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Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the default and requires no configuration. New releases are a common entry point for supply chain attacks where a compromised or broken version can reach your dependency updates before maintainers and the community have caught it. A short delay gives that signal time to surface, so you are less likely to merge a bad release the…

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StubHub, CEO hit with ‘deceptive practices’ class action over mass scalping

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, have been hit with a proposed $5-million class-action lawsuit in the United States over the company's ties to large-scale scalpers — connections reported by CBC News last week.The suit, filed Monday by New York ticket buyer Louis Sanquini, alleges deceptive practices and fraudulent misrepresentation over StubHub's promoting…

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Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Sometimes security research uncovers deeply technical vulnerabilities that require pages of explanation. This isn't one of those cases.This bug is simple. A developer opens a repository in Cursor on Windows, and if that repository contains a malicious git.exe in the project root, Cursor will execute it automatically. There are no clicks, prompts, approval dialogs, or warnings. The result is arbitrary code execution.Given that Cursor is one of the most widely adopted AI-assisted development environments (7 million+ active users, 1 million+ daily, 1 million+ paying,…

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S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level Rating agency S&P Global has lowered Oracle's creditworthiness from BBB to BBB- – this is the lowest notch in the so-called investment-grade area. A further downgrade would push the database company into speculative territory. However, the outlook remains stable according to S&P. The rating agency attributes the downgrade, published on July 9, to Oracle's rapidly growing AI infrastructure business, which is massively increasing the company's debt and capital requirements. S&P had already…

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The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Today, we're announcing Bonsai 27B, based on Qwen3.6 27B, the new multimodal flagship of the Bonsai family and the first model of its capability class to run on a phone.Our earlier releases proved that models with 1-bit and ternary weights could produce commercially useful language models. Bonsai 27B extends that frontier to a new capability tier: multi-step reasoning, structured tool calls, vision tasks, and computer-use agentic loops that stay coherent across many steps. Until today, deploying that tier locally has been impractical for a concrete…

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The Tower Keeps Rising | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: written on July 13, 2026 I feel that some vibecoded software changes somewhat randomly and unexpectedly. That made me think about Bruegel’s “The Tower of Babel” which shows an already quite chaotic depiction of the Tower of Babel. The story is usually told as one about pride and ambition and ultimately why people no longer speak the same language. But it is also a story about the unity that makes technological progress work. The text begins with a technology upgrade: And they said one…

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I’m a USB-C Maximalist – Terence Eden’s Blog

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: My wife and I recently went on a 7 week holiday around Europe. Although we each took a massive backpack, we wanted to travel fairly lightly. I took a single universal power brick. This little unit was all I needed to charge my various gadgets. It has a hefty USB-C PD (Power Delivery) port for rapid charging of my phone and laptop. Two other USB-C ports for my other gadgets. And a couple of legacy USB-A ports which were redundant. The pass through was useful…

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A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Here are some questions that I consider self-evidently compelling about the modern world:Why is the news media so interested in telling you how much the world sucks all the time? Why are so many of us obsessed with distraction and managing our attention?Why is it so hard to stop comparing ourselves to others? And why does everything in art and design seem the same these days?A week ago, I didn’t think these questions were related. I’m not sure I would have told you I had…

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Tensor is the might

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Every good abstraction solves a problem, and this post will cover everything I know so far about a brilliant math abstraction - tensors.Neural networks, from a simple 2-layer MLP to GPT-5, all boil down to the same thing: floating-point numbers flowing through a graph of operations. This post builds a complete, accelerated tensor library from scratch in C. It is heavily inspired by Bellard’s libnc, which unfortunately has not been open-sourced yet.A tensor is nothing but a flat array of numbers, plus some metadata telling…

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Danau5tin/ai-trains-ai: RL-training an AI agent to RL-train AI agents. · GitHub

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 🔓 Everything is open sourced including: the trained agent's weights (LoRA adapter on 🤗 HF), agent harness, task families, reward code, GPU orchestration, tinker RL training scripts, and retro write-ups of every pilot (including the failures). Jump to Getting started ↓ TL;DR: I built a pipeline where an AI agent: Is handed a training task ("teach a model to do X") Writes a complete prime-rl training job, including: environment, reward, dataset, hyperparameters. Submits it to real Runpod GPUs for training. Leveraging Tinker, I then…

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