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Some things I found interesting from 2026-05-03 to 2026-05-10

Internet Discoveries between 3 and 10 May

  • GitHub - DOS-History/Paterson-Listings: Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS printouts. · GitHub
  • Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431
  • NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes
  • Adding the applications secrets to it’s repository · GitHub
  • Do_not_track
  • VS Code inserting ‘Co-Authored-by Copilot’ into commits regardless of usage
  • www.abc.net.au
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Peace
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Future
  • A desktop made for one
  • BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
  • DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
  • How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Connection
  • British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Critical Apache HTTP Server Flaw Exposes Millions of Servers to Remote Code Execution Attacks
  • Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Shenanigans
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joke
  • Construction Workers Digging for a New Building Unearthed a 24.5-Meter Medieval Ship Buried Beneath the Street Since the 1360s
  • GitHub - V4bel/dirtyfrag · GitHub
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Block
  • You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
  • Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
  • Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
  • Show HN: Hallucinopedia
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sleep

Some things I found interesting from 2026-04-26 to 2026-05-03

Internet Discoveries between 26 April and 3 May

  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quantum
  • A quote from Bryan Cantrill
  • Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years - HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Set
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kickstarter Launch!
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spoon
  • Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz
  • PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC
  • GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
  • Before GitHub
  • Ghostty is leaving GitHub
  • An update on GitHub availability
  • EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code
  • Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics
  • Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
  • Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning
  • Caedmon’s Hymn Discovery - News & Events - Trinity College Dublin
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tragic
  • On April 21, 2026, a major breakthrough in cybersecurity happened: leading standardization initiatives gathered in Washington DC and agreed to begin coordinating collectively on AI security. A… - Rob van der Veer - 28 comments
  • Ask.com has closed
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nagel
  • GitHub - DOS-History/Paterson-Listings: Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS printouts. · GitHub
  • Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431
  • NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes
  • Adding the applications secrets to it’s repository · GitHub
  • Do_not_track
  • VS Code inserting ‘Co-Authored-by Copilot’ into commits regardless of usage
  • www.abc.net.au

Some things I found interesting from 2026-02-15 to 2026-02-22

Internet Discoveries between 15 and 22 February

  • IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
  • Descent, ported to the web
  • Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database
  • A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment
  • Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library
  • NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
  • LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
  • Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI
  • Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: ‘We’d stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh’ - The Comics Journal
  • Your Desk Needs an ESP32 DataDisplay Terminal - Hackster.io
  • ACCC Says Fine to Coles for Misleading Consumers Should Be Reduced From $150 Million to Just $200 Million — The Shovel
  • Ghidra by NSA
  • Use protocols, not services
  • Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
  • GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6
  • 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
  • Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM
  • DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
  • My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
  • An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
  • AI is not a coworker, it’s an exoskeleton
  • CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)
  • OpenScan
  • Turn Dependabot Off
  • Keep Android Open
  • I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
  • 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

Some things I found interesting from 2025-08-24 to 2025-08-31

Internet Discoveries between 24 and 31 August

  • How to prepare for the Bitnami Changes coming soon
  • boingboing.net
  • Piloting Claude for Chrome \ Anthropic
  • rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool
  • www.abc.net.au
  • Critical Docker Desktop flaw lets attackers hijack Windows hosts
  • Commodore raked in over $2 million during the new C64 Ultimate’s debut week — roadmap will include three major releases a year - Tom’s Hardware
  • sping Documentation
  • The UNIX-HATERS Handbook

Some things I found interesting from 2025-02-02 to 2025-02-09

Internet Discoveries between 2 February and 9 February

  • DeepSeek Local: How to Self-Host DeepSeek (Privacy and Control)
  • Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199
  • Beej’s Guide to Git
  • How to Build a Multi-Tenancy Internal Developer Platform with GitOps and vCluster
  • Dubbed Australia’s longest shortcut, the Outback Way is not for the faint-hearted
  • OpenWrt 24.10.0 - First Stable Release - 6. February 2025

Some things I found interesting from 2024-10-06 to 2024-10-13

Internet Discoveries between 6 October and 13 October

  • Apple II Source Listings
  • sq
  • What does chezmoi do?
  • Stengo/DeskPad
  • mise
  • Wrapping up another Birthday Week celebration
  • Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency
  • Google’s AI podcast hosts have existential crisis when they find out they’re not real
  • Tip: You Can Change Pixel Buds Settings on Windows, Mac
  • When Earth Had Rings
  • Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard
  • Duake lets you play Quake as the Doomguy
  • What was the song of the summer? Nobody knows
  • The Ultimate Guide to Error Handling in Python
  • Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good
  • The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
  • The Australian government has introduced new cyber security laws. Here’s what you need to know
  • Google facing US government attempt to break it up, court filing shows
  • How open source SIEM and XDR tackle evolving threats
  • Palo Alto Networks warns of firewall hijack bugs with public exploit
  • The Internet Archive is under attack, with a popup claiming a ‘catastrophic’ breach
  • Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
  • David McCormack on Custard’s new album – and living in Bluey’s shadow
  • Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares…
  • We built the best “Bad Apple!!” in Minecraft
  • Android 15 will empower Google Contacts to manage encryption keys to ensure private, secure messaging
  • What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? - Quora

Some things I found interesting from 2024-09-08 to 2024-09-15

Internet Discoveries between 8 September and 15 September

  • Exploiting CI / CD Pipelines for fun and profit
  • Meteor burns up over Earth in amazing footage from space station
  • pushsecurity/saas-attacks
  • How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids
  • 33 open-source cybersecurity solutions you didn’t know you needed
  • How to build an open source metrics dashboard
  • Radicle 1.0
  • We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI
  • x.com
  • Addon: Trivy
  • The Bastard Operator From Hell Complete
  • NetworkManager or networkd
  • Platform Engineering Is Security Engineering
  • SpaceX Polaris Dawn spacewalk! See the first-ever private egress from crew
  • BULLSHIT REMOVER
  • WhenTaken

Some things I found interesting from 2024-08-11 to 2024-08-18

Internet Discoveries between 11 August and 18 August

  • A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g.
  • Hybrid Public Key Encryption
  • HPKE: Standardizing public-key encryption (finally!)
  • Dear Ai, make me a video about skateboarding with the boys 🛹
  • Want to boost your mental health? Step outside and look up at the night sky
  • ISS Timelapse - Crossing Australia (15 Jul 2024)
  • Events
  • nccgroup/ScoutSuite
  • NIST Announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
  • YTCH
  • art-institute-of-chicago/aic-bash
  • apache/pulsar
  • The Complete Fantastic Adventures of Adam Ant
  • mpv.io
  • The Xapian Project