HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund

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Claude Code routes API requests to extra usage billing when a git commit message contains the case-sensitive string HERMES.md. This causes silent extra usage credits consumption, making it difficult to diagnose.

Zed 1.0

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Zed is a new editor built from scratch with a custom UI framework, GPUI, to provide a fundamentally better coding experience. Version 1.0 is now available, offering AI-native editing, collaboration features, and a growing list of capabilities.

Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431

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A Linux kernel vulnerability, Copy Fail, allows local code execution to become root due to a shared page cache issue. A patch is available to revert the 2017 optimization, and disabling AF_ALG can mitigate the issue.

Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years

Kyoto's cherry tree bloom records span over 1,000 years, showing a 30-year climate signal. The 2026 peak was March 29, two weeks earlier than the pre-modern average.

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

Using FastCGI as a protocol for proxy-to-backend communication can avoid HTTP's pitfalls, such as desync vulnerabilities, by providing clear message boundaries and domain separation between client and proxy headers. FastCGI is a 30-year-old protocol that is still usable today, but its lack of awareness and outdated tooling may hinder its adoption despite its potential benefits.

Cursor Camp

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Welcome to Cursor Camp! Enjoy your stay

Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials

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A vulnerability in Ramp's Sheets AI allowed data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection. Ramp's security team resolved the issue on March 16, 2026.

We need a federation of forges

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Tangled aims to decentralize code collaboration by allowing events to be federated among git servers, enabling cross-server collaboration and hosting. It uses Authenticated Transfer to share events and social features, breaking free from GitHub's monoculture.

Laws of UX

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The tendency to get overwhelmed by too many options and systematic errors in thinking can be mitigated by simplifying and organizing information. Understanding human perception and behavior can help design more intuitive and user-friendly systems and experiences.

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

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This project aims to create a low-cost, research-validated stethoscope with freely available plans. The goal is to produce the stethoscope for approximately USD$1-2.

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown

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Elsevier's journal RIBAF has a citation cartel led by John Goodell, who pays researchers to co-author his papers. Goodell's scheme has resulted in hundreds of compromised papers and an inflated citation count.

Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

The author prefers Scheme over Haskell for its simplicity, flexibility, and ease of use, despite Haskell's mathematical beauty and innovations. Scheme's REPL and macro system allow for fast prototyping, debugging, and development, making it the author's "sweet spot" for good developer experience.

Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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code.overheid.nl is a government-wide code platform for open-source software, currently a pilot using Forgejo. Developers are invited to contribute and join the platform by emailing [email protected].

Online age verification is the hill to die on

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"People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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The writer disagrees with the idea that people who don't use AI will be left behind, instead believing that those relying on AI will forget basic skills. They think people should aim to be better than AI, not replace themselves with it.

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained

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An AWS engineer found PostgreSQL throughput dropped by half on Linux 7.0 due to minor page faults while holding a spinlock. Enabling huge pages reduces faults and eliminates TLB pressure.

Bugs Rust won't catch

Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, a Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils. The bugs highlight the importance of careful handling of paths, bytes, and syscalls in systems code.

Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores

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Maryland has banned surveillance pricing in grocery stores, preventing businesses from charging higher prices based on personal data. Critics say the law has loopholes and weak enforcement, while advocates welcome the step but urge stronger consumer protections.

Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs

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Structured output benchmarks have been lying to us by only checking schema compliance and value correctness within a single source domain, but a new benchmark called SOB evaluates structured output across three modalities using the same scoring harness. The gap between JSON Pass and Value Accuracy is the space where structured output benchmarks have been lying to us, with most models clearing ...

Mistral Medium 3.5

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Mistral Vibe moves coding agents to the cloud, running in parallel and notifying users when done. Mistral Medium 3.5, a new default model, powers cloud agents and Le Chat's Work mode for complex tasks.

Stardex Is Hiring a Founding Customer Success Lead

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Stardex is an AI-native ATS and CRM built for executive search and recruiting firms. We're backed by Y Combinator and serve some of the leading US based executive search firms. Our customers are operators, they make money when they make placements, so every minute of downtime matters to them. We've been growing fast, and our founders have been handling support directly. We've hit ...

Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing

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GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts

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Tim Paterson's DOS source code listings are available for browsing and compilation. The listings include 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS 1.00 pre-release kernels.

At Protocol: Building the Social Internet

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"text": "bsky.storage is an independent project that automates periodic account data backups to a storage network, and has a UI for PLC identity backup and recovery\n\ntools like this give users stronger control of their online future, without needing to self-host an entire PDS",

Ghostty is leaving GitHub

The author has been using GitHub daily for 18 years, finding it the place where they've been happiest and most productive. However, due to frequent outages and reliability issues, they've decided to leave GitHub and move their project Ghostty to a new platform.

Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different

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Apple built virtualisation into macOS to support older versions and other operating systems on Apple silicon Macs. This includes Virtio drivers for device support, guaranteeing optimum performance in VMs.

Before GitHub

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The author reflects on GitHub's decline and its impact on the Open Source community, remembering a time when projects were more decentralized and had more autonomy. They advocate for a public archive to preserve Open Source history and suggest that the community should learn from the past to build a more resilient future.

How ChatGPT serves ads

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OpenAI's ad platform injects ad units into ChatGPT conversations and tracks clicks with Fernet-encrypted tokens. The platform uses two domains and specific cookies to track ad events and user behavior.

Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team

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Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital studied ICU handovers and applied lessons from Ferrari and aviation to improve safety. They developed a four-stage process that reduced errors and improved patient care.