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. Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America's leaky water infrastructure (www.theregister.com)
    49 points by rntn 12 days ago | 25 comments
  2. Show HN: SureSeat – Better train ticket searching tool (sureseat.in)
    1 points by defcon-007 23 days ago | discuss
  3. Show HN: LlamaPReview – AI code reviewer trusted by 2000 repos, 40%+ effective (jetxu-llm.github.io)
    2 points by Jet_Xu 17 days ago | discuss
  4. Ask HN: When working with a potential cofounder, when do you share code?
    1 points by denvermullets 7 days ago | 1 comments
  5. Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
    354 points by dhorthy 10 days ago | 196 comments
  6. Show HN: Authduck – Playground Server for OpenID Connect Clients (github.com)
    5 points by azophy_2 about 2 hours ago | discuss
  7. Show HN: Make open-source contributions fun and meaningful (helpwanted.dev)
    4 points by LeonidBugaev about 18 hours ago | 2 comments
  8. Show HN: Banan-OS, an Unix-like operating system written from scratch (github.com)
    258 points by Bananymous about 15 hours ago | 34 comments
  9. Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract (gitingest.com)
    165 points by cyclotruc about 19 hours ago | 45 comments
  10. Where to learn how to build an A/B testing tool?
    14 points by armank-dev 8 days ago | 20 comments
  11. List of essential tools for software developers
    1 points by cannibalXxx about 1 hour ago | discuss
  12. Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger (www.intel.com)
    907 points by tybulewicz 4 days ago | 736 comments
  13. Trump didn't win by a historic landslide. It's time to nip that lie in the bud (www.theguardian.com)
    5 points by bediger4000 3 days ago | 10 comments
  14. Deploy GPU-Enabled Clusters with GitOps Framework (cndi.dev)
    2 points by matt_johnston about 7 hours ago | discuss
  15. Lung cancer 'could be detected by world-first urine test' (www.theguardian.com)
    1 points by hackernj about 3 hours ago | discuss
  16. ‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’ (www.theguardian.com)
    117 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 448 comments
  17. Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say (www.theguardian.com)
    35 points by aguaviva 3 days ago | 17 comments
  18. Google DeepMind predicts weather more accurately than leading system (www.theguardian.com)
    7 points by beardyw about 3 hours ago | discuss
  19. Revealed: Bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud (www.theguardian.com)
    2 points by jimnotgym about 1 hour ago | 1 comments
  20. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
    377 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 414 comments
  21. Valve dev fixes 3D lighting, exposes flawed graphics card math (www.pcgamer.com)
    11 points by xbmcuser 1 day ago | 2 comments
  22. University of Michigan eliminates DEI statements as part of faculty hiring (www.cbsnews.com)
    5 points by nsoonhui about 5 hours ago | discuss
  23. Preventing panics in Go code (jarosz.dev)
    2 points by bitfix about 12 hours ago | discuss
  24. Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative
    44 points by Avfrosta 11 days ago | 49 comments
  25. Show HN: Guard – LLM agent that scans your AWS account for misconfigs (www.guard.dev)
    6 points by shehbaj 1 day ago | discuss
  26. Native Swift on Android, Part 2: Your First Swift Android App (skip.tools)
    37 points by serial_dev 2 days ago | 3 comments
  27. DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it (forum.defcon.org)
    568 points by Spodera 10 months ago | 396 comments
  28. Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk (twitter.com)
    534 points by dmitrygr 4 months ago | 177 comments
  29. CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon (twitter.com)
    405 points by teddyh 4 months ago | 356 comments
  30. Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees (www.reviewjournal.com)
    322 points by jarsin 4 months ago | 327 comments
  31. DEF CON's response to the badge controversy (old.reddit.com)
    274 points by mmastrac 4 months ago | 268 comments
  32. Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023) (www.micahlerner.com)
    237 points by mlerner 9 months ago | 95 comments
  33. Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement (www.entropicengineering.com)
    220 points by tillulen 4 months ago | 158 comments
  34. DEF Con 32 – AMD Sinkclose Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation (Not Redacted) [pdf] (media.defcon.org)
    195 points by ruik 3 months ago | 30 comments
  35. Legions of DEF CON hackers will attack generative AI models (venturebeat.com)
    189 points by sebg over 1 year ago | 88 comments
  36. Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention (www.theregister.com)
    147 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 46 comments
  37. DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs (www.theregister.com)
    106 points by magoghm over 1 year ago | 12 comments
  38. Uncle Sam wants DEF CON hackers to pwn this Moonlighter satellite in space (www.theregister.com)
    57 points by LinuxBender over 1 year ago | 14 comments
  39. DEFCON attendees having mandatory daily room searches by conference block hotels (twitter.com)
    43 points by intunderflow 4 months ago | 4 comments
  40. DEFCON found vulnerabilities in voting machines–but there's no time to fix them (www.politico.com)
    33 points by hammock 4 months ago | 63 comments
  41. Cory Doctorow talks fighting Enshittification at DEF CON 31 (www.youtube.com)
    20 points by lapphi about 1 year ago | 2 comments
  42. Defcon Response to Badge Issues (twitter.com)
    18 points by waihtis 4 months ago | 1 comments
  43. DEF Con 19 – Charlie Miller – Battery Firmware Hacking [video] (www.youtube.com)
    16 points by shayanbahal 3 months ago | 1 comments
  44. Deadmau5 at Defcon, talking about his coding [video] (www.youtube.com)
    12 points by asix66 4 months ago | 2 comments
  45. DEF CON CTF Participant received a mystery letter [thread] (twitter.com)
    12 points by FinnKuhn over 1 year ago | discuss
  46. Disenshittify or Die (Defcon Talk from Cory Doctorow) (pluralistic.net)
    10 points by po 4 months ago | 2 comments
  47. 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
  48. DEF CON 2024 – Cory Doctorow – Disenshittify or die [video] (www.youtube.com)
    8 points by stakent about 1 month ago | 1 comments
  49. Defcon badgemaker escorted off stage, kicked out for adding screen giving credit (twitter.com)
    6 points by djfergus 4 months ago | 3 comments
  50. Veilid, a New Decentralized Application Framework Unveiled at Defcon 31 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    5 points by sneakerblack about 1 year ago | 1 comments
  51. Defcon: Bypass macOS Background Persistence Security with Sigkill [video] (www.youtube.com)
    5 points by photoGrant over 1 year ago | discuss
  52. Defcon 31 – You can track the police like an AirTag (blog.dataparty.xyz)
    4 points by nullagent over 1 year ago | 4 comments
  53. I hacked DEFCON – from 2023's winner (www.futureofproduct.ai)
    4 points by maxplayerzero about 1 year ago | 3 comments
  54. Defcon: Preventing Overload with Graceful Feature Degradation (www.micahlerner.com)
    4 points by mlerner over 1 year ago | 1 comments
  55. DEF Con 32 – Inside the FBI's Encrypted Phone Company 'Anom' – Joseph Cox [video] (www.youtube.com)
    4 points by jasoncartwright about 2 months ago | discuss
  56. A Different Uber Post Mortem – Joe Sullivan, Defcon 31 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    4 points by happy-dude about 1 year ago | discuss