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. Rust Is Memory Safe, but Logic Bugs Still Occur - SPARK Ada Can Help
    8 points by DragonSpiritWTP 30 days ago | 2 comments
  2. Why Your RAG Costs $2,400/Month (and How We Cut It by 73%)
    2 points by helain 3 days ago | discuss
  3. Exploiting open Ollama instances for free LLM inference (defcon.social)
    4 points by flipperr 15 days ago | 3 comments
  4. Show HN: Tangent – Security log pipeline powered by WASM (github.com)
    28 points by ethanblackburn 24 days ago | 2 comments
  5. Show HN: Axe - A Systems Programming Language with Builtin Parallelism and No GC (axelang.org)
    16 points by death_eternal 20 days ago | 5 comments
  6. Amorce – Universal Trust Protocol for AI Agents
    1 points by trebortgolin 6 days ago | discuss
  7. Show HN: FastWorker – Task queue for Python with no external dependencies (github.com)
    1 points by ticktockten 27 days ago | discuss
  8. How to prepare for an emergency situation in the Netherlands [pdf] (www.denkvooruit.nl)
    2 points by HelloUsername 20 days ago | discuss
  9. Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
    204 points by JPLeRouzic 27 days ago | 189 comments
  10. Show HN: Open-source AI agent for spreadsheets (github.com)
    2 points by raj_khare about 6 hours ago | 1 comments
  11. Press Conference in the Netherlands Dec 15, 2pm, Leeuwarden court (sashalatypova.substack.com)
    1 points by latypova about 4 hours ago | 1 comments
  12. Ten Tips to Make Conference Talks Suck Less (2022) (www.morling.dev)
    4 points by gunnarmorling about 3 hours ago | 1 comments
  13. Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux (www.heise.de)
    892 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 4 days ago | 481 comments
  14. Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content (www.theguardian.com)
    367 points by ta988 4 days ago | 345 comments
  15. Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024) (shaddy.dev)
    128 points by nvader 11 days ago | 113 comments
  16. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE?
    22 points by ftonato 5 days ago | 15 comments
  17. Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing (www.browserbuddy.com)
    51 points by alien0006 10 days ago | 37 comments
  18. Show HN: AI system 60x faster than ChatGPT – built by combat vet with no degree
    7 points by thebrokenway 2 days ago | 5 comments
  19. Show HN: I built a GitHub application that generates documentation automatically (codesummary.io)
    5 points by jerrodcodes 2 days ago | 3 comments
  20. Show HN: aero.zip - E2EE resumable file transfer, not P2P, 100 GB, OPAQUE auth (aero.zip)
    5 points by pypt about 11 hours ago | 2 comments
  21. Show HN: PowerKit for Tmux – 32 Plugins (github.com)
    2 points by fabioluciano 3 days ago | discuss
  22. Show HN: Dj-Cache-Panel – Inspect and Debug Django Cache Back Ends (github.com)
    1 points by yassi_dev about 3 hours ago | discuss
  23. The Cost of a Closure in C (thephd.dev)
    210 points by ingve 4 days ago | 117 comments
  24. Willison on Merchant's "Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry" (simonwillison.net)
    75 points by planckscnst about 14 hours ago | 81 comments
  25. Tiobe Index for December 2025: R Joins the Top as SQL Climbs (www.techrepublic.com)
    7 points by smurda about 19 hours ago | 4 comments
  26. Securing Coolify Cluster with Tailscale (taner-dev.com)
    3 points by morenatron about 1 hour ago | discuss
  27. Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry (simonwillison.net)
    2 points by abdelhousni about 2 hours ago | discuss
  28. Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem (trigger.dev)
    168 points by nkko about 13 hours ago | 103 comments
  29. Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why (journal.james-zhan.com)
    428 points by nafnlj 3 days ago | 186 comments
  30. Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust (corrode.dev)
    333 points by PaulHoule 9 days ago | 95 comments
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