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The latest AI and developer news from Hacker News, with short summaries.
Visit website →Calling the Gemini API with an unrestricted Firebase browser key caused a €54k spike in 13 hours
After enabling Firebase AI Logic, abnormal Gemini usage led to a €54k bill.
Updating Gun Rocket Through 10 Years of Unity Engine
A migration log of gradually upgrading a Unity 5.5 game through to 2026
Codex Hacked a Samsung TV
Escalated privileges from a browser foothold to root using a physmap primitive.
Migrating a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus
Airbnb transitioned its large-scale metrics pipeline using OTLP and vmagent.
Darkbloom – Private Inference on Idle Macs
It links idle Apple Silicon Macs together to build an end-to-end encrypted inference network.
RedSun: Gaining SYSTEM Privileges on Win 11/10 and Server with April 2026 Update Applied
It's a PoC that exploits Windows Defender behavior to overwrite system files.
The Simple Geometry Behind Everything on the Road
It explains a method for stably connecting road curves between profiles using only lines and circular arcs.
ChatGPT for Excel
Create, analyze, and edit spreadsheets with ChatGPT right inside Excel.
Is Gas Town 'stealing' users' LLM credits to improve itself
A claim that the default Gas Town installation uses users' credentials and LLM credits to do upstream improvement work.
PiCore - A Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux
Introducing a RAM-based port of Tiny Core Linux for the Raspberry Pi
Ask HN: Who's using OpenClaw
Real users shared concrete details about OpenClaw's use cases, costs, and reliability.
Generating a Color Spectrum from an Image
A writeup experimenting with several sorting and bucketing strategies to visualize an image's color distribution.
Google Broke Its Promise to Me - Now ICE Has My Data
Google's violation of its prior-notice promise allowed ICE to obtain a student's data.
Introducing: ShaderPad
A 5.8KB library released for lightweight shader integration on websites
Show HN: Libretto - Making AI browser automations deterministic
Libretto was released to improve the reproducibility and debugging of browser automation.
Cal.com is switching to closed source
Cal.com is switching to closed source, citing AI-driven security threats.
Toward Trust in Emacs
Introducing the trust-manager package, which complements Emacs 30's trust system.
US Lawyers Warn After AI Rulings: Your Chat Logs Could Be Used Against You
Experts warn that chat records with AI could be used as legal evidence.
Do You Really Need a Database
A benchmark comparison of read performance across files, memory, SQLite, and indexes.
IPv6 traffic has surpassed 50%
In Google's statistics, IPv6 usage share has surpassed 50%.