Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"(twitter.com)
1285 points by elmean | 696 comments
A tweet by Theo claiming Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra when commit messages mention "OpenClaw".
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Where the goblins came from(openai.com)
998 points by ilreb | 600 comments
OpenAI publication explaining why its models starting with GPT-5.1 increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures in metaphors.
Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants(dpa-international.com)
828 points by mpweiher | 844 comments
A dpa International news report that Belgium is halting the decommissioning of its nuclear power plants.
Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?(rivian.com)
706 points by Cider9986 | 302 comments
Rivian support article explaining how owners can disable vehicle connectivity and data collection, via a toggle in Canada or by requesting eSIM disabling from Rivian Service elsewhere.
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How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt](thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
664 points by the-mitr | 224 comments
MIT Press Reader book excerpt recounting how whistleblower Mark Klein gave the EFF evidence of the NSA's secret AT&T wiretapping facility, Room 641A.
The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy(simonwillison.net)
618 points by lumpa | 401 comments
Simon Willison note on Zig's strict anti-LLM contribution policy and its rationale, noting Bun's fork of Zig and its AI-assisted compiler improvements.
Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API(github.com)
581 points by jaffathecake | 214 comments
GitHub issue in Mozilla's standards-positions repo on Chrome's Prompt API, labeled with a negative position from Mozilla.
For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions(openwall.com)
565 points by ori_b | 477 comments
An oss-security mailing list reply from Gentoo's Sam James on CVE-2026-31431 (CopyFail), a Linux local privilege escalation, and the lack of advance notice to distributions.
How an oil refinery works(construction-physics.com)
503 points by chmaynard | 175 comments
A Construction Physics article by Brian Potter explaining how oil refineries process crude oil into fuels and other products.
Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga(democrata.es)
463 points by akyuu | 187 comments
News article reporting that Spain's Congress approved a PSOE-ERC initiative to reform rules so anti-piracy court orders sought by LaLiga stop mass IP blocks hitting third-party sites.
Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library(semgrep.dev)
450 points by j12y | 172 comments
Semgrep security research post reporting that PyPI package lightning versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 were compromised with Shai-Hulud themed credential-stealing malware.
Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs(bbc.com)
426 points by gorbachev | 315 comments
BBC News article on a row at Meta after contract workers who said they saw smart glasses footage of users having sex lost their jobs.
LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request(404privacy.com)
398 points by un-nf | 172 comments
A 404 Privacy blog post reporting that LinkedIn probes for 6,278 browser extensions and encrypts the results into requests, and how the data is used.
Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?(distr.sh)
396 points by pmig | 275 comments
Distr blog post by co-founder Philip Miglinci on running plain Docker Compose in production, covering cleanup, healing, image pinning, socket security and updates.
I built a Game Boy emulator in F#(nickkossolapov.github.io)
328 points by elvis70 | 74 comments
Blog post by Nick Kossolapov describing how he built Fame Boy, a Game Boy emulator in F# with sound that runs on desktop and web.
Craig Venter has died(jcvi.org)
324 points by rdl | 77 comments
JCVI press release announcing that J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI and Diploid Genomics, died at 79 in San Diego.
GCC 16 has been released(gcc.gnu.org)
263 points by HeliumHydride | 48 comments
Vercel’s pricing page(theupsellgame.com)
163 points by bartoindahouse | 45 comments
Does Postgres Scale?(dbos.dev)
135 points by KraftyOne | 58 comments
If I could make my own GitHub(matduggan.com)
115 points by matricaria | 132 comments
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Monad Tutorials Timeline(wiki.haskell.org)
84 points by brudgers | 37 comments
U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP(wsj.com)
68 points by JumpCrisscross | 67 comments
