1. Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
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Feedback acknowledged; vulnerabilities were found in SWE Bench Verified that let agents peek at future repository state via commands like git log, exposing future commits and fixes in multiple trajectories (Claude 4 Sonnet, Pytest-dev__pytest-6202, Django, GLM 4.5, Qwen3-Coder series). These leaks reveal solutions or approaches ahead of time. Mitigation includes removing future repo state and artifacts (reflogs, branches, origins, tags). The team will share details and assess broader impact on evaluations and leakage sources, with ongoing efforts by named team members.
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The SWE-bench team investigated a minor issue affecting only a tiny fraction of agents and runs, issued a fix, and noted that such small issues are common in benchmarking. They emphasize this does not change overall trends or results.
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The article argues there’s no ambiguity: swe-bench scores drop to single digits once implemented in C#, highlighting a sharp performance decline. It cites arXiv:2506.12286v3 for full details.
2. Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s
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The post compares Claude’s memory to ChatGPT’s. Claude uses a blank slate at each new conversation; memory only activates when invoked, recalling only raw chat history via two retrieval tools (conversation_search for topic searches and recent_chats for time-based history). It synthesizes retrieved chats into answers. Claude emphasizes explicit control, latency tradeoffs, and privacy, appealing to developers and professionals. In contrast, ChatGPT loads memory automatically, builds broad user profiles for instant personalization, and targets mass-market users with monetization potential. The author argues memory design reflects user needs and highlights the expansive, unsettled design space for AI memory.
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The article notes a broken link to a breakdown of ChatGPT’s memory implementation and provides the correct URL. It compares memory approaches, suggesting Claude’s memory is better for technical tasks, while ChatGPT’s memory suits casual conversation and may enable future ads integration. It argues that language-based memories could soon become antiquated, with encoded memories that bypass language representation, potentially representing a breakthrough toward AGI.
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Preferring Claude’s memory feature, the author turned off ChatGPT’s memory because it tended to make cross-context associations across unrelated aspects of their life.
3. Bulletproof host Stark Industries evades EU sanctions
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EU sanctions in May 2025 targeted Moldova-based PQ Hosting and its owners Yuri and Ivan Neculiti for ties to Russia’s hybrid warfare. New findings show Stark Industries Solutions, a major bulletproof host, survived by rebranding and moving assets to entities controlled by its operators. After the sanctions, Stark became the hosting under Dutch firm WorkTitans BV (AS209847). The Neculiti brothers shifted much of Stark’s address space to PQ Hosting Plus S.R.L. MIRhosting, Netherlands-based and run by Andrey Nesterenko, now hosts Stark’s infrastructure and oversees WorkTitans/.hosting. The network links to Misfits Media, WT Hosting, and Fezzy B.V./Youssef Zinad, signaling obfuscated ownership.
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The article notes a mild irony in using the name of an American superhero, suggesting the choice creates an unintended, recognizable link to that iconic figure.
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Summary: The piece questions the meaning of “bulletproof host” and notes that even a 30-year industry veteran hadn’t heard the term. It aims to clarify what a bulletproof hosting provider is and why the term matters in the context of cybersecurity and hosting ecosystems.
4. Rails on SQLite: new ways to cause outages
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André Arko explains Rails with SQLite via Litestack and Rails 8, avoiding external DBs, Redis, or file storage. He cites a Rails app on SQLite (Feed Your Email) that handles about 1M requests per month on Fly.io for roughly $14/month. SQLite embeds a single database file in the web process, eliminating connection errors, but in containers the file can vanish if the filesystem is ephemeral; store the DB on persistent storage with snapshots.
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The article argues against the single-server bottleneck by combining SQLite with distributed storage. In a SQLite + LiteFS vision, apps can be fully replicated and multi-writer, so a single server failure won’t halt the app, and users run near-complete copies of data locally. Litebase (alpha) aims to solve these issues by using SQLite with distributed storage for durability, availability, and replication, plus a lightweight consensus between primary and replica nodes, rather than heavy data replication. A public alpha is planned; more at litebase.com.
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Its author laments the fizzled mvsqlite project on GitHub, which purportedly offered a full multi-writer SQL engine using page-level conflict checking, with each connected client acting as a writer.
5. Randomly selecting points inside a triangle
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To generate random points inside triangle ABC, barycentric sampling isn’t uniform. A brute-force accept-reject method uses a bounding rectangle, discarding about half the samples, with variable runtime. A clever variant builds a parallelogram by attaching a flipped copy of the triangle and samples that region: if the point lies in the original triangle, keep it; if it lands in the flipped twin, flip it back and use that point. This yields no waste and near-uniform results. Code for the method is available on Stack Overflow.
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A method extends accept-flip to any dimension. For an n-simplex, draw n uniform numbers in [0,1] (a random point in the n-cube). Sort them to obtain 0 ≤ c1 ≤ … ≤ cn ≤ 1. The successive differences d0 = c1, d1 = c2−c1, …, dn = 1−cn give n+1 weights that sum to 1. The random point is then sum_{j=0}^n d_j v_j, using the simplex vertices v_j. The approach matches the 2D accept-flip; uniformity follows from the sorting mapping into a fundamental domain and the linearity preserving distribution.
