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ChoosesBarbecueon 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

I've only briefly been to Oxford, but it felt like all of the nice places were locked inside the Westgate?

In general, it seems as if Oxford City Center is just too big: it can't sustain all of it, and people gravitate towards the nicer part, which is the Westgate.

ChoosesBarbecueon Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

Some further writing from her: https://www.citationneeded.news/binance-theft/

ChoosesBarbecueon Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

Molly White (she runs web3isgoinggreat) seems to think this is real [0]

[0]: https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/post/3mz27m5slcc2o

ChoosesBarbecueon eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

The Mozilla rep who created that thread (not the reporter, to be clear), created https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/, so I suspect that this page is better for general public disclosure.

With that being said, that Bugzilla is the best thread to understand "how the fuck did this happen?"

ChoosesBarbecueon Gaming on Linux without cheating

> e.g. Apex Legends, a game that ran well on Linux until October 2024 when Respawn decided to actively block it from joining online matches by toggling a flag in EAC.

Right, because they warranted EAC’s Linux offering as insufficient for protecting their titles from cheaters.

The proposed solution from Epic would resolve that.

ChoosesBarbecueon Redesigning source control at Anthropic

You might already know this, but in case anyone doesn't, but ERSC's CTO is the creator of jj.

ChoosesBarbecueon Sqlthon – A lightweight Pythonic layer for SQLite

Walk before you can run :).

ChoosesBarbecueon 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter

It’s probably worth noting that the author is decompiling a game that he’s had ~10 years of experience modding. And has been involved in finding vulnerabilities in [0].

[0]: https://github.com/momo5502/cod-exploits

ChoosesBarbecueon 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter

The Bevy rewrite is an independent project from someone else.

ChoosesBarbecueon Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

Are they planning on replacing ChromeOS Flex? It has been a fantastic choice for me to put onto older computers that some relatives own.

ChoosesBarbecueon Saving another 100TB of RAM

> I don’t care if their text was written with AI, I just wish I could get my own AI to sing so well about hashing… but wait.. today I noticed Claude trying to use hashing when a timestamp would honestly do, and now I’m really doubting myself, hmm…

Tried out the first 1000 words in Pangram, and it seemed happy it was human written. Not surprised either, it has been some of the better writing I've seen out of Cloudflare recently.

ChoosesBarbecueon Vinix – A modern operating system written in V

It had like two releases after ~2-3 years of hype, too. Maybe long, back when it was called eul.

ChoosesBarbecueon Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it

a) So, this is all from July?

b) And this is before Hugging Face agreed to acquired by NVIDIA, supplier to OpenAI?

ChoosesBarbecueon OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

Ruby Central's central backer is Shopify, and Shopify are more than happy to be buds with OpenAI and let this one slide. I'm sure the token donation [0] to a Shopify board members' Linux project won't hurt things either.

[0]: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/omacom-foundation-secures-t...

ChoosesBarbecueon Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

Touché, reworded it to be clearer on what I meant :).

ChoosesBarbecueon Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

I am so curious why now, what changed? The WPEngine saga was started two years ago.

ChoosesBarbecueon On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

I thought one of the issues was that they wanted to remove credit from Levant, the aforementioned Anthropic collaborator? Which doesn't make sense to me if he was leaking information, or defecting to OpenAI, but I might be misunderstanding your point.

ChoosesBarbecueon The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay

It would be better if we could see the other variables explicitly listed i.e. are they the same price (or same price for a comparable spec), what do the reviews for both vehicles look like, etc.

ChoosesBarbecueon O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

Huge fan of this. I run it once on a fresh format, and then I never have to worry about Windows annoying me again.

(And no, I simply do not like Linux or even macOS enough to switch over, despite being perfectly competent. That, and I play video games that will never be compatible.)

ChoosesBarbecueon How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

> - environmental like emissions and water usage

Water usage, sure. But emissions has plenty of reasonable concern.

There are the various xAI data centers have/are running using mobile gas turbines.

In general, the extreme amount of power is going to put pressure on the grids. I hope this leads to the world doubling down on renewables to offset it all, but is that going to happen? Hell, the US actively paid [0] to stop a turbine project.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o

ChoosesBarbecueon How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

Zitron in general is representative of the conspiratorial thinking that has infected all spectra of the political space. Zitron obviously occupies more of the left space.

Good critique of LLMs & the companies behind them is hard to find, and it is harder when people gravitate towards this sort of thinking.

ChoosesBarbecueon GLM-5.3-Flash

God I wish I could’ve shorted NVIDIA right now

ChoosesBarbecueon Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

I believe Firefox was the first to put out a standards position about adopting jxl if a Rust implementation happened. Chromium only aligned their position this year I believe, prior to that, it was a complete rejection.

Which is to say, Chrome followed Firefox here.

(Yes, I know Google Research implemented jxl-rs, but then, they also implemented jxl. Chrome’s position appears independent of them.)

ChoosesBarbecueon Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

Another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421758

ChoosesBarbecueon OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

This is most impressive. The interesting question to me, is outside of the LLM accelerator space: will generalized chips have massive leaps in performance once LLM technology is used to create the next generation? In general, will we see rapid advances while we extract the value of these models in creating architectures? I'm so far removed from the space that this is a very naive interpretation of all this, but I'm curious.

ChoosesBarbecueon Firefox intent to ship: JPEG XL

For all the furore, I think the best outcome happened here. Both browsers used their weight to get a memory-safe implementation out, and now we can all benefit from a new file format with a significantly reduced attack surface.

ChoosesBarbecueon Grok 4.6

>> [Twitter user] Go anywhere in the UK and look around, you'll just see foreigners everywhere.

>> It's truly sickening the damage that has been done to our nation and our people.

>> We have to stop immigration and start remigration before we can even begin to reverse the damage that has been done.

> [Elon] Remigration is the only way [0]

[0]: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1962406618886492245

ChoosesBarbecueon Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C

I know the Pi [0] folks had some trouble with newer models [1].

[0]: https://pi.dev/

[1]: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/4/better-models-worse-tools/

ChoosesBarbecueon Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

You can use both of those harnesses without going through subscription. That is a native feature in both Codex & Claude Code, even for non-enterprise customers.

ChoosesBarbecueon Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

... where in the article did they say they were using subscriptions? I'm fairly certain enterprises can't access subscription pricing in any case, they're all API costs (Anthropic doesn't support more than 150 on subscription pricing [0][1]).

[0]: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9797531-what-is-the-e...

[1]: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9266767-what-is-the-t...