The case against an AI bubble

Modders make Raven's never-released Quake 4 expansion playable, a new Rust JIT promises shorter builds, and a startup claims a 145-billion-parameter model fits a laptop. Plus a 22-year-old Postgres flaw turned into code execution, and Nvidia staff pushing to bring back Jensen Huang.Abandoned Quake 4 expansion finished by modders and now playable (HN discussion)Relax: JIT compiler for Rust to reduce build times (HN discussion)Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer (HN discussion)Turning a 22-year-old Postgres type-confusion primitive into RCE (HN discussion)Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang (HN discussion)Chapters:(00:00) Intro(00:48) 1. Abandoned Quake 4 expansion finished by modders and now playable(02:00) 1. Abandoned Quake 4 expansion finished by modders and now playable: HN comments(02:43) 2. Relax: JIT compiler for Rust to reduce build times(03:40) 2. Relax: JIT compiler for Rust to reduce build times: HN comments(04:17) 3. Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer(05:11) 3. Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer: HN comments(06:03) 4. Turning a 22-year-old Postgres type-confusion primitive into RCE(07:16) 4. Turning a 22-year-old Postgres type-confusion primitive into RCE: HN comments(08:00) 5. Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang(09:12) 5. Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang: HN comments(10:32) Wrap-up

A new tool draws Linux boot as a live tree of systemd jobs, and synth developers say AI-made apps have clogged Apple's App Review. Plus a 16-billion-parameter model on a 2013 iPad, Blackwell fingerprints in Chinese AI models, and an agent that waters a garden.A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console (HN discussion)AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers (HN discussion)I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices (HN discussion)Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs (HN discussion)I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden (HN discussion)Chapters:(00:00) Intro(00:47) 1. A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console(01:44) 1. A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console: HN comments(03:44) 2. AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers(04:59) 2. AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers: HN comments(06:27) 3. I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices(07:37) 3. I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices: HN comments(08:41) 4. Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs(09:52) 4. Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs: HN comments(10:36) 5. I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden(11:50) 5. I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden: HN comments(12:32) Wrap-up

Microsoft's mail and Teams outage is still unfixed nearly six hours in as revived servers can fail again, a study says households pay most grid costs from data center growth, an AI-built app frees an embroidery machine from its subscription, a possible sixth dwarf planet turns up past Neptune, and a fluid-cooled ship battery makes big claims.Service degradation on Microsoft 365 (HN discussion)Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents pay the price (HN discussion)Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app (HN discussion)Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun (HN discussion)Electric ship batteries promise compact, cooler power (HN discussion)Chapters:(00:00) Intro(00:48) 1. Service degradation on Microsoft 365(02:09) 1. Service degradation on Microsoft 365: HN comments(04:01) 2. Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents pay the price(04:59) 2. Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents pay the price: HN comments(06:41) 3. Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app(07:51) 3. Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app: HN comments(09:07) 4. Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun(10:27) 4. Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun: HN comments(11:20) 5. Electric ship batteries promise compact, cooler power(12:35) 5. Electric ship batteries promise compact, cooler power: HN comments(13:27) Wrap-up

Google's new everyday Gemini model beats one of its frontier models on an outside index, Microsoft 365 goes down for hours, Nintendo sweeps Switch mod-chip firmware off GitHub, Jane Street lets campus candidates use LLMs, and Rust stabilizes the never type.Gemini 4 Hydrogen (HN discussion)Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage? (HN discussion)Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep (HN discussion)Our software engineering interviews are changing a little (HN discussion)Rust 1.100 (HN discussion)Chapters:(00:00) Intro(00:41) 1. Gemini 4 Hydrogen(01:42) 1. Gemini 4 Hydrogen: HN comments(03:29) 2. Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?(04:36) 2. Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?: HN comments(06:04) 3. Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep(07:15) 3. Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep: HN comments(08:39) 4. Our software engineering interviews are changing a little(09:36) 4. Our software engineering interviews are changing a little: HN comments(11:00) 5. Rust 1.100(12:03) 5. Rust 1.100: HN comments(12:44) Wrap-up

Jensen Huang leaves Nvidia with finance chief Colette Kress as interim CEO. Plus Jane Street's Socratic tutor skill, Atuin's synced agent sessions, why correct software is hard, and a tiny RNA copier.NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition (HN discussion)Socratic Tutor (HN discussion)Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine (HN discussion)Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard (HN discussion)Did Life Begin in an RNA World? (HN discussion)Chapters:(00:00) Intro(00:46) 1. NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition(01:48) 1. NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition: HN comments(03:17) 2. Socratic Tutor(04:20) 2. Socratic Tutor: HN comments(05:29) 3. Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine(06:35) 3. Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine: HN comments(07:28) 4. Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard(08:30) 4. Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard: HN comments(09:30) 5. Did Life Begin in an RNA World?(10:42) 5. Did Life Begin in an RNA World?: HN comments(11:24) Wrap-up