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Two elegant methods for sampling triangles and higher-dimensional simplices are described. For a triangle, draw α, β ~ U(0,1) and use barycentric coordinates (1−√α, √α(1−β), √αβ); this yields a uniform point with no rejection or flipping tests. For general simplices (triangle, tetrahedron, 5-cell, etc.), draw coordinates from (0,1], take a log, and normalize to obtain uniform barycentric coordinates over the simplex. The author discusses these methods and related sampling techniques, with links to detailed writings.
6. NT OS Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability
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Microsoft hardened kernel information leaks starting with Windows 11/Windows Server 2022 24H2 by hiding kernel base addresses from non-privileged calls, curbing accessible KASLR bypasses. A new TOCTOU race in the Windows kernel, CVE-2024-43511, was found during patch analysis. The bug in RtlSidHashInitialize() reads a kernel pointer from a TOKEN structure instead of a user buffer, enabling a predictable kernel address leak via NtQuerySystemInformation(SystemTokenInformation). The flaw can chain with other bugs to achieve local privilege escalation on 24H2+, and the patch changes parameter order but leaves a narrow race window. Patch analysis highlights careful changes.
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The article argues that KASLR is broken on x86 even with Meltdown mitigations like KPTI enabled. It cites the “EntryBleed” analysis (from willsroot.io), which reportedly works on current AMD and Intel hardware with microarchitecture-specific tweaks. In short, KASLR is deemed unreliable on modern x86 systems.
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The Windows 11 patch KB5063878—the update addressing this issue—is the same one tied to the Phison SSD drama.
7. Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app
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Ghostship is a bug-finding tool for web apps that lets you input a URL and describe a user journey. It uses browser agents to click through like a user, exploring edge cases and producing session replays and a step-by-step bug log. Instead of flaky automated tests, you need only one URL and one test journey (plus login creds if needed). Bugs found include reverse-chronological education dates on a YC application page and data corruption when editing drafts in a crypto CRM dashboard. Sign up for limited credits and explore CI/CD integration.
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Someone notes that many YC companies pivot in similar ways and challenges the startup to articulate what makes it different.
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An enthusiastic take on a promising idea, noting that teams either have flaky end-to-end tests or none at all. The author questions how to manage cost and margin, and asks whether the solution would be an order-of-magnitude more expensive than their current CI setup using Playwright tests.
8. Behind the scenes of Bun Install
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Bun install is dramatically faster than npm, pnpm, and yarn—about 7×, 4×, and 17× on average, especially in large codebases. Bun achieves this by treating installation as a systems problem rather than a JavaScript one: minimizing system calls, caching manifests as binary, optimizing tarball extraction, using OS-native file copying, and scaling across CPUs. The article explains why: since 2009, Node.js shifted I/O wait to algorithms, but today the bottleneck is frequent mode switches between user and kernel space. Bun reduces system calls (e.g., 165k vs yarn’s 4M) to win.
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The author notes their M4 Max MacBook would have ranked among the 2009 top-50 supercomputers. To reach top-50 in 2009 you’d need over 75 TFLOPS (TOP500). The MacBook is listed at 18.4 TFLOPS FP32, but TOP500 uses FP64 LINPACK. With a rough 1:4 FP64 ratio (per M2 benchmarks), that’s about 9 TFLOPS FP64—far below the 2009 threshold, so it wouldn’t qualify. Source: TOP500 2009 list.
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The reader praises the author for explaining a complex topic clearly, admires passionate individuals who challenge the status quo, and laments how software often lags despite hardware improving. They express a personal wish for themselves and others to write more efficient code.
9. Making io_uring pervasive in QEMU [pdf]
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10. The Helix Text Editor (2024)
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The author tests Helix, a modal, terminal-based editor with a Kakoune-inspired selection-first model. On Mac they install it via Homebrew and open files with hx; project mode uses hx path/to/folder. Helix lacks an integrated file tree; navigation relies on a jump-to-file picker (space f), similar to Ctrl+P. Because Helix runs in the terminal, the author pairs it with a separate terminal pane (WezTerm) to keep a live shell visible. The post covers motivations, outcomes, downsides, and why they expect to keep Helix as their main editor.
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Long-time (Neo)Vim user tried Helix for a few months but couldn’t adapt. He found Helix inflexible beyond plugin gaps and cited annoyances: saves changing file ownership to the current user, buffers not reloading when a file is changed externally, and no way to highlight trailing spaces. Overall, he prefers Vim’s selection, motions, and actions and didn’t feel Helix matched.
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This piece notes the absence of a direct link to Helix editor’s homepage in a post. The author first searches for Helix, finds only a tag page as a decoy, and then confirms via the source that the homepage link is missing. Three-quarters down, in the “Key Bindings” section, there is a link to Helix’s keymappings docs—the closest thing to a homepage. The author wonders whether it was an accidental omission or an older article, and observes that the GitHub page isn’t linked, though the actual site and repo exist.