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Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug
A developer used Lean to formally prove a program correct, then discovered bugs anyway — not in the proven code, but in the boundary between the spec and the real system. A sharp illustration of what formal verification actually guarantees (and doesn't), and a rare honest post-mortem on the limits of machine-checked proofs. The HN comment thread also clarifies the framing usefully.
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Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
A detailed look at AMD's ROCm efforts to compete with CUDA — covering where the gap has closed, where it hasn't, and what the path forward looks like. Directly relevant to anyone thinking about compute infrastructure, GPU portability, or the durability of NVIDIA's moat. The framing of 'one step after another' suggests a pragmatic, non-hype take.
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety
Kyle Kingsbury (aphyr of Jepsen fame) writing about safety claims in distributed systems — the headline alone signals this is a critical, technically rigorous piece about how 'safe' gets misused as a marketing term in infrastructure. Worth reading for the craft-of-building-systems perspective and the healthy skepticism about vendor claims.
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Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
An attacker bought 30 WordPress plugins through legitimate channels and injected backdoors into all of them — a supply chain attack via acquisition rather than compromise. The HN comments draw the direct parallel to npm's transitive dependency problem, which is the more generalizable and alarming point for anyone thinking about software supply chain security.
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Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone
Stanford's AI Index report surfaces a widening gap between how AI insiders perceive the technology's trajectory and how the general public (including Gen Z) feels about it — increasingly skeptical and worried. Connects to Gallup's findings on Gen Z souring on AI and to the broader question of whether the industry's optimism is a bubble or a lag.
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GitHub Stacked PRs
GitHub has shipped native stacked PRs — a workflow long beloved by Phabricator/Mercurial users that git's model made painful. This is a meaningful quality-of-life change for engineers doing large feature work or monorepo development. The HN comments from ex-Phabricator users are worth skimming for workflow nuance.
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New Rules Hinder Foreign Firms From Moving Supply Chains From China
China has introduced rules that could penalize multinationals — and their executives personally — for moving supply chains out of China. This directly complicates the 'de-risking' narrative that's been driving semiconductor and manufacturing policy for three years. The enforcement mechanism against executives is particularly chilling.
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Iran Blockade Sets Up a Test of Which Side Can Endure More Pain
David Sanger's analysis of the Hormuz blockade as a test of economic endurance — who blinks first between Trump's domestic political tolerance for high oil prices and Iran's ability to withstand financial pressure. Sharp framing of the strategic logic and the asymmetries involved, without the market-noise of the daily price updates.
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Daring and Dazzling, a New LACMA Floats Above Los Angeles
The new LACMA building by Peter Zumthor has opened after $724M and a decade of controversy — a radical design that floats above Wilshire Boulevard and reimagines what a museum can be. If you're in the Bay Area, this is a day-trip worth making; it's open now in Los Angeles.
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San Francisco’s Modern Art Museum Reimagines the Fisher Collection
SFMOMA is showing 250 pieces from the Fisher Collection — one of the great private contemporary art collections in the world, assembled by the Gap founders. This is a once-a-decade showing available right in your backyard in San Francisco.
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New comment by bcherny in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"
A Anthropic engineer from the Claude Code team responds directly to user reports of hitting Pro Max quotas in 90 minutes — explaining that prompt cache misses on 1M-token context windows are burning tokens fast. Useful ground-level signal on Claude Code's real-world cost model and current limitations for heavy users.
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Servo is now available on crates.io
Servo, Mozilla's experimental Rust-based browser engine, has published its first release to crates.io — signaling it's now usable as an embeddable component, not just a research project. Meaningful for anyone thinking about browser diversity, Rust ecosystem maturity, or embedded rendering engines.
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Man Held in Attack on OpenAI Chief’s Home Had List of A.I. Leaders, Officials Say
A 20-year-old Texas man who threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's San Francisco home had a list of AI executives and wrote extensively about AI as an existential threat. A worrying signal that AI-skeptic sentiment is tipping into targeted violence — relevant background for anyone in the Bay Area AI ecosystem.
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A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
Google is adding a spam policy against 'back button hijacking' — sites that manipulate browser history to trap users. The HN comment immediately calling out LinkedIn as the most egregious offender is accurate and darkly funny. Relevant for anyone doing web development who cares about user-hostile patterns.
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Mark Carney Seals a Majority Government and Remakes Canada’s Liberal Party
Mark Carney's Liberal Party has secured a majority in Canada's parliament — a significant shift for a government that's been navigating Trump-era trade pressure as a minority. Carney, a former central banker, is an interesting test case for technocratic governance in a populist era.
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