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Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware
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UBI as a productivity dividend
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Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability
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An ode to bzip
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Gimp 3.2 Released
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2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March
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Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input
Sharing a friends first-ever Rails application, dedicated to Arabic learning, from 0 to 1. Pulls language learning methods from Anki, comprehensible input and more.
It's time to move your docs in the repo
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Claude March 2026 usage promotion
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The Forth Language [Byte Magazine Volume 05 Number 08]
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In Praise of Stupid Questions
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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
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Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff
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Meta weighing 20% workforce layoffs to offset AI infrastructure costs: report
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Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans
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Show HN: AgentArmor – open-source 8-layer security framework for AI agents
I've been talking to founders building AI agents across fintech, devtools, and productivity – and almost none of them have any real security layer. Their agents read emails, call APIs, execute code, and write to databases with essentially no guardrails beyond "we trust the LLM."
So I built AgentArmor: an open-source framework that wraps any agentic architecture with 8 independent security layers, each targeting a distinct attack surface in the agent's data flow.
The 8 layers: L1 – Ingestion: prompt injection + jailbreak detection (20+ patterns, DAN, extraction attempts, Unicode steganography) L2 – Storage: AES-256-GCM encryption at rest + BLAKE3 integrity for vector DBs L3 – Context: instruction-data separation (like parameterized SQL, but for LLM context), canary tokens, prompt hardening L4 – Planning: action risk scoring (READ=1 → DELETE=7 → EXECUTE=8 → ADMIN=10), chain depth limits, bulk operation detection L5 – Execution: network egress control, per-action rate limiting, human approval gates with conditional rules L6 – Output: PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio + regex fallback L7 – Inter-agent: HMAC-SHA256 mutual auth, trust scoring, delegation depth limits, timestamp-bound replay prevention L8 – Identity: agent-native identity, JIT permissions, short-lived credentials
I tested it against all 10 OWASP ASI (Agentic Security Integrity) risks from the December 2025 spec. The red team suite is included in the repo.
Works as: (a) a Python library you wrap around tool calls, (b) a FastAPI proxy server for framework-agnostic deployment, or (c) a CLI for scanning prompts in CI.
Integrations included for: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP servers.
I ran it live with a local Ollama agent (qwen2:7b) – you can watch it block a `database.delete` at L8 (permission check), redact PII from file content at L6, and kill a prompt injection at L1 before it ever reaches the model.
GitHub: https://github.com/Agastya910/agentarmor PyPI: pip install agentarmor-core
Would love feedback, especially from people who have actually built production agents and hit security issues I haven't thought of.
TAGS: security, python, llm, ai, agents
Show HN: KeyID – Free email and phone infrastructure for AI agents (MCP)
KeyID.ai is a platform that provides identity verification and authentication solutions, allowing businesses to securely onboard and manage users. The platform offers various features such as document verification, liveness detection, and biometric identification to help enterprises combat fraud and enhance their security measures.