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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me

Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me 2 by skarz | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have about 54TB of Internet Archive torrent backups on my home servers. I am on an unlimited gig plan with Mediacom and typically upload about 10 terabytes a month. I have been doing this for over a year and have never once gotten any sort of notification or complaint from Mediacom. Note: I live in a gated community and my daughter confirmed he was wearing a Mediacom shirt and drove a Mediacom truck. My neighbor (see below) confirmed a Mediacom tech rep was at her house per her support ticket. Well, today I came home and my underage daughter told me the internet wasn't working and also said someone from Mediacom came to the house and was asking questions about our internet usage and what I do for a living and stuff like that. He asked her if she had been downloading stuff. He said he was in the area investigating network congestion and that he identified the prob...
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New ask Hacker News story: GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call

GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call 3 by time4tea | 0 comments on Hacker News. Couldn't see this on a Web page... From an email: We're writing to let you know that between September 2025 and January 2026, webhook secrets for webhooks you are responsible for were inadvertently included in an HTTP header on webhook deliveries. This means that any system receiving webhook payloads during this window could have logged the webhook secret from the request headers. Webhook deliveries are encrypted in transit via TLS, so the header containing the secret was only accessible to the receiving endpoint in a base64-encoded format. We have no evidence to suggest your secrets were intercepted. This issue was fixed on January 26, 2026. Please read on for more information. User privacy and security are essential for maintaining trust, and we want to remain as transparent as possible about events like these. GitHub itself did not experience a compromise or data breach as a result...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?

Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked? 7 by mijustin | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious about what's going on in the agency world right now. I worked at web agencies for a lot of my career, and I'm thinking about the kinds of projects we would get: build a website, build a simple app, build internal tools, maintain a WordPress site, build a website theme, etc... It feels like a lot of that is being taken over by LLMs and tools like Claude Code? Are agencies feeling cooked right now? If you're at an agency, what's happening in your world?
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable 5 by morpheuskafka | 1 comments on Hacker News. Fiverr (gig work/task platform, competitor to Upwork) uses a service called Cloudinary to process PDF/images in messaging, including work products from the worker to client. Besides the PDF processing value add, Cloudinary effectively acts like S3 here, serving assets directly to the web client. Like S3, it has support for signed/expiring URLs. However, Fiverr opted to use public URLs, not signed ones, for sensitive client-worker communication. Moreover, it seems like they may be serving public HTML somewhere that links to these files. As a result, hundreds are in Google search results, many containing PII. Example query: site:fiverr-res.cloudinary.com form 1040 In fact, Fiverr actively buys Google Ads for keywords like "form 1234 filing" despite knowing that it does not adequately secure the resulting work product, causing the preparer to violate the GLBA/FTC Safeguar...
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New ask Hacker News story: AI Home Architecture Startup Looking for Back End/ML Infra Engineer

AI Home Architecture Startup Looking for Back End/ML Infra Engineer 2 by AtmosXR | 3 comments on Hacker News. I run a YC company called Drafted.ai that allows people to design a house with the help of our AI. We've had 120k+ people come to the site and 20k+ signups since launching 3 months ago. We’ve raised $17M since starting the company 8 months ago, from Buckley Ventures (Josh Buckley), YC, Convective (Bill Clerico), Patrick Collison, Ben Silbermann, Jack Altman, Starship Ventures, Moses Moody, Ryan Tedder, Kevin Mahaffey, Charlie Songhurst. We are looking for a killer infrastructure/backend engineer who can help with the core product infra and model training infra. We have a major gap to fill with someone who is fast-paced, detail-oriented, and hungry to grow. The experience we are looking for: 1. Experience building and scaling GPU-based inference services, optimizing for both low latency and high resource utilization. 2. Experience with job orchestration and load balancing...
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New ask Hacker News story: Why most AI projects feel useless

Why most AI projects feel useless 4 by vaishcodescape | 2 comments on Hacker News. I don't know or if its just me but I believe that AI projects are just becoming wrappers one by one new tools pop up being similar but still get attention
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?

Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for? 6 by bmau5 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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