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Your AI Agent's Chat History Is User Input

There's a jailbreak that works on a surprising number of production chat assistants, needs no clever prompt engineering, and doesn't trip a single content filter. It takes about thirty seconds in devtools. You don't attack the model. You attack the transcript. Almost every chat integration starts the same way, because every SDK example starts the same way. The client holds the conversation and posts it back on every turn: await fetch("/api/chat", { method: "POST", body: JSON.stringify({

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Why Were the Dabaos Late?

Article URL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/why-were-the-dabaos-late Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149414 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

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Europe Is a Country

Article URL: https://www.noelmaurer.com/p/europe-is-a-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149384 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Jollof, Sunday Special — A Bowl of Jollof Rice in Pure CSS

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art. it's the dish that shows up at every party back home — the one pot https://codepen.io/editor/Eze-Charles/pen/019fc4b4-610a-7bad-826b-5842f4812f36 Everything here is CSS — no images, no SVG art assets. The rice texture is layered radial-gradients at different sizes to fake The part I'm most proud of is the steam — four blurred circles on a What I learned: how much "texture" in CSS really just comes down to N

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New spinning drone hides in plain sight

Article URL: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/07/new-spinning-drone-hides-in-plain-sight Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149359 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: Blanked – Compare tech hiring processes by role and company

I've been working on blanked basically I feel like the current hiring process within tech is very opaque and you have to commit to multiple rounds without knowing what it will entail or pay. Trying to make a public source list where you can compare the hiring process at different places like number of rounds, interviews etc. Also people can vote and add their experiences anonymously I want it to be like levels.fyi but for the hiring process. Appreciate any feedback would love any contributions a

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