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Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:31PM (#50308229)
Fastmail is excellent. They haven’t banned AI, but IMO that would be equally as extreme as what proton is doing just in the other direction
Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:28PM (#50308188)
It’s kind of like appreciating the honesty of a CEO telling existing employees they need to start working weekends or find somewhere else to work.
Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:24PM (#50308127)
You’re probably better off switching to one of the many good alternatives.
Yes.

Would you rather trust sensitive legal documents with me running a self hosted app that shares data with whichever provider openrouter chooses, or Harvey?

Isn’t this just re-inventing the index arena pattern, which nullifies much of the benefit over rust?

> Goose code holds typed references where the equivalent Rust holds u32 indices into an arena — and it is where a good share of the benchmark wins come from.

Re:More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:25PM (#50108925)
> They have not made anything revolutionary

Hard disagree. Claude and other frontier models are clearly a huge accomplishment, are already changing the world, and continue to get better.

Despite the real innovation, the way Anthropic communicates their work often comes across as disingenuous.

"Our models wrote a new VCS" is very different from "Our models adapted existing VCS to our bespoke needs". Both are impressive, so why over inflate the claim?

Same thing happened with the Bun Rust rewrite.

Re:More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:56PM (#50107515)
> my default assumption now is that Anthropic’s public engineering presentations are largely bad-faith ripoffs. That’s a shame.

Couldn't agree more.

I got nervous when the company claiming to be working on the most impactful technology in human history takes time away to instead brag about writing a slightly more efficient version control system.

The fact that they didn't actually build the side project themselves, and ripped it off from someone else also calls into question their good faith mission to shepherd humanity into a new era...

Re:Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:40AM (#50104369)
A price filter would be useful.

Most of the listings near me are for tens of acres and >$5 million

Re:Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:27PM (#50095572)
When Fable first released, I had it "one shot" a project using an initial spec and a team of agents. I was blown away with how good the results were.

And then I noticed some links to images from random small github projects and realized somewhere along the way agents had searched for existing projects and copied almost everything.

I wonder if something similar happened here on a larger scale.

Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:54PM (#50080100)
> even the best of software engineers are unable to keep up with these models.

It’s more likely they used an earlier version of Claude to write v1, then a later version of Claude rewrote it.

Unless Anthropic engineers were writing code by hand prior to Mythos

Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:22AM (#50020156)
Anthropic acquired bun
Re:CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:55PM (#49916003)
That’s an entirely different situation.

It would be more like a low level manager telling new employees what he would do if he ever catches them stealing office supplies.

The university has a policy on how to handle cheating. The professor doesn’t need to imagine potential scenarios in the syllabus

Re:CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:36PM (#49915851)
> that's the basics of how you handle stuff like this

Anecdotal but not in my experience. The professor can inform students, collect evidence, etc without detailing each scenario in the syllabus.

Every CS class I’ve been a TA for had the same generic university provided statement on cheating.

The professors did not want to spend time thinking about or dealing with people cheating.

Every time MOSS flagged assignments they basically sat with me and the student and said “You are likely cheating. Please don’t do it again.”. No one ever admitted to cheating and no one ever got flagged twice.

Re:CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:43PM (#49915433)
My “power trip professor” alarm went off reading:

> If we find reason to believe that a student or team has cheated on any assignment, we may inform the student or team promptly, or we may decide to silently accumulate evidence against the student or team on later assignments.

Why role play what you may or may not do if you encounter cheating.

The university has rules about how academic integrity is handled independent of the syllabus.

Including this line in the syllabus, and again at the top of the blog post is weird

Re:I Switched to Brave Browser on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:12AM (#49908465)
In summary:

Chrome and Safari can’t be trusted because the profit model of the parent company is at odds with building a user first browser.

Firefox cannot be trusted because they work on too many unrelated projects.

Open source alternatives cannot be trusted because they don’t try to profit off of users.

Brave is good though, despite having a profit model directly at odds with a privacy first browser and working on many unrelated projects (multiple browser versions, a search engine, and a VPN, a cryptocurrency) even though they are smaller than Mozilla.

The fact that you can pay for a version that doesn’t sell your habits to advertisers goes against the point you are trying to make. Other than Google, every other browser does that by default for free, and even Google offers chromium for free.

Re:I Switched to Brave Browser on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:03AM (#49894566)
> They are built around creating a user-centric browser, and need to monetize.

