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Some things I found interesting between 2026-06-14 and 2026-06-21

Internet Discoveries between 14 and 21 June

  • AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking
  • How formal verification makes AWS Nitro the first formally verified cloud hypervisor - Amazon Science
  • Scientists Discover a Strange Global Pattern in The Way Humans Walk : ScienceAlert
  • Shepherd’s Dog: A Game by the World’s Most Dangerous AI - Koen van Gilst
  • garrit.xyz
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Proof
  • Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack - Phoronix
  • Yserver Is a New X11 Server for Linux Written from Scratch in Rust
  • BugHunter - Bug Bounty Toolkit Powered by Claude and Free AI Providers
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Duck
  • Stuff The British Stole: How Captain Cook went from being celebrated to slain in Hawaii
  • Iroh 1.0 - Dial Keys, not IPs - Iroh
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sawyer
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Deal
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spooky
  • GitHub - TechSquidTV/Cliparr: Create clips from media on your personal media server · GitHub
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - GWAS
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - UBI
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ginge

Some things I found interesting from 2026-03-22 to 2026-03-29

Internet Discoveries between 22 and 29 March

  • Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
  • Welcome to the Block Universe
  • Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator
  • Trivy Security incident 2026-03-19
  • Trivy ecosystem supply chain briefly compromised
  • Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base
  • Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition
  • Show HN: Termcraft – terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust
  • Attempts to post the latest Trivy security incident have been marked [dead]
  • Some things just take time
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wait
  • I replaced GNOME with the new COSMIC, and it feels like the future of Linux
  • Warp: The Agentic Development Environment
  • Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
  • The future of version control
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nature
  • Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets
  • Log File Viewer for the Terminal
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Phi
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Noble
  • Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Humor
  • Judge blocks Pentagon effort to ‘punish’ Anthropic with supply chain risk label
  • DOOM Over DNS
  • Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Shocks
  • LG’s new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop’s battery life
  • Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial
  • ISBN Visualization
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cure
  • Parkinson’s Link to Gut Bacteria Hints at Unexpectedly Simple Treatment : ScienceAlert

Some things I found interesting from 2026-03-15 to 2026-03-22

Internet Discoveries between 15 and 22 March

  • GitHub - github/copilot-cli: GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal. · GitHub
  • GitHub - mistralai/mistral-vibe: Minimal CLI coding agent by Mistral · GitHub
  • It’s time to move your docs in the repo
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Machine
  • Astronomers Just Watched Two Planets Smashing Into Each Other 11,000 Light-Years Away
  • Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development
  • The 49MB web page
  • What is agentic engineering?
  • Scientists discover a surprising way to quiet the anxious mind (2025)
  • LoKI – Local AI Assistant for Linux and WSL
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Under
  • opencode.ai
  • Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering
  • VulHunt: Open-source vulnerability detection framework - Help Net Security
  • Grace Hopper’s Revenge
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Philosophy
  • Siril image editor: One of the best pieces of open-source software available for astrophotographers - Space
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Where
  • Switzerland built an alternative to BGP. Nobody noticed • The Register
  • Warranty Void If Regenerated
  • A sufficiently detailed spec is code
  • OpenRocket
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Love
  • Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
  • Push events into a running session with channels
  • Astral to Join OpenAI
  • Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Waiting
  • TeamPCP deploys CanisterWorm on NPM following Trivy compromise
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Congrats
  • Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
  • Welcome to the Block Universe
  • Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator
  • Trivy Security incident 2026-03-19
  • Trivy ecosystem supply chain briefly compromised
  • Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base
  • Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition
  • Show HN: Termcraft – terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust
  • Attempts to post the latest Trivy security incident have been marked [dead]
  • Some things just take time

Some things I found interesting from 2026-03-08 to 2026-03-15

Internet Discoveries between 8 and 15 March

  • These Python scripts will supercharge your Obsidian vault
  • Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
  • Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]
  • isc.sans.edu
  • Before Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero’s 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next week - PC Gamer
  • 129 Years Later, The First-Ever Sci-Fi Film Has Finally Been Found
  • FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement
  • uattest.net
  • AI Use at Work Is Causing "Brain Fry," Researchers Find, Especially Among High Performers
  • SSH Secret Menu
  • After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
  • Cloudflare crawl endpoint
  • Introducing The Anthropic Institute \ Anthropic
  • Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents
  • I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
  • Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
  • Fosi Audio S3 Balanced HiFi Streamer/DAC/Preamp
  • Willingness to look stupid
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sci fi
  • Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead
  • “This is not the computer for you”
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hmm
  • Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age
  • TrueNAS Deprecates Public Build Repository and Raises Transparency Concerns
  • Can I run AI locally?
  • Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV
  • Hammerspoon
  • I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites
  • 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
  • Lost Doctor Who episodes found
  • Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rated
  • GitHub - github/copilot-cli: GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal. · GitHub
  • GitHub - mistralai/mistral-vibe: Minimal CLI coding agent by Mistral · GitHub
  • It’s time to move your docs in the repo
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Machine
  • Astronomers Just Watched Two Planets Smashing Into Each Other 11,000 Light-Years Away
  • Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development

