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The Two Papers That Teach Compilers Better Than the Dragon Book

Apr 16

▸ James Hague's 2008 post recommending Ghuloum's 'Incremental Approach' and Sarkar/Waddell/Dybvig's 'Nanopass Framework' is back on HN at 477 points — b...

Career / Industry Open Source explainer

Fiverr Left Customer Files Public and Indexable. It's a One-Line Fix.

Apr 16

▸ Fiverr uses Cloudinary for file delivery in client-worker messaging but opted for public, unsigned URLs — making sensitive deliverables accessible to ...

Cloud / Infrastructure Security / Privacy clear_take

Berkeley Broke the Top AI Benchmarks — Here's Why You Should Care

Apr 16

▸ Berkeley RDI researchers systematically broke leading AI agent benchmarks like SWE-bench and WebArena, exposing shortcuts that inflate scores without ...

Career / Industry AI / ML clear_take

The Vulnerability-Finding Moat Isn't Model Size — It's Orchestration

Apr 15

▸ Aisle's post-Mythos analysis shows smaller, cheaper AI models discovered the same CVE-class vulnerabilities that headline-grabbing large models found ...

Security / Privacy AI / ML clear_take

Your $100/mo Claude Code Quota Burns in 90 Minutes. Here's Why.

Apr 15

▸ A Claude Code Pro Max 5x user documented their $100/mo quota exhausting in 1.5 hours of moderate usage — with 104M tokens consumed across active and b...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Career / Industry AI / ML explainer

Aphyr on AI Safety: The Systems Are Lying, Not Safe

Apr 15

▸ Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr/Jepsen fame) argues that AI 'safety' has become a euphemism for systems that produce confident lies rather than genuinely correc...

Security / Privacy AI / ML clear_take

jj Is the Git Frontend That Might Actually Stick

Apr 15

▸ jujutsu (jj) is a Rust-based version control system built at Google that uses Git repos as a storage backend — you can adopt it today without migratin...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Open Source explainer

Artemis II Is Home. Here's What the Heat Shield Data Actually Proves.

Apr 15

▸ Artemis II's four-person crew splashed down safely, completing the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972 — a 53-year gap.

Defense / GovTech Hardware / Chips explainer

The EFF Is Leaving X — And That Should Mean Something

Apr 15

▸ The Electronic Frontier Foundation — arguably the internet's most important digital rights org — is abandoning X after years on the platform.

Career / Industry Open Source Politics / Regulation clear_take

OpenSSL 4.0.0 Drops: Post-Quantum Is Default, Your Deps Will Break

Apr 15

▸ OpenSSL 4.0.0 is the first major release since 3.0 shipped in September 2021, bringing an API/ABI break that will ripple through every language ecosys...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Open Source Backend / APIs explainer

100 Days That Gutted U.S. Cyber Defense — While Attackers Watched

Apr 15

▸ Since January 2025, CISA has been gutted, key cybersecurity officials fired, and federal threat-sharing programs defunded — all while Salt Typhoon and...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy Defense / GovTech clear_take

Claude Code Unpacked: What 944 HN Points Says About Reverse-Engineering Culture

Apr 14

▸ A visual guide to Claude Code's internals hit 944 points on Hacker News — the highest-scoring artifact from the source map leak, surpassing the raw re...

AI / ML Security / Privacy Open Source explainer

The Linux Kernel Now Has an AI Policy. It's Boring. That's the Point.

Apr 14

▸ The Linux kernel has merged official documentation on AI-assisted contributions: use whatever tools you want, but you personally sign off on every lin...

AI / ML Open Source Politics / Regulation clear_take

Apple Lost the AI Hype War. It Might Win the AI Product War.

Apr 14

▸ Apple's perceived lag in AI may actually be a strategic advantage — on-device inference and privacy-by-default are becoming the features users and reg...

Career / Industry AI / ML Hardware / Chips clear_take

Font Awesome Did Everything Right on Email. Gmail Said No Anyway.

Apr 14

▸ Font Awesome reports a 99% email reputation across monitoring tools, yet Gmail consistently routes their messages to spam or Promotions — despite full...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins Just to Backdoor Them

Apr 14

▸ An unknown actor acquired 30 WordPress plugins from their original developers, then pushed updates containing backdoor code to every site running them...

Open Source Security / Privacy clear_take

France Is Betting 300K Government Desktops on Linux. Here's What Breaks.

Apr 14

▸ France's government has formally classified dependence on US tech — specifically Microsoft Windows and 365 — as a strategic vulnerability and is plann...

Security / Privacy Defense / GovTech Open Source clear_take

Vercel's Claude Code Plugin Reads Your Prompts. That's a Problem.

Apr 14

▸ A developer discovered that Vercel's Claude Code plugin collects and transmits user prompts as part of its telemetry — not just usage metadata, but th...

AI / ML DevOps / Platform Engineering Security / Privacy clear_take

Meta Now Blocks Ads Recruiting Plaintiffs for Its Own Addiction Lawsuits

Apr 14

▸ Meta has begun removing advertisements from law firms that recruit plaintiffs for the ongoing social media addiction lawsuits against Meta itself.

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy Career / Industry clear_take

Anthropic Quietly Cut Cache TTL by 12×. Developers Got the Bill.

Apr 13

▸ Anthropic silently reverted Claude's prompt cache TTL from 1 hour to 5 minutes on March 6th, causing cache writes to spike at 12.5× the cost of cache ...

AI / ML Cloud / Infrastructure Backend / APIs clear_take
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