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johnbarron··on Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
Tailscale is responsible for designing a system whose convenient defaults allowed a stolen credential to have a very large blast radius. A marketing blog is not changing that.
johnbarron··on Nvidia in Talks with OpenAI to Guarantee $250B Financing for Data Center
"Nvidia’s $350bn OpenAI loan is scaring everyone" - https://youtu.be/B07mYv-IeU8
johnbarron··on About 60k migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory's leader says
This is one is a better article:

"Spain says huge surge across border into enclave has reversed" - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/spain-morocco-halt-dead...

The context is that could not happen without the cooperation and orchestration by the Moroccan government, and its a kind of warning. Its a warning on recent warm up of relations of Spain with Algeria [2]. Something that is of great strategic concern due to historical disputes over the Western Sahara. [1]

The Spanish prime minister of course is totally compromised, and weak in all fronts.

His wife will stand trial for corruption [3] and he had to cynically support a measure to do regularization program for undocumented migrants that could get up to 1 million getting regular papers. Independently of the merits or not of the program, he did this agreement with the left-wing party Podemos in January 2026. Sánchez leads a minority government and depends on smaller parties for parliamentary support, so reaching deals with Podemos basically allowed him to continue in government.

[1] - "Migration As A Weapon In The Spanish-Moroccan Crisis" - https://tdhj.org/blog/post/migration-weapon-spain-morocco-cr...

[2] - https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260720-spain-pm-sanchez...

[3]- "Wife of Spanish PM forbidden to leave country as corruption probes pile up" - https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/21/europe/spanish-pm-wife-co...

johnbarron··on Kimi K3-256k
64k ought to be enough for anybody
johnbarron··on Amazon finds cases of AI causing runaway spending on tech projects
"...During a presentation this week, employees were told about one instance in which the company spent $1.8mn on matching author details with listings on the group’s ecommerce website using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet AI model despite the deployment failing, the people said.

The spending represented an 860 per cent cost overrun compared to the project’s budget and took five months to detect, they added..."

johnbarron··on Maybe we should revisit microkernels
Same story with Erlang and Elixir systems and their NIFs...the law of leaky abstractions...
johnbarron··on Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models
If Amazon does not buy them, the CEO should be fired...
johnbarron··on The Kimi K3 Moment
Melania got a EB-1 "extraordinary ability" immigrant visa
johnbarron··on The Kimi K3 Moment
Its worthwhile to have a quote from the article as some comment without reading:

"...I’ve been running Kimi K3 alongside Claude on my normal coding work, and for all practical purposes I can’t tell them apart. Same tasks, same quality of output, and near identical token counts to get there. I expected an open model to be sloppier or to grind through more tokens on the way to the same answer, and neither turned out to be true.

The prices are nowhere near each other. K3’s API runs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output. Claude’s top model costs $10 and $50 for the same units. The subscription side is even more lopsided..."

johnbarron··on Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says
Zuckerberg is the kind of Incel we have been warned about. Its how the Face Book started and it will be how it will end.
johnbarron··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
>> It's crazy enough this will be fixed soon.

Its going on for 12 hours. Looks like the humans can´t understand the agentic code that was checked in....

johnbarron··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Truth is, you can never know: https://imgur.com/random-number-generator-bwFWMqQ
johnbarron··on IBM shares plunge 23% as customers shift spending to AI
Cramer said to buy last week....

https://youtu.be/7IbG-Si9K_A

Mooooooonetiziiiiiing oooooon AAAAAAIIIIIII: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TZfPJ6_l1iA

johnbarron··on IBM shares plunge 23% as customers shift spending to AI
Cramer said to buy last week....

https://youtu.be/7IbG-Si9K_A

Mooooooonetiziiiiiing oooooon AAAAAAIIIIIII: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TZfPJ6_l1iA

johnbarron··on IBM shares plunge 23% as customers shift spending to AI
https://archive.ph/SkHmS
johnbarron··on IBM shares down 23% as clients spend more on hardware and memory chips
Current title too kind to IBM...real title is: "IBM stock craters 23% after issuing second-quarter earnings warning"
johnbarron··on Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues
Depends...how large were your attachments?
johnbarron··on AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
You cant make a man understand the moral compass when his salary bla bla bla...
johnbarron··on Everything Is AI
https://archive.is/KA8rm
johnbarron··on Above the Cloud: Building Data Centers in Space – Richard Campbell – NDC 2026
https://youtu.be/eo7MEPgWGic?t=2437
johnbarron··on SpaceX handed lowest possible ESG rating by MSCI
https://archive.ph/OEYyh
johnbarron··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
They cant read all comments they comment on...
johnbarron··on Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them
Article flagged by the HN moderators owning pre IPO shares on said companies discussed in this article: Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX
johnbarron··on Google SOTA
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/29/800046344/cartoon...
johnbarron··on The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/29/800046344/cartoon...

https://imgur.com/gallery/google-ai-sota-llDaUDr

johnbarron··on Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris
They had years to fix it: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/bnp-pariba...
johnbarron··on Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
Lets hope the models can do a better KYC than the humans have been doing..because they are well known.

Or is this a case of the humans, now preparing for the excuse it was the AI failure?

"BNP Paribas Sentenced for Conspiring to Violate the Trading with the Enemy Act" - https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/bnp-paribas-sentence...

"BNP Paribas caught up in French money laundering investigation" - https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bnp-paribas-caught-...

"BNP Paribas faces $246m fine in currency scandal" - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40635070

"BNP Paribas caught in a Cypriot money laundering investigation" - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/12/26/b...

In Money Laundering their track record is unmatched: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/bnp-pariba...

johnbarron··on GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits
It depends on the country apparently:

"Israel reached out to US hackers for ‘Zero Days’ tools" - https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-reached-out-to-us-hacke...

johnbarron··on Negation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in training
"LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they’re false" - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/llms-believe-false-statem...
johnbarron··on Aliens.gov Live
Oh its only about Aliens...not something really scary like the Epstein Files....
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