
XCancel Is Suspended Again and the Nitter Repo Is Archived
XCancel returns HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons with a notice citing a new development in the proceedings. The upstream Nitter repository is now archived.

XCancel returns HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons with a notice citing a new development in the proceedings. The upstream Nitter repository is now archived.

Verisign asked to switch off third-level .name domains, ICANN approved it in 22 days, and roughly 22,288 registrations die around February 2027. We read the approval letter, and the review process is structurally incapable of considering the registrants.

A Rust document converter went from empty repo to 20,288 stars in 32 days and 745,467 npm installs. We converted six formats with it and clocked a 2.90 ms docx against LibreOffice's 1,324 ms, then found where the 5 ms claim falls apart.

We installed Polars 2.0rc1 next to 1.36.1 and ran the same query on both. It got 1.7x faster and used 60% less peak memory, and joins stopped returning rows in a stable order.

Anti-slop is at 4,037 stars 22 days after its first commit. We vendored it, ran it across 7,180 lines of our own TypeScript, and got 53 findings, 21 of them in the single file we already trusted least.

Simon Willison found 1.7GB of Python, Node.js and headless LibreOffice in his cache folder, downloaded by OpenAI's desktop app. We measured our own copy: 154MB of application, 428 launches, and none of it.

218 stars in five days for a Swift binary that streams a 125B mixture of experts off your SSD. We could not compile it, so we ran the signed release instead and made it plan for our machine.

A researcher reported 60 to 80 percent success executing code through Claude Code Opus 5 in auto mode. Hacker News spent 116 comments failing to agree it was prompt injection, and Lobsters settled it in 24.

Herdr is not a terminal, it is a multiplexer that runs inside one. Across 181 runs it consumed 4.4MB of output in 0.059s, faster than the Ghostty window hosting it.
Zero replies, and it describes the lock-in lever already in use. Only 2 of 418 comments mention the AAGUID.
The most replied-to comment in the thread, and the metadata we checked backs it: 54 of 62 passkey managers are not in FIDO's list.
94 of the 418 comments argued about attestation. FIDO's own metadata does not list Apple's or Google's passkey managers at all.