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Devops engineer laptop compromised that cost whooping 6 billion dollar💀
Binance's initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. We have found no evidence of any wallet private key leak. We will share a detailed technical post-mortem once the investigation is complete and the facts are fully verified.
The estimated total impact sits at around $6.3B. We have worked with blockchain partners to freeze affected assets, with ~$3 billion frozen on-chain so far.
Binance will cover all losses from the SAFU fund and the company’s funds. User funds are safe. We will also publish an updated Proof of Reserves once the remediation is complete.
As an immediate precaution, Binance has:
- temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals while security checks are completed;
- revoked the affected address authorisation;
- engaged law enforcement and blockchain intelligence partners to trace and recover funds.
Our teams are working around the clock to resolve this issue safely and thoroughly. We are working closely with our law enforcement partners to confirm the identity of these criminals and bring them to justice.
Please rely only on official Binance channels for updates. Please feel free to contact Binance Customer Support if you have any further questions.
binance.com/en/support/annou…
This is massive
BREAKING: Binance has been hacked with wallets across the Ethereum, Bitcoin, and TRON networks seeing outflows of -$5.7 billion.
The hack includes $1.45 billion worth of Bitcoin and $875 million worth of ETH.
If confirmed, this would mark the biggest hack in crypto history.
We expect more information shortly.
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The evergreen resource - An Introduction to Distributed Systems by Kyle Kingsbury
github.com/aphyr/distsys-cla…
For an impromptu discussion, the Google File System (GFS) came into the picture. And from there, I remembered this MIT course 6.824 Distributed Systems, where there is a lecture on it.
Many folks have covered GFS in depth, but this course also provides an in-depth view of Distributed Systems in general. Recommend this if you are interested in this domain.
nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2021…
(Note: the site is HTTP though)
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🐘 Introducing Postgres Internals in 3D.
🌟 pgrun.dev/pi
Stop reading boring diagrams. Start exploring PostgreSQL.
An interactive 3D map to understand how Postgres actually works.
100% free. Built for developers.
nitter.cf/alxshp/status/21100494…
Introducing PGSync 🐘
Real-time PostgreSQL replication. FREE. OSS
Built in Rust. 🦀
Postgres 16 / 17 / 18.
No extensions. No triggers. No complex setup.
→ snapshot
→ replicate
→ stream changes
→ track WAL
→ recover from crashes
→ resume automatically
→ keep databases in sync
~15 MB RAM during streaming.
Built for developers. Built for AI agents.
Open source.
nitter.cf/alxshp/status/21078790…
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banger read on infra and workflows side from stripe's blog
stripe.dev/blog/run-recurrin…
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The 194th issue of the Polymathic Engineer is out.
This week, we discuss how to build a cache:
- The API contract
- Memory alone is not enough
- Building an LRU cache
- When fresher data isn’t better: the LFU cache
- Implementation
Read it here:
newsletter.francofernando.co…
What?
Dear Prime Minister Ambani,
Please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India.
Naturally, you would prefer to maintain your monopolistic exploitation of the great people of India, but would you nonetheless consider allowing Starlink to compete?
There are many areas of India, as there are in all countries, with no Internet access, which denies children the opportunity for education and for small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods to a global market. Starlink would change their lives for the better.
Thank you 🙏
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went through this blog as i was curious how Talim used Postgres exactly
and man very good articulation Talim @talimbuilds
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The project is real and open source.
Repo: github.com/GLinnik21/plx-nat…
Site: plxnative.com/
Need zachxbt skills. And make agent out of it.
bro zachxbt is actually insane
this man went undercover as a money laundering client
spent $350K of his OWN money to gain the trust of a chinese launderer who was moving bybit hack funds for north korea
the guy started sharing everything. screenshots. wallet addresses. bridge transactions. in real time
zach was matching every single transaction on-chain as the guy was sending them
traced $12M+ across bitcoin, ethereum, solana, and tron
got tether to freeze $442K from the evidence alone
and the funniest part? in between discussing how to launder funds for north korea this guy was casually talking about playing mahjong and his weight loss plan 😭
bro thought he was talking to a client. he was talking to the most dangerous investigator in crypto
and zach funded this entire operation himself. $350K out of pocket. no guarantee he'd ever see it back
this is not the FBI. this is one guy with a laptop and a blockchain explorer
different breed
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Very underrated tip from @karpathy.
Just tried ASD-STE100 rule for model responses, and I found it to be surprisingly good at making explanations clearer. It can be bit too strict, so I agree that "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" feels like a better default.
A prompt you can try with your agent:
"Use ASD-STE100 as a guide for your responses. Write short sentences, use active voice, and keep terminology consistent. Relax the vocabulary rules when they make explanations awkward. Preserve technical precision and uncertainty."
@0xpili_ also made a nice skill for it:
github.com/0xpili/simplified…
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
