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What Can You Do with a Local LLM?
The conversation around large language models has been dominated by cloud services: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. But a growing community of developers and hobbyists is running models entirely on their own hardware, with no API keys, n...
TLS fingerprinting: How Cloudflare spots your scraper before the HTTP request
A website can tell whether your request comes from Chrome, Node.js, or curl before it reads a single HTTP header. The identification happens during the TLS handshake, the encrypted connection setup that precedes any application da...
Ask HN: How to spend $100? (Claude vs. ChatGPT)
A post on Hacker News captures a decision that a growing number of developers now face: which AI coding assistant is worth paying for when the employer is no longer picking up the tab. The poster had been using Claude's Max 20x pl...
Show HN: Brw
AI agents that browse the web burn through tokens fast. Every action requires a fresh screenshot, the agent re-interprets pixels, and a simple task like filling a form or clicking through a dashboard eats up dozens of turns. A new...
ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion
A phishing campaign that ran for three months this year used invisible Unicode characters to hide financial lure words from email filters, and Microsoft's security researchers only caught it because they were hunting for something...
The Operational Limits of Agent Security (Dec 2025)
Eqty Lab published a security disclaimer for Cupcake, its open-source AI agent defense system, that makes an unusual admission for a security product: it tells customers upfront that the tool cannot fully contain a sufficiently mo...
Cloudflare hid my site from AI. I sell AI visibility
A developer who sells AI visibility services to local businesses discovered that his own website, and 36 demo pages he had been sending to prospects, were invisible to every major AI assistant. The culprit was not a deliberate con...
Quire – humans and AI agents editing local Markdown together
Most collaboration tools pick two of three: multiplayer editing, AI agent integration, or local plain files. Quire does all three. The open-source tool, now in public beta, turns a folder of Markdown files into a live multiplayer...
Lightpanda Session Bridge – Hand real logins to headless AI agents
Autonomous AI agents face a fundamental problem when they need to access web services: authentication. Every SaaS console, API dashboard, and cloud provider portal protects itself with Google OAuth, multi-factor authentication, pa...
Show HN: Relay – an update after three years on anonymous team check-ins
A team feedback tool called Relay claims to cut staff churn by 66% and increase profits by 20%, and its approach is simpler than you might expect: replace the annual engagement survey with a weekly pulse that takes less than a min...