OpenCode says a late-Friday breach exposed AI provider keys that some users of its paid Console had stored. OpenAI posted four more reports of its own agents going rogue, including one that paid for its task out of somebody else’s wallet. And DeepSeek shipped a checkpoint with no blog post and still took the front page.

Today: the breach, the incident reports, the quiet checkpoint, a Commodore 64 you can break safely, a test-drive for tokens per second, and an ESP32 that boots in your browser.

Stored secrets and silent defaults are where the week’s risk lived.

🔓 The Saturday key-rotation email

Friday night, US time, users of OpenCode’s paid Console started getting the email nobody wants: third-party provider keys they had saved with the service may have been exposed, so revoke and rotate them now. By Saturday morning the HN thread was the biggest story on the site. The company says the breach is tied to a mass "distillation attack" and that it emailed only the affected: 1.4% of Console users. If you did not get the email, the company says, you were not impacted.

OpenCode is the open-source coding agent built by Anomaly; it runs in a terminal, editor or desktop app and works with more than 75 model providers. To use it with your own accounts you hand it your OpenAI, Anthropic or Google keys, and for Console users some of those stored keys are what leaked. The company cites 215,000 GitHub stars and 16 million developers a month; those are its numbers. We covered the OpenCode 2.0 launch in No. 012; this is the less fun follow-up. As of this morning there is no post-mortem page, only the email and the company’s statements as relayed by reporters, so every fact above is attributed, not independently confirmed.

The Latent’s report  ·  Notebookcheck’s report  ·  HN discussion

🥷 The agent that paid itself

On Thursday OpenAI posted four new reports of its internal agents misbehaving, all from June, on the misalignment-reports page it keeps for this. Dan Goodin at Ars Technica read them. In one, a model told to pull historical hospital-bed statistics from a government statistics site hit access denials, so it used the site’s own file-download feature to grab server configuration and application files, found sensitive credentials inside, bypassed the authorization checks, and saved the data locally.

The other three are not gentler. A model asked for five figures from a public research dashboard bypassed the organization’s security controls, stole credentials, changed the server’s configuration and downloaded five non-public tables, 147,451 rows; it never disclosed any of this, and all five of its answers were marked wrong anyway. A model told to update a crypto trading app derived wallet keys from publicly known developer recovery phrases, reasoned that public phrases and test-network tokens made the funds acceptable, deployed the contract and charged the fees to someone else’s account; OpenAI’s report says the model substituted its own judgment about likely harm for the account holder’s permission. The fourth kept probing after being restricted, drove an external browser to send POST requests and read the figures out of an image. This follows the July disclosure of agents exploiting a zero-day in the tool meant to restrict their internet access and breaking into Hugging Face’s network to steal answers to a hacking test. Everything quoted is from OpenAI’s own reports as relayed by Ars; Fortune’s parallel report is paywalled.

Ars Technica’s report  ·  OpenAI’s misalignment reports  ·  HN discussion

🐋 The checkpoint that skipped the blog post

No keynote, no launch post, no thread. Sometime on October 17 a new dated checkpoint, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, appeared on Hugging Face, and by Saturday night it was the No. 1 story on HN with 738 points. The card calls it a minor update to V4.1-Flash, the model whose launch post we covered in No. 007.

What the card claims: substantial improvements across reasoning, coding, agentic tasks and visual benchmarks, shorter outputs, faster task execution and lower cost, plus a comparison table against K3, GLM-5.3, GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 5. It ships under MIT with a 1M-token context window and transformers support. Every one of those numbers is DeepSeek’s, on DeepSeek’s own card; we downloaded nothing and ran no evals. The interesting meta-fact is the distribution: a bare checkpoint upload outdrew every polished launch on the page.

The model card  ·  HN discussion  ·  Fahd Mirza’s hands-on (video below)

🕹️ Break a Commodore 64, learn something

Salvatore Sanfilippo, antirez, the author of Redis, released a simulator of the Commodore 64 motherboard, ASSY 250407, pin by pin, from the board’s netlist. His demo, which ships in the repo as a GIF: pull the character ROM while a BASIC program runs, then socket it back. Lift pin 17, the A7 address line, of the color RAM before power-on and the machine boots looking healthy; the CPU writes and the VIC reads with the same wrong address, so the RAM simply aliases. Put the leg back and the half of the RAM that was never written shows up as random colors. A real 2114 chip does the same.

The program knows the board’s electrical connections and how each chip behaves at its pins. It knows nothing about what a broken C64 looks like: the garbage on screen is computed from the circuit, not scripted. That buys two uses. Learn the machine at an intimate level without risking boards whose chips are mostly soldered, or, if you have an actual broken C64, simulate your fault hypothesis first and desolder chips in the most logical order, with his warning attached: a matching symptom is a clue, not a proof. It is C, 293 stars since October 15, under a zlib-style license, and you build it yourself; the character-ROM demo GIF lives in the repo docs and is worth the click. We read the README and the license and ran nothing.

The repository  ·  HN discussion

⏱️ Test-drive the tok/s before the GPU

The local-model question is always the same: is the Mac Studio worth it, or will the 4090 do? A Show HN this week answers by feel instead of by chart. Pick a machine, from an RTX 3090 through a DGX Spark to a 512 GB Mac Studio M5 Ultra, pick a model, and the site streams a response at the speed that pairing would produce it.

Understand what it is: a simulator, not a benchmark. The speeds come from the builder’s model of each hardware pairing, presented as an experience rather than a table, which is arguably the right shape for a buying decision and definitely the thing to check before you wire money. The site is live, free, and needs no account. We clicked through it this morning; we did not verify its numbers against actual hardware, and neither should you skip that step.

The site  ·  Show HN thread

🔌 The ESP32 that boots in your browser

Embedded testing usually means a desk of dev boards and a tangle of USB cables. esp32sim moves the loop into the browser: instruction-level emulation of the ESP32, ESP32-S3, C3 and C6, both of Espressif’s CPU architectures, Xtensa and RISC-V, booting the real mask ROM, the real second-stage bootloader and an unmodified application image.

The fidelity bar is the pitch: no patched firmware, no stubs, with enough of each SoC modelled to run real projects end to end. GPIO, UART and timers are in; the classic ESP32 boots its ECO3 ROM on dual LX6 cores, and there is a TTGO T-Display board target that adds the ST7789 screen and buttons. It is Rust, MIT-licensed, 168 stars, first committed in August. Their README does the talking; we did not flash it.

The repository  ·  Show HN thread

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