CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
Introduction This blogpost is the second and final part of our Avast research and will focus on the exploitation of CVE-2025-13032, a double-fetch vulnerability we discovered in Avast’s kernel driver. This post recaps the bug and walks through how we exploited it on an up-to-date Windows 11 system at the time of the finding. Feel […]
Goodbye Google
Thursday 24 September 2026 Discussion thread on HN Today I’m sending the following email: I’m resigning from Google today. This has not been an easy decision. I love my colleagues and my work environment, and being paid handsomely to solve fun puzzles has been amazing. But my team’s goal is ultimately to make AI much […]
Plan mode is dead
Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI. My belief in this idea was so strong that I built and launched an entire desktop coding app around it. Nuanced was motivated by the observation that AI had radically increased the speed and volume of […]
Evolving programming languages in the AI era
This post is a collection of short ramblings on how programming languages may evolve in the AI era. It is split into two parts: Reflections and Agentic tooling. The first raises questions about what happens to programming languages, their ecosystems, and their communities when humans are no longer writing most of the code. The second […]
Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike
Two decades ago, scientists seemed on the verge of understanding biology in a new, quantum way. Life unfolds over an incomprehensible span of scales, from our planet-enveloping biosphere at one end, to individual cell-building biomolecules at the other. Even at its most microscopic, though, biology doesn’t really reach down to the quantum realm, in which […]
Remembering Johannes Doerfert
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Johannes Doerfert, on September 17, 2026, at the age of 36, after a battle with cancer. Johannes was one of the most prolific and respected contributors to the LLVM compiler project, and his loss will be deeply felt. Johannes was born […]
Google’s first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
The only real test Google says it has conducted testing on the ground, but launching the satellite will provide a fuller picture of the current challenges. For example, the team will need to evaluate how Tensor chips handle space conditions. In many space missions, hardware is designed specifically for extreme temperatures or radiation, but these […]
Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
My name is Paul. I’m a developer, an explorer and I’ve got ADHD. As of the beginning of August, I’m also unemployed. This last part, along with everything else this past year, has caused me a great deal of stress. While our balcony zen garden project is yet to be completed, I had an idea […]
How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
Around 2021, well before ChatGPT launched, Vincent Hellendoorn suggested I try GPT-3 on the reading quizzes in my course. It produced convincing answers passing our rubric without actually seeing the assigned paper. At the time, I changed nothing. Five years later, AI agents could do all my assignments and I have redesigned most assessments in […]
California is chasing wealth that has feet
The Center for Land Economics full report can be found here; our op-ed on the same argument ran in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. Last week California certified a Billionaire Wealth Tax for the November ballot: a 5 percent one-time levy on the state’s billionaires, paid out over five years, to raise about $20 billion […]