Internet Discoveries between 9 and 16 November

  • This automation platform is Zapier and n8n on steroids and I can’t recommend it enough
  • “The Fall Of Icarus”: Astrophotographer Snaps Skydiver Falling In Front Of The Sun In Spectacular Photo - IFLScience
  • Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
  • Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
  • KubeCon: A Terraform Killer Built on Apple’s Pkl - The New Stack
  • Show HN: Gerbil – an open source desktop app for running LLMs locally
  • Are We Doomed?
  • Steam Machine
  • Helm 4.0
  • Steam Frame
  • A brief look at FreeBSD
  • On November 13, 2026, A Human-Made Object Will Reach One Light-Day From The Earth For The First Time In History - IFLScience
  • sudo-rs Affected By Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - Impacting Ubuntu 25.10 - Phoronix
  • Weebl & Bob Compilation No.1 - YouTube
  • X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch
  • Perkeep – Personal storage system for life
  • FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
  • Firefox expands fingerprint protections: advancing towards a more private web
  • What if ALL the sun’s power was focused in one place? - YouTube
  • Unix v4 Tape Found
  • Time to start de-Appling
  • With FARTS! - Jurassic World Rebirth - YouTube
  • 10 Weird Facts About The Goodies You Never Knew! - YouTube
  • Unexpected things that are people
  • Beets: The music geek’s media organizer
  • Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team
  • Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology

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This automation platform is Zapier and n8n on steroids and I can’t recommend it enough - The powerhouse platform

“The Fall Of Icarus”: Astrophotographer Snaps Skydiver Falling In Front Of The Sun In Spectacular Photo - IFLScience - This is not photoshopped. That’s really a person falling in front of the Sun.

Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web - Customize the web to work exactly how you want

Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring - To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered. Existing deployments of Ingress NGINX will continue to function and installation artifacts will remain available. We recommend migrating to one of the many alternatives.

KubeCon: A Terraform Killer Built on Apple’s Pkl - The New Stack - Formae, from Platform Engineering Labs, addresses the brittleness of Day 2 operations by using Apple’s robust Pkl configuration language.

Oh, look. Another terraform killer! Sounds complicated.

Show HN: Gerbil – an open source desktop app for running LLMs locally - A desktop app for running Large Language Models locally. - GitHub - lone-cloud/gerbil: A desktop app for running Large Language Models locally.

Are We Doomed? - Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population…

Steam Machine - Your games on the big screen

Helm 4.0 - The Kubernetes Package Manager. Contribute to helm/helm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Steam Frame - VR and non-VR gaming

A brief look at FreeBSD -  

On November 13, 2026, A Human-Made Object Will Reach One Light-Day From The Earth For The First Time In History - IFLScience - It took the spacecraft nearly five decades to get there. It takes light a day.

sudo-rs Affected By Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - Impacting Ubuntu 25.10 - Phoronix - The Ubuntu 25.10 transition to using some Rust system utilities continues proving quite rocky

Weebl & Bob Compilation No.1 - YouTube

00:00 - Pie01:05 - Donkey02:20 - Hairy03:20 - Jazz04:03 - Angry05:25 - Bull06:29 - Advent07:40 - Cleaner—————————————————-…

X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch - Here she blows! Sunspot region 4274 produced its strongest solar flare thus far since it appeared on the east limb and the sixth strongest solar fl…

Perkeep – Personal storage system for life -  

FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs - A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter. 

Firefox expands fingerprint protections: advancing towards a more private web - With Firefox 145, we’re rolling out major privacy upgrades that take on browser fingerprinting — a pervasive and hidden tracking technique that lets we

What if ALL the sun’s power was focused in one place? - YouTube

Get a copy of What If? 2 and Randall’s other books at: https://xkcd.com/booksMore serious answers to absurd questions at: https://what-if.xkcd.com/This quest…

Unix v4 Tape Found -  

Time to start de-Appling -  

With FARTS! - Jurassic World Rebirth - YouTube

What if Jurassic World: Rebirth was full of prehistoric gas?We reimagine the blockbuster with perfectly timed fart sounds layered over the biggest, most susp…

I may have found a new favourite channel

10 Weird Facts About The Goodies You Never Knew! - YouTube

🎥 Step inside the surreal world of The Goodies, where chaos became genius and three madmen turned television upside down. Discover the wild stunts, secret d…

Unexpected things that are people -  

Beets: The music geek’s media organizer -  

Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team - We are thrilled to announce Zensical, our next-gen static site generator that addresses and overcomes the technical limitations of MkDocs

Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology - How I spent two decades tracking down the creators of a 1987 USENET game and learned modern packaging tools in the process. The Discovery: A Digital Time Capsule from 1987 Picture this: October 26, 1987. The Berlin Wall still stands, the World Wide Web is just text, and software is distributed through USENET newsgroups in […]

All this was saved to my Link Ace over the week