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tgies

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    Show HN: Copy-fail-C – portable C port of CVE-2026-31431, with a checker

    This is a C port of Theori/Xint's Copy Fail PoC ( https://copy.fail/ , 2026-04-29). The original depended on Python and embedded x86_64 shellcode. I managed to reimplement the shel…

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    Comment #47956767

    fixed: https://github.com/tgies/copy-fail-c

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    Comment #47956756

    I have a C translation here that should be pretty readable https://github.com/tgies/copy-fail-c

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    Comment #47956615

    The Python dependency is easily eliminated, and the x86_64 payload made cross-platform: https://github.com/tgies/copy-fail-c

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    Show HN: MegaHAL in Pure SQL

    I ported Jason Hutchens' 1998 Loebner Prize-winning chatbot, MegaHAL, to run entirely inside PostgreSQL, in pure SQL. The entire lifecycle -- tokenization, learning, keyword extrac…

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    Thanks! I'll see what I can do about that.

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    Show HN: The GPG Guide – Practical OpenPGP for 2026

    Most GPG documentation I could find was outdated -- O'Reilly 1995, No Starch 2006, countless websites from the mid 00s -- or scattered across dozens of blog posts that each covered…

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