Show HN: Hackers for Granny (defense against industrialized elder fraud)
I. The Problem Every year, industrialized fraud syndicates extract over $64 billion from the global elderly population. These are not lone actors of yesteryear, hoping to scam a granny. Today they represent vertically integrated criminal enterprises operating from fortified compounds in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos — staffed by trafficked labor, funded by crypto laundering networks, […]
Is Fable 5 Back?
Is Fable 5 back? No. Claude Fable 5 (claude-fable-5) is not available right now. It has been offline since June 12, 2026, when a U.S. export-control directive suspended access. This page rechecks Anthropic’s API every minute and updates the instant that changes. When is Fable 5 coming back? There is no announced return date for […]
Show HN: Voice Age Verification
Age verification is fast becoming a requirement online. US states, the UK, the EU, and Australia now demand more than a checkbox. The question is not whether to verify, but how. ID upload asks users to hand government documents to a website they may never visit again. And when a verification vendor is breached, every […]
Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
We are very excited to announce Unicorn2 beta to the public! Unicorn engine was first introduced at Blackhat USA 2015 as the only cross-platform-architecture framework for CPU emulation. After its release, Unicorn made some good impact in the security community and quickly established itself as the foundation of various innovative work. More than 6 years […]
Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2
2026-06-13 Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player): If you pick Neow’s Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.* It is impossible to receive Rebound from the Trash Heap event. Your first fight is 76% likely to drop a potion […]
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
In the documentation for best practices for implementing process and thread-related callback functions, it calls out Keep routines short and simple. Don’t make calls into a user mode service to validate the process, thread, or image. Don’t make registry calls. Don’t make blocking and/or Interprocess Communication (IPC) function calls. Don’t synchronize with other threads because […]
The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
During an exchange of war stories, a colleague of mine told one from back in the days when Windows included a processor emulator for x86-32 on systems that natively ran some other processor. (This has happened many times. And no, I don’t know which processor this particular story applied to.) This particular emulator employed binary […]
Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri
Amazon Web Services is making a major push into Missouri with a multibillion-dollar investment in a new data center campus in Montgomery County, the company announced today. The project is expected to create more than 400 full-time data center jobs, along with thousands of construction roles during the build-out. Positions will include electricians, HVAC technicians, […]
Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb
A long while back I had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to do something more useful to me. Actually, I had a few different ideas of things to do with them. One of these ideas was to modify the device to have an open WiFi access point and a web server […]
Why I Email Complete Strangers
The first time I emailed a stranger, I swear my cursor hovered over Send for a full five minutes. I had plenty of justifiable reasons to remain hesitant. Not wanting to take up their time, feeling bothersome, worried my question was a silly one… A hundred disparate excuses leading back to the same core: ”I’m not enough.” That’s […]