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Martin Odersky
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Martin Odersky writes Language and Code, a personal blog at martinodersky.substack.com about programming. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Tracked Capabilities for Safer Agents”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack by Scala creator Martin Odersky as a source on tracked capabilities for securing agent tool calls. One comment cites it as prior work in a thread on a Mistral patent.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My personal Substack. Launched 3 months ago.
Most-linked posts?
- Tracked Capabilities for Safer Agents3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-28
What Hacker News says?
The Scala[1] community has been working[2] on something similar for a couple of years now, with papers already published[3]. I wonder if Mistral is not just trying to steal this work. [1] https://martinodersky.substack.com/p/tracked-capabilities-fo... [2] https://github.com/lampepfl/tacit [3] https://www.caisconf.org/program/2026/papers/securing-agents...
Comment linking /p/tracked-capabilities-for-safer-agents
on “Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls"”Submitted Tracked Capabilities for Safer Agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracked Capabilities for Safer Agents as a story · 2 points
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