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Hacker Books — books mentioned in Hacker News comments
Browse thousands of books mentioned in Hacker News comments, 2007–2026.
The Kluever Maneuver – The Scribbler of the Rueful Countenance
In brief, it’s this: whenever you are doing a bugfix, do it in two commits.
Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case — AI-assisted follow-up finds a backdoor and hardcoded keys in other ‘secure’ USB products : r/technology
A quote from Kyle Kingsbury
More broadly, the use of LLMs erodes trust in documentation, in software, and in the organizations which produce them. Perhaps engineers will begin to treat any new software project with …
Norway makes shithouses great again!
The world’s coolest toilets are located along the Norwegian Scenic Routes.
Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
I've started work on a new KDE application. It's called Kwi (pronounced kwee). Kwi is designed to provide users of KDE Plasma and other free desktops with a modern and fast terminal, built on a robust tech stack and following the latest KDE HIG and UI conventi…
memdoor/examples/workflows/team-solve at main · guregodevo/memdoor
A lightweight coding and automation agent in one CLI binary. Run locally or over SSH, optimize token use, and automate CI and cron with durable workflows. - guregodevo/memdoor
Avoid Public Functions Calling Other Public Functions
A small-scale rule of thumb. This article will land much better with a concrete example, but I am drawing a blank here, so you gotta just blindly trust my say so!
How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts
Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this "Canvas" but it looks like the latest revision is called HTML …
Linux's October 2026 TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 — Atlas
CVE-2026-98432 is a CVSS 9.8 remote use-after-free in Linux's IPv4 TCP handshake, fixed upstream Oct 15. Ubuntu and RHEL haven't shipped a fixed kernel yet.
Fast and slow ways to improve your reputation
To get a good reputation in tech companies, you need to work on important projects. However, you need a good reputation first in order to get assigned important…
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9
LLM integration plugin for other plugins to depend on