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Nov 6

Astra did 40% less safety work — OpenAI's own report

#discuss #ai #openai #astra

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Nov 6

8 leaks pass Anthropic's 23-test email fix

#discuss #programming #claude #privacy

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Nov 5

2 years of bank data: Claude reads your money now

#discuss #ai #claude #plaid

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Nov 5

Kimi's 1.56 TB download lost 20 rows to Opus

#discuss #ai #kimi #llm

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Nov 5

300 chars opened a locked musl account on try 2

#discuss #programming #ssh #musl

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Nov 5

$350M: Dropbox's biggest deal ever is an AI storage bet

#discuss #ai #cloud #storage

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Nov 5

DuckDuckGo's 1.7% share pitches schools an AI-free search

#discuss #ai #search #privacy

3 min read

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Nov 5

19 MB proves a 400B model reply at 72x cost

#discuss #ai #machinelearning #cryptography

5 min read

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Nov 5

7 Go jsonv2 breaks I verified in Go 1.27

#discuss #programming #go #json

4 min read

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Nov 4

Google walked back 1 bundle, kept Search's AI bundle

#discuss #ai #google #education

3 min read

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Nov 4

3 of 4 weight games guessed from raw numbers

#discuss #ai #machinelearning #llm

3 min read

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Nov 4

213 Chrome fixes: 130 were found in-house

#discuss #programming #security #chrome

3 min read

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Nov 4

$3.2T hidden AI debt grew 90% in 6 months

#discuss #ai #finance #datacenters

4 min read

frank chu

Nov 4

3 of 10 colors failed Safari's dark-mode contrast bar

#discuss #webdev #safari #css

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Nov 3

Postman installed itself into Codex and Claude

#discuss #programming #agents #security

4 min read

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Nov 3

Apple's 18+ AI rule changes nothing for the big apps

#discuss #ai #apple #appstore

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Nov 3

0 contributions: NVIDIA's 2,036-star ontology audit

#discuss #ai #agents #mcp

4 min read

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Nov 3

1-hour timezone gap broke Canada's Microsoft calendars

#discuss #python #timezone #microsoft

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Nov 3

7.38M users: SpaceX isn't buying customers, it's buying time

#discuss #programming #spacex #telecom

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Nov 3

0 of 40 HN links died in 13 months. That's the wrong sample

#discuss #webdev #archiving #internet

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Nov 3

Ubuntu's 9.8 TCP flaw: still unpatched 17 days after Debian

#discuss #programming #linux #ubuntu

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Nov 2

7.9% to 48.1%: LLM rewrote Qwen weights, no training

#discuss #ai #llm #interpretability

4 min read

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Nov 2

11 of 11 JS cost gaps overlap: I re-ran the tables

#discuss #javascript #webdev #ai

6 min read

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Nov 2

61% more Postgres backports: I recounted the delay

#programming #postgres #database #ai

4 min read

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Nov 2

$173M ads, one AI rebrand: OpenAI data centers

#discuss #ai #openai #datacenters

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Nov 2

0 of 17 third-party scripts had integrity checks

#discuss #programming #security #javascript

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Nov 2

15 of 15 hidden instructions survived every PDF extractor

#discuss #programming #security #pdf

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Nov 1

95% replaced: Binance reopens after $6.3B heist

#discuss #programming #cryptocurrency #security

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Nov 1

2 phrases run VOLTA's fallback, tested on 24 replies

#discuss #ai #security #malware

4 min read

frank chu

Nov 1

9.8 TCP flaw, 2-line fix: I audited my own kernel

#discuss #programming #linux #security

4 min read

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Nov 1

xAI's 35 turbines just lost their 'mobile' loophole

#discuss #ai #datacenter #energy

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Oct 31

50% of CPU time was memory stalls, so I re-ran the test

#discuss #programming #database #performance

3 min read

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Oct 31

510 bytes boot a neural network that dreams dmesg

#programming #machinelearning #llm #ai

4 min read

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Oct 31

OpenAI cut its funding target by a third. I did the shortfall math.

