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LLMs Are Killing the Programmer's Most Important Virtue: Laziness

Bryan Cantrill revisits Larry Wall's famous "three virtues of a programmer" - laziness, impatience, and hubris - to argue that LLMs are undermining the most cri

via Hacker News ·
vulnerabilityopen-source

Marimo notebook pre-auth RCE exploited within 10 hours of disclosure

A critical flaw in the Marimo open-source Python notebook platform (CVE-2026-39987, CVSS 9.3) is being actively exploited to steal credentials. The vulnerabilit

via BleepingComputer ·
open-sourcetech-culture

Oberon System 3 boots natively on Raspberry Pi 3B with flashable SD image

Rochus Keller has released a native port of Oberon System 3 for the Raspberry Pi 3B, distributed as a ready-to-flash SD card image. The release also runs on the

via Hacker News ·
aiopen-source

One Operator to Rule Them All: exp(x)−ln(y) Generates Every Calculator Function

In digital logic, a single universal gate (like NAND) can build any Boolean circuit. Continuous mathematics had no equivalent - until now. Researcher Andrzej Od

via Hacker News ·
supply-chaincybersecurity

OpenAI Pulls macOS Signing Cert After Axios Supply Chain Compromise

OpenAI revoked the Apple Developer ID certificate used to sign its macOS application following a supply chain incident traced to a malicious version of the wide

via The Hacker News ·
open-sourcetech-culture

Phyphox: Open-Source App Turns Smartphone Sensors into Physics Lab Tools

Phyphox is an open-source application developed at RWTH Aachen University that repurposes built-in smartphone sensors - accelerometers, microphones, gyroscopes

via Hacker News ·
aicybersecurity

Researchers Build Agent That Scores Near-Perfect on Every Major AI Benchmark Without Solving Anything

A UC Berkeley research team built an automated scanning agent that exploited eight of the most prominent AI agent benchmarks - including SWE-bench, WebArena, Te

via Hacker News ·
tech-culturepolicy

Seven Nations Hit Near-100% Renewable Electricity Generation

Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo now produce over 99.7% of their electricity from renewable sources lik

via Hacker News ·
open-sourcedevops

SQLite 3.53 Ships Query Result Formatter - Try It in Your Browser

SQLite 3.53.0 introduced a new Query Result Formatter library, and Simon Willison built an interactive browser demo to explore it. The tool lets you run queries

via Simon Willison ·
open-sourcedevops

SQLite 3.53.0 Lands with Constraint Alterations and New JSON Functions

SQLite jumped from 3.51 straight to 3.53.0 after the 3.52.0 release was withdrawn, making this a particularly feature-dense update. Among the highlights: ALTER

via Simon Willison ·
tech-culturedevops

The Web Killed Consistent UI Design - and We All Pay the Tax

Desktop software from Windows 95 through Windows 7 shared a remarkable consistency: standardized menu bars, universal keyboard shortcuts, clearly labeled button

via Hacker News ·
supply-chainmalware

Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Installers Push STX RAT After CPUID Breach

Attackers compromised CPUID's distribution channel and used it to ship trojanized builds of CPU-Z and HWMonitor, two widely trusted hardware diagnostic utilitie

via The Hacker News ·