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Some things I found interesting between 2026-05-10 and 2026-05-17

Internet Discoveries between 10 and 17 May

  • Let’s Encrypt Halts Certificate Issuance After Cross-Signed Root Certificate Incident
  • Reality Check - Deepfakes are everywhere. The godfather of digital forensics is fighting back
  • Rotten Dot Com by Dena Yago
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Terminal
  • Demystifying evals for AI agents \ Anthropic
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Arp
  • Mythos finds a curl vulnerability - daniel.haxx.se
  • Claude Platform on AWS
  • Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog
  • Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
  • Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
  • Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
  • Local AI needs to be the norm
  • Idempotency is easy until the second request is different
  • Local privilege escalation via execve()
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sport
  • See Artemis 2’s amazing views of Earth in timelapse video taken from 12,000-photo drop - Space
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tide
  • Casus Belli Engineering — mmagueta
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hierarchy
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bot
  • I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
  • Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
  • Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks
  • New Nginx Exploit
  • Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
  • Claude for Small Business
  • Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
  • Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC
  • SecurityBaseline.eu
  • The Future of Obsidian Plugins
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Experiencing

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%

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%

Some things I found interesting from 2026-02-08 to 2026-02-15

Internet Discoveries between 8 and 15 February

  • GitHub - pydantic/monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
  • Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
  • The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
  • Vouch
  • I put Claude Code inside Obsidian, and it was awesome
  • AI gold rush sees tech firms embracing 72-hour weeks
  • Zulip.com Values
  • Fun With Pinball
  • Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
  • The Day the Telnet Died
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
  • Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
  • Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence of Hannibal’s war elephants
  • Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
  • Using an engineering notebook
  • The Missing GitHub Status Page
  • Gemini 3 Deep Think
  • GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
  • AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
  • An AI agent published a hit piece on me
  • GitHub - s2-streamstore/claude-batch-toolkit: Send non-urgent work to the Anthropic Batch API at 50% cost — directly from Claude Code
  • An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
  • Sandwich Bill of Materials
  • Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL
  • Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide
  • Genuine RAAF WWII bunker for sale an hour from Brisbane - realestate.com.au
  • YouTube as Storage
  • Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
  • Hasbro Celebrates ‘Transformers: The Movie’ by Apologizing for It
  • The Israeli Spyware Firm That Accidentally Just Exposed Itself
  • 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

Some things I found interesting from 2026-01-11 to 2026-01-18

Internet Discoveries between 11 and 18 January

  • Claude Code with Anthropic API compatibility · Ollama Blog
  • 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
  • Inside The Internet Archive’s Infrastructure
  • Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork
  • Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever
  • Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console
  • How much of my observability data is waste?
  • Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP
  • LMArena - Benchmark & Compare the Best AI Models
  • OpenRouter
  • Honest Trailers - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]
  • Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
  • Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
  • Ansible battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, Nginx, MySQL
  • Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
  • GitHub - kepano/obsidian-skills: Claude Skills for Obsidian
  • Finding and fixing Ghostty’s largest memory leak
  • Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books

