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Vol. 2026 · No. 216
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Tue · Aug 4 · 2026
The stack 4 picks · curated
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Hacker News txt 474 c · 1125 pts

LLMs reward expertise

Sean Goedecke argues the most important prompting skill is domain expertise, not prompt craft — using Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about a Jacobian Conjecture counterexample as the proof. Tao's messages are short, he signals expertise so the model drops into peer mode rather than tutor mode, he pushes back obliquely when answers look wrong, and he supplies most of the leaps himself.

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Hacker News txt 8 c · 45 pts

Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

Attackers took over the GitHub account of the maintainer behind keyv (~127M weekly npm downloads) and injected a credential-stealing worm across the whole package family — flat-cache, file-entry-cache, cacheable-request, cache-manager and more. Malicious files were pushed straight to main and released immediately, so the poisoned versions shipped with valid GitHub Actions provenance.