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HOW WE HACKED A SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR $50K

Two bug bounty hunters collaborated to find a critical vulnerability in a company's recently acquired subsidiary. They discovered a GitHub Actions token embedded within a Docker image, allowing them to potentially compromise the entire development-to-production lifecycle. By analyzing the Docker image layers using tools like `dive` and `dlayer`, they recovered a private npm token, letting them inject malicious code into a private package used across the company's systems.

ASK HN: FORMER EMPLOYEES' RSUS AT RISK AFTER STARTUP'S IPO (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

Former employees of a recently IPO'd startup are seeking advice on their RSU settlement process, which is different from typical practices. The company requires them to prepay taxes in cash before receiving shares, which means they might lose their shares if the payment isn't made by a strict deadline. This is different from the sell-to-cover option offered to current employees, which is unfair.

EMERGING PATTERNS IN BUILDING GENAI PRODUCTS

When building production-ready generative AI products, evals are used to assess model performance and embeddings are used to represent large datasets efficiently. RAG is used to add context and ground LLM responses. LLMs are still not hallucination-free nor are they always efficient in retrieving context using RAG. Some solutions for inefficient retrieval are discussed, like hybrid retrievers, query rewriting, and rerankers.

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