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You should read Programming as Theory Building

You should read Programming as Theory Building

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: When I finished reading Peter Naur’s Programming as Theory Building my first thought was “How come nobody ever told me to read this?” I ended up reading it multiple times, as I attempted to collect my thoughts on why it makes so much sense. Have you ever had a situation where you’re trying to explain something or say something, and you’re looking for a suitable word or term, but no matter how much you look for it, you can’t find it? I think Naur’s “theory”…
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Teaching Claude why \ Anthropic

Teaching Claude why \ Anthropic

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đź’Ą Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Last year, we released a case study on agentic misalignment. In experimental scenarios, we showed that AI models from many different developers sometimes took egregiously misaligned actions when they encountered (fictional) ethical dilemmas. For example, in one heavily discussed example, the models blackmailed engineers to avoid being shut down.When we first published this research, our most capable frontier models were from the Claude 4 family. This was also the first model family for which we ran a live alignment assessment during training;1 agentic misalignment…
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add per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive [LWN.net]

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Thread information [Search the all archive] From:  Sasha Levin To:  corbet-AT-lwn.net, akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org Subject:  [PATCH] killswitch: add per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive Date:  Thu, 07 May 2026 03:05:45 -0400 Message-ID:  <20260507070547.2268452-1-sashal@kernel.org> Cc:  skhan-AT-linuxfoundation.org, linux-doc-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest-AT-vger.kernel.org, gregkh-AT-linuxfoundation.org, Sasha Levin When a (security) issue goes public, fleets stay exposed until a patched kernel is built, distributed, and rebooted into. For many such issues the simplest mitigation is to stop calling the buggy function. Killswitch provides that. An admin writes: echo "engage af_alg_sendmsg -1" \ > /sys/kernel/security/killswitch/control After this,…
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Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users

Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users

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đź’Ą Read this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone will automatically fail verification when the system decides to challenge them. The requirement forces Android users to run Google’s proprietary app framework version 25.41.30 or higher just to prove they’re human. When reCAPTCHA flags what it considers suspicious activity, it abandons the old image puzzles and demands you scan a QR code. That scan requires Play Services running in the background, communicating with Google’s servers. If…
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Roadside Attraction – The Offing

Roadside Attraction – The Offing

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đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: In the 1920s, due to the newfound accessibility of cars, long-distance driving became an option for Americans looking to travel. Suddenly, more people were careening down long highways, bored, with nothing to do but look out the window, and entrepreneurs got to work, building roadside structures constructed in fantastical shapes: restaurants that looked like hats, water towers shaped like teacups, souvenir shops inside of a dinosaur’s belly, and more. There’s a surreality to elongated car travel—punch-drunk exhaustion lends itself to odd visions, and it feels…
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All my clients wanted a carousel, now it’s an AI chatbot!

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đź’Ą Read this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: 2026-03-14 12:55 It always starts the same way. The client pulls out their phone mid-meeting, navigates to a competitor's website, and holds the screen up like evidence. "You see? They have one of those." A little bubble. Bottom right corner. Blinking... For years, that gesture was about carousels. Every homepage had to have one, big, slow, full of stock photos that nobody asked for. I built dozens of them. They spun. They faded. They slid. Visitors ignored them completely, scrolled past in half a second,…
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Rival Research — Mythos ‘Discovered’ a CVE Already in Its Training Data

Rival Research — Mythos ‘Discovered’ a CVE Already in Its Training Data

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Anthropic made headlines claiming Claude Mythos achieved the “first remote kernel exploit discovered and exploited by an AI.” We went looking for how - and found a 20-year-old bug hiding in plain sight.Let’s break down exactly what we think Mythos did, and what it means for cyber defense.In Anthropic’s initial Claude Mythos post, they discuss multiple different vulnerabilities that Mythos discovered and exploited. The one with the most detail (including a CVE and full technical writeup) is CVE-2026-4747 - a remote code execution capability in…
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EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push

EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has warned that virtual private networks (VPNs) are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems, describing the trend as “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing.” The warning comes as governments across Europe and elsewhere continue expanding online child-safety rules that require platforms to verify users’ ages before granting access to adult or age-restricted content. VPNs are privacy tools designed to encrypt internet traffic and hide a user’s IP address by routing connections through remote servers.…
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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to which I am fortunate to have been given access, producing a piece of PhD-level research in an hour or so, with no serious mathematical input from me. The background is that, as has been widely reported, LLMs are now capable of solving research-level problems, and have managed to solve several of…
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Techrights — Over 97% of the ‘Linux’ Foundation’s Budget Goes Not to Linux

Techrights — Over 97% of the ‘Linux’ Foundation’s Budget Goes Not to Linux

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đź’Ą Discover this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 08, 2026 According to the latest annual report from the Linux Foundation (LF), less than 3% of its budgetary resources are allocated to the thing it is named after! "What percent of the LF budget, if any, is still spent on Linux?" Someone rightly asked this (many other people ask the same thing, more so in the past decade or so). Consider these annotated screenshots: Page 58 and a little from page 20 are shove above. "The info was…
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