Hackernews posts about DEF CON

DEF CON is an annual computer security conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada, that brings together hackers and cybersecurity experts to share knowledge, showcase innovative technologies, and engage in friendly competition through various hacking challenges.

1. Suppression of Recursive Intelligence: A Universal Instability?
   1 points by jcshipkowski 26 days ago | discuss
2. Those Dire Wolves Aren't a Scientific Breakthrough (slate.com)
   2 points by olyellybelly about 3 hours ago | 1 comments
3. VulnCon 2025: NVD Scraps Industry Consortium Plan, Raising Questions About (socket.dev)
   1 points by feross 43 minutes ago | discuss
4. GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better (kittenlabs.de)
   253 points by zdw 2 days ago | 74 comments
5. Hardening the Firefox Front End with Content Security Policies (attackanddefense.dev)
   180 points by evilpie 2 days ago | 68 comments
6. OpenSSL 3.5.0 now contains post-quantum procedures (www.heise.de)
   6 points by donutloop 2 days ago | discuss
7. MS-365 Alternative OpenDesk to Conquer the German Federal Defence (Bundeswehr) (www.heise.de)
   4 points by null4bl3 1 day ago | 3 comments
8. What books would you recommend for dev-founders?
   4 points by zigcBenx 1 day ago | discuss
9. Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres (github.com)
   240 points by abelanger 8 days ago | 74 comments
10. Show HN: Koreo – A platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes (koreo.dev)
    115 points by tylertreat 1 day ago | 38 comments
11. Show HN: Dynomate– Fast, Git-Friendly DynamoDB GUI Client (Dynobase Alternative) (dynomate.io)
    29 points by orlando252 2 days ago | 10 comments
12. Ask HN: Struggling with Anxiety as a Developer – What Are My Options?
    27 points by devwithanxiety 9 days ago | 47 comments
13. Show HN: Repo Roast – a real-time feed of the funniest comments on GitHub (www.reporoast.fun)
    14 points by OG_BME 2 days ago | 3 comments
14. Show HN: Telescope – Chat based embedded analytics tool (github.com)
    1 points by kottoor 14 minutes ago | discuss
15. Ask HN: AI changed coding–what's the real‑world equivalent for sales/marketing?
    1 points by tntpreneur about 8 hours ago | 1 comments
16. An FPGA-based LGP-30 Replica (www.e-basteln.de)
    49 points by ofrzeta 4 days ago | 8 comments
17. Low cost, high speed data acquisition over HDMI [video] (media.ccc.de)
    19 points by todsacerdoti about 10 hours ago | discuss
18. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
    277 points by whoishiring 10 days ago | 462 comments
19. China Is De-Dollarizing: China Launches $1.2T Digital Yuan System [video] (www.youtube.com)
    25 points by hkhn 2 days ago | 2 comments
20. Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch (blog.dogac.dev)
    3 points by dogacel about 2 hours ago | discuss
21. With Carrots and Sticks – Can the browser handle web security? (frederikbraun.de)
    2 points by todsacerdoti about 8 hours ago | discuss
22. Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with LLM-assisted programing?
    62 points by mywittyname 11 days ago | 45 comments
23. Show HN: A website/app to help manage your game library (gamenode.app)
    25 points by lamarcke 3 days ago | 40 comments
24. Show HN: Predicting the future while debugging C++ (www.youtube.com)
    2 points by donadigo about 23 hours ago | discuss
25. The “S” in MCP Stands for Security (elenacross7.medium.com)
    725 points by skilldeliver 5 days ago | 181 comments
26. Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks' (www.politico.eu)
