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PingCap TiDB Leaks
PingCAP Inc. / TiDB Cloud • Distributed databases • 10.6 TB total exfiltration • 200 GB stage one release
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,939 posts.
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Late Bronze Age Collapse
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2026432 points316 commentscited by 4History & Retro Computing details
This week, by order of the ACOUP Senate, we’re talking about the Late Bronze Age Collapse (commonly abbreviated ‘LBAC’), the shocking collapse of the Late Bronze Age state system …
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Mojo 1.0
Today, the Mojo language officially reaches 1.0: a milestone the language has been building toward since its first release in 2023. Mojo has grown into a general-purpose language with a vibrant developer community writing their own libraries, tools, and applications on top of it. With Mojo 1.0, developers can now…
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Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
It's that time of the year again, a new version of Python is just around the corner. With the Python 3.15.0b1 feature freeze, we know what's...
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Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding assistant. Prior to v1.1.10, it automatically spawned an HTTP server (default port 4096+) on startup. Since v1.1.10, the server is disabled by default but can be enabled via command-line flags or configuration file. When running, the server exposes endpoints for:
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MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.
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Using go fix to modernize Go code
Go 1.26 includes a new implementation of go fix that can help you use more modern features of Go.
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Lines of code got a better publicist
A case against measuring AI-assisted engineering by code volume and other vanity metrics instead of outcomes.
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I paid people to try and follow my README
Developers suck at writing documentation. We like to say RTFM but often there ain't no FM to R. At best we have a half-arsed collection of notes, some obsolete tips, and a link to a desolate forum full of people asking the same questions again and again. That's no way to treat our users. I naïvely believe there's a…
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Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
It is important to provide credit.
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Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)
This article is part of a series about Street Fighter II and the CPS-1. It is recommended to read the previous entries before reading this one.
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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating from the positions of the stars, planets...
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Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
Creative ideas for speeding up queries in PostgreSQL
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Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS
Math.tanh, every CSS trig function, and the Web Audio compressor all route through the host libm, so the rounding of a cosine betrays the OS a browser actually …
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AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
A week ago the Copy Fail vulnerability came out, and Hyunwoo Kim immediately realized that the fixes were insufficient, sharing a patch the same day. In doing this he followed standard procedure for Linux, especially within networking: share the security impact with a closed list of Linux security engineers, while…
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Doomscrolling ourselves to death
James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages
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How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
A startup called Taalas , recently released an ASIC chip running Llama 3.1 8B (3/6 bit quant) at an inference rate of 17,000 tokens per seconds. That's like writing around 30 A4 sized pages in one second. They claim it's 10x cheaper in ownership cost than GPU based inference systems and is 10x less electricity hog…
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AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.
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Python numbers every programmer should know
A cheat sheet of real-world timing and memory numbers to guide performance-sensitive decisions.
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My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
My weird hobby lately is just wandering around Street View and zooming in on random stuff. Today I found a 350Z that shows up parked in the same Tokyo spot in every capture since 2009.
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Espionage Against the European Parliament
We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that the attackers could have had access to confidential…
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Google Hits 50% IPv6
IPv6 has reached a major milestone, with around half of Google’s users now accessing its services over IPv6.
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Why is Claude an Electron app?
If coding agents make native ports cheap, why does Anthropic still ship Claude as an Electron app? Because code is cheap but maintenance isn’t.
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Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
PLEASE stop putting skid malware on torrent sites as South Park episodes
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Autoresearch on an old research idea
Yogesh Kumar's personal website
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Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
For my piece on Catholic miracle apologetics , I read (correction: skimmed) a 25,000-word post by rationalist blogger Scott Alexander. My piece, which cited (but does not focus on) his, ended up being a cool 2,700 words. I don't think it would benefit from being longer, and it was the result of me cutting around 70%…