AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
In August 2025, I wrote about AWS deleting my 10-year account without warning. Then I wrote about the one human who restored it. Tarus Balog, a 20-year open-source veteran who escalated my case to a Severity 2 ticket, got the CEO’s attention, and proved that even inside a machine the size of AWS, one person […]
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
In a letter to the national parliament published on Tuesday, State Secretary for Digital Economy Willemijn Aerdts said the national authority charged with screening investments had advised the government to block the acquisition. The purchase was seen as posing ”a possible risk to the public interest.” The government on Monday decided to adopt the advice […]
Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team
The EAGLE series — including EAGLE 1, EAGLE 2, and EAGLE 3 — has become one of the most widely adopted and practically deployed families of speculative decoding algorithms across both research and production systems. Today, the EAGLE team, vLLM team, and TorchSpec team are excited to jointly introduce EAGLE 3.1 — a major step […]
GitHub Actions down again today
Resolved – On May 12, 2026, between 13:41 and 17:43 UTC, some services experienced delays in processing. For the Code Scanning service, 53% of check runs took over 15 minutes to complete. Additionally, notifications took an average of 22 minutes to be delivered and Slack integration webhooks took an average of 20 minutes to be […]
The AI bubble isn’t like the internet bubble
One of the surprise breakout software products of the early web was Lotus Notes, a kind of primitive precursor to all-in-one office productivity suites like GDocs, Office365, etc. It was so important that its creator, Ray Ozzie, was promoted to Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, succeeding Bill Gates himself: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wharton-podcast/the-man-who-would-change-microsoft-ray-ozzies-vision-for-connected-software/ People who remember Notes tend to […]
I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty
(See original article: I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty.) I was poking at a fintech’s mobile API and noticed something that made no sense. GET /v1/accounts returned 401. GET /v1/accounts/ returned 200 with full account data. One character. Completely different security posture. What I was looking at The API […]
Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd
If you visit the Flatpak website today, it lists, as the very first advantage of the project: “Build for every distro: create one app and distribute it to the entire Linux desktop market.” If you then move on to the list of supported distributions, you’ll see the usual suspects, but also distributions like Void Linux, […]
DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD
1. Create a Zone: Type your device name, select your preferred base domain, and click Create Zone. 2. Get the Config: Click the Snippets button next to your new domain. 3. Deploy: Select your device type and copy the generated configuration block directly into your router’s CLI. Note: IPv4 and IPv6 (Dual-Stack) are detected and […]
Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
> There also seems to be an odd standoff between Apple and the streaming apps, eg no native YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, etc Apple made the bed when they openly were hostile to the developers. There’s a reason why every platform courts the developers (Remember MS’s ”developers developers developers”). Apple could get away from being a […]
The User Is Visibly Frustrated
Despite the usual allegations against Italians, I’m generally a composed person. Tame, even, especially at work. Yet, lately I often find myself mildly displeased, furiously hammering on my laptop “WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO???”. The recipient of these tirades is, you might have guessed, a coding agent. It’s completely pointless, I know. Coding agents […]