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Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks
No patched kernels are available yet for 22.04, 24.04, or 26.04 despite a CVSS 9.8 rating.
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Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
We find that frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at natively reading and writing neural network weights, using a variety of recent tools and algorithms or even via direct weight editing.
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Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
Wait, that's not him.
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Let Me Ch...
That morning I woke up at 6:58, two minutes before the alarm. I lay there and waited for it to ring. And it rang. We both did our jobs. I still don’t know why I remember it in such detail. I used to forget what I’d had for dinner the night before. And now I remember the whole morning minute by minute, as if someone…
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My Favourite Laptop
I’m not a big owner of things, but the best laptop I’ve ever owned is a roughed-up 2015 Thinkpad X250.
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US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Explore 125 baby names that shifted between boys and girls, from Leslie to Ashley. See how each one’s split between boys and girls changed from 1936 to 2025.
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Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
I shouldn't have to be doing any of this, but at least it's fun.
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Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings
I tested thirteen models and found that their drafting is approaching professional levels.
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Moving our warehouse off DuckDB
We moved our warehouse product off DuckDB and DuckLake onto our own flavor of Trino and a new open table format, HogLake. Here's what broke at scale and why.
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Curiosity Traps
On reverse honeypots, rewarding close attention, and finding your people
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WTF Ubuntu?
In case you missed it: CVE-2026-98432 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) bug in the Linux kernel's TCP code. It's been there since 2016, so virtually every Linux server on the planet has it, and it can be hit remotely. Anthropic says it built a working exploit that gets root on a server. A total takeover.
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We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%
Zone setting changes used to rebuild entire DNS zones, even ones with tens of millions of records. Here is how we built a planner that picks the smallest safe build, cutting full builds by 40%, peak memory by 85%, and halving build delay.
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The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"
I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies, a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in …
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If you love a website, back it up
This story starts with a little tragedy. See, I’ve got these old webpages I love to go back and look on every now and then. There’s websites that h...
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China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
China’s First Frontier AI Export Controls: MOFCOM Announcement No. 48 Key Takeaways On October 16, 2026, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MO…
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F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix
From Pascal and ex tapes to a VAX system: Bill Joy handles BSD distribution and debugging, then joins Ozalp Babaoglu to bring virtual memory to Unix.
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Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed
An attacker gained unauthorized access to environment variables for a subset of organizations. We've blocked the exploit and emailed all impacted account owners with steps to mitigate.
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It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
Proton's CEO called a request for security testing "loser thinking". Using AI to write code is fine, but for a privacy company, the guardrails around that code are the product.
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Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
[This is a guest post by Frank Calegari. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Why we should not be sad The release by OpenAI on Octobe…
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Novellas with Groff
Don't even think about it: I won't publish this. Nor send it to you privately, which is mostly the same as publishing it.
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Resisting Cognitive Surrender
Working Notes: a commonplace notebook for recording & exploring ideas. Home . Site Map . Subscribe . More at expLog . — Kunal
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The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
One of my pet peeves with the web development community is that so many of the decisions we make are vibes-based. Frameworks are “blazing fast,” tools will…
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We're training a Figma-fluent editing model
Here, we’re sharing the research behind how we’re translating that to design editing workflows.
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Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
Two lawyers hid a white-on-white instruction inside a court filing telling the AI to go easy on their case. The court's AI caught it. The fine was $16,000.
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Toit v2.0.0
Celebrating Toit v2.0.0 after more than four years of alpha development.
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Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot
On efficient algorithms, the exponential time hypothesis, and losing the plot.
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Bidirectional charging during grid outages
David asked a great question on my solar battery system post: why buy a small battery just for emergencies when electric cars have a large battery you can also use for other things? [1] This would be great, and seems like the obvious way for it to work: when the grid goes down the panels can charge the car when it's…
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HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Instead of YouTube, watch HackerTube!
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TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-98432 is a CVSS 9.8 remote use-after-free in Linux's IPv4 TCP handshake, fixed upstream Oct 15. RHEL has fixes; Ubuntu's are still in testing.