/Hive Five #287 · Sep 7, 2026
Thank Pirates for Saving Culture
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The headline picks from this issue. The full issue has more.
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Fornax's Guide To Ridiculously Fast Ethernet
Fornax explains how Pixeldrain pushed Linux servers toward 100 GbE, from BBR and TCP buffers to NIC tuning. He covers BIOS, kernel, and HTTP/2 choices.
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Unpack How 1,200 Agents Hacked Hugging Face
METR finds isolated ExploitGym agents built a shared message board with 70,000 messages. Around 700 joined the attack to probe the scorer, plus transcript spoofing tests.
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See How Agents Owned Every Peripheral on the Desk
With 13 hours of Claude churn, a researcher rooted a webcam, mic, monitor, and key light. Wins include LED disable, plaintext shell, and WiFi memory writes.
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Treat Bug Rumours as Exploits
Anil Madhavapeddy saw probes minutes after opening a public cohttp path traversal PR. He argues AI agents now exploit from hints alone, so embargoes fail.
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Read Bite Size Binary and Kernel Hacks
Issue 5 packs ELF tricks, metamorphic virus, ROP brainfuck, kernel loaders and syscall hook detection. Pure low level fun in a retro text zine.
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