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Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components Published: 2025-12-11 | Origin: Hacker News On December 11, 2025, the React Team announced the discovery of two new vulnerabilities in React Server Components while investigating prior security patches. These vulnerabilities do not enable Remote Code Execution, and the existing patch for the React2Shell exploit remains effective. Users are urged to upgrade immediately due to the severity of these new vulnerabilities, especially if they have already updated to versions 19.0.2, 19.1.3, and 19.2.2, as these updates are |
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An SVG is all you need Published: 2025-12-11 | Origin: Hacker News The content discusses the potential of SVGs (Scalable Vector Graphics) as a versatile tool for creating interactive, vector-based visualizations in scientific publishing. It reflects on Anil's concept of making scientific papers more interactive by allowing readers to explore data and experiments directly, which is possible for many fields, especially computer science. The author reminisces about a project from 20 years ago involving an SVG visualization tool that successfully displays data from a fungal network experiment and notes that it still functions well in modern browsers |
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Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free Published: 2025-12-11 | Origin: Hacker News Rivian is encouraging customers to order their vehicles using the code JOSE1715716 for rewards, including 250 points and three months of free RAN charging. During the inaugural Autonomy and AI Day, Rivian showcased its commitment to leading the future of autonomy with a focus on compute power, custom hardware, and AI systems. Key announcements included the introduction of the RAP1 processor, Rivian's first in-house chip, which delivers high performance for the new Gen 3 Autonomy |
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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools Published: 2025-12-11 | Origin: Hacker News The content discusses a talk by Richard Stallman during EmacsConf in December 2022, where he emphasized the importance of "memorable names" for software packages. He criticized the trend in modern software development of using whimsical or obscure names instead of descriptive ones, which can lead to confusion for users trying to understand their function. The author reflects on a conversation with a friend discussing various software tools, noting that many of their names were not informative, making it difficult to grasp their purposes without additional research |
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GPT-5.2 Published: 2025-12-11 | Origin: Hacker News Failed to fetch content - HTTP Status - 403 |
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Litestream VFS Published: 2025-12-11 | Origin: Hacker News Ben Johnson works on Litestream at Fly.io, which is an open-source backup/restore system for SQLite. He describes how Litestream can back up a SQLite database of sandwich ratings to an S3 bucket. By loading AWS credentials and specifying an S3 path, users can run queries directly on the remote database without downloading it. He highlights the concept of Litestream VFS, which allows for querying SQLite databases from object storage URLs. This feature enables instantaneous point-in-time recovery (PITR) |
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Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS Published: 2025-12-11 | Origin: Hacker News The statement humorously suggests that if a time machine were invented, any mistakes or issues should be rectified. |
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Patterns.dev Published: 2025-12-11 | Origin: Hacker News The content introduces "Patterns.dev," a free online resource focused on design, rendering, and performance patterns for creating effective web applications using vanilla JavaScript or modern frameworks. It covers several topics, including various design patterns such as sharing global instances, controlling interactions, and using observables. The resource emphasizes best practices like breaking down code into reusable pieces, leveraging factory functions, and optimizing application loading sequences. Additionally, it discusses techniques for efficient resource loading, animating page transitions, and managing dependencies through module imports |
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Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration Published: 2025-12-10 | Origin: Hacker News The author, a reader and writer who enjoys programming, has recently started a side project using React. To streamline the coding process, they decided to use an AI coding assistant, settling on Claude Code but intrigued by Google’s Gemini 3 Pro despite a general aversion to Google products. They sought to upgrade from Gemini CLI, which limited access to Gemini 2.5, to Gemini 3 Pro without encountering rate limits. However, the author encountered confusion due to the various products associated with the |
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Super Mario 64 for the PS1 Published: 2025-12-10 | Origin: Hacker News The content emphasizes the importance of user feedback and indicates that all input is taken seriously. It refers to documentation for available qualifiers and mentions a work-in-progress (WIP) port of the Super Mario 64 game for the PlayStation 1. The repository does not contain all the necessary assets for compiling the game, and users must have an original copy to extract these assets. It encourages pull requests but advises discussing significant changes through an issue first. Additionally, there is a note about a loading error, |
