Hacker News

Top stories

Live mirror
30 storiesupdated just nowView source snapshot
  1. Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds(stanford.edu ↗)
    96comments
  2. If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it(terrytao.wordpress.com ↗)
    62comments
  3. GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher(prinzai.com ↗)
    49comments
  4. Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP(grapheneos.social ↗)
    412comments
  5. San Francisco Onion Futures Company(onionfutures.com ↗)
    67comments
  6. AI posters don't have to be horrible(john.hartnup.uk ↗)
    1comments
  7. Cloudflare Quick Tunnels(cloudflare.com ↗)
    282comments
  8. "The Secret Life of Circuits" is here(coredump.cx ↗)
    6comments
  9. SDCC – Small Device C Compiler(sourceforge.net ↗)
    17comments
  10. Science Is Open Software(jepedersen.dk ↗)
    38comments
  11. Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step(github.com/awlevin ↗)
    50comments
  12. How to Write with an LLM(sockpuppet.org ↗)
    329comments
  13. You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles(tigrisdata.com ↗)
    15comments
  14. Saving another 100TB of RAM(cloudflare.com ↗)
    78comments
  15. Why building a Rust LSP is hard(rust-glancer.github.io ↗)
    32comments
  16. How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip(ieee.org ↗)
    87comments
  17. Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology(quantamagazine.org ↗)
    5comments
  18. NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model(usra.edu ↗)
    2comments
  19. The first new cat species discovered in 100 years(nationalgeographic.com ↗)
    104comments
  20. OpenJev(openjev.com ↗)
    265comments
  21. Goroutine Leak Profiles(go.dev ↗)
    3comments
  22. Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash(cactuscompute.com ↗)
    88comments
  23. Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug(ledger.com ↗)
    70comments
  24. Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7(geekbench.com ↗)
    40comments
  25. Minimal Phone 2(minimalcompany.com ↗)
    226comments
  26. Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025)(arxiv.org ↗)
    13comments
  27. Suppress vulnerabilities applying Kubernetes context to scans(github.com/alegrey91 ↗)
    2comments
  28. Veronese's Dogs(publicdomainreview.org ↗)
    1comments
  29. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)(archive.org ↗)
    67comments
  30. Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud(ferstar.org ↗)
    100comments

Please Scan My Towel: How I turned my hotel towel into my RSA conference badge

5 pointsby 10y agojerrygamblin.com
3 comments
10y agoHN ↗

It says "how" but it doesn't actually provide any technical details at all.

10y agoHN ↗

From the manufacturer of the tags:

Target Applications

  * Electronic ticketing in public transport    
  * Road tolling    
  * Airline tickets    
  * Access control    
  * Multiple applications

Do these have additional security features that the badge didn't use?