    99 points by taubek 4 days ago | 181 comments
27. Ask HN: Windows IT knowledge for a developer?
    3 points by andyjohnson0 about 6 hours ago | 1 comments
28. What is Local first development (alexop.dev)
    119 points by yonz 8 days ago | 55 comments
29. DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it (forum.defcon.org)
    568 points by Spodera about 1 year ago | 396 comments
30. Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk (twitter.com)
    534 points by dmitrygr 8 months ago | 177 comments
31. CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon (twitter.com)
    405 points by teddyh 8 months ago | 356 comments
32. Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees (www.reviewjournal.com)
    322 points by jarsin 8 months ago | 327 comments
33. DEF CON's response to the badge controversy (old.reddit.com)
    274 points by mmastrac 8 months ago | 268 comments
34. Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023) (www.micahlerner.com)
    237 points by mlerner about 1 year ago | 95 comments
35. Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement (www.entropicengineering.com)
    220 points by tillulen 8 months ago | 158 comments
36. DEF Con 32 – AMD Sinkclose Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation (Not Redacted) [pdf] (media.defcon.org)
    195 points by ruik 7 months ago | 30 comments
37. Legions of DEF CON hackers will attack generative AI models (venturebeat.com)
    189 points by sebg over 1 year ago | 88 comments
38. Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention (www.theregister.com)
    147 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 46 comments
39. DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs (www.theregister.com)
    106 points by magoghm almost 2 years ago | 12 comments
40. Uncle Sam wants DEF CON hackers to pwn this Moonlighter satellite in space (www.theregister.com)
    57 points by LinuxBender almost 2 years ago | 14 comments
41. Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America's leaky water infrastructure (www.theregister.com)
    49 points by rntn 5 months ago | 25 comments
42. DEFCON attendees having mandatory daily room searches by conference block hotels (twitter.com)
    43 points by intunderflow 8 months ago | 4 comments
43. DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills (www.theregister.com)
    37 points by pjmlp 3 months ago | 18 comments
44. DEFCON found vulnerabilities in voting machines–but there's no time to fix them (www.politico.com)
    33 points by hammock 8 months ago | 63 comments
45. Cory Doctorow talks fighting Enshittification at DEF CON 31 (www.youtube.com)
    20 points by lapphi over 1 year ago | 2 comments
46. Defcon Response to Badge Issues (twitter.com)
    18 points by waihtis 8 months ago | 1 comments
47. DEF Con 19 – Charlie Miller – Battery Firmware Hacking [video] (www.youtube.com)
    16 points by shayanbahal 7 months ago | 1 comments
48. Deadmau5 at Defcon, talking about his coding [video] (www.youtube.com)
    12 points by asix66 8 months ago | 2 comments
49. DEF CON CTF Participant received a mystery letter [thread] (twitter.com)
    12 points by FinnKuhn almost 2 years ago | discuss
50. Disenshittify or Die (Defcon Talk from Cory Doctorow) (pluralistic.net)
    10 points by po 8 months ago | 2 comments
51. Thousands of hackers are throwing world's cyber arsenal at AI models at DEF CON (www.axios.com)
    10 points by momirlan over 1 year ago | 1 comments
52. DEF CON 2024 – Cory Doctorow – Disenshittify or die [video] (www.youtube.com)
    8 points by stakent 6 months ago | 1 comments
53. Defcon badgemaker escorted off stage, kicked out for adding screen giving credit (twitter.com)
    6 points by djfergus 8 months ago | 3 comments
54. Veilid, a New Decentralized Application Framework Unveiled at Defcon 31 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    5 points by sneakerblack over 1 year ago | 1 comments
55. Defcon: Bypass macOS Background Persistence Security with Sigkill [video] (www.youtube.com)
    5 points by photoGrant over 1 year ago | discuss
56. Defcon 31 – You can track the police like an AirTag (blog.dataparty.xyz)
    4 points by nullagent over 1 year ago | 4 comments
57. I hacked DEFCON – from 2023's winner (www.futureofproduct.ai)
    4 points by maxplayerzero over 1 year ago | 3 comments
58. Defcon: Preventing Overload with Graceful Feature Degradation (www.micahlerner.com)
    4 points by mlerner over 1 year ago | 1 comments