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Reconsidering O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY

Hacker News - Sat, 08/15/2026 - 12:17am

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1085617/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307588

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App:Unforgetful

Hacker News - Sat, 08/15/2026 - 12:16am
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An Idea for a New Form of Media

Hacker News - Sat, 08/15/2026 - 12:13am

Have email conversations in Gmail, (& make sure to delete the three dots at the bottom of every email draft, because if you don't, they will expand after 50 or 100 or so emails and take up whole pages.)

Then download these emails as PDFs.

Then share them on a Wordpress with commenting enabled.

I think this is a good alternative to podcasting. People think better reading & writing instead of listening & speaking, & you can do things like share images & links which you can't do in an audio or video podcast.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307573

Points: 3

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Best AI solution to hunt for buffer overflows in open source apps?

Hacker News - Sat, 08/15/2026 - 12:08am

I'm an AI skeptic -- I was the type of person who made his students type out code from stack overflow, no copy and paste. (And don't get me started on this generation's lack of shitposting ability lol...)

ANYWAYS - I attempted OSCP a while back, but floundered on the exploit generation portion... I think I know of a couple pieces of software that have some issues. I'd love to try to use AI to bridge that gap between theory and practice and maybe give a talk documenting my journey somewhere.

(On the pentesting side, I feel pretty confident, and this way would allow me to not spend a bunch of money if there are models that can run locally to do this to develop this skill.)

Also, since the cryptowars are apparently a thing again: I'm an American, so I should be allowed to get the good stuff ;-)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307553

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VTCode

Hacker News - Sat, 08/15/2026 - 12:05am

Article URL: https://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307541

Points: 1

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