Shaun Bender

Why is it like that and not like this. Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. Also Wi-Fi (CWNE #394) and AWS ... Besides that, it's all in the reflexes.

[Shaun Bender @welles]

Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing.

[slash1s @slash1sol]

A DEVELOPER PROVED THE REGEX YOU'VE WRITTEN A THOUSAND TIMES IS SECRETLY A COMPILER AND THAT ALMOST NO ONE WHO USES THEM HAS ANY IDEA WHAT ACTUALLY RUNS

36 minutes from Paul Wankadia, the engineer behind a regex engine that compiles your pattern straight down to raw machine code -- walking through what really happens between the slashes.

-> The moment it clicks, regex stops being magic punctuation you paste from Stack Overflow and becomes what it actually is: a tiny machine. Your pattern gets turned into a state machine, and that machine is what runs against every character of your text.

That one idea explains everything you never understood. Why one regex returns instantly and a nearly identical one hangs your whole server. Why some patterns are safe and others are a denial-of-service waiting to happen. It was never random -- it's whether the machine underneath is built well or badly.

Writing a regex was never the skill -> reading one is. And now that an AI agent hands you dense, clever patterns you'd never write yourself, the person who can see the machine underneath is the one who catches the one that takes down production at 3am.

Everyone copies regex and prays. This is the talk that ends the praying.

Save it. The next time a pattern "Just works," you'll actually know why ↓

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word.

Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this:

"When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that."

He is not anti AI. The Linux kernel saw a 20% jump in submissions this release because of AI tools. He uses it. He gets it.

His point is something most people are too afraid to say.

AI is a productivity tool exactly like compilers were. Compilers boosted programming by 1000x. AI adds another 10x on top. Enormous. But nobody says "the compiler wrote my code." So why are we saying AI wrote it?

He also flagged something nobody is talking about.

AI is flooding small open source projects with drive-by bug reports. Someone runs a prompt, files a report and disappears when asked for a patch. Maintainers with one or two people are drowning trying to keep up.

"Sometimes AI reports a bug and when you ask for more information the person has done that drive-by and does not even answer your question. That is the real burnout issue."

And his final warning was the sharpest of all.

"People who do not understand the complexity of systems will prompt systems and write processes that will fail."

The AI hype crowd is very loud right now.

Linus has been building real systems for 35 years. When he talks, engineers listen.

Full interview here:
https://t.co/LmXJtvKc4O

[F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli @USAttyEssayli]

There was a claim circulating on social media about an election night ballot update at the Los Angeles Registrar of Voters where one candidate received zero votes.

We reviewed official county records. The claim is false. Each candidate received votes in every update.

My office will continue monitoring the election counting process and will follow the evidence wherever it leads.

If anyone has credible information concerning election fraud, please send it to:

[email protected]

[dank @cptdankkk]

Dana White breaks down the $60,000,000 cost of UFC at the White House

“Well, we're building the claw itself that was built in Belgium, shipped to Philly, built and tested, then put on trucks and shipped to DC, stored it in a warehouse until we started building it”

“Then you've got the cost of building an arena on the South Lawn of the White House. Then you talk about all the things we're doing at the Ellipse. The Zac Brown Band is playing over there”

“We're doing a concert, more television. I mean, just the bathroom setups on the South Lawn of the White House are going to be like the bathrooms at the Bellagio”

“So, as you look at all the different details that go into this, it's not cheap”

[No Context Tobey Maguire @OocTobeyM]

Tobey Maguire won an estimated $36 million playing underground poker in Hollywood over 3 years

He played against DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Texas billionaires

Molly Bloom said his skills were “on another level”

Phil Hellmuth said “this kid could be a legitimate pro”

Spider-Man was the best poker player in the room

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

It’s happening, again!

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

There are already over $4 billion worth of yachts docked in Monaco's Port Hercules for this weekend's Formula 1 race (with billions more circling the waters nearby)

[Shishir @ShishirShelke1]

This is the part most Apple users will be happy to hear:

Apple has reportedly spent a lot of time cleaning up its operating systems to reduce bugs, improve stability, strengthen security and refine the Liquid Glass experience.

