Some things I found interesting from 2026-04-05 to 2026-04-12

Internet Discoveries between 5 and 12 April

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

Interesting details

Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones - Tom’s Hardware - Iranian strikes are taking out AWS servers in the region.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hi - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Borax - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

METATRON - Open-Source AI Penetration Testing Assistant Brings Local LLM Analysis to Linux - 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.

Are We Idiocracy Yet? - Tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. It’s got electrolytes.

A cryptography engineer’s perspective on quantum computing timelines - The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.

I won’t download your app. The web version is a-ok -

Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal - sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal - andmarti1424/sc-im

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Will - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Lunar Flyby - 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.

S3 Files - Andy Warfield writes about the hard-won lessons dealing with data friction that lead to S3 Files

Bitcoin and quantum computing - Neha Narula

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] -

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era - 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.

Git commands I run before reading any code - 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.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mary - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Little Snitch for Linux: Monitor & Block App Network Connections - 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.

Open Source Security at Astral - Insights and guidance from our engineering team on how Astral secures its tools.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spheres Part 5 - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer -

LittleSnitch for Linux - Discover powerful applications such as Little Snitch Mini, Little Snitch, LaunchBar and Micro Snitch.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Log - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Claude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.com -

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Peace - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system - An easy to use, distributed and fast version control system.

Dark Castle -

How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next -

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found - Why the moat is the system, not the model

Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file - A one-tap space game. How far can you sling? Play free in your browser.

Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more - Researchers have found that common food ingredients can interact inside immune cells in ways that significantly enhance each other’s anti-inflammatory effects.

Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python - miniword - A WYSIWYG word processor in Python.

A security scanner as fast as a linter – written in Rust - A linter-fast, local-first security scanning tool written in rust. - PwnKit-Labs/foxguard

1D Chess -

Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice - 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

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI - Lalit Maganti - 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.

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