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Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches

https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/10/23/torvalds-ai-is-fine-for-competent-devs-but-spare-us-the-drive-by-patches/5304357
9•speckx•50m ago

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spacedcowboy•21m ago
I tend to agree with this.

Using an AI to do something you haven't a clue about is ... unlikely to be useful beyond the basics of what you initially specify. Using one to do something that you actually have some skill and knowledge of is a force multiplier. Knowing when to say "no" is just as important as that initial specification, IMHO, probably more so.

Running 50 AI agent threads at once made me the bottleneck

https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/ai-agents-attention-bottleneck-decisions-2026
1•joozio•14s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scrolling Text – animated text overlays in the browser

https://scrollingtext.app/
1•perryzheng•16s ago•0 comments

Contrary to popular belief, AI can exploit the PHP exploit [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP7y1h0laN0
1•eraclide•30s ago•0 comments

Who has patched PHP2Shell? I checked nearly 1M websites

https://vu.co.uk/blog/who-has-patched-php
1•hawke•40s ago•0 comments

I Was Taught to Read Using an Alphabet That No Longer Exists

https://nancyjaynefrench.substack.com/p/i-was-taught-to-read-using-an-alphabet
1•harperlee•1m ago•0 comments

How We Measure Crime Creates Biased Surveillance Systems

https://thesurveilledcity.com//articles/how-we-measure-crime-creates-biased-surveillance-systems/
2•eustoria•1m ago•0 comments

Universal Social Media Downloader

https://www.downloaders.co/
1•pulloco•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 3D Rendering Engine Written in OpenGL and C++

https://github.com/HaydenD100/OpenGLRenderingEngine
1•manerMon1•1m ago•0 comments

Beef production in Brazil is the largest driver of global deforestation

https://ourworldindata.org/beef-production-in-brazil-has-been-the-largest-driver-of-global-defore...
2•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/defunding-arts-civic-disintegration-what-was-a...
1•eustoria•2m ago•0 comments

The Psicology of an AI Hacker

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.30361
1•vmayoral•2m ago•1 comments

A live zoo of bots visiting one site, with a trap for those ignoring robots.txt

https://crawlerzoo.com/
1•entryleveljobsc•3m ago•0 comments

MoonScript v0.8.0 Changelog

https://moonscript.org/changelog.html
2•nathcd•3m ago•0 comments

What Is a "Harness"?

https://twitter.com/theo/status/2113424203345265053
1•cmpit•5m ago•0 comments

PHP 8.5 reimplemented from scratch in Rust

https://github.com/francescotinti/php-rust
3•hiccuphippo•5m ago•0 comments

Just Eat apologises for AI food mistakes after social media ridicule

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crz981p0klvgo
1•bookofjoe•5m ago•1 comments

Gpuix-Svelte: Build native desktop apps with Svelte

https://gpuix-svelte.stanislav.garden/
2•zapt02•5m ago•0 comments

Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/personalized-mrna-cancer-vaccine-cut-melanoma-death-recurr...
2•nathcd•5m ago•0 comments

Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/hacker-leaks-281-gb-data-germany-afd
1•speckx•5m ago•0 comments

Crusoe to deploy AI cloud in Paraguay powered by the Itaipu dam

https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-araico-hydroelectric-ai-infrastructure-partnership
1•dvaplima•7m ago•0 comments

Slow C++ compilation: a trillion dollars in losses

https://ders.by/cpp/build/build.html
1•dersoverflow•10m ago•1 comments

I launched BIA – boot into agent – an agent that has full social presence

https://ownbia.com/
1•zond80•10m ago•0 comments

Fedora 45 Release Party

https://rsvp.fedoraproject.org/releases/f45/
1•getwiththeprog•10m ago•0 comments

Pghacker-MCP: pgsql-hackers mailing list and code history MCP server

https://pghacker-mcp.dev/
2•plaur782•10m ago•0 comments

Review of "Misalignment in high-stakes settings" in Anthropic's Risk Report

https://metr.org/blog/2026-10-20-misalignment-risk-report-august-2026-review/
1•gmays•11m ago•0 comments

Copilot Code (Frontier)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/code/
1•Topfi•11m ago•0 comments

Knicks' James Dolan used fake scam email to employees about championship rings

https://clutchpoints.com/nba/new-york-knicks/knicks-james-dolan-used-fake-scam-email-to-employees...
1•AznHisoka•11m ago•0 comments

Disable Website/URL Comment Field in WordPress 2026

https://tim.cexx.org/?p=2165
1•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Under-Skin Implant Controls Prosthetic Arms

https://spectrum.ieee.org/phantom-neuro-prosthetic-arm-implant
1•dverlaeckt80•19m ago•0 comments

In RSI, The Map is not the Territory

https://lambos.substack.com/p/in-rsi-the-map-is-not-the-territory
2•ltononro•19m ago•0 comments