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Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight Published: 2025-12-10 | Origin: Hacker News The author discovered an HN thread discussing Gemini Pro 3's predictions about the HN front page in 10 years, which led them to reflect on the past discussions from December 2015. They found that using ChatGPT 5.1 Thinking provided a more insightful analysis of those discussions than their own assessment. Inspired, they decided to create a project using the recently released Opus 4.5 to compile and analyze articles from Hacker News for all of December 2015. They spent |
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Size of Life Published: 2025-12-10 | Origin: Hacker News Failed to fetch content - HTTP Status - 403 |
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'Source available' is not open source (and that's okay) Published: 2025-12-10 | Origin: Hacker News The recent dispute between David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails, and Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, has reignited discussions on open source sustainability. DHH launched a kanban tool called Fizzy, labeled as open source, but critics highlighted that its O'Saasy license prevents the development of competing SaaS versions, which contradicts the Open Source Initiative's definition. DHH dismissed these concerns, while Mullenweg argued that ignoring the established |
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The end of the kernel Rust experiment Published: 2025-12-10 | Origin: Hacker News A discussion took place on December 10, 2025, involving several users commenting on a headline related to an experiment, which had been described as successful. One user joked that it seemed like clickbait, while another, an editor, expressed regret for the headline's unintended double meaning, clarifying that it wasn't his intention. The conversation references Phoronix, suggesting a playful competitiveness in framing headlines. Overall, the comments reveal a lighthearted exchange about communication in a professional context. |
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Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy Published: 2025-12-10 | Origin: Hacker News This paper presents a novel method for removing transformers from inference processes while maintaining or enhancing downstream accuracy. It demonstrates that a 70-billion-parameter Llama-3.3-70B model can be substituted with a 256-dimensional meaning field derived from its internal activation layers. The method utilizes a lightweight compressor (AN1), achieving a 224× reduction in size and a +1.81 percentage point increase in accuracy across classification tasks, with a notable +3.25 pp improvement on low-resource |
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std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories Published: 2025-12-09 | Origin: /r/programming The passage discusses a common issue in C++ programming related to move semantics and exception safety, particularly when using `std::vector`. It explains that if a type's move constructor is not marked with the `noexcept` keyword, the compiler opts to perform copying instead of moving during operations like vector reallocation, which can lead to performance inefficiencies. This precaution is taken to ensure the "strong exception guarantee," meaning that if an exception occurs during reallocation, the original vector remains intact. The text |
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When a small open-source tool suddenly blows up, the experience is nothing like people imagine Published: 2025-12-09 | Origin: /r/programming Sure! Please provide the content you would like me to summarize. |
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Django: what’s new in 6.0 Published: 2025-12-09 | Origin: Hacker News Django 6.0 has been released, marking a new cycle for the popular Python web framework, which is now 20 years old. The release includes various new features, some of which the author contributed to. A tool called django-upgrade is available for users upgrading from Django 5.2 or earlier, which helps automatically update code and address deprecation warnings. The major highlight of this release is the introduction of "partials," defined by the new `{% partialdef %}` and `{ |
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My favourite small hash table Published: 2025-12-09 | Origin: /r/programming The author discusses a specific hash table design known as Robin Hood open-addressing using linear probing and a power-of-two table size. The design integrates several properties for efficiency: each table slot can either be empty or hold a key/value pair stored as a 64-bit integer, where the low 32 bits represent the key and the high 32 bits represent the value. This allows for the use of the value 0 to denote an empty slot, eliminating the need for special values for tombstones. |
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How well do you really understand C++ type deduction? Published: 2025-12-09 | Origin: /r/programming The post discusses the use of the `auto` keyword in C++ for type deduction, presenting a series of coding examples for readers to determine the deduced types. Readers are encouraged to identify cases where the code might not compile, and the examples increase in complexity. Topics covered include basic assignments, handling of references and CV-qualifiers, advanced concepts like forwarding references and lambda expressions, and the challenges of type deduction with lambda captures and structured binding. The author provides resources for further exploration, invites readers |