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Ask HN: Why isn't Proof-Carrying Code more popular?

1•nwah1•47m ago
It seems that Typed Assembly Language and the notion of Proof-Carrying Code have proved that you can ship binaries that contain formal guarantees of certain properties, like memory-safety.

This approach seems like it completely abstracts away all the arguments about which language offers the best guarantees, and moves the checks to installation-time instead of compile-time.

This is important because a shipped binary needs to be trusted, and if you think the binary is written in safe Rust or whatever, then that may give you peace of mind. But you have no guarantee what the binary actually is, and a single instance of memory-unsafety could be a backdoor. You have to just take a leap of faith with the entire supply chain.

It is as if we, as a society, have chosen to rely entirely on client-side validation without ever actually validating server-side.

PCC and TAL could obviate the entire issue, without new exotic hardware like CHERI.

Is Trump's Push to Rename AI to Super Intelligence Part of a Bigger Conspiracy?

https://gizmodo.com/is-trumps-push-to-rename-ai-to-super-intelligence-part-of-some-bigger-conspir...
1•poopcat•42s ago•0 comments

Chernoff Face Cellular Automata

https://www.registeredhexoffenders.com/still_life/
1•MitPitt•1m ago•0 comments

Bologna Bottle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_bottle
1•_josh_meyer_•1m ago•0 comments

Gemini Replaces Google Assistant on Android

https://9to5google.com/2026/09/28/google-assistant-gemini-android/
1•iamben•2m ago•1 comments

Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct query of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-postgresql-now-supports-direct-querying-of-apache-...
1•swasheck•3m ago•0 comments

Government AI Chatbot Reprogrammed to Stop Fact-Checking President

https://newrepublic.com/post/216016/trump-rigs-americagov-ai-chatbot-fact-check-lies
1•worik•4m ago•0 comments

Agreeable Machines: a documented case of AI-reinforced delusion

https://cameronmpalmer.com/blog/agreeable-machines/
1•cameronmpalmer•8m ago•1 comments

Don't Use the "C-Word"

https://aeon.co/essays/we-need-a-better-way-to-describe-what-is-often-called-cancer
1•whiteblossom•8m ago•0 comments

Butterfly Effect

https://sheets.works/data-viz/butterfly-effect
1•gmays•10m ago•0 comments

America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"

https://america.gov/chat
11•thoughtfullyso•10m ago•1 comments

US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/ftc-investigation-anthropic-openai
1•UntitledNo4•10m ago•0 comments

EDG C++ front-end goes public

https://edgcpp.org/#transition
11•iandinwoodie•17m ago•3 comments

AI broke the job application. What replaces it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
2•Betelbuddy•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jamb AI - Voice Agents for Group Calls

https://twitter.com/sharat_sc/status/2100638882341486961
1•sharatsc•19m ago•0 comments

UAI – An open protocol for identity and accountability of AI agents

https://github.com/rodmontiel/uai
1•rodproof•19m ago•1 comments

Scopeswell

https://www.scopeswell.space/
1•corohanc•21m ago•0 comments

OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/openai-delays-ipo-over-ai-safety-concerns/
4•mplanchard•21m ago•0 comments

Have Another Drink! Govt sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny

1•ksymph•23m ago•1 comments

Meat Proxies

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1176/meat-proxies
3•frizlab•25m ago•0 comments

Aho-Corasick Algorithm

https://compiler.club/aho-corasick/
3•birdculture•25m ago•0 comments

Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-57500-7
1•bryanrasmussen•26m ago•0 comments

Type_enforced: Fastest Python Runtime Type Enforcement

https://github.com/connor-makowski/type_enforced
1•conmak•26m ago•1 comments

Compile spreadsheets into standalone interactive TUIs

https://github.com/ralsina/sheety
1•nhatcher•28m ago•0 comments

Professor discovered lost medieval castle hiding inside a Victorian-era building

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/lost-medieval-castle-found-hiding-plain-sight-professor-spots-tell...
1•Vaslo•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Halv cut AI agent cost by 57.1% using Jev

https://halv.ai/blog/halv-swe-rebench-astra-42-pairs/
1•villaspedro•28m ago•0 comments

Framework Desktop with 192GB Ryzen AI Max 400 released for pre-order

https://frame.work/de/en/products/desktop-diy-amd-aimax400/configuration/new
3•mft_•31m ago•0 comments

Hanami, Why?: Introductions

https://aaronmallen.me/writing/hanami-why-introductions
2•ibobev•32m ago•0 comments

Open Source EDACrux EDA Toolchain Now at 1.0

https://edacrux.app/
1•martinfink•32m ago•0 comments

Branch Target Reuse: Spectre-v2 Attacks in JIT Engines

https://www.vusec.net/projects/btr/
2•ibobev•35m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Ex-swe what part time did you pickup?

1•conqrr•35m ago•0 comments