They’re also making system wide efficiency improvements aimed at improving iPhone battery life.

macOS 27 is said to be a “Snow Leopard” style update, with a bigger focus on performance, optimisation and making Apple Silicon Macs feel faster.

This is what we need the most right now, a stable and bug free experience.

[Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk_co]

Introducing Loupe, our latest privacy app for iOS. Discover what apps can learn about you just by reading data your iPhone already exposes, such as your languages, installed apps, device sensors, and much much more

Loupe is free, private, and open source. Give it a try 👇

[S.E. Robinson, Jr. @SERobinsonJr]

STARLINK: The Alaska Earthquake Center field team servicing remote monitoring stations near the Kvichak River by Dillingham as part of a six-station maintenance effort around Bethel.

They upgraded communications by installing Starlink Minis restoring clear connectivity and real time monitoring.

[BeyondMemory Intelligence. @beyondmemory_io]

Well, well, well. The public JSON formatter sites your developers paste production data into have been quietly publishing every paste for about seven years. Naturally, we read all seven years of it.

200,000+ documents. Cloud keys, SSH keys, payment API keys, whole tax returns with SSNs, people's full identities, bank balances. Nobody hacked anything. People pasted it in to make it look tidy, as you do.

Full writeup below. Yes, it's as bad as it sounds.

[Alain Meier @alain]

You can detect if someone is using iCloud Private Relay super easily

Apple publishes a database of their egress IP addresses and the entire world's iCloud Private Relay traffic exits through ~105K IPv4 addresses.

I analyzed it and found some surprising stuff. Let's dig in:

[Shaun Bender @welles]

@baptistedajon ✋

[armand type beat @2irl4u]

PSA: Do not open your windows in Waymos.
I was assaulted and robbed in a Waymo in the Mission District.

I was punched three times in the face and head. Waymo treats criminals as pedestrians and stops moving, leaving you vulnerable.

They gave me 5 free rides tho

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

this is just the most ridiculous AI application i've ever seen lol

a Peter Thiel-backed startup that makes AI collars for cows is now worth $2 billion

and the more I read about it the cooler it gets. here's how it works:

every cow wears a solar-powered collar that talks to a network of radio towers and an app on the farmer's phone

instead of building physical fences, the farmer draws the fence on a map in the app, and the collar keeps each cow inside that invisible line using GPS

when a cow drifts toward the edge, the collar plays a sound to steer her, and a gentle vibration tells her which way to go.

it's like how a car beeps as you back up toward a wall

the cows learn the cues in a few days

so now a rancher can move an entire herd to fresh grass by sliding the fence on a map, without driving out to open a single gate

and that same collar is reading each cow's body the whole time.

it takes five readings per second on every animal, so the AI can catch a cow that's sick, injured, ready to breed, or about to give birth before a person would ever notice walking the field

so it's basically like WHOOP for cows too lol

and they gave the AI behind it the perfect name: the Cowgorithm

it's been trained on more than 7 billion hours of real cow behavior, which is why Halter calls the data its real asset and moat.

they know what a normal cow looks like better than anyone, so they can flag the odd one out instantly

it's already on more than 1M cattle across New Zealand, Australia, and a bunch of US states.

California even used it on public land to graze cattle in patterns that clear dry brush and slow down wildfires

costs about $5 to $8 per cow per month

a job that used to mean barbed wire, gates, and driving the fields all day is now mostly 1 person on their phone

[Mark Meredith @markpmeredith]

Happening now: workers continue to fill up the lincoln memorial reflecting pool. It’s expected to be finished by the weekend - so far crowds are fairly small - temps expected to be in the 90s by the afternoon

[Shaun Bender @welles]

@eliano @Banned1MoreTime @chadwahl Heck yeah.

[Shaun Bender @welles]

@eliano @Banned1MoreTime @chadwahl Now I just need some more stickers. 😎😎

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

IP KVMs are incredibly handy—and inherently risky. I tested over 20 of them over the past couple years.

One of them even got me an FBI visit ;)

Today's video covers *all* of them: https://t.co/Btq0WqC33c

[Shaun Bender @welles]

The stock market…

[spidey @lochan_twt]

i mean who even uses wires these days