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Re:433MHz TUI scanner: using a FT232H connected to a CC1101 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:05AM (#50351520)
I wouldn't use this vibe coded slop that will just blow up my hardware. Unlikely to work with other chips as the author tested it with the only one he has with him.

Use with caution.

...and the freedom to not pay for your free software at all.
Re:Anthropic's growth just flattened (really) on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:00PM (#50346072)
When was the last time anyone used the term "tokenmaxxing" right now?

You are seeing the result of those subsidizations and discounts that Anthropic made this year and how much of this "tokenmaxxing" hype was used to make their revenue numbers look "good".

With the arrival of more cheaper models which are good enough, it doesn't make much sense to use Anthropic's models.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330214

> "Money will not matter if robots (Grok Bot, Optimius, Robotaxi) are providing the goods in the age of abundance" - Elon Musk

> "The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue" - Elon Musk

Costs are made up in the age of abundance.

Re:Anthropic's growth just flattened (really) on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:24PM (#50345617)
> I'm sure there are a lot of people rooting for their IPO to fail but they are still clearly in the lead on coding and will continue to do well until someone definitively passes them.

Then why all the rush to IPO then?

The strongest chinese models from DeepSeek, Kimi and z.ai are already good enough to run for hours on most coding tasks cheaply.

It is because it makes $0 and they spend $100 - $1,000 on tokens.
We are now past the "intellectual curiosity" era of Show HN and it has now entered into its fast food slop age.
Re:Dev Notes and Small Tools on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:46AM (#50333814)
Why are you spamming here?
Re:Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:09AM (#50333359)
Given the recent Claude Code remote access tool, it would be wise to not install any new software, or use any package manager for a few weeks as they could have already been silently backdoored during the aftermath of that incident.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:00PM (#50329152)
My honest answer at this point is none.
That and more accurately, live footage of EU bureaucracy.
Re:TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:30PM (#50321630)
Nope. This was just the start.
Re:Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:11PM (#50320279)
This is great work by the Redox team. This might be over the heads of many HNers who are undergoing skill atrophy in real time and addicted to agents, given that 4 hours and less than 10 comments on a highly technical blog post about Rust and asynchronous I/O in Redox.

This project is vehemently against AI usage of any kind, so I can trust that the contents of this post has been checked and written by someone who has read the code and knows what they are doing.

> The Linux io_uring interface allows the user to submit one or more I/O operations to the kernel, which are then processed in an asynchronous fashion without blocking the userspace process. Redox, being a microkernel, handles I/O in userspace scheme processes rather than in the kernel.

io_uring is incredibly fast for async I/O but is also a massive security disaster in the Linux kernel. As long as Redox is able to show a secure interface for async I/O the better. Likely part of their long term goals for the OS.

> While it has substantially improved over the years, IPC is still quite slow on Redox, and this is important to optimize as ring buffers can only offset this overhead to a certain extent. This has been a focus of our work to improve system performance.

I quite like this targeted and thoughtful approach for a wholistic improvement starting with ring buffers in redox. They need to compare the async executor benchmark results with Linux and continue from there for improvements.

> The optimization made here is that the kernel zeroes the vector registers if the caller and callee entered the kernel through syscalls, rather than saving/restoring (using vzeroall, ldmxcsr etc. as required for correctness).

Interesting approach for complete correctness over performance in this area and this tells me that they are not taking going to risk on overlying on rust's "guarantees" to help them prevent races or data reuse after free bugs in the Redox kernel.

One of the most technically sound and researched posts I've read, but unfortunately it has been buried under low effort slop posts on HN.

Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:51PM (#50320081)
> Is it open source? If not, I'm not going to use it.

Don't even use GitHub then as that is also closed source as well as this.

Re:Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:55PM (#50318342)
Lets say that I am Microsoft:

Why?

I mean this is clearly unfinished and was certainly vibe-coded literally yesterday.

> No cloud accounts. No 1GB Electron bloat. 100% Local-first.

This would make me want to use Postman (Electron) over this, since I know that this will absolutely be unmaintained in the a few years.

Re:We Could Have Backdoored Bash on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:47AM (#50317255)
They could have indeed. Because...

> TL;DR: GNU Savannah hosts Bash, Coreutils, and hundreds of other GNU projects. Using Hacktron, we found that an email address like a`touch${IFS}/tmp/savane-rce-proof`@attacker.example gave any registered user code execution on its backend. From there, we made our account a superuser, impersonated Bash’s maintainer, and confirmed we could add an SSH key with push access to the upstream Bash repository. An unpatched kernel gave us root access and access to a GNU backup server. We reported it to the FSF on May 11, 2026.

> Savannah runs Savane, a PHP application that is itself free software, so we pointed Hacktron at the source and audited it.

Imagine attackers reading that and ordering swarms of abliterated frontier models onto an open source project like that.

Many projects like the FSF do not use AI themselves maybe "by principle", but the attackers don't care and will unleash AI agents on to anyone as a backdoor target.

Given all that you have seen with the mass discovery of these security issues and hacks, there will be no choice from open source projects to conglomerates to use AI to protect themselves ahead of the attackers.

Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:00AM (#50315796)
> Many of the new representatives have zero experience in politics. But their unparalleled professional expertise should be helpful in reforming Serbia,

So non career politicians.

