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How to Detect Residential Proxies
A technique for detecting residential proxies without blacklisting IP addresses surfaced on Hacker News this week, and its core insight is surprisingly simple. Most residential proxy services do not support UDP, but WebRTC, which...
AI Hallucinations Trigger Malware Flag on 1M+ Active User Extension
A browser extension with over one million active users and fifteen years of history was suddenly flagged as malware and force-disabled across its entire user base. The catch: every traditional security engine rated it clean, and G...
Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
Enterprise teams building on Google's Gemini models are facing an uncomfortable transition. The Gemini 2.5 generation, including both Pro and Flash variants, is scheduled for sunset in October, but the replacement strategy has a g...
Adversaries Using Claude AI to Target Americans and Develop Missiles
On May 11 2026 hundreds of malicious packages appeared on RubyGems. They came from AI agents. The RubyGems security team called it a major malicious attack. Security researchers later named it the GemStuffer campaign. The packages...
Show HN: Claude Read Aloud – Hear Claude's Replies Instead of Reading
A new plugin for Claude Code adds text-to-speech so developers can hear responses instead of reading them. The tool called claude-read-aloud ships with free system voices and a local neural engine. Premium options include Speechif...
Show HN: Spanda – Sub-microsecond LLM epistemic uncertainty in Rust
A new tool called Spanda detects LLM hallucinations in microseconds without requiring secondary neural networks. The open-source project claims to match or exceed traditional Semantic Entropy methods while running 90,000 times fas...
OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
Twenty-five Fields Medalists signed an open letter this week arguing that AI labs are threatening mathematical research. The signatories include some of the most decorated mathematicians alive. Their concern is direct: companies l...
OpenAI just wants to win
OpenAI announced a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem this week, claiming its model found the answer using 10,000 agents, tens of millions of dollars in compute, and 88 hours of runtime. In any other year, this...
ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
The New Mexico Supreme Court held a veteran criminal defense attorney in direct contempt this week after he submitted a brief containing fabricated witness testimony and inaccurate case descriptions generated by ChatGPT. The lawye...
Let AI Agents Rewrite a 92M-Message-a-Day Node Service to Go
Checkly's Results Daemon handles roughly 92 million messages a day. It processes check outcomes, writes to databases, fires alerts, and pushes WebSocket updates to dashboards. Last year the volume doubled, the Node.js service star...