Hacker News migrated to Common Lisp using Clarc, moving from Arc on Racket to SBCL for improved performance. Clarc eliminates the need for paging in discussions and supports multi-core utilization. Despite its advantages, open-sourcing Clarc is hindered by confidentiality concerns regarding Hacker News’ anti-abuse measures.

This article parallels the growing educational resistance to AI with the "Butlerian Jihad" from Dune. AI tools like ChatGPT are critiqued for facilitating academic dishonesty. There’s a call for traditional learning methods to ensure genuine education and skill development.

A new class of amphiphilic nanoporous material developed by Penn Engineers can passively collect water from the air using capillary condensation. The discovery defies thermodynamic expectations and promises sustainable applications in water collection and cooling technologies.

Invariant Labs disclosed a vulnerability in GitHub’s MCP server integration that permits data leakage from private repositories via malicious GitHub issues. This highlights vulnerabilities in agent security, emphasizing the need for granular permission controls and continuous security monitoring.

A novel but debated approach to video compression employs Bloom filters to compress sparse differences between frames. While innovative, this method faces skepticism regarding its efficiency compared to established codecs, pointing to potential hybrid strategies rather than immediate adoption.