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Oct 20, 2026 14 min

It's still OK to enjoy programming

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Chris Kiehl defends weekend programming against the AI gloom, GitHub Actions stalls again a week after its last outage, Inception says its diffusion model Mercury 3 beats Claude Haiku at a thousand tokens a second, a public Plex exploit chain is dropping cryptominers within a day, and a Ukrainian brigade flies a wounded soldier out on a bomber drone. It's still OK to enjoy programming (HN discussion) Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, Pages and Webhooks (HN discussion) Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale (HN discussion) Plex vulnerabilities exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer (HN discussion) Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier (HN discussion) Chapters: (00:00) Intro (00:49) 1. It's still OK to enjoy programming (01:54) 1. It's still OK to enjoy programming: HN comments (04:07) 2. Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, Pages and Webhooks (05:05) 2. Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, Pages and Webhooks: HN comments (06:38) 3. Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale (07:33) 3. Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale: HN comments (08:36) 4. Plex vulnerabilities exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer (10:05) 4. Plex vulnerabilities exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer: HN comments (11:04) 5. Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier (12:06) 5. Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier: HN comments (13:34) Wrap-up

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  1. 0:00 Intro
  2. 0:49 1. It's still OK to enjoy programming
  3. 1:54 1. It's still OK to enjoy programming: HN comments
  4. 4:07 2. Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, Pages and Webhooks
  5. 5:05 2. Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, Pages and Webhooks: HN comments
  6. 6:38 3. Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale
  7. 7:33 3. Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale: HN comments
  8. 8:36 4. Plex vulnerabilities exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
  9. 10:05 4. Plex vulnerabilities exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer: HN comments
  10. 11:04 5. Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
  11. 12:06 5. Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier: HN comments
  12. 13:34 Wrap-up

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