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Self-Guaranteeing Promises

news.ycombinator.com Steph Ango 2025-11-24 00:03:06

Companies break promises all the time. A self-guaranteeing promise does not require you to trust anyone. You can verify a self-guaranteeing promise yourself. File over app is a self-guaranteeing promise. If files are in your control, in an open format, you can use those files in another app at any time. Not an export. The exact same files. It’s good practice to test this with any self-proclaimed file-over-app app you use. “Stainless steel” is a self-guaranteeing promise. You can test it yourse

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AI’s promise of opportunity masks a reality of managed displacement

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2025-11-23 22:35:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Cognitive migration is underway. The station is crowded. Some have boarded while others hesitate, unsure whether the destination justifies the departure. Future of work expert and Harvard University Professor Christopher Stanton commented recently that the uptake of AI has been tremendous and observed that it is an “extraordinarily fast-di

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We found stuff AI is pretty good at

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-11-23 22:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Tech companies keep telling everyone that this or that AI feature is going to change everything. But when you press them for examples, real, concrete examples of how those AI tools should be used, the answers tend to be lackluster. Sometimes AI tools feel so open-ended, it’s hard to know where to start or what the best way to use them

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60 malicious Ruby gems downloaded 275,000 times steal credentials

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-23 10:11:21

Sixty malicious Ruby gems containing credential-stealing code have been downloaded over 275,000 times since March 2023, targeting developer accounts. The malicious Ruby gems were discovered by Socket, which reports they targeted primarily South Korean users of automation tools for Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X, Telegram, Naver, WordPress, and Kakao. RubyGems is the official package manager for the Ruby programming language, enabling the distribution, installation, and management of Ruby librari

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MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems

news.ycombinator.com Julien Simon 2025-11-23 10:42:10

Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Julien Simon 9 min read · Jul 29, 2025 -- 19 Listen Share The Model Context Protocol (MCP) promises to standardize AI-tool interactions as the “USB-C for AI.” While its simplicity accelerates adoption, MCP systematically overlooks four decades of hard-won lessons from distributed systems. This isn’t an academic concern: enterprises deploying MCP today are buildin

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The current state of LLM-driven development

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 12:17:16

I spent the past ~4 weeks trying out all the new and fancy AI tools for software development. Let’s get a few things out of the way: Learning how to use LLMs in a coding workflow is trivial. There is no learning curve. You can safely ignore them if they don’t fit your workflows at the moment. LLMs won’t magically make you deliver production-ready code If you can’t read the code and spot issues, they’re hard to use past the PoC stage They have terrible code organization skills, making them los

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Hoto Snapbloq Tools Review: Attractive Power Tools

wired.com Henri Robbins 2025-11-22 04:00:00

Tools often have a utilitarian design. Their purpose is to get stuff done, so their shape is exclusively focused on getting stuff done. This is where the Hoto SnapBloq toolkit is unique: These tools emphasize style and design to prove that functionality doesn’t need to have a rugged, utilitarian, and (typically) unappealing style. Hoto’s SnapBloq line is a set of three small power tools meant for tinkerers and hobbyists. The full set consists of a screwdriver, a rotary tool, and a drill, along

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MCP's Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices

news.ycombinator.com Julien Simon 2025-11-23 16:42:10

Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Julien Simon 9 min read · Jul 29, 2025 -- 26 Listen Share The Model Context Protocol (MCP) promises to standardize AI-tool interactions as the “USB-C for AI.” While its simplicity accelerates adoption, MCP systematically overlooks four decades of hard-won lessons from distributed systems. This isn’t an academic concern: enterprises deploying MCP today are buildin

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I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 22:19:05

I want everything local — no cloud, no remote code execution. That’s what a friend said. That one-line requirement, albeit simple, would need multiple things to work in tandem to make it happen. What does a mainstream LLM (Large Language Model) chat app like ChatGPT or Claude provide at a high level? Ability to use chat with a cloud hosted LLM, Ability to run code generated by them mostly on their cloud infra, sometimes locally via shell, Ability to access the internet for new content or se

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New EDR killer tool used by eight different ransomware groups

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-27 22:58:31

A new Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) killer that is considered to be the evolution of 'EDRKillShifter,' developed by RansomHub, has been observed in attacks by eight different ransomware gangs. Such tools help ransomware operators turn off security products on breached systems so they can deploy payloads, escalate privileges, attempt lateral movement, and ultimately encrypt devices on the network without being detected. According to Sophos security researchers, the new tool, which wasn'

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iOS 26’s Notes app adds a clever new way to use its many tools

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-28 03:30:44

Apple Notes gets more powerful every year, and iOS 26 adds its own batch of new features. With new capabilities comes the threat of feature bloat, but Notes has a clever solution that makes its ever-growing set of tools more easily accessible in iOS 26. iOS 26 gives Apple Notes an ‘adaptive toolbar’ Notes was once an extremely simple iPhone app. Features were minimal, as Apple prioritized just making it a quick place to jot down notes. But at some point, the company started aggressively build

