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collinmanderson··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
I have the agent (Opus 5) spawn code reviews for their own work, and the code reviews generally catch n+1 queries.
collinmanderson··on Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA
For US federal government, "Office of Management and Budget" says to store 72 hours of packet capture, since 2021 (partially in response to SolarWinds attack). (M-21-31)

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/TLP%20CLEAR...

collinmanderson··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
They used to give preferential treatment to AMP search results, but November 2020 they announced switching to "Core Web Vitals" signal instead.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2020/11/timing-for...

collinmanderson··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
I think it says "honestly" when breaking bad news.
collinmanderson··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
"buddy" -> "mate" -> M8. Nice.
collinmanderson··on The August 17 outage
That seems to be what's happening. Like 2-4 bots talking to each other, then Jarred Sumner just does the final merge with little comment.

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/39743 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/39735

collinmanderson··on 98% isn't much
No, they would just ignore Firefox and not test against it, and might start to use chrome/safari-only features.
collinmanderson··on Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT
This makes sense. Originally Fable was going to be available via subscription June 9th through June 22nd (~14 days).

It ended up being available 2.5 days before pulled, then was made available July 1 through July 7. (~7.5 days), so only ~10 days total.

Now they're giving us 5 more days, so ~15 days total, more similar to what they originally announced.

collinmanderson··on 98% isn't much
Part of the problem is The US Government (and UK Government) use the "2% rule" on their websites and only officially support 98%.

I mentioned 3 years ago that Firefox at 2.2% is dangerously close the being unsupported on government websites, and at this point it's now at 1.9%.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36776603

https://analytics.usa.gov/ says "There were 1.66 billion sessions in the last 30 days." - so 2% is 33 million sessions if I did my math right.

collinmanderson··on Want your images back? That'll be $5
https://xkcd.com/1150/
collinmanderson··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
> no cooldown (or a much smaller countdown) for security fixes.

A supply chain attack would likely able to publish a "security" release just as easily as a normal release, so I don't think that would help much.

collinmanderson··on Django 6.1 alpha 1 released
Release notes here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/6.1/

Looks like there's some features to try to reduce the “N+1 queries problem”.

collinmanderson··on AI is making me dumb
> I just caught myself about to copy and paste it into Claude to see what it thinks because I'm worried that it doesn't make sense or it reads funny or there's something missing. That's the self-doubt that it's feeding on and what I need to fight back.

This is where I'm at. I feel like I need AI to review everything.

collinmanderson··on Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
> As the victim of the one from last year

Background here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45187528

collinmanderson··on Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
> Or are folks seriously proposing that the patch/mitigations should have been circulated to distro maintainers privately before going to mainline?

I always assumed that distro maintainers got early access to patches before going mainline but maybe that’s not true?

collinmanderson··on Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
Github Copilot also lets you use other models when one has an outage.
collinmanderson··on Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
> Disruption with Gemini 2.5 Pro model

> Disruption with Grok Code Fast 1 in Copilot

> Incident with Copilot Grok Code Fast 1

> Claude Opus 4 is experiencing degraded performance

It doesn't seem fair to blame Github for this? There's nothing they can do about it?

collinmanderson··on Days without GitHub incidents
https://xkcd.com/1150/
collinmanderson··on Ti-84 Evo
Shout out to https://ticalc.org/ - the design is pretty much unchanged.
collinmanderson··on Copy Fail
Yes. So cringy.
collinmanderson··on We need a federation of forges
Why not Just™ store all PR/Issues content as markdown on a separate branch along side the code itself? Why do we need a new protocol?
collinmanderson··on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
> Because we cannot name something leading with a trademark owned by someone else.

And this WSL project is going to run into the same problem.

collinmanderson··on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
> Proudly written without AI.

Looks like it's been updated now to be more clear. Amazing though.

collinmanderson··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
I just want to point out this guide uses many of the same tasks I use when migrating websites between servers while minimizing downtown.

- reduce dns ttl (if not doing an ip swap)

- rsync website files

- rsync /etc/letsencrypt/ ssl certificates

- copy over database (if writes don't happen often and database is small enough, this can be done without replica, just go read_only during migration)

- test new server by putting new ip in local /etc/hosts

- turn off cron on old server

- convert old server nginx to reverse proxy to new server

- change dns (or ip swap between old and new server)

- turn on cron on new server

collinmanderson··on LittleSnitch for Linux
France is trying to switch to desktop linux. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716043 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719486

I think AI also makes it easier to deal with issues that come up.

collinmanderson··on The College Student–and His Cat Meme–Who Hunted the Biggest Cyberweapon
This is a super interesting story and I'm surprised it hasn't made the headline on Hacker News.

Edit: looks like this one is the most popular, from Jan 3rd. It even was put into the 2nd chance pool, but still didn't get catch on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472040

collinmanderson··on We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year
Yes, for me I think it was around Nov/Dec 2025, along with harness improvements, and hearing about lots of successes with agenic programming. Having the agent managing its own context and doing the full software engineering loop with writing code, running it, and seeing if it works. That was already there before February 9th.
collinmanderson··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
I think they emailed everyone about this, but I might be wrong. Maybe they only emailed people who actually use copilot.
collinmanderson··on Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
uv has "exclude-newer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513932
collinmanderson··on Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
If you lock your dependencies, it should fail if the hash doesn't match.
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