This is essentially a technocratic government that is left leaning. Just because they are academics, researchers, doctors, engineers and sociologists does not mean they cannot go corrupt themselves (it will). The EU itself is heavily corrupt as well.

We have also seen how corrupt a technocratic right government can get in the US. It will be no different to a left leaning one once money and promises are involved.

To give an analogy of what this is, this is like electing effective altruists from Anthropic with the difference being that they are using your money (taxes) instead of theirs and giving lots of promises for your vote.

If they are serious, they need to pass the world toughest anti-corruption laws while also significantly growing their own economy or borrowing economic policies from the least corrupt nations in the world such as Singapore and to exceed them.

> Student List has promised to fight corruption and establish meritocracy, accountability, and the rule of law.

While these are good promises, the problem is that this is the first lie that they have already made.

They better do all four of them without angering the electorate otherwise they can’t be trusted.

Re:Linode Security Incident on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:20PM (#50310886)
So it begins. The war against the abliterated AI models. Even at 1,000 TPS any service is a target.

Imagine swarms of abliterated frontier AI models that reach >20,000 TPS. As I said before [0] you are going to have to hire specialized security engineers or technical bodyguards from the senior to senior staff level using AI agents to protect your entire business.

Otherwise you are cooked.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310312

Re:Product Managers aren't safe either on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:21PM (#50310312)
The "job" that will still continue to exist will be the one who has to defend a company from getting their data breached against swarms of AI agents at >20,000 TPS.

Someone will have to be the technical bodyguard that needs to thwart an attempted breach as quick as possible without causing an outage and that is the difference between a $45,000 breach vs a $450M breach. Enough to bankrupt a startup.

Using something like Cloudflare won't be enough this time.

Almost $1T of stock evaporated and yet no-one cares.
China catching up very quickly.

Let the be a warning to those who want to slow down.

Many companies IPO'd in the late 1990s and did not exist 10 years later.

Let's say that the house of cards crashes down and takes the market with it who will shutdown, survive or have no choice but to get acquired for a 90% discount.

Some will be just alive long enough for the early investors to pull out enough before the market crashes.

Re:GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:05PM (#50307843)
Last time these intermittent incidents happened was days ago and for this exact same incident was 11 days ago. [0]

After everything announced in GitHub Universe and with that to improve the reliability of GitHub overall, yet we have another incident afterwards.

It doesn't matter what GitHub does, only you can decide for yourself to self-host rather than going all in on GitHub and it continues to go down.

Predicted this 6 years ago and self hosting has aged perfectly well. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154406

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406

Re:Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:42PM (#50307455)
HN loves slop meetoo projects without questioning the details. With close inspection it is an overly complicated version of this paper [0] on neural turing machines.

This concept was hyped up (because DeepMind) for a while at the time and in reality it amounted to nothing. This is just the second reincarnation of a similar concept but with added extra saturated slop and hype on top.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401

Re:Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:35PM (#50307353)
> It also helps combat the "LLMs ArE nOt DeTeRmInIsTiC" complaints.

Reality says otherwise, especially from those who run LLMs in production at a large scale. Hacks such as baking in the weights with tiny experiments doesn't disprove anything.

The same LLM boosters also continue to repeat one of the biggest misconceptions: "sEt TeMperaTurE tO zERo tO aChiEvE fUlL dEterMinIsm."

Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:56AM (#50305770)
> AI has real tangible use and benefit.

I agree. AI is useful to layoff thousands of employees as we have already seen, hacking companies and governments with agent swarms and also helping with accelerating cyber crime.

Now anyone including script kiddies can tell an AI agent to build an exploit to attack a website of their choosing the moment they find a vulnerability.

You cannot say it is useful (which it is) and it does not also accelerate and amplify all the negative consequences at the same time.

> Crypto has none except scams and get rich quick.

Stablecoins are quite useful for companies such as Stripe, Shopify, Square and others for payment of goods and one can send stablecoins around the world on the same day, 24/7 with extremely low fees.

Crypto is not the one that will cause the next financial crisis. That will be AI.

Thanks to the $3TN (and counting) debt that is now becoming a massive risk to the point where big tech companies are hiding it from their balance sheets [0] with Oracle and even CoreWeave being the most likely to default first. [1]

[0] https://archive.ph/DgKzp

[1] https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/14/shares-of-oracle-neoclou...

Re:Herdr has released native app on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:01AM (#50304886)
Nope. I think you are confused since Herdr was free software and licensed under AGPL 3.0 [0] before it was VC funded.

One (emacs) gets millions in donations via the FSF and the other get little to no money or donations for being "free software" from the start despite both of them being "free software".

[0] https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr/blob/a57b97285c3308fbdcc16...

Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:45AM (#50303139)
This is embarrassing to Anthropic given here that they lack basic security procedures to prevent this and they have gotten themselves hacked to push malware.

Claude Code was already malware, but with this attack you cannot trust the vendor either.

In the next 2 weeks, no one should download / install / update anything as I predict at least one developer's key for a GitHub, NPM, Crates.io or any other CI or login was leaked and the attacker will target those services to propagate their trojan to more victims.

Re:Herdr has released native app on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:04AM (#50302323)
Good. So as you as a long time Emacs user, no donations to support them at all.

Thank you for proving my point.

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