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The TSA-approved multitool myth: I tested it on a plane so you don't have to

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-28 03:11:00

NexTool Mini Multitool ZDNET's key takeaways The NexTool multitool is blade-free, making it TSA and airport security friendly. The tool is compact and can be attached to a keychain All the tools are decent quality, and can actually do the job they claim to be able to do. $21.98 at Amazon I like my EDC (everyday carry) gadgets, but when I travel by air, I almost always end up having to empty my pockets of a lot of useful stuff. I find it handy and convenient to have a screwdriver, scissors, an

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An LLM does not need to understand MCP

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 16:52:24

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the standard for tool calling when building agents, but contrary to popular belief, your LLM does not need to understand MCP. You might have heard about the term "context engineering"; where you, as the person interacting with an LLM, are responsible for providing the right context to help it answer your questions. To gather this context, you can use tool calling to give the LLM access to a set of tools it can use to fetch information or take actions. MCP

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US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-30 03:11:24

OpenAI announced an agreement to supply more than 2 million workers for the US federal executive branch access to ChatGPT and related tools at practically no cost: just $1 per agency for one year. The deal was announced just one day after the US General Services Administration (GSA) signed a blanket deal to allow OpenAI and rivals like Google and Anthropic to supply tools to federal workers. The workers will have access to ChatGPT Enterprise, a type of account that includes access to frontier

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College students can get Google's AI Pro plan for free now. Here's how

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-30 10:00:00

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Students ages 18+ get the Google AI Pro plan for free for 12 months. Plan includes access to Deep Research, Veo 3, Jules, and more. Part of a larger $1 billion investment in AI education and job training. As AI tools continue to develop, they expand beyond the standard question-and-answer loop and offer more meaningful assistance for students. Google, for instance, has tools that can create podcasts for users from their notes, debu

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Google's NotebookLM is now available for younger users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-03 17:30:08

Google's NotebookLM (NLM) is designed to be the ultimate study guide. So, with the new school year already beginning, it's fitting that the AI tool is now available for younger users. Just be sure to check its work, kids. For consumers, anyone 13 and older can now use the AI-powered learning tool. However, any minimum age restrictions in your country will override that. NLM is also now available as a core service for all ages as part of the Google Workspace for Education suite. The Gemini-powe

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xAI’s new Grok image and video generator has a ‘spicy’ mode

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-04 22:20:32

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. xAI’s new Grok Imagine tool is an AI image and video generator that encourages users to make NSFW content. In contrast to rival generative AI video tools like Google’s Veo and OpenAI’s Sora, which try to block users from generating anything seedy, the Grok chatbot’s Imagine feature provides a “Spicy” generation mode that actively directs it to spit out nudity and sexualized content. Grok Imagine includes te

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AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

news.ycombinator.com Kelly Vaughn 2025-12-06 11:01:52

A note: This is a different kind of post than I usually send from After Burnout. Instead of something raw, short, and personal, this is more of a deep-dive article. But given how much this topic connects to burnout and our relationship with productivity tools, it felt important to share. We were promised a productivity revolution. AI tools would handle the boring stuff, freeing us to focus on creative, strategic work. We’d finally have time to think, to innovate, to maybe even leave the office

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Every Visual Workflow Tool Is Just Excel for Developers Who Gave Up

news.ycombinator.com Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen 2025-12-06 17:30:01

Zoom image will be displayed A man looking at the window and thinking Every Visual Workflow Tool is Just Excel for Developers Who Gave Up Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen 5 min read · 3 hours ago 3 hours ago -- Listen Share There’s a saying that goes “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” But what happens when you trade your hammer for a Fisher-Price toy hammer and convince yourself it’s an upgrade? That’s exactly what’s happening with visual workflow tools, and I’m tired of pret

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Show HN: My Bytecode Optimizer Beats Copilot by 2X

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 00:15:25

Even amid the AGI race, a specialized tool really outperforms general‑purpose models. And even when this specialized tool is a side-project and at a very early stage. I am building as a side-project a tool called SuperVM. It optimizes bytecode and machine code similarly to how a LLM would do but instead of using statistical systems, it uses deterministic systems and reasons from facts instead of probabilities (nothing new here these things have been around forever). All the generated code is

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These Are the Photoshop AI Tools Worth Using: How I Use AI to Edit My Photos

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 09:00:14

You don't need to be a Photoshop expert to give its new generative AI a test drive. Adobe has added a number of AI features to its premiere photo editor over the past few years, and if you use Photoshop regularly, you've probably seen these pop up on your task bars. I spend a lot of time reviewing AI image generators and other AI creative software, so I had to put the original photo editor's AI to the test. AI might not be right for every project, especially for professional creators who regula

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Software developers use AI more than ever, but trust it less

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-07 04:46:00

The big picture: Software developers are increasingly weaving AI tools into their work, but such rapid adoption hasn't come without confusion or conflict. They and their managers are still trying to work out when these tools help, when they hurt, and how to integrate them without creating more problems than they solve. In its annual poll of 49,000 professional developers, Stack Overflow found that 80 percent use AI tools in their work in 2025, a share that has surged in recent years. Despite th

