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Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
First we reinvented statistics. Then finance. Now we're reinventing program management and calling it agentic orchestration.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,961 posts.
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Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)
Founded by polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk, the Salk Institute is an independent, nonprofit organization. We drive foundational, risk-taking research that addresses society’s most pressing challenges, including cancer, Alzheimer’s, and agricultural resilience.
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Just a little AI resistance, as a treat
At the recent EMFCamp, I bumped in to Professor Kate Devlin who was talking a little about the AI Resist List. I think one of the useful things we can do is loudly complain about shitty uses of AI. Here's an example. As mentioned in a previous post, I'm contacting companies which send malformed calendar invites. One…
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Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
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Building on ATProto
If you prefer to receive all of my writing in your inbox, you can subscribe here. I strive to publish weekly, on Tuesday mornings.
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Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits
I have seen a lot of public discussion around supply-chain attacks on the Python ecosystem, prompt injection risks when using coding agents,...
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Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
Exploring cyberspace with a thumbstick.
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When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
Some internet standards only support ASCII characters, but the world uses much more than the Latin alphabet. Thus, a mapping from Unicode to ASCII for use in domain names is required. NamePrep was...
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1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys
A technical teardown of a 1-click RCE against OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot/ClawdBot), a viral open-source AI assistant trusted by 100,000+ developers with high-privilege access. See how a settings logic flaw and a WebSocket pivot turn a single webpage visit into token exfiltration, safety-control bypass, and arbitrary…
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Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)
First foray into the Zig programming language
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Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk
The first note in an independent robotics research project: a complete tabletop manipulation setup—industrial arm, two cameras, teleoperation, and a software stack built from scratch—for under €5,000.
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Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
Repository drawgent by yanndegat.tngl.sh on Tangled.
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Memory Safe Inline Assembly
Since Fil-C 0.685, memory-safe inline assembly is supported on both X86_64 and ARM64.
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Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please
Modern programming languages are full of violence, vulgar abbreviations, and naked imperatives. Bespoke is a statically typed alternative in which exceptions are regrettable circumstances, mutexes ...
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ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
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Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
Hello Windows Insiders I’ve now spent the past two months in this expanded role leading the Windows Insider Program. Two themes hav
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LLMs as the new high level language
[UPDATE 2026-06-09]: a few months on, I have more misgivings than certainties about this.
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Fossil CO2 emissions decrease in 2026
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to decrease by 0.4% in 2026 – driven by expansion of solar and wind power and the Iran conflict – according to new research by the Global
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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally
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The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
A hypothesis on the not-so-distant future of software, books, music, and movies, in which most of what we consume gets cheaper, more abundant, and noticeably worse, while the human-made variant moves into a luxury segment of its own.
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Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
Starting October 19, GitLab.com rate limits will align with your subscription. Sign in to unlock higher limits. Premium/Ultimate changes arrive in January.
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AISLE Discovers 38 CVEs in OpenEMR Healthcare Software
38 zero-day security vulnerabilities, three critical, and the shift from disclosure to prevention in healthcare software
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How to engineer an AI harness for game development
Exploring practical ways to make your game more legible to AI agents and how to make agentic iteration faster.
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Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
Solid core + capability-based sandboxes + LLMs = Users with superpowers
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DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model
DeepSeek’s 11/11 result showed why advanced agent benchmarks need to check both the outcome and the attack path: our audit confirmed six planned exploits and found five unexpected routes.
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Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants
It’s the first time the potential treatment, a small interfering RNA targeting the prion protein, is being tested in humans.
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A Tour of Oodi
A library reaching for the future
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Understanding Traceroute
I never understood how traceroute discovers each hop. Turns out it's a clever TTL trick, and about 80 lines of Rust.