Cristian Cira @BlockchainTL

I like blockchain tech quite a bit because it extends open source to open source+state, a genuine/exciting innovation in computing paradigms. I'm just sad and struggle to get over it coming packaged with so much braindead bs (get rich quick pumps/dumps/scams/spams/memes etc.). Ew

Terence Tao proposes what he calls a "Copernican view of intelligence". Instead of buying into the common, one-dimensional narrative that artificial intelligence will simply evolve from "subhuman" to "superhuman" and ultimately make humanity entirely redundant, Tao urges us to look at the bigger picture. Much like the Copernican revolution proved the Earth is not the center of the universe, Tao suggests we need to realize that human intelligence isn't the only, or necessarily the highest, form of intellect. Historically, we have treated other forms of storing or creating knowledge—like animals, books, and computers—as secondary. However, we actually exist within a much richer universe of intelligence. Both human intelligence and computer intelligence possess their own distinct strengths and weaknesses. The true potential lies not in viewing them as direct competitors, but rather in focusing on collaboration. By working together, humans and computers can achieve additional things that neither could accomplish on their own, requiring us to think in much wider terms than just what humans or computers can do alone.

AISafe Labs found a 🔥 Stored XSS in Immich's 360° panorama viewer (CVE-2026-35455) 🔥 Any user can upload a panorama with text in it. OCR reads the text, then the viewer renders that text as raw HTML. Attacker JS runs against any victim who views the photo. More details 👇🧵

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I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

Can a single prompt secure your application? The results might surprise you. 👉 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=474128…

This is the AI that will be taking our jobs

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes. As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now. It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

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I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

OpenAI & NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 10GW of NVIDIA Systems This enables OpenAI to build & deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters with NVIDIA systems representing millions of GPUs for OpenAI’s next-gen AI infrastructure. openai.com/index/openai-n…

More compute in the making. Announcing 5 new Stargate sites with Oracle and SoftBank, putting us ahead of schedule on the 10-gigawatt commitment we announced in January. openai.com/index/five-new…

Excited to share my secret recipe for winning CTFs and finding bugs soon 👀

Huge thanks to all the open source projects that've made a lot of the tech we rely on in the world possible: Linux Git FFmpeg PyTorch & TensorFlow Apache & Nginx MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite Chromium & Firefox GCC & LLVM Docker & Kubernetes Also, all the open-weight LLMs... and all the programming language interpreters, compilers, and frameworks. I can list 100+ more "niche" open source projects I've used & loved (e.g., OpenCV ❤️). But I just wanted to give a continued big thank you to the open source community for everything you do for humanity 🙏

The humble beginnings of Google recorded by their 5th employee

Google is processing 980 trillion+ monthly tokens across our products and APIs (up from 480T in May) 🤯 No slowdown in sight, intelligence is everywhere.

Mă îngrijorează profund rezultatele studiului prezentat astăzi de INSCOP și IICMER. În opinia mea, principalul motiv pentru care tot mai mulți români idealizează comunismul este dezamăgirea profundă față de clasa politică din ultimele trei decenii. Corupția, lipsa de transparență, promisiunile nerespectate și sentimentul de nedreptate au slăbit încrederea oamenilor în prezent și în viitor. Când speranțele sunt înșelate ani la rând, nostalgia devine o reacție firească, chiar dacă se bazează pe o imagine distorsionată a trecutului. Sigur că această imagine falsă despre perioada comunistă este întreținută și de campanii de dezinformare, care încearcă să submineze valorile democratice și să ofere un trecut împachetat frumos, în timp ce ascund adevărul despre represiune, frică, foamete și lipsa de libertate. Faptul că două treimi dintre români îl consideră pe Nicolae Ceaușescu un lider bun arată cât de fragilă este memoria noastră colectivă și cât de ușor pot fi manipulate percepțiile atunci când statul nu investește suficient în educație istorică, civică și în comunicarea onestă cu cetățenii. Pentru a păstra democrația vie și relevantă, trebuie să combatem ferm dezinformarea, să redăm oamenilor încrederea prin politici publice corecte și să construim o societate în care dreptatea, echitatea și dezvoltarea reală să fie resimțite de toți cetățenii. România nu poate construi un viitor solid privind înapoi cu iluzii. Avem datoria de a învăța din trecut, nu de a-l reînvia.

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