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Oracle Fires 30,000 People With a 6 AM Email

Apr 3

▸ Oracle is cutting approximately 30,000 employees — roughly 17% of its workforce — in what appears to be its largest single layoff event ever.

Cloud / Infrastructure Career / Industry clear_take

Cloudflare's EmDash: WordPress Without the Plugin Security Nightmare

Apr 3

▸ Cloudflare announced EmDash, a CMS built on Workers/D1/R2 that treats plugins as isolated, sandboxed units — eliminating the attack surface that makes...

Cloud / Infrastructure Security / Privacy Open Source clear_take

OpenAI Killed the Nonprofit. Here's What That Means for Your API Bill.

Apr 3

▸ OpenAI has formally completed its conversion from a nonprofit to a for-profit Public Benefit Corporation, unlocking $40B+ in committed capital from So...

Career / Industry Backend / APIs Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

OkCupid Gave 3M User Photos to a Facial Recognition Firm. The FTC Fine: $0.

Apr 3

▸ OkCupid, owned by Match Group, shared approximately 3 million dating-app user photos with a facial recognition company without user consent, according...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy Career / Industry clear_take

Delve Allegedly Forked an Open-Source Tool and Sold It as Its Own

Apr 3

▸ YC-backed startup Delve is accused of forking an open-source project and repackaging it as a proprietary commercial product.

Open Source Startups / Launches clear_take

Cloudflare's Bot Detection on ChatGPT Reads Your React State Before You Can Type

Apr 3

▸ A reverse engineer decrypted Cloudflare's obfuscated bot-detection script running on ChatGPT and found it reads React internal fiber state and DOM pro...

Frontend / UI Security / Privacy explainer

Gemma 4: Google's Open Models Now Do Vision, Audio, and Tool Use

Apr 3

▸ Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, its most capable open-weight model family, adding native multimodal input and structured tool-calling to the lineup.

AI / ML Open Source explainer

AI's Hunger for RAM Is Starving the Raspberry Pi Generation

Apr 3

▸ DRAM prices have surged as AI datacenter demand for HBM and DDR5 cannibalizes supply for the low-margin consumer and embedded chips that SBCs depend o...

Open Source Hardware / Chips Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Machine Through the Browser. EU Says It's Illegal.

Apr 3

▸ A new investigation at browsergate.eu presents evidence that LinkedIn uses browser-level APIs to scan and fingerprint users' local systems beyond what...

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation breaking

The EU's Chat Control Won't Die: What Developers Need to Know

Apr 2

▸ The EU is voting to extend Regulation 2021/1232, which enables voluntary scanning of private messages and photos — a stepping stone toward mandatory c...

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

Windows Native Dev Is a Mess, and Microsoft Keeps Making It Worse

Apr 2
Frontend / UI Career / Industry clear_take

133K Stars Later: What Leaked AI System Prompts Reveal About Your Tools

Apr 2

▸ A single GitHub repo has collected the full system prompts from 30+ AI tools — Cursor, Devin, Windsurf, Claude Code, Copilot, and more — and hit 133K ...

Open Source Security / Privacy AI / ML explainer

Safari's PWA Sabotage Is a Feature, Not a Bug

Apr 2
Frontend / UI Politics / Regulation clear_take

The DoD's Cybersecurity Site Can't Keep Its Own TLS Cert Valid

Apr 2
Security / Privacy Defense / GovTech clear_take

Bram Cohen Thinks Version Control Needs a Do-Over

Apr 2
Open Source DevOps / Platform Engineering explainer

Flash-MoE Fits a 397B Model Into 48GB of Mac RAM

Apr 2
Open Source AI / ML explainer

FCC Adds Foreign-Made Consumer Routers to National Security Ban List

Apr 2
Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy Hardware / Chips clear_take

Axios Compromised on NPM: Malicious Versions Shipped a RAT to Millions

Apr 1

▸ Malicious versions of the Axios HTTP client were published to NPM containing a remote access trojan that could give attackers full control of affected...

Open Source Security / Privacy breaking

CERN Runs Neural Networks in 75 Nanoseconds on Raw Silicon

Apr 1

▸ CERN's hls4ml compiles Keras/PyTorch models directly into FPGA firmware, achieving inference in 75-200 nanoseconds — roughly 1,000x faster than GPU in...

AI / ML Hardware / Chips explainer

GitHub Kills Copilot PR Ads After 1,400-Point HN Revolt

Apr 1

▸ GitHub has removed the Copilot feature that injected promotional suggestions into pull request reviews after massive developer backlash.

AI / ML Open Source Security / Privacy clear_take
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