines like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server. But with SQLite, 200 or more SQL statement per webpage is not a problem. SQLite can also do large and complex queries efficiently, just like client/server databases. But SQLite can do many smaller queries efficiently too. Application developers can use whichever technique works best for the task at hand. The Appropriate Uses For SQLite page says that dynamic pages on the…
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