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Slok's chart set also checks total factor productivity from a San Francisco Fed series and finds no AI lift. His read: mainstream companies now treat token spend as a margin cost, not a growth engine.
The thread's counter was a mill with a water wheel: you can't drop an electric motor into it, you rebuild the building.
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Citing the Wall Street Journal, Blank says Elon Musk personally ordered limits on Starshield for Ukraine. Europeans now ask whether Microsoft, Oracle or Palantir could do the same.
The thread argued about treason, then about whether Europe has any rockets.
The test was a price tag on the claim that AI makes PHP exploitation trivial. Within hours strangers had topped the wallet up to $2,000 and the prize was still unclaimed.
One commenter had an LLM-generated proof of concept that crashed the site. A crash is not a shell.
CVE-2026-111497 (CVSS 9.2) lets a crafted Brotli stream trigger an out-of-bounds write, and it works in both directions: a malicious server can hit a client, and a malicious client can hit a server.
The thread argued about the name. Whether HTTP is really exposed turned out to depend on one setting.
The NY Post headline says Google cut down 250K trees illegally. A thread commenter reduced it to 1.5 square miles of planted forest cleared before a legally required environmental assessment.
Finns in the thread said that is exactly why the country is angry.
The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation dropped the Collabora pilot, delivered by Danish vendor cBrain, without announcing it. The paywalled article does not show the ministry's reason in its visible text.
HN supplied its own: a commenter has tried switching every year just to print adhesive labels.
His case rests on Michael Malis's pgrust, a Postgres rewrite that has already surfaced real Postgres bugs, including a money overflow bug.
The thread split on whether people are bored or just not enjoying it.
Third-party plugins get a new install location but can keep loading from legacy paths until OBS 34. Support is removed for Ubuntu 24.04, FFmpeg 6.x and 7.x, and Qt 6.4 through 6.9.
On the Silesia corpus, roc-deflate trails libdeflate by a median of 8.9% on a Ryzen 9 3900X and 2.6% on an M1 MacBook Pro.
The repository claims about 3.5x the speed of idiomatic C++ and 1.1x the best safe Rust on 16 of its own benchmarks. The README credits an AI model with compiler implementation, benchmarking and docs.
