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An outsider's perspective on Scion and Mononoke
Varun Gandhi, who works on source control at Databricks, reviews Anthropic's post about its centralised version control system Scion against Meta's Sapling/Mononoke, arguing it presents established ideas as novel, goes wide rather than deep, and shares too little design detail to be a real gift to the community.
19 min · 4,363 words
Wir müssen wissen – wir werden wissen
Remy Wang revisits Hilbert's programme, Gödel's and Turing's impossibility results and the rise of Lean, then argues that even as AI starts proving theorems, people must keep thinking for themselves rather than handing understanding over to machines.
4 min · 911 words
How we halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%
Cloudflare's Alex Fattouche describes how the Zone Builder in its DNS propagation pipeline, now handling ~700 record changes per second, was reworked to do targeted zone builds instead of expensive full rebuilds, halving build delay and cutting memory use by 85%.
17 min · 3,893 words
The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence”
Simon Willison reruns the U.S. Census Bureau's Business Trends and Outlook Survey numbers on corporate AI adoption a year after Apollo's 'adoption trending down' chart, and finds the survey's wording has been changed to 'Super Intelligence' (SI) following Executive Order 14434.
5 min · 1,064 words
An angry post arguing that Ubuntu failed its promise of timely patches: more than two weeks after Debian patched the critical remote Linux TCP bug CVE-2026-98432, every supported Ubuntu release was still listed as vulnerable, so the author took his Ubuntu servers offline and is moving off the distro.
1 min · 301 words
Why we're moving our warehouse off DuckDB
PostHog explains why, five months after rebuilding its data warehouse on DuckDB, it re-architected it again: single-node sizing in the cloud, DuckLake catalog limits at ~1 trillion rows, and the pain of scaling Postgres wire connections led it to rebuild on Trino with its own open table format, HogLake.
4 min · 962 words
From Charlemagne to the Kitchen Boy: Reading the Hamburg Rathaus
Mert Bulan walks around Hamburg's Rathaus and decodes the more than a hundred details on its façade, from the emperors and the Phoenix to Hanseatic coats of arms and the copper roof's patina, reading the building like a book about the city's history.
21 min · 4,875 words
I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats
A developer describes building custom MCP integrations and secure tunnels so multiple ChatGPT conversations could do most of their software development under an unlimited chat plan, reacts to OpenAI merging chat with Codex usage limits, and says they are switching to Claude.
4 min · 963 words
Blast from the past: The future in old computer magazines
T. Udell walks through fourteen glimpses of the computer age from 1984–2004 magazines such as Creative Computing, Macworld, COMPUTE! and PC Magazine, comparing what ads and articles promised (smart homes, online parties, robot pets, AI) with what reviewers actually found, with links to source scans.
7 min · 1,655 words
so i guess everyone uses llms to think now
Security researcher eva explains why she never uses AI for the research on her blog: tinkering is the fun, she can't take credit for an LLM's work, and she argues AI firms use hyped vulnerability disclosures, PoC videos and hash drops (php2shell, 'tailworm') as marketing.
8 min · 1,760 words
Security Disclosure: Sunday November 1st
Trigger.dev CTO Eric Allam discloses a security incident in which an attacker gained unauthorized access to environment variables for a subset of customer organizations; the exploit has been blocked and impacted account owners were emailed mitigation steps.
1 min · 67 words
Mathematics has changed. Let’s act like it
A guest post by mathematician Frank Calegari on Terence Tao's blog arguing that after OpenAI's release of 700+ AI-written research papers, mathematicians should stop mourning and instead change how they hire, publish, referee and train students for a world where AI can make real contributions.
17 min · 3,877 words
Who really runs the group project? what 86 AI models think
We asked 86 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 77% picked The one who does all the work. See every answer and who dissented.
15 min · 3,483 words
Constructing a Quine from Kleene's Second Recursion Theorem
A walkthrough of formalizing Kleene's second recursion theorem from both classical and functional programming perspectives, then using the construction to build a working quine in untyped lambda calculus.
10 min · 2,293 words
Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
Eike Hein announces Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator built on libghostty-vt and following the latest KDE HIG, explaining its goals, the tech stack, the current state of the project and how to try nightly Flatpak builds.
7 min · 1,712 words
It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
Longtime Proton customer Raed Chammam argues the backlash over Proton's AI push is really about leadership: a CEO calling an engineer's request for pentesting time "loser thinking" undermines the careful engineering a privacy company sells, regardless of whether code is AI-written.
2 min · 456 words
Colin Percival recounts finding in 2004 that Intel Hyper-Threading leaked information between threads via cache state, spending six months on coordinated disclosure before publishing in 2005, and why he sees a scholar's duty as sharing knowledge with the people who can act on it.
7 min · 1,717 words
Andrej Karpathy describes building HackerTube, a YouTube-style site made only from videos recommended on Hacker News, with Opus 5.5 in about two hours, with local-only recommendations and a data export.
1 min · 248 words
George Hotz argues AI can play out as either order or chaos, that order (models patching every exploit and locking in the status quo) is the dangerous outcome, and that chaos, with botted media, cyberattacks and forced decentralisation, is the better one.
2 min · 530 words
Cory Doctorow argues the US Copyright Office is right that AI-generated works lack copyright, and that requiring human creative effort restores copyright to something you have to work to get rather than an automatic grant.
9 min · 2,074 words