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2026-05-08 @ 05:24:24Points: 15Comments: 16
Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE
2026-05-08 @ 04:44:02Points: 48Comments: 13
Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation
2026-05-08 @ 03:51:59Points: 31Comments: 3
GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs
2026-05-08 @ 01:02:28Points: 40Comments: 3
GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094
2026-05-08 @ 00:03:38Points: 78Comments: 35
Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study
2026-05-07 @ 23:17:03Points: 67Comments: 59
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus
2026-05-07 @ 23:06:44Points: 107Comments: 40
Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
2026-05-07 @ 23:02:11Points: 520Comments: 273
Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect
2026-05-07 @ 22:54:34Points: 153Comments: 51
Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
2026-05-07 @ 22:22:21Points: 637Comments: 382
Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
2026-05-07 @ 20:23:37Points: 731Comments: 477
Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found
2026-05-07 @ 19:38:36Points: 95Comments: 20
Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
2026-05-07 @ 19:21:32Points: 641Comments: 258
AI slop is killing online communities
2026-05-07 @ 18:46:25Points: 658Comments: 566
Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text
2026-05-07 @ 17:54:02Points: 275Comments: 91
Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
2026-05-07 @ 17:42:58Points: 199Comments: 176
Agents need control flow, not more prompts
2026-05-07 @ 16:43:35Points: 467Comments: 228
Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
2026-05-07 @ 16:05:33Points: 191Comments: 90
DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
2026-05-07 @ 15:40:24Points: 389Comments: 108
I want to live like Costco people
2026-05-07 @ 15:19:27Points: 291Comments: 602
AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields
2026-05-07 @ 15:02:20Points: 292Comments: 123
The map that keeps Burning Man honest
2026-05-07 @ 14:06:10Points: 647Comments: 318
Programming Still Sucks
2026-05-06 @ 19:06:41Points: 618Comments: 308
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
2026-05-06 @ 15:24:51Points: 280Comments: 40
A couple people recently emailed, asking whether the Klein bottle business was still operating after my death.
“Huh?” I thought. “I ain’t dead yet.”
After some digging, I discovered the source: an AI-generated review of The Cuckoo’s Egg circulating on Facebook. Alongside the usual synthetic praise and fabricated details, it confidently announced that I had died in May 2024.
Apparently AI has now advanced to the point where it can kill people off before they notice.
Mark Twain once wrote, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” I never expected to field-test the quote personally.
source: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=989939243570691&id=100076638743004
Cheers, -Cliff