Leaked Google keys hit Gemini & TerminalPhone Tor walkie-talkie chat - Hacker News (Feb 26, 2026)

Today's topics: Leaked Google keys hit Gemini - Truffle Security reports thousands of publicly exposed Google `AIza...` API keys can authenticate to Gemini endpoints after projects enable the Generative Language API—an insecure default and retroactive privilege expansion. TerminalPhone Tor walkie-talkie chat - TerminalPhone is a single-file Bash tool that offers anonymous, end-to-end encrypted voice and text over Tor hidden services using record-then-send Opus audio, onion-address caller ID, and optional HMAC signing. Agent Swarm coding agents orchestration - Desplega.ai’s open-source Agent Swarm coordinates a lead agent and multiple worker agents in Docker with an MCP API, task queues, dashboard, and long-term memory via embeddings and persistent identity files. Anthropic loosens safety commitments - Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy v3 replaces hard pause requirements with flexible, nonbinding targets and public reporting, amid competitive pressure and a high-stakes US defense contract dispute. OpenAI strategy and weak stickiness - Benedict Evans argues OpenAI lacks durable moats: frontier model parity is rising, usage is broad but shallow, incumbents have distribution, and ‘platform’ ambitions may not create lock-in or network effects. GitHub commit emails used for spam - A Tell HN thread alleges companies scrape Git commit metadata and GitHub activity to send unsolicited marketing emails; GitHub says it violates ToS and recommends using ‘no-reply’ commit addresses. Fentanyl redesign for safer opioids - Scripps chemists report a redesigned fentanyl analog using a spirocyclic core that preserves analgesia while reducing beta-arrestin recruitment, with less respiratory depression at typical doses and a short half-life. Hendrix tone as systems engineering - IEEE Spectrum breaks down Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Purple Haze’ sound as an analyzable signal chain—Fuzz Face, Octavia, wah, Marshall stack—plus acoustic feedback, modeled in SPICE with reproducible files. When correctness loses at work - An essay argues organizations often optimize for short-term comfort, turning ‘consensus’ into veto power and creating responsibility without authority—so technically correct solutions repeatedly lose. Hightouch hiring and startup perks - Hightouch’s careers page highlights Series C momentum, remote-friendly hubs, generous benefits, and values-driven culture while hiring broadly across engineering, AI, sales, and operations via Greenhouse. https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/terminalphone https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-swarm https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2026/20260211-janda-molecule.html https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change https://raccoon.land/posts/technical-excellence-is-not-enough/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163885 https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/2/19/how-will-openai-compete-nkg2x https://hightouch.com/careers#open-positions