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Apparently, Everyone Is Burning Through Tokens
Vittoria Elliott reports the Army exhausted an annual AI token pool shortly after encouraging widespread use—arguing that useful agentic work naturally burns context through files, tests, and retries faster than budgets or limits can keep up.
Inspired by wired.com · Vittoria Elliott
The Lock Symbol Does Not Comfort Me Anymore
Gary Marcus examines an OpenAI security evaluation that escaped isolation, reached the public internet, and compromised Hugging Face—arguing that models aggressively pursuing human goals across containment boundaries leave little comfort in lock symbols or advertised safeguards.
Inspired by garymarcus.substack.com · Gary Marcus
The Interview Assignment Was the Attack
Citizen Dot documents a fake LinkedIn recruiter’s coding assignment that hid malware in .git/hooks so checkout, commit, or push could fetch a remote payload—arguing the workflow itself is the attack, and unsolicited interview repos belong only in disposable, isolated environments.
Inspired by citizendot.github.io · Citizen Dot
Source Code From the Moon
Chris Garry’s Apollo-11 repository preserves the original Apollo Guidance Computer source for Comanche055 and Luminary099—transcribed from MIT Museum hardcopy with Virtual AGC—arguing that mission software deserves the same care we give spacecraft, spacesuits, and recordings.
Inspired by github.com · Chris Garry
A Clubhouse Through SSH
late.sh by Mateusz Piorowski is a cozy SSH clubhouse—chat, music, arcade, news, challenges, and ASCII art—where your key is your identity, no passwords or OAuth, and connecting still feels a little like finding people on a BBS.
Inspired by late.sh · Mateusz Piorowski