Nick Hutton

30 years in Cyber Security, CTO, Product, Investor, Founder, Engineer. Armchair interests: geopolitics, propaganda, persuasion, ideological subversion.

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

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[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

@ID_AA_Carmack @yacineMTB Beware moving complexity into the compiler.

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

Cosmos 2546 (NORAD ID 45608) and others.
https://t.co/K3w410FJWn

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

Before you can do good, you must first do well.

[Donald Pond @DonaldPond6]

South Korea's 2026 government budget is $557bn. #Samsung and #Hynex between them are expected to pay $435bn in taxes.
In the UK, the government announces apprentice schemes to train NEETs to become barbers.
We are not a serious country.

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

Back in the 8-bit , CP/M days, as soon as I started working with dbase II I wondered why source code was still stored in flat files and not as records, per function, in a database. Probably impractical unless you had a (very expensive) 10MB HD.

[slash1s @slash1sol]

A LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPER PROVED THE THING YOU PUSH CODE TO IS SECRETLY A DATABASE THAT CAN VERSION ALMOST ANYTHING AND THAT MOST DEVS HAVE ONLY EVER TOUCHED A TENTH OF IT

42 minutes from Josh Triplett -- a longtime Linux kernel and Debian developer -- showing that Git is a general-purpose, tamper-evident versioning engine that just happens to be famous for code.

-> The moment it clicks, Git stops being "Where my code lives" and becomes what it really is underneath: a content-addressable store that can version almost anything -- your configs, your notes, your servers' state, entire datasets.

People run whole wikis on it. They version their entire machine's configuration with it. They ship websites by pushing to it. They track data too big to email. None of it is a hack -- it's the same handful of objects you already use for code, pointed somewhere new.

Treating Git as a code-only tool was never the ceiling -> it's a versioning engine for anything, and the people who see that automate what the rest of the team still does by hand. And as AI agents start spitting out not just code but configs, docs and data, the one system that can version and audit all of it at once is already sitting on your machine.

You learned five commands to survive. This is the talk that shows you were standing on top of a database the whole time.

It changes what you think the tool is even for.

Bookmark & Watch it today ↓

[Shashank Joshi @shashj]

Very sorry to see that Sir Alex Younger has died of cancer, aged just 62. Younger's wife 'was shocked that he had never told his mother he was a spy, and so he did. “Yes, darling, so was I,” his mother replied.' https://t.co/6sfVIqBqpF

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

@mitchellh Bézier took the wheel.

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

What are the chances eh? https://t.co/NOKU3oh6eU

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

Same with great surge in copper cable theft from railways, power networks, industrial sites. https://t.co/JJaxe96lGT

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

Very much "end of the Soviet Union" vibe as workers just sell off industrial materials, equipment, plant, for what they can get. They know this is the end.
https://t.co/aAWuNie5yh

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

Want to control an account? Just ask the AI helper for it. https://t.co/TVp5EkoL4V

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

There are millions of us now.
We have people everywhere.
https://t.co/vLE6oQxdJ4

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

@grok [Taps side of nose while winking]

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

RICU will be burning the midnight oil tonight, that is for sure.

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

@DylanMalyasov @octal @grok what would an attenuation of -3.5db do for radar visibility of a small (sub predator sized) airframe in practice?

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

This is really the wrong age to burn the security researchers in.

[J. A. Guerrero-Saade @juanandres_gs]

We are pretty far from the victories and lessons of the @k8em0-Microsoft era.

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

Have this thing produce a couple of files for DCS and other combat simulators and you’ve got yourself some strategic software.

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

My UK Defence Investment Plan scored B (76/100) on the SDR path funding line — "A solid plan with visible compromises". The books balance.

[Nick Hutton @nickdothutton]

I wonder what happened to this lost civilisation. Did they leave earth for the stars? Or were they wiped out by a cataclysm? Will they return at some point?

[On This Day RN @OnthisdayRN]

The Royal Navy has a long history of building Floating Dry Docks to maintain the Fleet around the world. In the 1869, the world’s largest floating Dry Dock was towed across the Atlantic to Bermuda to support the Ironclads which at the time was the largest ever built. 🧵1/3