<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/feed/tags/bitcoin.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-12T14:43:16+00:00</updated><id>https://pgmac.net.au/feed/tags/bitcoin.xml</id><title type="html">PGMac . Net . AU</title><subtitle>Where I think about things and make the internet listen. Because it&apos;s important.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Some things I found interesting from 2026-04-05 to 2026-04-12</title><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/04/12/interesting-last-week.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Some things I found interesting from 2026-04-05 to 2026-04-12" /><published>2026-04-12T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-04-12T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/04/12/interesting-last-week</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/04/12/interesting-last-week.html"><![CDATA[<p>Internet Discoveries between  5 and 12 April</p>

<ul>
  <li>Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones - Tom’s Hardware</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hi</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Borax</li>
  <li>METATRON - Open-Source AI Penetration Testing Assistant Brings Local LLM Analysis to Linux</li>
  <li>Are We Idiocracy Yet?</li>
  <li>A cryptography engineer’s perspective on quantum computing timelines</li>
  <li>I won’t download your app. The web version is a-ok</li>
  <li>Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Will</li>
  <li>Lunar Flyby</li>
  <li>S3 Files</li>
  <li>Bitcoin and quantum computing</li>
  <li>System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]</li>
  <li>Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era</li>
  <li>Git commands I run before reading any code</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mary</li>
  <li>Little Snitch for Linux: Monitor &amp; Block App Network Connections</li>
  <li>Open Source Security at Astral</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spheres Part 5</li>
  <li>How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer</li>
  <li>LittleSnitch for Linux</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Log</li>
  <li>Claude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.com</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Peace</li>
  <li>Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system</li>
  <li>Dark Castle</li>
  <li>How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next</li>
  <li>Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found</li>
  <li>Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file</li>
  <li>Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more</li>
  <li>Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python</li>
  <li>A security scanner as fast as a linter – written in Rust</li>
  <li>1D Chess</li>
  <li>Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice</li>
  <li>Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI - Lalit Maganti</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="interesting-details">Interesting details</h2>

<p><a name="Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones - Tom's Hardware"></a><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iranian-missile-blitz-takes-down-aws-data-centers-in-bahrain-and-dubai-amazon-declares-hard-down-status-for-multiple-zones">Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones - Tom’s Hardware</a> - Iranian strikes are taking out AWS servers in the region.</p>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hi"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hi">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hi</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Borax"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/borax">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Borax</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="METATRON - Open-Source AI Penetration Testing Assistant Brings Local LLM Analysis to Linux"></a><a href="https://cybersecuritynews.com/metatron-ai-penetration-testing/">METATRON - Open-Source AI Penetration Testing Assistant Brings Local LLM Analysis to Linux</a> - A new open-source penetration testing framework called METATRON is gaining attention in the security research community for its fully offline, AI-driven approach to vulnerability assessment.</p>

<p><a name="Are We Idiocracy Yet?"></a><a href="https://idiocracy.wtf/">Are We Idiocracy Yet?</a> - Tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. It’s got electrolytes.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672818">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"></a><a href="https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/">A cryptography engineer’s perspective on quantum computing timelines</a> - The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662234">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"></a><a href="https://www.0xsid.com/blog/wont-download-your-app">I won’t download your app. The web version is a-ok</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661439">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal"></a><a href="https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im">Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal</a> - sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal - andmarti1424/sc-im</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662658">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Will"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/will-2">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Will</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="Lunar Flyby"></a><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/">Lunar Flyby</a> - The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions no human has ever seen before—including a rare in-space solar eclipse. Released Tuesday, April 7, 2026, the photos were taken on April 6 during the crew’s seven‑hour pass over the lunar far side, marking humanity’s return to the Moon’s vicinity.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676509">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="S3 Files"></a><a href="https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-files-and-the-changing-face-of-s3.html">S3 Files</a> - Andy Warfield writes about the hard-won lessons dealing with data friction that lead to S3 Files</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680404">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Bitcoin and quantum computing"></a><a href="https://nehanarula.org/2026/04/03/bitcoin-and-quantum-computing.html">Bitcoin and quantum computing</a> - Neha Narula</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681274">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"></a><a href="https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf">System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679258">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"></a><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing">Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era</a> - A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679121">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Git commands I run before reading any code"></a><a href="https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/">Git commands I run before reading any code</a> - Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687273">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mary"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/mary">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mary</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="Little Snitch for Linux: Monitor &amp; Block App Network Connections"></a><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/little-snitch-linux">Little Snitch for Linux: Monitor &amp; Block App Network Connections</a> - Little Snitch is now on Linux. See which apps are making network connections, block unwanted ones and find out how chatty your system really is.</p>

<p><a name="Open Source Security at Astral"></a><a href="https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral">Open Source Security at Astral</a> - Insights and guidance from our engineering team on how Astral secures its tools.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699181">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spheres Part 5"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/spheres-part-5">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spheres Part 5</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"></a><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-nasa-built-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/">How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704804">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="LittleSnitch for Linux"></a><a href="https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html">LittleSnitch for Linux</a> - Discover powerful applications such as Little Snitch Mini, Little Snitch, LaunchBar and Micro Snitch.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Log"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/log">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Log</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="Claude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.com"></a><a href="https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/">Claude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.com</a> -  </p>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Peace"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/peace-3">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Peace</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system"></a><a href="https://pijul.org/">Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system</a> - An easy to use, distributed and fast version control system.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672941">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Dark Castle"></a><a href="https://darkcastle.co.uk/">Dark Castle</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733521">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next"></a><a href="https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/">How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733217">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"></a><a href="https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier">Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found</a> - Why the moat is the system, not the model</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732020">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"></a><a href="https://playstarfling.com">Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file</a> - A one-tap space game. How far can you sling? Play free in your browser.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698455">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more"></a><a href="https://scitechdaily.com/this-spice-combo-could-slash-inflammation-hundreds-of-times-more-effectively/">Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more</a> - Researchers have found that common food ingredients can interact inside immune cells in ways that significantly enhance each other’s anti-inflammatory effects.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723243">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python"></a><a href="https://codeberg.org/chrisecker/miniword">Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python</a> - miniword - A WYSIWYG  word processor in Python.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722011">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="A security scanner as fast as a linter – written in Rust"></a><a href="https://github.com/peaktwilight/foxguard">A security scanner as fast as a linter – written in Rust</a> - A linter-fast, local-first security scanning tool written in rust. - PwnKit-Labs/foxguard</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690405">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="1D Chess"></a><a href="https://rowan441.github.io/1dchess/chess.html">1D Chess</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719740">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"></a><a href="https://github.com/Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design">Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice</a> - Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice. 100+ models with CAD assets in STEP, DXF, DWG, and PDF. Source-available, with commercial use allowed for original compatible accessories within the license terms. - Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720419">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI - Lalit Maganti"></a><a href="https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/">Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI - Lalit Maganti</a> - For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with
SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building
a really good developer experience for it2.
A couple of weeks ago, after ~250 hours of effort over three months3 on evenings, weekends, and vacation days, I finally
released syntaqlite
(GitHub), fulfilling this
long-held wish. And I believe the main reason this happened was because of AI
coding agents4.
Of course, there’s no shortage of posts claiming that AI one-shot their project
or pushing back and declaring that AI is all slop. I’m going to take a very
different approach and, instead, systematically break down my experience
building syntaqlite with AI, both where it helped and where it was
detrimental.
I’ll do this while contextualizing the project and my background so you can
independently assess how generalizable this experience was. And whenever I make
a claim, I’ll try to back it up with evidence from my project journal, coding
transcripts, or commit history5.</p>

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