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Submission + - Ruby on Rails Creator Abandons Ruby During Keynote Speech (youtube.com) 1

Submitted by Grady Martin
Grady Martin writes: David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, announced during a keynote speech at Rails World 2026 on Wednesday that his current project, HEY, has begun migrating from Ruby to a vibe-coded rewrite in Rust. His speech also touched on human productivity and the importance of optimization, noting that agentic developers can “do whatever the fuck [they] want” to achieve the latter. He closed the hour with a Malcom in the Middle meme and commanded the audience: “Don't be a loser”.

Submission + - The 'Anti-AI' Panic Is Led by...AI Companies (hotair.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: What we are seeing is a massive, pretty obviously coordinated campaign by AI researchers, companies, NGOs, and politicians to strangle competition in an industry and, as I will show, save the financial bacon of the top AI companies that are vastly overextended financially because they have made contractual commitments that they simply have no prospect of paying for.

Comment Re:Are You Sure? (Score 1) 167

I think the first poster in this thread got it essentially right. This "top researcher" is trying to whip up hype for the new startup he'll be spinning, shortly.

There's so much hype coming out of the AI industry right now and it really seems like they're playing the "any publicity is good publicity" card pretty hard. Why wouldn't he?

Meantime, I agree, the poster you're replying to is probably the most logical and well reasoned view in the thread. This is exactly what I've been trying to explain to my wife about all the insane AI stories we're seeing and hearing on the news every morning now.

Submission + - Independent review of NATS failure on Aug 28 2023

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: Independent Review of NATS (En Route) Plc’s Flight Planning System Failure on 28 August 2023

A perfectly legitimate flight plan triggered a previously undiscovered software edge case. Both NATS's primary and backup flight-processing systems hit the same error and shut themselves down.

Once both systems were down, NATS's manual fallback could process only about 60 flight plans/hour, versus roughly 700–900/hour normally. That forced severe traffic restrictions.

What actually crashed? The failed component was FPRSA-R, NATS's flight-plan processing system at Swanwick. The flight was Los Angeles Paris Orly. Its flight plan contained a waypoint abbreviated DVL. DVL can refer to Deauville, France, but also Devil's Lake, North Dakota. Eurocontrol's processing had added additional waypoints to the flight plan.

FPRSA-R was trying to determine where the aircraft would leave UK airspace. It encountered the DVL abbreviation and interpreted the wrong DVL as the exit point. The result was logically impossible: the aircraft appeared to leave UK airspace before it had entered it. The software recognised this as an impossible situation and generated a critical exception. The primary system disconnected from the operational network and entered maintenance mode.

Submission + - Parents Demanding Tech Opt Outs Take Their Fight to Federal Court (edtech.law)

Submitted by Hasaf
Hasaf writes: On August 26, 2026, seven families from Lower Merion School District outside Philadelphia, PA, sued the District, the Superintendent, and certain members of the board, asserting violations of their Constitutional rights.

Plaintiffs allege that District leaders have presided over a digital free-for-all, where students of all ages can and do access online pornography, violent videos, gambling sites, and video games, including one in which the player’s goal is to escape from sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s private island. Instead of paying attention in class, students consume an endless stream of short-form videos, browse social media, and shop. They chat with strangers and bully each other. They frequently interact with AI chatbots, which not only help them cheat on their assignments and diminish what they have already learned, but have also sent grown adults into delusional spirals and have coached other young people to take their own lives. Lower Merion students do this and more at all hours of the day: on the bus, in class, at lunch, and during breaks, and also at home, late into the night, when their parents think they are doing homework.

The complaint, with exhibits, can be found there https://edtech.law/wp-content/...

The link to the complaints is also at the bottom of the article

Comment Re: good luck with that (Score 1) 76

Right... because my posting history and frequency matches spam / generated content. Obviously time traveling agent of Roko's basilisk and your incisive criticism of the elites triggered my defenses.

If more than one sentence challenges reading comprehension - I can simplify:

People can do things that are bad without being illegal, and people can do illegal things without being punished.

This is not a bad thing, its a hard-won feature of non-authoritarian governments. Tyrants love systems where the law is strict and justice has no discretion, because then every respite is a personal favor, to be granted or recanted at their whim.

If you think democracy is not working right instead of karma-baiting, exercise your political voice not just in elections. Let your elected officials know their political career improves if they show good judgement of public interest and ends if they're clearly partisan or performative. Complaining in what-about-isms does the opposite.

Comment Re: good luck with that (Score 0) 76

A legal defense for an illegal act does not need to be logical im the "it makes common sense" way. An illegal act does not need to be criminal offense in "the state will prosecute and may send you to jail" sense.

Neither criminal nor civil offenses need to be prosecuted in "the state attorneys believe they can win the case... *and* its worth it for them to prosecute the case". (whether for them as an institution or a person)

The prosecutorial discretion and incentives are by design biased against the state filing frivolous prosecutions. If you've seen the alternative in practice, it can be a lot worse. But its on the voters to hold their elected officials accountable on how they use that discretion.

Submission + - Debian Developers Reject AI Ban and Vote for Responsible Use of Generative AI (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Debian developers have rejected proposals that would have banned or strongly discouraged the use of artificial intelligence within the project. Instead, members selected a proposal called Responsible Use of Generative AI, which says Debian neither endorses nor prohibits generative AI for software development, packaging, documentation, and other project work.

Under the new policy, contributors remain responsible for the quality, correctness, maintainability, licensing, and legal compliance of anything they submit, including AI-assisted work. Human review and testing are expected, while disclosure of AI use is encouraged but not required. The ballot included several more restrictive alternatives, including proposals to ban LLM contributions through the Debian Social Contract and to declare that Debian is created by humans.

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