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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 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 2025-10-19 to 2025-10-26

Internet Discoveries between 19 and 26 October

  • D2: Diagram Scripting Language
  • A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
  • Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations
  • WebDAV isn’t dead yet
  • Claudeskills.cc – Share, Discover, and Reuse Claude/OpenAI Agent Skills
  • How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next - ZDNET
  • This is my favorite MCP server to use with my local LLM
  • Roc Camera
  • /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
  • Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
  • $165 Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro board offers 2x 10GbE SFP+ cages, 7x 10GbE/2.5GbE/GbE RJ45 ports, WiFi 7 support - CNX Software
  • Claude Memory
  • MinIO stops distributing free Docker images
  • Doomsday scoreboard
  • Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment
  • Claude Code on the web
  • The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

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 2024-08-25 to 2024-09-01

Internet Discoveries between 25 August and 1 September

  • Configure Unify Execute
  • What to know about messaging platform Telegram and the arrest of its founder in France
  • DuckDuckGo AI Chat at DuckDuckGo
  • Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (1982)
  • Dokku: my favorite personal serverless platform
  • Nuclei: Open-source vulnerability scanner
  • Free Public APIs
  • The Monospace Web
  • Assist - Talking to Home Assistant
  • ChartDB
  • Elasticsearch is open source, again
  • Learn AWS Pentesting
  • The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
  • End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell
  • Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
  • Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa
  • What is Li-Fi? Get the Details on What Might Be the Next Big Thing for the Internet

Some things I found interesting from 2024-08-18 to 2024-08-25

Internet Discoveries between 18 August and 25 August

  • TomWright/dasel
  • You must use global Git ignore!
  • Lenticular Clock
  • Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home
  • Pragtical
  • Build your own AI-powered robot: Hugging Face’s LeRobot tutorial is a game-changer
  • OpenCTI: Open-source cyber threat intelligence platform
  • Zen Browser
  • will-moss/isaiah
  • Page 0 100kb
  • Aerc: a Well-Crafted Tui for Email
  • Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide
  • Celebrating an important step forward for Open Source AI
  • The Open Source AI Definition – draft v. 0.0.9
  • Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel
  • Proton VPN Finally Adds WireGuard Support for Linux Users
  • OpenSSH Backdoors
  • chartdb/chartdb