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AtNightWeCodeon SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

$60B. Wow. Congrats to Anysphere. But $60B. That is just a ludicrous price.

AtNightWeCodeon Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models

WH is lying again of course. Has nothing to do with Amazon or security. Vengeance or trying to help SpaceX. Maybe WH did not like the bad stock price development after the IPO.

AtNightWeCodeon Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

On the contrary. This is more like a Kaspersky moment for American cloud services. Simply can no longer be trusted for use outside of US.

AtNightWeCodeon Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

WH really don't like Anthropic. That is what this is about. The people who warned about the risks of using American cloudservices have become right. We should at least in EU see a ban on Azure, GCP, Cloudflare and so on.

AtNightWeCodeon Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

No, the problem is mostly the incorrect prompt that sent fable into a rabbit hole resulting in an incorrect solution.

AtNightWeCodeon Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

But the fix is wrong as pointed out by the poster...

AtNightWeCodeon Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

Well the solution is incorrect. The problem seems to be that the css code does not normalize to box-sizing: border-box; among other things. The bad prompt by the author probably sent fable into the wrong rabbit hole

AtNightWeCodeon Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

The fix is incorrect. Clearly this is a sizing issue.

AtNightWeCodeon Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

2. SpaceX's orbital data centers are profitable.

This will never happen.

AtNightWeCodeon Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The same terms Anthropic have today I believe.

AtNightWeCodeon Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

I think it is incorrect to place these corps in the same bucket. The scam here is SPCX. The only reason they are allowed to do this bs is because Nasdaq are greedy and wants this ticker on their stock exchange. The evaluation of SPCX is based on the AI leg. Not rockets, not starlink, AI.

AtNightWeCodeon The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

I don't think it is AI. Instagram had a similar issue before. Maybe it still exists. If you ever logged in on a phone you could then use that phone to reset the password.

AtNightWeCodeon The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

Sums up the state of Meta right now. Zero f*cks given. A dying corp.

AtNightWeCodeon Claude Opus 4.8

Complete garbage. error, error, error. Still lags several versions behind on API:s. Can't even get any info on the model. Guessing not from this year.

Also. Look at this C++ beauty where it also uses an obsolete api.

instance = wgpuCreateInstance(&instanceDesc);

But just how exactly would this work in any context when instance is never declared.

AtNightWeCodeon Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

US have wire fraud laws which I believe includes this. But it will be an interesting case to follow. Personally I don't see anything that should be a crime here at all.

AtNightWeCodeon Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks

Agree. Would be fun to see how much worse Grok would be at this.

AtNightWeCodeon Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

I believe Polymarket wants it to fall under the regulations of cftc as it is implemented like an option/event contract. And cftc says that they don't care about which technology is used. But as far as I now this is the first case it will be tested for real and the views of cftc and a judge may not be the same. I fail to see how it can be classified as insider trading. But, it is till fraud so I'm not sure how much it matters in the end.

AtNightWeCodeon Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

How could this be insider trading? Polymarket has nothing to do with financial securities. A bet on Polymarket is like trading any other crypto asset.

AtNightWeCodeon Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

Downvotes on HN is always fascinating. Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/coinbase-ceo-s-bizar...

AtNightWeCodeon Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

It is marketing money so it is not even for arbitrage. And you don't need to provide all the liquidity. Just enough to tilt the result.

AtNightWeCodeon Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

The CEO of Coinbase finished an earnings call by reading all the buzzwords you could bet on to be mention during the call. So a CEO can manipulate these things and who knows if it was just a marketing thing or if he shared his plans.

AtNightWeCodeon Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

Historically similar services have also been used to try to manipulate the real world by using bets for creating opinions. Like if you get to vote between candidate x and y and x leads by 75% to 25% on Polymarket maybe you don't vote for y even if the real numbers may be way closer.

AtNightWeCodeon Migrating from Go to Rust

Anybody who actually moved a set of services from Go to Rust? I've heard that in practice Rust uses more memory than Go for web services. When I ask LLMs I get the same answer as in the article. A 30-50% reduction but then also claims on how much memory Go uses. Which is about 5-10x more than our average service use.

AtNightWeCodeon Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

So, what was the reason for the account suspension. Why did it happen? I know Google can be a bit stupid with their automatons but I am bit skeptical here. There are sites more critical than Railway hosted on GCP.

AtNightWeCodeon I’ve joined Anthropic

Hope he can teach Claude how to not be so lame at coding.

AtNightWeCodeon Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

Reality check. VPN is the most common fingerprint to begin with. Any small site is never hit with unique users from unique VPN providers.

AtNightWeCodeon Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise

The core issue is that the lang is horrible to get to compile in a reasonable amount of time on a build server. Then since the way it is designed it is bad at caching. That is why you have this "optimistic" caching to begin with.

Our solution is to build everything in Docker. Which is about what you suggest since it does not automatically share cache between branches. But it is slow.

AtNightWeCodeon Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

Should have scanned it with Mythos on an older code base before all these other sec issues was resolved with other tools. Or use the other tools to introduce the same kind of errors in other parts of the code base to see if Mythos would have found it.

A problem is that these tools seems smarter than they are cause they already read seen the answer key.

AtNightWeCodeon Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer

Cool. It worked for E and A but it failed for string 1-4. I was surprised that it worked at all.

AtNightWeCodeon Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

Kinda crazy to use AI to switch from zig to rust in a tool that runs js. Bin bun and use a real lang to begin with. No reason to have that extra layer anymore.