#news #funding #openai #startup

3 min read

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Oct 31

Northflank is the ninth AI platform breached in October. I read its status page like a timeline.

#cloud #cybersecurity #infosec #security

4 min read

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Oct 31

A public ChatGPT share could run code as you. I checked the two parts that made it possible.

#chatgpt #javascript #openai #security

5 min read

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Oct 31

Applebee's shipped its database password inside its app. Anyone with the APK was an admin.

#bug #security #android #cybersecurity

4 min read

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Oct 30

Azure's cross-tenant hole got four fixes. The fourth fix reopened the third hole.

#azure #security #cloud #cybersecurity

4 min read

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Oct 30

A working Nintendo lives in 1GB of Qwen weights. I ran it and counted the nonzero ones.

#showdev #computerscience #llm #ai

4 min read

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Oct 30

Anthropic is about to be "junk"-rated with $112B in cash. I did the Project North Star math.

#discuss #ai #startup #news

4 min read

frank chu

Oct 30

Binance lost $6.3B in about 20 minutes. I did the freeze math, and half the money is still moving.

#blockchain #cryptocurrency #crypto #security

5 min read

frank chu

Oct 30

The Claude Code backdoor's macOS bug broke its own SSH step. I re-ran the check.

#programming #security #ai #cybersecurity

6 min read

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Oct 30

The Nvidia spy story, split in two: a verified $4.8B equipment trail and an unverified allegation

#news #cybersecurity #security

4 min read

frank chu

Oct 29

25 firewalls rooted from 19,000 scanned. I did the funnel math.

#network #infosec #cybersecurity #security

3 min read

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Oct 29

Mistral's 1T model is 'open.' I priced what open actually costs.

#discuss #ai #llm #machinelearning

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Oct 29

DoorDash's $17B Instacart deal is priced like a two-year wait. I did the spread math.

#discuss #startup #news

3 min read

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Oct 29

I tested the new fast floor-division trick on 2,000,000 inputs. It's correct — and no faster here.

#algorithms #c #programming #performance

3 min read

frank chu

Oct 29

Stack Overflow now gets fewer than 1,000 questions a month. I counted via the API.

#discuss #softwaredevelopment #news #programming

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Oct 29

Amazon just bet $200 that your phone can't replace a clock or a photo frame

#news #hardware #iot

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Oct 29

The DOE's $5B nuclear loan isn't new power. It's cheaper financing for power already sold.

#news #infrastructure

4 min read

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Oct 28

Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certs. I ran the same checks on my machine.

#programming #security #opensource #cybersecurity

4 min read

frank chu

Oct 28

MuPDF's AES-256 key had 9 bits of entropy. I reproduced it in 8.7 milliseconds.

#cybersecurity #programming #security

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Oct 28

Tailscale SSH checked paths as you and dialed them as root. I read all four bulletins.

#cybersecurity #infosec #security

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Oct 28

Someone built git blame for the US Code. I checked its numbers — 361 of 365 reconcile.

#showdev #programming #opensource #discuss

4 min read

frank chu

Oct 28

A Meta AI director left to rebuild Office. I checked if Ndoc is real.

#ai #productivity #startup

4 min read

frank chu

Oct 27

Ghostty 1.4 says scrollback compression saves 70-90%. I measured five kinds of text.

#performance #software #terminal

3 min read

frank chu

Oct 27

GoAhead's DH bug turns a 2048-bit prime into 255. I counted the 8 secrets left.

#c #cybersecurity #iot #security

4 min read

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Oct 27

Genie 4's real upgrade isn't the graphics. It's the second model watching them.

#ai #deeplearning #google #machinelearning

4 min read

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Oct 27

GPT-6.1 Terra costs half as much. I checked which halves OpenAI meant.

#ai #api #llm #openai

4 min read

frank chu

Oct 27

Python's JIT is being removed. I checked — my Python never had one.

#news #performance #python

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