Some things I found interesting from 2025-06-15 to 2025-06-22

Internet Discoveries between 15 and 22 June

  • Astronomers locate universe’s ‘missing’ matter in the largest cosmic structures Space
  • LEGO® Island
  • Introduction - External Secrets Operator
  • GitHub - netbox-community/netbox: The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/products/free-netbox-cloud/
  • nxtscape/nxtscape: Nxtscape is an open-source agentic browser.
  • Top 100 DOS games Play CLASSIC games online
  • GitHub - windmill-labs/windmill: Open-source developer platform to power your entire infra and turn scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (13x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Retool and Temporal.
  • Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack
  • Dangerous by default: Insecure GitHub Actions found in MITRE, Splunk, and other open source repositories Sysdig
  • The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts - Phoronix
  • These retro SEGA games are free on Android until they disappear - Android Authority
  • Building Effective AI Agents \ Anthropic
  • Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing Test of Experimental Reusable Rocket - Honda Global Corporate Website
  • Actions Runner Controller 0.12.0 release - GitHub Changelog
  • Chawan: 0.2.0
  • OpenTelemetry for Go: measuring the overhead Coroot
  • Highlights from Git 2.50 - The GitHub Blog
  • I used Android 16’s Desktop Mode for work — here’s what surprised me
  • Why it’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting - The Hustle
  • GitHub - automatisch/automatisch: The open source Zapier alternative. Build workflow automation without spending time and money.

Some things I found interesting from 2025-02-23 to 2025-03-02

Internet Discoveries between 23 February and 2 March

  • macOS Tips & Tricks
  • coroot/coroot
  • gauge-sh/tach
  • James Pae
  • yshavit/mdq
  • Bug 1950144
  • I reviewed every snack in our office kitchen
  • Donald Trump Sucking Elon Musk’s Toes in A.I. Video Shows Up in D.C. Hallways
  • OpenSSF Announces Initial Release of the Open Source Project Security Baseline
  • Framework’s first tiny Desktop beautifully straddles the line between cute and badass
  • IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp, Creates Comprehensive, End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform

Some things I found interesting from 2024-11-24 to 2024-12-01

Internet Discoveries between 24 November and 1 December

  • maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs
  • [About]
  • How I configure my Git identities
  • Word of the Year 2024
  • Publishers Have Finally Said The Quiet Part Out Loud About Retro Games
  • The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition
  • Continue & Persist Letter
  • https://uvdata.arpansa.gov.au/xml/uvvalues.xml
  • Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
  • privastead/privastead

Some things I found interesting from 2024-10-20 to 2024-10-27

Internet Discoveries between 20 October and 27 October

  • TypeSchema
  • permitio/opal
  • stack-auth/stack
  • Carpentopod: A walking table project
  • drasi-project/drasi-platform
  • Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game finally published
  • Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source
  • HN Update
  • nh2/internal-contstrained-pki
  • Tog’s paradox
  • Ghostty 1.0 is Coming
  • Introducing Access for Infrastructure: SSH
  • Doom Anthology With BFG Replica Is Out Today
  • PabloNet
  • ‘Shift Left’ Gets Pushback, Triggers Security Soul Searching’Shift Left’ Gets Pushback, Triggers Security Soul Searching

Some things I found interesting from 2024-10-13 to 2024-10-20

Internet Discoveries between 13 October and 20 October

  • Your self-hosted bookmark archive. Free and open source.
  • Navidrome
  • A solar gravitational lens will be humanity’s most powerful telescope. What are its best targets?
  • Stengo/DeskPad
  • Linkwarden
  • Winamp really whips open source coders into frenzy with its source release
  • kv4p HT
  • Europa Clipper mission to ‘one of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth’ set for lift-off
  • splitbrain/clipscreen
  • Internal blog post reveals Automattic’s plan to enforce the WordPress trademark using ‘nice and not nice lawyers’
  • You’ll soon be able to safely and easily move your passkeys between password managers
  • Google Messages gets a new feature that makes it easier to keep private
  • Lines from “Star Wars” That Can Be Improved by Substituting “Pants” for Key Words
  • How I use Kanban boards in Obsidian to manage my personal projects
  • #9: Unit Tests As Documentation
  • An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data
  • HashiCorp unveils ‘Terraform 2.0’ while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room

Some things I found interesting from 2024-10-13 to 2024-10-20

Internet Discoveries between 13 October and 20 October

  • Your self-hosted bookmark archive. Free and open source.
  • Navidrome
  • A solar gravitational lens will be humanity’s most powerful telescope. What are its best targets?
  • Stengo/DeskPad
  • Linkwarden
  • Winamp really whips open source coders into frenzy with its source release
  • kv4p HT
  • Europa Clipper mission to ‘one of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth’ set for lift-off
  • splitbrain/clipscreen
  • Internal blog post reveals Automattic’s plan to enforce the WordPress trademark using ‘nice and not nice lawyers’
  • You’ll soon be able to safely and easily move your passkeys between password managers
  • Google Messages gets a new feature that makes it easier to keep private
  • Lines from “Star Wars” That Can Be Improved by Substituting “Pants” for Key Words
  • How I use Kanban boards in Obsidian to manage my personal projects
  • #9: Unit Tests As Documentation
  • An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data
  • HashiCorp unveils ‘Terraform 2.0’ while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room