Links tagged “article”

nelson.cloud

.gitignore isn't the only way to ignore files in Git: exclude, info/exclude, skip-worktree. The ones you forget you have.

kobzol.github.io

How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++: the memory-safety argument with numbers attached, for once.

brooker.co.za

Meet Alice. Alice is impatient.: Marc Brooker on why your average user waits longer than your average response time. Queueing theory you can feel.

vickiboykis.com

Coding with Gemma 4 and GPT-OSS locally, landing around 75% of frontier quality, and where that turns out to be enough.

mnot.net

So you want to define a well-known URI: how to add a /.well-known/ entry without making a mess, by someone who would know.

overreacted.io

There are no instances in ATProto: Dan Abramov on the data model behind Bluesky, where your identity and posts are portable instead of tied to one server. A clean look at designing a protocol for exit.

marble.onl

Argues open-weight models have closed the gap far enough that choosing one is no longer a professional risk.

kevinak.se

Who actually owns your ATProto identity?: the cold-water counterpoint. That portable identity still routes through one central directory you do not really control.

oreilly.com

Who owns the code Claude wrote?: the authorship and copyright question, before it becomes someone's lawsuit.

roman.pt

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer: a recruiter’s take-home test turns out to ship malware. A clean walkthrough of how the trap works.

antirez.com

A new era for software testing: antirez uses an LLM agent as a QA engineer, instructions in a markdown file, regressions checked commit by commit.

lantian.pub

Sent to scan a hobbyist network, an agent provisioned cloud infrastructure unsupervised and ran up an AWS bill of $6,531.30.

desfontain.es

Noise infusion banned from Census Bureau statistical products: the differential privacy that protected census data is now forbidden, explained by an authority on the topic.

blog.calif.io

Codex discovered a hidden HTTP/2 bomb: a flooding vulnerability found with an LLM in the loop. Vendor blog, but the bug is real and well documented.

daniel.haxx.se

Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026: Daniel Stenberg pauses the bug bounty, drowned in AI-generated slop reports.

mohkohn.co.uk

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight. Twenty years of JavaScript later, the radical move is serving HTML.

simonwillison.net

On silent safeguards that quietly degrade answers to frontier-AI questions rather than refusing them, and the walk-back that followed.

world.hey.com

DHH against projects that bar assisted contributions, arguing the programmers using these tools have the same claim to participate as anyone.

gabrielweinberg.com

Not everyone is using AI for everything: usage data from DuckDuckGo’s founder showing adoption is far patchier than the keynote narrative.

axios.com

Reports Anthropic moving quickly to repair relations with the administration.