I think this is exactly backwards, they are a business first and all other messaging is marketing to support that end. I recognize there is likely nothing that can be said to change your opinion if you have faith Brave is putting your interests above their own.

If you do compare to the firefox privacy policy, the most notable difference is how specific Mozilla is about what data is collected and how it is used.

In contrast, try to find any detail about the specific information collected by the brave browser and how it is used to serve ads.

Re:I Switched to Brave Browser on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:19AM (#49888598)
IMO a company built around selling personalized ads with information collected from search and browser activity is at odds with creating a privacy first experience.
Re:I Switched to Brave Browser on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:54PM (#49884965)
> Brave is a privacy-focused browser.

Isn't Brave's main source of revenue serving you ads based on information collected about you from while using their browser?

Re:I Switched to Brave Browser on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:05PM (#49883611)
I got fed up with ads in search results and invasive tracking from Google.

I've switched fully to Meta's Muse for all of my research going forward.

labeling is more specific than training, and changes the implied situation.

Its the same difference between "I was arrested for having liquid in my car while driving" and "I was arrested for holding an open bottle of whiskey while driving"

Re:OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:58AM (#49802447)
Why release an image model, or a video model, or custom agents if AGI will just make them all obsolete?

Why build codex if AGI will replace SWEs?

Why build excel integrations if AGI will replace spreadsheets?

Re:I don't like passkeys on Friday September 18, 2026 @09:49AM (#49754401)
> By using passkeys, you gain better security against man-in-the-middle attacks but face the higher probability scenario of losing access to your accounts.

> Phishing through the standard login flow is eliminated by passkeys, but it creates a false sense of security. An account’s security is still dictated by the weakest recovery method: SMS, email links, security questions, and so on.

Passkeys are too strong and may cause account loss.

Passkeys are too weak and can be bypassed by account recovery.

Re:Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:20AM (#49753336)
I agree on paper, but in practice most verification annotations in real code require a PhD to understand.

To me, it’s essentially implementing the same code twice in two languages and checking the behavior matches.

If the same person implements both, what are the odds they implement the same bug in both?

Only verification annotations are generally even harder to read and write than the code itself, making it even more difficult to tell if you implemented the proof according to the spec, or just mirrored what the function actually does.

Re:Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:25PM (#49748675)
> the propositions actually correlate with what people actually want out of the system

My point is that this is the hard part, and writing annotations does nothing to help with this problem.

Re:Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:21PM (#49748644)
Sorry I’ll try to put it simply.

Programmer intends to write code that does Y, but writes code that does X. Then they make the same mistake again and write an annotation that verifies the function does X.

Verification passes, but the code does the wrong thing.

Re:Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:03PM (#49743592)
> the only thing you really need to check is the top-level annotations

Sorry if I wasn’t clear.

My point is that the annotations are manual and inherently prone to error.

If humans could correctly write annotations according to a spec, we wouldn’t need verifiers at all. We could just write correct code directly.

There is an argument to be made that the annotations are a smaller surface than full blown code and therefore easier for humans to reason about.

However, in practice formal verification tools and annotations are far more obscure than regular code.

Thousands of people write and review code both professionally and as a hobby. But most people writing verifier annotations have a PhD in some field adjacent to formal verification.

Re:Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:57PM (#49743518)
Worst case, this could be the start of a paywall to learn from, contribute to, or host open source projects.

Hopefully they find some kind of carve out for OSS projects while still blocking the egregious offenders.

Re:Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:55PM (#49743481)
Hopefully they bump this up.

Browsing open issues or reviewing a few PRs will easily use more than one request per minute.

The limits are based on the average user but I wonder if the most common interaction is to view a readme and bounce.

I don’t know that putting a paywall up to learn from or even consider contributing to public projects is a good thing.

Re:Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:50PM (#49743414)
I like the idea, but that wasn’t my read.

The guidance given seems to hurt open source projects, not help.

> Make the project private if the traffic is not coming from the audience you built it for, which stops anonymous callers reaching it at all. Or upgrade to Premium or Ultimate for much higher limits.

Re:Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:02AM (#49741860)
I have long been critical of verification tools requiring annotations. Humans cannot write correct code, so asking them to write correct proof annotations seems futile.

But maybe this changes in the age of LLMs. A deterministic check to let LLMs verify the correctness of an API could improve the success rate of large scale refactors or performance optimizations.

Exciting!

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