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I recently finished a PhD focused on applied mathematics, control theory, and dynamical systems. I have now started a postdoc at a top university in the Bay Area, but the work is in the life sciences and may require a substantial pivot away from my existing background. I still enjoy fundamental research, but I no longer care much about following the traditional academic track (too competitive and time consuming; and I'm not in my 20s anymore). I am concerned that spending several years retrain...

I've taken 5 products for 0-1 in this space before but at large scale companies. I am currently at a startup now and did it again in a cold market. I am now being brought on to a small team of 4 with offshore support/manufacturing & strong funding to bring a product to life here. What steps would you take? I've done this before but now it's all on me & im nervous but confident. I can work with brands, wellness programs, hospital systems, mom & pop clinics, fitness studios/gyms/...

Does anyone have experience raising funds to start a business on start engine or similar platforms? If you can share the type business you started, how long it took you to raise the funds through the platforms and any other information you may want to share, it would be appreciated!

I'm wondering since this will be the first time I'm actually creating a start up, will my project be viable enough for just proof of concept/mvp or do I have to have alot of users?. My goal is pre-seed. Can you all tell your testimonies on how you started this process? I would love to hear it!

I’m building an AI agent product for MEP design firms (AEC/construction industry) It solves an expensive problem for them, got feedback from a few people in the industry and decent problem validation so far (There’s also a bunch of competitors around this same problem) How do I go about getting my first customers outside of my warm network and going to industry trade events? Does LinkedIn cold outreach/networking work? Should I reach out to people with deep industry connections to who ...

Hi everyone, I'm a college student building an AI-based app as a side project (let's call it Example, hosted on its own subdomain that I already own). Before I launch the website, Android app, and iOS app, I wanted to get some clarity on a few things I've done some basic reading already (Class-wise trademark search on the IP India portal, App Store/Play Store naming policies), but wanted real experience from people who've actually shipped and listed apps: Could my current brand name lead...

Curious how people here have handled this in practice. When you got your first term sheet (or sent one), what did you actually do with it? Did you send it straight to a lawyer, build your own dilution spreadsheet, use some kind of tool or calculator, or just read it a few times and trust the negotiation? Specifically wondering: Did anything help you understand terms like liquidation preference or anti-dilution before you were sitting across from the investor, or did you learn them mid-ne...

New grad here deciding between two very different SWE opportunities and would appreciate some advice. Option A SWE I at a Series C startup (~200 employees) Backend infrastructure/distributed systems Clear career ladder (SWE I → SWE II → Senior) Strong mentorship and established engineering practices ~$140k base + standard startup equity Option B Founding Engineer at a 3–4 person startup Building core cloud infrastructure from scratch Daily interaction with founders ...

I have Enterprise solution, where is very difficult to get users because.. enterprise. They dont really deal with startups. Solution build, tested working. Contacted a lot of VCs either no reply or few replied they are not interested or they dont invest pre-seed/seed in my region. ok I am not in US, not even in "interesting" startup area. I have feeling that without warm introduction it is very difficult to get interest. I dont have money to travel around the world to meet VCs in p...

I’ve been a software engineer for over 10 years. I spent seven months developing a SaaS product, but when it was finished, I didn't launch it because I didn't know how. I’ve spent the last two months reading books on product launches, but I don't seem to be very good at it; I can't seem to apply the methodologies I read about, and everything like building a list of emails or social media followers seems to take too long. I’d like to launch organically, but that process appears to be very time...

In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.

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Hi HN! We’re Akilan and Miguel, the creators of MarbleOS. The inspiration for Marble comes from the GUI work at Xerox PARC, the 1984 Macintosh, and later NeXTSTEP, which became the foundation for Mac OS X. Before GUIs, interacting with a computer was limited to strange terminal commands: C:\> DIR C:\> COPY FILE.TXT A: You had to remember the command, syntax, paths, and parameters. The GUI made those capabilities visible. Instead of remembering commands, you could point at files, drag them, click...

Hi HN, I built an Android file viewer that opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, video, audio, Markdown and code, and asks for no permissions at all. I have always been uneasy about opening files people send me. On Android you either install a 400 MB office suite and sign in or use a small free viewer that wants storage access and ends up uploading your file to a server to render it. Also the hassle of having to download different apps for different file formats was really annoying. Gander...

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After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents

KindaRails2Shell (CVE-2026-66066): Arbitrary File Read and RCE via Active Storage Uploads 1. Basic Information Article Title : Alert on Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails Active Storage Leading to Remote Code Execution Publisher : JPCERT/CC Publication & Update Date : 2026-07-30 Original Article : https://www.jpcert.or.jp/at/2026/at260021.html Related Sources : https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-xr9x-r78c-5hrm Related Entities :...

