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Hacker News - Mon, 07/27/2026 - 5:38pm
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Show HN: A record the vendor doesnt hold

Hacker News - Mon, 07/27/2026 - 5:37pm

Article URL: https://github.com/githubscum/lotor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49075841

Points: 1

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Categories: Hacker News

Nvidia, Tech Giants Launch AI Safety Initiative

SlashDot - Mon, 07/27/2026 - 5:07pm
Categories: SlashDot

Ask HN: How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects?

Hacker News - Mon, 07/27/2026 - 4:56pm

There are so many neat projects coming out on HN/Github, etc. But, it's so easy to inject back doors and malware into software projects now a days. I'm wondering how people deal with the secrutiy of this. Even if you install them under docker, if it's run by root it seems like there are ways they can get root access on the box.

I see so many neat projects here I'd like to try out but I'm worried that I may install some malware or backdoored software on here. There are a few AI harnesses, terminals, etc. that keep coming up that look neat... but at the very least they'd be able to get your Claude credentials, if not worse.

I'm just wondering with so much stuff coming out, most of it AI coded.

Just wondering how people deal with it? What's the best sandbox way of testing it if that's the solution?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49075417

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Categories: Hacker News

Show HN: Scout, understand any Enterprise Platform in minutes

Hacker News - Mon, 07/27/2026 - 4:56pm

Hi HN,

I've been building Scout over the past few months.

Point it at an OpenAPI spec and documentation, and it builds a grounded understanding of the platform: architecture, entities, workflows, starter code, a threaded AI chat, and an MCP server for coding agents.

Everything runs locally. No accounts or hosted backend.

One of the problems I kept running into was coding agents confidently inventing endpoints because they only knew APIs from training data. Scout uses the OpenAPI spec and docs as ground truth instead.

It's MIT licensed and I'd love feedback from people building integrations or using coding agents heavily.

GitHub: https://github.com/prabhuavula7/scout ...

npm: npm i -g @dotapk7/scoutcli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49075413

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Categories: Hacker News

Quality in Software

Hacker News - Mon, 07/27/2026 - 4:52pm
Categories: Hacker News

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