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Developers increasingly embrace AI tools even as their trust in them falls

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-07 22:46:00

The big picture: Software developers are increasingly weaving AI tools into their work, but such rapid adoption hasn't come without confusion or conflict. They and their managers are still trying to work out when these tools help, when they hurt, and how to integrate them without creating more problems than they solve. In its annual poll of 49,000 professional developers, Stack Overflow found that 80 percent use AI tools in their work in 2025, a share that has surged in recent years. Despite th

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Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-10 12:39:22

AI tools are widely used by software developers, but those devs and their managers are still grappling with figuring out how exactly to best put the tools to use, with growing pains emerging along the way. That's the takeaway from the latest survey of 49,000 professional developers by community and information hub StackOverflow, which itself has been heavily impacted by the addition of large language models (LLMs) to developer workflows. The survey found that four in five developers use AI too

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Reddit revenue soars as it bets on AI and advertising

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-10 12:13:23

Reddit reported its second-quarter earnings on Thursday, and it’s clear that the company’s focus on AI has ramped up considerably. One significant area of investment is growing its advertising business, supported by its AI-powered marketing tools. The results revealed that the majority of Reddit’s revenue continues to come from ads, which brought in $465 million, representing 93% of the company’s total revenue. Last month, Reddit launched two new features for advertisers: Reddit Insights, a to

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Hard-won vibe coding insights: Mailchimp’s 40% speed gain came with governance price

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-12-10 17:43:50

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Like many enterprises over the past year, Intuit Mailchimp has been experimenting with vibe coding. Intuit Mailchimp provides email marketing and automation capabilities. It’s part of the larger Intuit organization, which has been on a steady journey with gen AI over the last several years, rolling out its own GenOS and agentic AI capabili

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Google search flaw allows articles to vanish through "clever" censorship tactics

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-11 17:23:00

In context: Online censorship can take many forms and due to its dominance in web search, Google has traditionally been the primary target. A recently uncovered case highlights the lengths to which reputation management companies will go, as well as Google's vulnerability to sophisticated censorship tactics. Someone successfully censored a pair of uncomfortable articles that were previously accessible through Google Search. The unknown party exploited a clever trick along with a bug in Google's

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Launch HN: Gecko Security (YC F24) – AI That Finds Vulnerabilities in Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 17:23:09

Hey HN, I'm JJ, Co-Founder of Gecko Security ( https://www.gecko.security ). We're building a new kind of static analysis tool that uses LLMs to find complex business logic and multi-step vulnerabilities that current scanners miss. We’ve used it to find 30+ CVEs in projects like Ollama, Gradio, and Ragflow ( https://www.gecko.security/research ). You can try it yourself on any OSS repo at ( https://app.gecko.security ). Anyone who’s used SAST (Static Application Security Testing) tools knows th

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Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 21:23:40

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ Why? | Goals | Status | Getting started | Join us See our announcement video from CppNorth. Note that Carbon is not ready for use. Fast and works with C++ Performance matching C++ using LLVM, with low-level access to bits and addresses Interoperate with your existing C++ code, from inheritance to templates Fast and scalable builds that work with your existing C++ build systems Modern and evolving Solid language foundations that are easy

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2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 11:30:23

The 2025 Developer Survey is the definitive report on the state of software development. In its fifteenth year, Stack Overflow received over 49,000+ responses from 177 countries across 62 questions focused on 314 different technologies, including new focus on AI agent tools, LLMs and community platforms. This annual Developer Survey provides a crucial snapshot into the needs of the global developer community, focusing on the tools and technologies they use or want to learn more about.

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Latest Tech News

Self-Guaranteeing Promises

AI’s promise of opportunity masks a reality of managed displacement

We found stuff AI is pretty good at

60 malicious Ruby gems downloaded 275,000 times steal credentials

MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems

The current state of LLM-driven development

Hoto Snapbloq Tools Review: Attractive Power Tools

MCP's Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices

I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace

New EDR killer tool used by eight different ransomware groups

iOS 26’s Notes app adds a clever new way to use its many tools

The TSA-approved multitool myth: I tested it on a plane so you don't have to

An LLM does not need to understand MCP

US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency

College students can get Google's AI Pro plan for free now. Here's how

Google's NotebookLM is now available for younger users

xAI’s new Grok image and video generator has a ‘spicy’ mode

AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

Every Visual Workflow Tool Is Just Excel for Developers Who Gave Up

Show HN: My Bytecode Optimizer Beats Copilot by 2X

These Are the Photoshop AI Tools Worth Using: How I Use AI to Edit My Photos

Software developers use AI more than ever, but trust it less

Developers increasingly embrace AI tools even as their trust in them falls

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises

Reddit revenue soars as it bets on AI and advertising

Hard-won vibe coding insights: Mailchimp’s 40% speed gain came with governance price

Google search flaw allows articles to vanish through "clever" censorship tactics

Launch HN: Gecko Security (YC F24) – AI That Finds Vulnerabilities in Code

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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