A team lead says his engineers stopped reviewing each other's code and it works, GitHub Actions gets lockfiles, and Jensen Huang faces a second affair report. Plus Anthropic's IPO roadshow and a new Utah teapot at fifty.Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore (HN discussion)Lock Your GitHub Actions (HN discussion)Jensen Huang said to have had relationship with executive who reports to him (HN discussion)Anthropic IPO (HN discussion)The Utah Teapot (HN discussion)Chapters:(00:00) Intro(00:38) 1. Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore(01:52) 1. Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore: HN comments(03:03) 2. Lock Your GitHub Actions(04:16) 2. Lock Your GitHub Actions: HN comments(05:06) 3. Jensen Huang said to have had relationship with executive who reports to him(05:59) 3. Jensen Huang said to have had relationship with executive who reports to him: HN comments(07:06) 4. Anthropic IPO(07:56) 4. Anthropic IPO: HN comments(08:57) 5. The Utah Teapot(10:12) 5. The Utah Teapot: HN comments(10:51) Wrap-up

Humble Bundle's rebuilt store reportedly stopped asking for login codes, and Apache patches a critical web server flaw found twice. Plus a one-byte hack of Meta's glasses, Black Ops II running natively on a Mac, and why one engineer kept writing the BEAM book.Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding (HN discussion)Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server (HN discussion)Hacking the Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses (HN discussion)Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS (HN discussion)Why I wrote the BEAM book (HN discussion)Chapters:(00:00) Intro(00:44) 1. Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding(02:31) 1. Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding: HN comments(03:43) 2. Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server(04:41) 2. Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server: HN comments(05:28) 3. Hacking the Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses(06:39) 3. Hacking the Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses: HN comments(07:32) 4. Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS(08:47) 4. Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS: HN comments(09:38) 5. Why I wrote the BEAM book(10:44) 5. Why I wrote the BEAM book: HN comments(11:26) Wrap-up

Google launches a model that scores answers instead of writing them, plus a private meeting recorder, a Papers, Please parody about startup funding, an essay on Emacs after AI, and the hardest notes on the guitar.Gemini Decisions API (HN discussion)Show HN: Yogurt, a private open-source alternative to Granola (HN discussion)Show HN: Term Sheet, Please (HN discussion)Emacs in the Age of Magic (HN discussion)The hardest notes to find on the guitar (HN discussion)Chapters:(00:00) Intro(00:39) 1. Gemini Decisions API(01:31) 1. Gemini Decisions API: HN comments(02:32) 2. Show HN: Yogurt, a private open-source alternative to Granola(03:29) 2. Show HN: Yogurt, a private open-source alternative to Granola: HN comments(04:11) 3. Show HN: Term Sheet, Please(04:50) 3. Show HN: Term Sheet, Please: HN comments(05:54) 4. Emacs in the Age of Magic(07:09) 4. Emacs in the Age of Magic: HN comments(07:59) 5. The hardest notes to find on the guitar(08:47) 5. The hardest notes to find on the guitar: HN comments(09:52) Wrap-up

Nvidia's board reportedly prepares to oust Jensen Huang, United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights, and retirement savings meet the AI bubble. Plus a farewell to Tim Peters, and Ginux turns into a userspace kernel.Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang (HN discussion)United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights (HN discussion)Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble (HN discussion)Tim Peters has died (HN discussion)Ginux is now a userspace kernel (HN discussion)Chapters:(00:00) Intro(00:39) 1. Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang(01:49) 1. Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang: HN comments(03:13) 2. United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights(04:18) 2. United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights: HN comments(06:14) 3. Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble(07:23) 3. Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble: HN comments(08:29) 4. Tim Peters has died(09:38) 4. Tim Peters has died: HN comments(10:20) 5. Ginux is now a userspace kernel(11:47) 5. Ginux is now a userspace kernel: HN comments(12:34) Wrap-up

A false smoke alarm nearly set off the sprinklers in Jane Street's New York datacenter, and AWS ships a cloud emulator its AI agents wrote unreviewed. Plus why the forty-hour week survives, why AI coding has not sped up shipping, and the case for humbler social programs.A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter (HN discussion)AWS Finally Built Its Own AWS Emulator (HN discussion)Why are we still working this hard? (HN discussion)AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering (HN discussion)We need more goat sacrifices (HN discussion)Chapters:(00:00) Intro(00:48) 1. A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter(02:10) 1. A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter: HN comments(03:30) 2. AWS Finally Built Its Own AWS Emulator(04:46) 2. AWS Finally Built Its Own AWS Emulator: HN comments(05:55) 3. Why are we still working this hard?(07:07) 3. Why are we still working this hard?: HN comments(08:00) 4. AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering(08:52) 4. AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering: HN comments(09:45) 5. We need more goat sacrifices(10:55) 5. We need more goat sacrifices: HN comments(11:37) Wrap-up