Some things I found interesting from 2026-01-04 to 2026-01-11

Internet Discoveries between 4 and 11 January

  • Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
  • GitHub - kepano/obsidian-skills: Claude Skills for Obsidian
  • Finding and fixing Ghostty’s largest memory leak
  • Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
  • GitHub - pgmac-net/nagios-public-status-page: Show a public status page for configured nagios hosts and services
  • Cyber Fidget - A Pocket-Sized Electronic Gadget
  • Buy Coffee Online - Gold Medal Winning Coffee - Manna Beans
  • Coffee Beans Online - Fast & Fresh – Fox Coffee
  • Coffee Beans, Premium Roasted Coffee Beans For Sale Online – JustFreshRoasted
  • LANCIA DELTA S4 - BEST OF 2015-2024 Accelerations, Drift, Jump, Turbo sounds - YouTube
  • www.abc.net.au
  • Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
  • How Samba Was Written (2003)
  • A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela
  • Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration
  • Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default
  • Don’t want to pay for YouTube Premium? Morphe picks up where Revanced left off.
  • NASA’s Curiosity rover sends stunning new panorama from high on Mars’ Mount Sharp - Space
  • PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases
  • Vietnam bans unskippable ads
  • Spherical Snake
  • Ten-thousand character brocade pattern tea tray万字锦地纹茶盘#中国传统技艺#China tea#countryside #handmade
  • Honest Trailers - The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
  • Australia v England 2025-26 - Fifth #Ashes Test - Day Three
  • Ghostbusters (SKA COVER)
  • The Australian Lamb ad is back for 2026!
  • GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button
  • enclose.horse
  • The Post-American Internet
  • SCiZE’s Classic Warez Collection
  • Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
  • Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale
  • There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
  • Sega co-founder David Rosen has died
  • Welcome to Gas Town
  • Odoo: Open-Source ERP
  • The PGP problem (2019)
  • The 2026 Grammys…Proof Music is Getting Worse

Some things I found interesting from 2025-12-28 to 2026-01-04

Internet Discoveries between 28 December and 4 January

  • Odoo: Open-Source ERP
  • The PGP problem (2019)
  • The 2026 Grammys…Proof Music is Getting Worse
  • Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on
  • www.friskyradio.com
  • Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal
  • Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
  • Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
  • Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature
  • Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt
  • www.geeky-gadgets.com
  • www.abc.net.au
  • Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust
  • Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design [pdf]
  • Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
  • Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics
  • IUseLinux: Access iMessage from your Linux (or windows) computer
  • Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy

Some things I found interesting from 2025-10-12 to 2025-10-19

Internet Discoveries between 12 and 19 October

  • EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers
  • Tinnitus Neuromodulator
  • ./watch
  • K8s with 1M nodes
  • Free Programing Books
  • IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
  • New Work by Gary Larson - TheFarSide.com
  • WebMCP
  • Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
  • Accelerate developer productivity with these 9 open source AI and MCP projects - The GitHub Blog
  • Claude Skills
  • Secure AI/ML-Driven Software Development (LFEL1012): Learn to Build Safer Software with AI
  • New coding models and integrations
  • FSF announces Librephone project — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
  • Root cause analysis? You’re doing it wrong
  • Anthropic’s Prompt Engineering Tutorial
  • The Prodigy Medley - The Bands of HM Royal Marines - YouTube
  • Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS
  • Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature

Some things I found interesting from 2025-07-27 to 2025-08-03

Internet Discoveries between 27 July and 3 August

  • www.starwars.com
  • GitHub - booklore-app/BookLore: BookLore is a self-hosted app for managing and reading books & comics (PDF, EPUB, CBZ) with metadata editing, OPDS, reading progress, and multi-user support.
  • keygenmusic.tk - tracker music player
  • PixiEditor 2.0 - a FOSS Universal 2D Graphics Editor is here! PixiEditor Blog
  • archive.is
  • A practical guide on how to use the GitHub MCP server - The GitHub Blog
  • GitHub - ethersync/ethersync: Editor-agnostic, real-time collaborative editing of local text files.
  • GitHub - wshobson/agents: A collection of production-ready subagents for Claude Code
  • Dumb Pipe

Some things I found interesting from 2025-07-13 to 2025-07-20

Internet Discoveries between 13 and 20 July

  • Why your website should be under 14kB in size endtimes.dev
  • Taika Waititi to take on new Judge Dredd movie Taika Waititi The Guardian
  • itnext.io
  • GitHub - badlogic/claude-commands: Global Claude Code commands and workflows
  • Fully Homomorphic Encryption and the Dawn of A Truly Private Internet
  • Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai – Krebs on Security
  • Gaslight-driven development @ tonsky.me
  • We’ve discovered a new kind of magnetism. What can we do with it? New Scientist
  • Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
  • mbh4h.substack.com