Lee Robinson outlines 10 essential principles for building exceptional developer documentation, from lightning-fast load times and AI-native design to mobile responsiveness and accessibility. His guide emphasizes making docs that work seamlessly with AI tools while remaining human-readable and actionable. MORE

Life is Poker, Not Chess. You're making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information, managing risk and variance, while dealing with multiple unpredictable players. MORE

Sam Parr interviews Will Guidara about applying 5-star restaurant hospitality principles to build billion-dollar startups. Learn how "unreasonable" customer experiences and personalized service can give tech companies a competitive edge over rivals. MORE

Security researchers at Lupin & Holmes discovered critical GitHub Actions vulnerabilities in two major npm packages - cross-fetch (20M weekly downloads) and GraphQL-JS (16M weekly downloads) - that could allow attackers to steal maintainer tokens and publish malicious code. MORE

AI capabilities are following the same exponential growth pattern that caught people off guard during COVID-19, with recent models now completing 2+ hour programming tasks autonomously and matching human expert performance across 44 occupations. MORE

OpenAI launched parental controls for ChatGPT, letting parents link accounts with teens to manage settings like quiet hours, voice mode, and content filters. The system also alerts parents if it detects signs a teen might be considering self-harm. MORE

Litestream v0.5.0 introduces a new LTX file format that enables point-in-time recovery for SQLite databases with faster restore times. The update eliminates the complex "generations" system and uses transaction IDs for simpler database backup management. MORE

Huntress CTF is a cybersecurity competition starting October 2025 that challenges participants with hands-on offensive security scenarios. Registration is now open for this proactive security event that helps cybersecurity professionals sharpen their skills through real-world capture-the-flag challenges. MORE

Major tech companies like Shopify and Cloudflare are dramatically increasing their intern hiring because AI-powered interns can contribute meaningful value much faster than previous generations. MORE

Stacy transformed from a divorced single mom making $15/hour at 911 dispatch to a cybersecurity analyst at Wiz in just two years through a Georgia Tech bootcamp and relentless networking on LinkedIn. MORE

How to Get Rich (without luck, talent or a trust fund). Shaan breaks down four simple money rules that helped him go from broke to $30 million by age 30. He reveals the specific skills to master, why trading time for money keeps you poor, and how proximity to the right people accelerates wealth building. MORE

Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich discuss Microsoft's career progression system, from junior engineer to distinguished engineer, covering the role of luck, scope expansion, and why you don't need to become a manager to advance. MORE

Organize your Slack channels by “How Often”, not “What”. MORE

How to automate your entire photo editing workflow into one dmenu script, eliminating the need to jump between multiple applications and remember script parameters. The approach can be applied to any multi-tool workflow to save time and mental energy. MORE

Personal Audio Feed. The setup transforms any interesting article into spoken audio that syncs to his phone, creating a custom podcast from his reading list. MORE

Daniel Stenberg, creator of curl, shares his automated workflow for maintaining comprehensive release notes using custom Perl and shell scripts. His system automatically extracts commit messages, tracks contributors, and generates statistics to ensure every curl release has detailed documentation crediting all contributors. MORE

Complete system for managing multiple jobs, research projects, and personal tasks using Google Calendar, Obsidian, and Morgen to automatically schedule work and handle conflicts. The setup integrates email-to-task conversion, AI-powered scheduling, travel time automation, and calendar syncing across platforms to maximize productivity without manual planning. MORE

Security researchers Vitor Falcão and Monkehack scored big at Google's VRP Mexico BugSwat event, taking 2nd place overall and winning the "Best AI VRP Researchers" award. MORE

Javier Corral won the Most Valuable Hacker (MVH) award at HackerOne's h165 Singapore Live Hacking Event, along with exterminator and vigilante awards. MORE

Bug bounty hunter Abdullah Nawaf reached $1 million in earnings on Bugcrowd by focusing on one program for 3-4 years, earning $750K from that single target. His key advice: never leave a new program until finding a P1 or P2 vulnerability, and deeply understand your target's patterns. MORE

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025). MORE

Detailed comparison of Bambu Lab's newest H2S 3D printer versus the popular X1C, highlighting key upgrades like the larger build volume, heated chamber, improved AMS 2 Pro filament system, and better vibration dampening. Perfect for makers considering an upgrade to handle bigger prints and advanced materials with less hassle. MORE

The Model Context Protocol's new OAuth specification forces MCP servers to act as both resource and authorization servers, creating major security headaches for enterprises. This design breaks OAuth best practices by making servers stateful and requiring complex token management that most organizations aren't equipped to handle safely. MORE

Security researchers were able to access every Oscar nominee's personal info including home addresses and phone numbers of A-list stars like Lady Gaga and Jared Leto through unprotected Academy APIs. The team responsibly disclosed the vulnerability in January, which was promptly fixed by the Academy. MORE

Sam Altman unveils OpenAI's ambitious plan to build a "gigawatt factory" producing massive AI infrastructure weekly to meet exploding demand. The goal: enough compute power to tackle everything from curing cancer to personalized tutoring for every student on Earth. MORE

Critical vulnerability in Unity Runtime (CVE-2025-59489) allows malicious apps to execute arbitrary code in Unity games by hijacking command-line arguments through Android intents. The flaw affects Unity 2017.1+ and enables attackers to load malicious libraries, potentially stealing permissions from popular games like Among Us and Pokémon GO. MORE

Semgrep researchers tested AI coding agents Claude Code and OpenAI Codex on 11 real Python web apps, finding they can detect actual vulnerabilities but with high false positive rates (82-86%). The study reveals AI excels at finding access control bugs but struggles with complex injection attacks, plus results vary wildly between identical runs. MORE

Alan Chan, founder of Heptabase, demonstrates how AI transforms learning from consuming lightweight content to tackling advanced academic textbooks directly. His 5-step method uses PDF parsing, digital whiteboards, and AI tutoring to make PhD-level materials accessible to working professionals in just 20 hours. MORE

21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties. MORE

Sam Parr shares five surefire ways to sabotage your life: overthinking without action, avoiding goals, constantly switching projects, skipping deep friendships, and picking individual stocks over index funds. MORE

Alarming data showing US teenagers who read "almost every day" dropped from 30% to under 10% since 1980, while those who "hardly ever" read jumped to over 40%. The decline coincides with smartphone adoption and correlates with falling global test scores in math, reading, and science. MORE

Making the web fast again: the Qwik + Vite story with Angular creator Miško Hevery. MORE

Adding Complexity Reduced AI Cost by 41%. By combining newsletter processing steps into one comprehensive tool with structured outputs, token usage dropped significantly while improving success rates from 87% to 94%. MORE

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence that only affects Safari and Chrome browsers on iOS/iPhone devices. The bug allows attackers to bypass authentication in the REST API and was rewarded $3,600 for the high-quality submission involving content-type manipulation techniques. MORE

How to exploit Google Web Designer's internal NinjaShell API to achieve remote code execution by manipulating malicious ad template files. The vulnerability allowed attackers to execute arbitrary binaries on victim machines through crafted video thumbnail URLs that triggered the application's browser opening functionality. MORE

Spring Boot Actuator endpoints can expose sensitive debug information and credentials when misconfigured, but they're often hidden behind non-standard paths and access controls. This comprehensive guide reveals advanced techniques for discovering and bypassing protections on these valuable penetration testing targets. MORE

HackerOne's 9th annual security report explores how AI is transforming offensive cybersecurity, creating "bionic hackers" who combine human creativity with AI tools. The report covers AI's impact on security programs, the continued importance of human expertise, and industry insights on bounties and business risks. MORE