Nicholas Hirras

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[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Creator of Sqlite on pull requests: "You say, oh, it's free. No. It's not free. What you're doing is asking me ... to maintain it for you, to to document it for you, to test it for you, to maintain it for you for the next 25 years. That's not free." Yep.

Wise words from a wiser man than me. I've told people for the past decade and I have recent posts on here saying the same: the merge button is the easy part. Its the decade+ (Richard says 25 years) that follows where you've accepted the transfer of maintenance thats hard.

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

today's vibe coders can't even recognize this screen

if this hits, you've been in the game long enough

[Nicholas Hirras @NickHirras]

@ritu_twts BASIC, probably Microsoft BASIC, on a Tandy Color Computer 3. Or maybe an old Apple ][.

[Nicholas Hirras @NickHirras]

@RaulJuncoV Damn. I guess they're passing on the actual costs, or more of them, for running this thing? The push to make "AI" a public utility, taxpayer subsidized, might end up being a thing.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

❗️ Over 30 official Red Hat npm packages were compromised. How they got in:

- A Red Hat employee's GitHub account was compromised.
- Attackers pushed "orphan commits" (detached from branch history) straight in, bypassing code review with no pull request.
- Payload "Miasma" (Mini Shai-Hulud variant) steals GitHub/cloud/Vault/SSH/npm secrets. Rotate everything since June 1.
- The commits added a workflow (ci.yaml) + script (_index.js) that abused npm trusted publishing, requesting a real OIDC token to publish backdoored versions.

[Son Luong @sluongng]

Codex just found a “workaround” of not having sudo on my pc…

[Nicholas Hirras @NickHirras]

Agents taking a break. 🙏
@GoogleDeepMind

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.

My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.

This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.

Hedgie🤗

[Anubhav @Anubhavhing]

What the Actual f*ck are these dudes on.

Someone just dropped Open Source Palantir on reddit named Osiris.

-Real-Time Tracking:

-10,000+ commercial, military and private aircraft live on a 3D globe

- 2,000+ satellites including ISS

- 1,400+ worldwide CCTV camera feeds

- Earthquakes, wildfires, nuclear facilities and severe weather

Built-In OSINT Tools (no installs needed):

Nmap port scanning from the browser

- DNS record lookup and enumeration

- WHOIS domain intelligence

- SSL/TLS certificate transparency

- BGP routing and ASN lookup

- Threat intelligence and IP reputation

All running on a 3D interactive globe with day/night cycle, 20+ live API feeds, and a SIGINT news aggregator.

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

instead of watching 2 hours of Netflix tonight, watch this Stanford lecture

it's the clearest explanation I've seen of how ChatGPT and Claude actually work

useful whether you've never touched AI in your life or have been using it every day for the past year

I took the key ideas and turned them into a practical guide on how to actually get 100% out of Claude

find it below

[Klaas @forgebitz]

software engineering in 2026:

- your package manager is compromised
- your cloud provider blocks your account
- github itself is hacked

software is solved

[Nicholas Hirras @NickHirras]

For doing software development through this UX what's the workflow like now? Will there be some git / source control tooling built in or is that aspect meant to be handled externally but git cli or another tool? Previously I was using the dual apps, Agent Manager for driving work, Antigravity IDE for juggling branches / commits. With just the single Antigravity 2.0 (without the IDE running) I have no idea what the state of my local repo is, and ended up trying to do work against a stale branch.

[Nicholas Hirras @NickHirras]

Looking for an idea of what to build next, I looked around for products I use and depend on, but am not happy with. It hit me when a nutrition tracking app I was using came up for another subscription renewal. $20 / month, forever, to keep using it. I looked at the other piece, a workout tracking app, another $15 / mo, forever, to keep using it.

I also have had online fitness coaches at different times. And had to log my meals in one app, my workouts in another app, just to copy-paste it all out into a spreadsheet to send to my coach once a week. He'd send adjusted targets back for macros and workouts for the week. I'd plug those new targets into my apps and go for it another week.

I'm tired of paying subscriptions. Never ending subscriptions. For everything it seems. So that was my next project. A single app, offline, no server dependencies. Where I can track my meals, track my weigh-ins, track my workouts. In one place.

I reached a pretty useful MVP status quickly, and have cancelled those subscriptions. Now using this app every day, as I continue to refine and build it out.

No more subscriptions. No monthly fees. No server dependencies that slow down, or block you when they're in a "maintenance window." No ads. No trackers. No harvesting and reselling your data. The app is on your device. Your data, all on your device. Nothing sent to servers or other services.

If you want to join in and try it out, help test, send ideas for enhancements and help shape what it ultimately becomes, reach out! I set up a website with a sign up form to join the beta. Anybody who joins and participates in the beta will get a free copy of the final product, as my way of saying thank you for helping.

This has been a fun and challenging project to build so far, excited to see where it goes!

https://t.co/2ka0xtfNyE

[Nicholas Hirras @NickHirras]

Looking for early adopters to test a new fitness app, with features for tracking macros, progressive workouts, and virtual coaching. To apply for the beta https://t.co/EmMxq1conh

[Nicholas Hirras @NickHirras]

@ayesha_fatiima CDE is kinda neat if you want to use something vintage.

[Nicholas Hirras @NickHirras]

@vibeonX69 Gnome but heavily modified.

[Utkarsh Sharma @techxutkarsh]

A senior Google engineer just dropped a 421-page doc called Agentic Design Patterns.

Every chapter is code-backed and covers the frontier of AI systems:

→ Prompt chaining, routing, memory
→ MCP & multi-agent coordination
→ Guardrails, reasoning, planning

This isn’t a blog post. It’s a curriculum. And it’s free.

[DHH @dhh]

Next version of Omarchy will color coordinate the Asus ROG RGB keyboard backlighting with your chosen theme.

[Nicholas Hirras @NickHirras]

@antigravity kind of struggles building Kotlin web apps