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LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ubxM
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Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria (Score: 153+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u9sK
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How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tUtn
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Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u6ia
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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (🔥 Score: 171+ in 59 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uadn
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How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tWrL
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First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (🔥 Score: 169+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u9C2
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High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill (🔥 Score: 179+ in 42 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u9Bf
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Google to back three new nuclear projects (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u92y
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20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (🔥 Score: 173+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u95P
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Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tZUK
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Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u6BP
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How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tXrc
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June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022) (Score: 152+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u7mS
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NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014) (Score: 152+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tZRG
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When Abandoned Mines Collapse (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u3n7
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Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u9D4
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Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u9GG
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6u9GG
Hi HN, I'm Tyler Flint, one of the creators of qtap.
For a while now, my team and I at Qpoint.io have been grappling with the challenge of understanding what's actually happening inside the encrypted traffic leaving our production systems. Modern apps rely heavily on third-party APIs (think payment processors, data providers, etc.), but once TLS kicks in, figuring out exactly what data is being sent, identifying PII exposure, or debugging integration issues becomes incredibly difficult without resorting to complex and often brittle solutions.
Traditional approaches like forward proxies require terminating TLS (MITM), managing certificates, and often introduce performance bottlenecks or single points of failure. Network firewalls usually operate at L3/L4 and lack payload visibility. We felt there had to be a better way.
That's why we built qtap. It's a lightweight agent that uses eBPF to tap into network traffic at the kernel level. The key idea is to hook into common TLS libraries (like OpenSSL) before encryption and after decryption. This gives us deep visibility into the actual request/response payloads of HTTPS/TLS traffic without needing to terminate the connection or manage certs. Because it leverages eBPF, the performance impact is minimal compared to traditional methods.
With qtap, we can now see exactly which external services our apps are talking to, inspect the payloads for debugging or security auditing (e.g., spotting accidental PII leaks), monitor API performance/errors for third-party dependencies, and get a much clearer picture of our egress traffic patterns.
We've found this approach really powerful for improving reliability and security posture. We've packaged qtap as a Linux Binary, Docker container, and Helm chart for deployment.
This is still evolving, but we're excited about the potential of using eBPF for this kind of deep, yet non-intrusive, visibility.
We'd love to get the HN community's feedback:
Do you face similar challenges monitoring encrypted egress traffic?
What are your thoughts on using eBPF for this compared to other methods?
Any suggestions or potential use cases we haven't considered?
Reservoir Sampling (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u9Ld
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Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV (🔥 Score: 168+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u9TQ
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Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (🔥 Score: 152+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u9Dg
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How to harden GitHub Actions (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tZ7Q
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Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford (🔥 Score: 157+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u8YW
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Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites) (🔥 Score: 161+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6u8W6
Just yesterday I tried to find examples of good high information density UIs... and seems to be an impossible task.
Search engines are full to the brim with vague articles repeating each other's talking points, and exception being this blog post by Matthew Ström: https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/
Image search is no better, with largely irrelevant results.
In the age when everything is spaced out and zoned out gray on gray, what are your go-to examples of UIs that pack a lot of info?
OpenAI for Countries (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u7hD
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Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u8vy
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Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u7CJ
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Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u8bW
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Mac Themes Garden (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u75n
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Web search on the Anthropic API (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u7b6
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