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GOP’s Josh Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban
Washington — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri joined Democrats Wednesday to advance legislation that would ban members of Congress from buying, selling or owning individual stocks. In an 8-7 vote, Hawley and Senate Democrats on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted the legislation out of committee, with all other […]
Caches: LRU vs. Random
Caches: LRU v. random Caches: LRU v. random | Patreon Once upon a time, my computer architecture professor mentioned that using a random eviction policy for caches really isn’t so bad. That random eviction isn’t bad can be surprising — if your cache fills up and you have to get rid of something, choosing the […]
Show HN: AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget
🚨 The Problem Your AI agent has a bug. It makes 1000 API calls in a loop. Your $2000 credit card gets charged. This happens to developers every week: Infinite loops in AI workflows Testing with production API keys Agents that don’t know when to stop One typo = hundreds of dollars gone Existing tools […]
Tracking source locations in the Futhark compiler
Posted on July 29, 2025 Futhark is a programming language meant for writing fast programs, but as is the case for every programming language meant for writing fast programs, it inevitably happens that a programmer will use it to write a program that is not fast. When this happens, the programmer will likely want to […]
I know when you’re vibe coding
I shouldn’t have to care about this. I don’t want to care about how someone’s code gets into the IDE. Whether you wrote it by hand, copied it from a forum, prompted an LLM, or ran a simulation where monkeys are given infinite time to produce the solution. I care about what gets merged into […]
The Cost of Security Debt (With Numbers)
The bottom line: Each security vulnerability costs your team ~$600 to fix manually. A 100-engineer company burns $300,000 annually on this. Automation cuts that by 93%. Most CTOs guess they spend “maybe 10%” of dev time on security fixes. Multiple studies show it’s much worse: The consensus? Security work consumes 20-40% of developer time. What […]
Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) Coming to OpenBSD
Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2025-07-30 from the classic come-on dept. Much longed for by some, remembered as a quaint memory by other greybeards, the classic Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is being added to the ports collection. The initial commit message reads, List: openbsd-ports-cvs Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports From: Antoine Jacoutot Date: 2025-07-28 […]
You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT
You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT. I develop open-source code. But that never made me one of the “I hate proprietary software or IT giant corporations” types. I always saw the nice things that Microsoft offered to its users; I saw not only downsides in its products. And I also used (and […]
Paradise Lost
Talk at Mitchell Feigenbaum Conference Lev Landau The initiation into Landau School of Thought started with famous Theoretical Minimum Exam. This was a sequence of increasing tests of that rare mix of knowledge, durability and passion, which was necessary to be accepted and survive the School. I was lucky to be initiated by Landau himself, […]