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That bcrypt.hash(password, 10) You Copy-Pasted Might Not Be as Secure as You Think
4+ hour, 14+ min ago (1446+ words) Almost every auth tutorial, including some of my own examples in earlier posts, uses bcrypt.hash(password, 10) without much explanation of what that number actually controls or why it's 10 specifically rather than some other value. It's worth understanding, because the…...
I Built A Fake Server Just To Prove One Of These Actually Works
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (37+ words) Seven libraries, seven real actions outside your laptop. One of them needed a server I don’t have, so I built one myself in Python …...
Nodos distribuidos a prueba de manipulación: Integridad de código SHA-256.
16+ hour ago (376+ words) Día 03 de la serie técnica wFabricSecurity Open Source. ¿Cómo sabes que el worker que envía transacciones al blockchain no fue alterado en disco? wFabricSecurity verifica la integridad SHA-256 del código antes de ejecutar. Los Problemas Reales Atacantes inyectando backdoors o…...
Your bounce handler is probably suppressing the wrong address
17+ hour, 33+ min ago (483+ words) Here is a bug I have now seen in four separate codebases, including one I wrote. Mail goes out. A bounce comes back. The handler parses the status code, sees a 5.x.x, concludes the address is bad, and adds the…...
How AI Remembers About You
13+ hour, 43+ min ago (872+ words) Why LLMs Are Stateless Before understanding why LLMs are stateless, let’s understand what we mean by the term “stateless” here. Stateless here means LLMs do not have …...
676 published documents kept their own history. Six kept different words.
15+ hour, 10+ min ago (1351+ words) That risk is real, it is old, and it is well documented. What I could not find anywhere was a number. How often does it actually happen in documents that are already published, on real government and institutional websites, today?...
Reading a 1.2 Million PaperCut Fingerprint Count Correctly
19+ hour, 48+ min ago (524+ words) PaperCut NG and MF are print management platforms deployed on internal networks in schools, hospitals, and enterprises. In September 2026, a chain of flaws in PaperCut was exploited in the wild, with reports describing automated, large-scale use. The interesting part of…...
I'm 16 and I built an infinite canvas that needs NO signup and shares workspaces via 5KB JSON files
20+ hour, 33+ min ago (329+ words) Hey Dev Community,I wanted to build something that solves two of my biggest annoyances with modern productivity tools (like Notion or Miro): forced signups and data privacy leaks., at 16, while managing my studies, I built AstraviX Studio (https://astravix.xyz) — a…...
Service Startup API Key Identity Logs — Bounded Healthtech Incident Attribution
20+ hour, 33+ min ago (613+ words) This is an architecture decision record for one concrete job: cap what a healthtech workload may spend before the invoice arrives, without weakening billing attribution during an incident. Four invariants define the design. The event should contain no patient identifier,…...
Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9296: Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning with Layer 2 Blockchain Anchoring for Auditable Clinical Trial Eligibility Screening
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (646+ words) Matching patients to clinical trials with large language models is technically feasible, but the prevailing methodology fine-tunes commercial models through external interfaces, transmitting sensitive patient records to third parties, and the resulting screening decisions lack a record that an external…...