Hacker News: swatson741

New comment by swatson741 in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

swatson741 — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:50:38 +0000

I saw this happen to my Canvas account today. At first I thought it was a prank from the school or Instructure. The message was sent to students which makes no sense. Second, the message that was sent basically implies that ShinyHunter is actively getting patched out, and no one is ever going to give into their demands. They're basically saying that they're done and desperate. It's a strange message for ShinyHunter to send, but I think they were trying to pull off a psyop / FUD.

Looking into the payload they sent me this is how they hijacked the screen. Everything in the payload is unchanged except for one line of code:

https://instructure-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/account_9363000..." media="all"/>

This links to the following styling sheet:

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Orbitron:wght@500;7...');

html, body { height: 100% !important; overflow: hidden !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; }

body > * { display: none !important; }

body { display: flex !important; align-items: center !important; justify-content: center !important; background: #07080c !important; }

body::before { content: "" !important; position: fixed !important; inset: 0 !important; z-index: 999998 !important; background: radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% 20%, rgba(255,59,59,.06), transparent 55%), radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% 85%, rgba(125,70,152,.04), transparent 45%), repeating-linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(255,255,255,.035), rgba(255,255,255,.035) 1px, transparent 1px, transparent 3px), #07080c !important; pointer-events: none !important; }

body::after { content: "\A\A" "S H I N Y H U N T E R S" "\A" "rooting your systems since '19 ;)" "\A\A\A" "ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again)." "\A" "Instead of contacting us to resolve it they" "\A" "ignored us and did some \201Csecurity patches\201D." "\A\A" "\26A0 W A R N I N G" "\A\A" "If any of the schools in the affected list are" "\A" "interested in preventing the release of their" "\A" "data, please consult with a cyber advisory firm" "\A" "and contact us privately at TOX to negotiate a" "\A" "settlement. You have till the end of the day by" "\A" "12 May 2026 before everything is leaked." "\A\A" "Instructure still has until EOD 12 May 2026" "\A" "to contact us." "\A\A" " \25BC DOWNLOAD AFFECTED_SCHOOLS.TXT \25BC" "\A" "91.215.85.103/pay_or_leak/" "\A" "instructure_affected_schools_list.txt" "\A\A" "visit us: shnyhntww34phqoa6dcgnvps2yu7dlwzmy5" "\A" "lkvejwjdo6z7bmgshzayd.onion" !important;

    position: fixed !important;
    z-index: 999999 !important;
    top: 50% !important;
    left: 50% !important;
    transform: translate(-50%, -50%) !important;
    white-space: pre !important;
    text-align: center !important;
    font-family: 'Fira Code', 'Share Tech Mono', monospace !important;
    font-size: clamp(10px, 1.4vw, 14px) !important;
    line-height: 1.55 !important;
    color: #c8dce8 !important;
    background:
        linear-gradient(180deg, rgba(255,255,255,.05) 0%, rgba(255,255,255,.01) 3.2%, transparent 3.2%) !important;
    background-color: #0d0f16 !important;
    border: 2px solid #ff3b3b !important;
    border-radius: 14px !important;
    padding: 16px 32px !important;
    overflow: hidden !important;
    box-shadow:
        0 0 35px rgba(255,59,59,.2),
        0 40px 90px rgba(0,0,0,.65),
        inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.06),
        inset 0 0 50px rgba(255,59,59,.03) !important;
    animation: pulseWarn 2.5s infinite ease-in-out !important;
    max-width: 94vw !important;
    text-shadow: 0 0 6px rgba(200,220,232,.15) !important;

}

@keyframes pulseWarn { 0% { box-shadow: 0 0 20px rgba(255,59,59,.15), 0 40px 90px rgba(0,0,0,.65), inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.06); } 50% { box-shadow: 0 0 55px rgba(255,59,59,.4), 0 40px 90px rgba(0,0,0,.65), inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.06); } 100% { box-shadow: 0 0 20px rgba(255,59,59,.15), 0 40px 90px rgba(0,0,0,.65), inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.06); } }

The hack is crude, and it seems unlikely that they have any access to Instructure's developer tools.

Lisp Coding Standards v1.0

swatson741 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://franz.com/~jkf/coding_standards.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725247

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by swatson741 in "Eat Real Food"

swatson741 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:18:56 +0000

I dunno about this. The problem mainly affects low-income families and residents of food deserts, and now the government is trying to put everyone on a keto diet. It just seems like they're not fixing the problems where they happen.

Computer Science Illustrated (2009) [pdf]

swatson741 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:15:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-79.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526027

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer (2017) [pdf]

swatson741 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:47:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431883

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Y Combinator Store

swatson741 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:03:46 +0000

Article URL: https://ycalumni.store/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46418782

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

CYC: A large-scale investment in knowledge infrastructure (1995) [pdf]

swatson741 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:18:10 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/219717.219745

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383231

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Grok's Phone Number

swatson741 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:54:30 +0000

Article URL: https://x.ai/legal/faq#can-i-phone-text-or-message-grok

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362807

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Waymo Safety Impact

swatson741 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:11:18 +0000

Article URL: https://waymo.com/safety/impact/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357606

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Wearing the hair shirt: a retrospective on Haskell (2003)

swatson741 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:13:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/wearing-hair-shirt-retrospective-haskell-2003/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349608

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

OpenCyc 4.0

swatson741 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:46:54 +0000

Article URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencyc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334122

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

swatson741 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 04:40:53 +0000

Article URL: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188/textbook/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333669

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by swatson741 in "Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People"

swatson741 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:13:26 +0000

this is really quite interesting to read through after nearly going catatonic thinking about catamorphisms in the Tiger language.

New comment by swatson741 in "Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf]"

swatson741 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:36:34 +0000

Date of publication is from 2007.

GitHub Copilot CLI

swatson741 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:35:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/features/copilot/cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46292400

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Arduino UNO Q

swatson741 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:13:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.arduino.cc/product-uno-q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250198

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by swatson741 in "Richard Stallman on ChatGPT"

swatson741 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:43:28 +0000

I never really considered this too deeply, because I've never studied "Agentic AI" before (except for natural language processing). Stallman is making a really good point. ChatGPT doesn't solve the intelligence problem. If ChatGPT was actually able to do that it would be able to make ChatGPT 2.0 on request.

60 Years of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford (2023) [video]

swatson741 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:26:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6nmWlu1EA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203681

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by swatson741 in "GitHub Shop"

swatson741 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 12:00:22 +0000

https://thegithubshop.com/collections/lifestyle/products/155...

> Rise and grind with the latest GitHub skateboard deck (it also looks great on your office wall).

There's a lot of great gift ideas here for someone you care about. Merry Christmas everyone!

GitHub Shop

swatson741 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:02:15 +0000

Article URL: https://thegithubshop.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46180271

Points: 2

# Comments: 4