Hacker News
Road trip – Drop Junk Cars – Cows aren't hurt
Article URL: https://screen.toys/roadtrip/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531431
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Einstein's Mirror
Article URL: https://sketchplanations.com/einsteins-mirror
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531422
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Compatible Time-Sharing System
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530893
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed
Article URL: https://friedkielbasa.substack.com/p/rome-fell-and-nobody-noticed
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530841
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
The temporarily embarrassed indie hacker (2024)
Article URL: https://pooriajr.substack.com/p/the-temporarily-embarrassed-indie
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530835
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Modeltell – The Linguistic Fingerprints of AI
Article URL: https://modeltell.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530829
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Turned Claude's 'discombobulating' into a Bitcoin faucet
Article URL: https://kicksats.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530823
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security
Article URL: https://gwern.net/guardian-angel
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530791
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
"A benchmark for catching when code doesn't do what its documentation claims"
Article URL: https://github.com/02zerocool/truth-benchmark
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530786
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Debugging Postgres Autovacuum
Article URL: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2022/07/28/debugging-postgres-autovacuum-problems-13-tips/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530776
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Ask HN: How can you trust your hardware?
There's a widespread idea in the technical community that TPMs don't provide any security:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37435450
- https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/50/getting-started?search=tpm#getting-started (see advice on tpm)
- NSA encourages we use it https://media.defense.gov/2024/Nov/06/2003579882/-1/-1/0/CSI-TPM-USE-CASES.PDF
But, TPMs have real use cases: - It theoretically prevents kernel level exploits extracting secrets.
- Projects like Qubes suggest using it to prevent evil maid attacks: https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/user/hardware/system-requirements.html#recommended
BUT...
- It provides a weak level of device attestation from the manufacturer: https://blog.cloudflare.com/anchoring-trust-a-hardware-secure-boot-story/#uefi-attacks
- That cloudflare article suggests using AMD PSP which is equivalent to Intel ME that the NSA is know to request the disabling of https://stateofsurveillance.org/articles/technical/intel-management-engine-deep-dive/
So it seems like to really trust your hardware, you must depend on the vendor. For the vendor to send you the hardware, the hardware could be tampered with, so making it tamper resistant and using a burned in read-only cryptographic signature from the manufacturer. The fips 140 level 4 ibm processor is the closest equivalent I can find:
- https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cryptocards?topic=4770-overview#ibm_4770_overview__title__7
- Then to trust the vendor, using an open source design with minimal attack surface is really the only option. Something like https://lowrisc.github.io/sonata-system/ based on https://opentitan.org/ and https://github.com/lowRISC/ibex seems to be the closest I can find.
Any thoughts on how to trust your hardware? I'm out of ideas...
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530764
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
ASÍ ATACAN EL CIFRADO DE DISCO EN LINUX
Article URL: https://alzze.xyz/es/posts/asi-atacan-el-cifrado-de-disco-en-linux/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530726
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Russian media reports GlobalSign mass-revoking SSL for Russian companies
Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/campuscodi.risky.biz/post/3mobekcu2m22u
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530722
Points: 4
# Comments: 0
Papiamento
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papiamento
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530713
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Welcome to the AGI era of AI governance
Article URL: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/welcome-to-the-agi-era-of-ai-governance
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530709
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Why the US economy keeps defying the odds
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy031el03po
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530694
Points: 2
# Comments: 1
A World of First Drafts
Article URL: https://leejo.github.io/2026/06/14/first_drafts/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530685
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
Swiss voters reject proposal to cap Population at 10M
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/633980b1-06ef-4e83-8551-7b5c6d55d4ac
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530682
Points: 4
# Comments: 0
Show HN: Philosophy for Kids
Sometimes my son asks me 'why' questions that could be answered well by a kid-friendly philosophy article. But I don't know where to find those, so I ask Claude or ChatGPT, and have a specific workflow for getting the type of output I want.
I figured other people might find those AI-generated articles helpful, so I put them here: https://philosophy.ocaho.com/
There's a search box at the top.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530657
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
Starmer to unveil social media ban for under-16s
Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-social-media-ban-teenagers-smartphones-b2995447.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530630
Points: 4
# Comments: 0
