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Hacker News - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 5:01pm
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8th Wall is now open source

Hacker News - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 4:59pm

Article URL: https://8thwall.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224767

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Show HN: Drawbridge – Drop-In SSRF Protection for Python

Hacker News - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 4:59pm

Drawbridge is a drop-in replacement for `requests` or `httpx` that provides comprehensive SSRF protection.

For every request, it will: 1. Resolve DNS first with single getaddrinfo() call 2. Validate all IPs, and reject if any resolved address is private/reserved 3. Pin the connection by rewriting the URL to validated IP, and sets the Host header and TLS SNI to original hostname 4. Re-validates on each redirect hop.

This blocks most SSRF attack methods: DNS rebinding, address obfuscation, and redirects.

Also see our launch post here: https://tachyon.so/blog/ssrfs-trickiest-issue

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224766

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1 Dataset 100 Visualizations

Hacker News - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 4:59pm

Article URL: https://100.datavizproject.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224760

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Ask HN: How are you preventing runaway LLM workflows in production?

Hacker News - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 4:57pm

We’ve been pushing LLM backed workflows into production and are starting to run into reliability edges that observability alone doesn’t solve.

Things like:

- loops that don’t terminate cleanly

- retries cascading across tool calls

- cost creeping up inside a single workflow

- agents making technically “allowed” but undesirable calls

Monitoring here is fine. We can see what’s happening. The harder part is deciding where the enforcement boundary actually lives.

Right now, most of our shutdown paths still feel manual, things like feature flags, revoking keys, rate limiting upstream, etc.

Curious how others are handling these problems in practice:

- What’s your enforcement unit? Tool call, workflow, container, something else?

- Do you have automated kill conditions?

- Did you build this layer internally?

- Did you have to revisit it multiple times as complexity increased?

- Does it get worse as workflows span more tools or services?

Would appreciate any concrete experiences from teams running agents in production. Really just trying to figure out how to scale.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224740

Points: 1

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The techniques used to build hybrid cloud architectures have come a long way, but managing these environments long term is plenty more complex without the right software.

Security Wire Daily News - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 4:14pm
The techniques used to build hybrid cloud architectures have come a long way, but managing these environments long term is plenty more complex without the right software.

Show HN: IndieMe – AI for building music artist identity and release strategy

Hacker News - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 4:09pm

Hi HN,

My team and I (a group of independent music artists and developers) have been building IndieMe, an AI system that helps artists define their identity while planning releases.

A pattern we kept seeing in independent music is that artists don’t necessarily struggle with making songs. They struggle with clarity — who they are, what they stand for, what their visual world looks like, and who they’re actually speaking to. Without that foundation, release marketing tends to feel scattered.

So we built a structured onboarding workflow that models an “Artist Profile” first — including target audience, visual direction, color palette, narrative positioning, and messaging backbone. From that profile, the system generates release strategies, content ideas, and actionable timelines that stay consistent with the artist’s identity.

Under the hood, we focus on structured outputs instead of open-ended chat. The goal is to generate modular, editable building blocks (identity system → strategy modules → task plan) rather than walls of AI text.

We’re officially launching now with a free tier and Pro subscription, and are actively testing whether artists are willing to pay for identity-first strategy tooling.

Would really appreciate feedback — especially from: - indie musicians - people building AI-native SaaS - anyone thinking about identity modeling/content planning for creators

Happy to answer questions.

https://indie-me.ai

— Jason

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224121

Points: 1

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Show HN: Ed – A modern take on ancient codebook technology

Hacker News - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 4:07pm

ED is a new way to protect your messages in a old way.

The typical codebook comes with many challenges. They are hard to transport, hard to update, distribute. They do have one solid feature however. If the codebook can be kept secret, it will not be broken with compute.

ED attempts to solve these issues.

The words database included in the repo is a collection of over 2million common words, phrases, people, places and things. Each entry is tied to a unique string of numbers. To generate a 'key' we simply shuffle the map using secrets.randbelow() function. This is important as it's using device level entropy. Each entry reaches the 2million+! Permutation equally.

The combination of shuffles is now considered your key. This is what you can share with Bob.

Because each entry has multiple entries, based on how common a word or phrase is. You can send the same exact message many times without it ever repeating.

Alice and Bob can also generate long term keys that can be rotated. This comes at the cost of key size, but a 365 day key schedule is still only around 4gb.

Because of the ability to compress a long phrase into a single entry, this codebook shrinks the data efficiently.

Once the two ends are established, you should be able to privately communicate over any channel, including public channels.

Example Gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/Gs23JQW

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224087

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Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant?

Hacker News - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 4:04pm

Hi, apologies if this is the wrong thing to post, please delete as needed.

I've been a technical recruiter for 10+ years at major FAANG companies and startups, working on niche specialized roles. I used to come to Hacker News regularly to check "Who Wants To Be Hired," as I always like a more independent hacker mindset in engineers.

Would engineers here on Hacker News be interested in any interview prep consultation? I've been thinking about taking a sabbatical to travel, but I would stay active with work by offering consulting on technical prep and interview help.

I'm more just testing the waters here, but I would be open to doing a few free prep calls with anyone who has interviews lined up. The only ask is I would want updates on how thing went, and what you think the helpw as worth.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224051

Points: 1

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Show HN: Flowly – a macOS app that brings smooth, fluid scrolling to any mouse

Hacker News - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 4:04pm

Hey HN! I built Flowly, a macOS utility that brings smooth, fluid scrolling to any external mouse. If you've ever used a third-party mouse on Mac, you know the pain. macOS gives trackpads beautiful inertial scrolling, but external mice get choppy/laggy, line-by-line movement. Flowly fixes this by intercepting scroll events and applying smoothing to create natural, fluid motion across every app.

· Works system-wide with any mouse (Logitech, Razer, etc.) · Per-app control: enable/disable smoothing per application · Customizable smoothness and speed · Lightweight: <1% CPU, ~20MB memory · macOS 12+ (Monterey through Sequoia)

Would love to hear your feedback! This is my first MacOS app also

https://flowlyapp.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224044

Points: 2

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