Some things I found interesting from 2026-02-22 to 2026-03-01

Internet Discoveries between 22 February and 1 March

How far back in time can you understand English?
I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here’s what I handed over
EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)
A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P
How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon
The SRE Report 2026
Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
Open-Source Community Launches MinIO Fork
Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15
I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
Freemediaheckyeah
The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone’s data protection
Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware
Claude Code Remote Control
The Om Programming Language
Making MCP cheaper via CLI
Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
The RomM Project
Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
Museum of Plugs and Sockets
The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays
Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died
Reading English from 1000 AD
Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
Leaving Google has actively improved my life
Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
Hyprland 0.54 Released As A "Massive" Update To This Wayland Compositor - Phoronix
Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)
Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code
MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%

Interesting details

How far back in time can you understand English? - I made it back to the 1400’s ok. Further than that needed more focus and attention than I had available at the time.

I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here’s what I handed over -

EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source) -

A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P - On February 3, 2026, the I2P anonymity network was flooded with 700,000 hostile nodes in what became one of the most devastating Sybil attacks an anonymity network has ever experienced. The network normally operates with 15,000 to 20,000 active devices. The attackers overwhelmed it by a factor

How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution - The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I’ve approved a written plan.

Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon - Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. Published in The Planetary Science Journal Dec. 24, 2025, the analysis performed by scientists at the National Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and colleagues reveals for the first time that SMRs are geologically young and are widespread across the lunar maria—the vast, dark plains on the moon’s surface. The team’s discovery of how SMRs form introduces a new set of potential moonquake sources that could affect future site selections for lunar landings.

The SRE Report 2026 - Reliability among uncertainty.

Systems fail in ways we do not expect. Yet we still predict. Practices evolve faster than documentation. Yet we still write. We think about what’s next. Yet we respond to right now.

And while so much other research most certainly arrives with word-stuffed pages, as if more words mean more learning, we chose the uncertain opposite. That is, the strength of this report comes from its quiet simplicity, its restraint, and its lack of distraction. Each insight was written not to impress, but to simply present.

After eight years of tracing reliability’s arc, the view feels complete enough to pause and look back before seeing how far the boundaries have widened. Reliability is no longer only about sustaining uptime (was it ever?). It has moved from reliability to resilience, from uptime to experience, from toil to intelligence, from tools to strategy, and from systems to people.

There are still no certainties, but there is progress. And that remains enough reason to keep building.

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 -

Open-Source Community Launches MinIO Fork - A community fork revives MinIO after the official repository was archived, restoring removed features and continuing open-source development.

Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15 - FreeBSD 15 comes with a new bridging implementation which has native support for VLANs. They have also soft-deprecated the ability to have any layer 3 addresses on member interfaces which makes it behave like a real hardware switch. The net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs sysctl controls this behavior and it will …

I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard -

Freemediaheckyeah - The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!

The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone’s data protection - Age verification is forcing companies to undermine data privacy laws.

Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware - Diode is a 3D hardware simulator capable of simulating arduinos, integrated circuits, capacitors, transistors and much more.

Claude Code Remote Control - Continue a local Claude Code session from your phone, tablet, or any browser using Remote Control. Works with claude.ai/code and the Claude mobile app.

The Om Programming Language -

Making MCP cheaper via CLI - I Made MCP 94% Cheaper (And It Only Took One Command)

Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer - Jimi Hendrix’s collaboration with engineers like Roger Mayer led to groundbreaking sound manipulation, redefining the electric guitar’s role in music.

The RomM Project - RomM is a self-hosted rom manager for your game collection.

Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal - interactive, side-by-side file review for git diffs with per-file navigation, vertical and horizontal scrolling, syntax highlighting, and added/deleted line tinting - flamestro/deff

Museum of Plugs and Sockets - Annotated display of 1000 domestic electrical plugs and sockets from all over the world, including classic and obsolete types.

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast - With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays - NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced significant changes to the agency’s Artemis program, which aims to land on the moon in 2028.

Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died - Tributes have been paid to Rob Grant, the comedy writer best known as the co-creator of long running hit sitcom Red Dwarf.

Reading English from 1000 AD - The past was not as foreign as we think.

Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers -

Leaving Google has actively improved my life - In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.^1] This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consum…

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died -

Hyprland 0.54 Released As A "Massive" Update To This Wayland Compositor - Phoronix - Hyprland 0.54 was released today as what’s described as a ‘a massive update with no understatement’ to this Wayland compositor.

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth - Anthropic’s response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD) - Verified Spec-Driven Development. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code - Stop losing context to large outputs. Contribute to mksglu/claude-context-mode development by creating an account on GitHub.

MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98% - MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%. 315 KB becomes 5.4 KB.

All this was saved to my Link Ace and YouTube Interesting playlist over the week