TA488 OWAReaper: A "Half-Click" Attack that Adds Persistence Inside OWA Just by Opening an Email 1. Basic Information Article Name : Cleaning Out Inboxes: TA488 Comes for Outlook with Another Half-Click Exploit Publisher : Proofpoint Threat Insight Publication Date : 2026-07-29 Original Source : https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/cleaning-out-inboxes-ta488-comes-outlook-another-half-click-exploit Related Source : https://www.bleepingcompute...

GTIG: 2026 OSS Supply Chain Compromise, Credential Theft, and Self-Propagation 1. Basic Information Article Title : Batten Down Your Packages: Mitigation Guidance for Supply Chain Compromise Publisher : Google Threat Intelligence Group / Mandiant Publication Date : 2026-07-30 Original URL : https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/mitigation-guidance-for-supply-chain-compromise/ Related Sources : TeamPCP, axios, and WAVESHAPER.V2 investigat...

STAC4749: Chaos Ransomware in Under 17 Hours via Teams IT Support Scam 1. Basic Information Article Name : Chaos in Teams vishing Publisher : Sophos Publication Date : 2026-07-28 (Detailed report by target site BleepingComputer on 2026-07-30) Original Source : https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/chaos-in-teams-vishing Related Source : https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-teams-vishing-attacks-lead-to-chaos-ransomware-attacks/ Relat...

JavaScript vs React: Understanding How They Work Together If you're starting web development, you've probably heard about JavaScript and React. Many beginners think they are competitors, but they actually work together. Let's understand them in simple terms. What is JavaScript? JavaScript is a programming language used to make websites interactive. Without JavaScript, a website would mostly be static. JavaScript allows you to: Handle button clicks Validate forms Crea...

The Observability Black Box As autonomous AI agents evolve from isolated chat assistants into multi-agent systems executing multi-step business logic across databases, APIs, and microservices, enterprise platform teams face an acute operational challenge: black-box opacity. When an autonomous agent fails, hallucinates, or executes an out-of-bounds API call, traditional Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools fall short. Standard HTTP request logging and basic prompt-response captur...

Watching an autonomous agent run through a loop of tasks is like watching a black box try to solve a puzzle in another room. You can see the final result, but the middle part—the reasoning, the failures, and that pivotal moment where it realizes its plan was garbage—is buried in thousands of lines of unstructured logs. If you've ever deployed an agentic workflow only to check back an hour later and find it has been stuck in a high-latency loop of 'I made a mistake... let me try again' for for...

The biggest reason NVIDIA began providing GPL-licensed kernel modules is that its driver architecture evolved to the point where Linux integration, distribution, and maintenance could be greatly simplified while keeping the GPU's critical intellectual property in firmware and user-space components . To be precise, NVIDIA did not open-source its entire driver stack. The components that became open are primarily the following Linux kernel modules: nvidia.ko nvidia-drm.ko nvidia...

Last week, a Baseten inference engineer who goes by @waterloo_intern published a technical blog post titled "22,580: From GPT-2 to Kimi K3, Explained." It hit 2.4 million views in days. He didn't write a press release. He wrote runnable PyTorch code — starting from GPT-2's attention block, stepping through every architectural change, explaining one problem and one cost per iteration. It's the best transformer lineage explanation I've seen. I devoured his post, then cross-checked the ...

When configuring Claude Code (or Claude-driven AI coding assistants) in your projects, structuring your instructions efficiently is key to getting accurate code generation while keeping token consumption low. Understanding when to use a single CLAUDE.md versus modular .claude/rules/ files will help keep your AI assistant sharp, focused, and predictable. The Core Hierarchy & Scope Claude Code looks for configurations across multiple levels: ├── ~/.clau...

Back in February I published a post about osx-proxmox-next , a tool that builds a macOS VM on Proxmox with one command instead of an afternoon of OpenCore plist editing. About 1,500 people read it. Some of them installed it. On hardware I don't own. That's when the interesting bugs showed up. 150 commits later, here are five failures that don't appear in any macOS-on-Proxmox guide I've found, with the actual root cause for each. 1. The installer stalls at 100% CPU and nothi...

Here's the thing nobody wants to hear: we already know how to break systems where components blindly trust each other's output. We've known for twenty-five years. We just gave it a new name and forgot the lesson. Context An "AI harness" is orchestration glue. Take an LLM, wrap it with a bunch of connectors, plugins, and tool-calling scaffolding so it can actually do things (query a database, hit an API, write a file), and you've got a harness. The Dark Reading piece points out so...