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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 2026-04-26 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 2026-04-05 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

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 2026-02-15 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 2026-02-15 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 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 2026-01-25 to 2026-02-01

Internet Discoveries between 25 January and 1 February

  • Honest Trailers - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • GitHub - affaan-m/everything-claude-code: Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hackathon winner.
  • 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
  • Honest Trailers - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
  • We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
  • Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers
  • An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)
  • Ozzy Man Reviews: Bad Design
  • Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal
  • PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
  • GitHub - moltbot/moltbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
  • Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks - Ars Technica
  • arxiv.org
  • The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI by Barbara Oakley, Michael Johnston, Kenzen Chen, Eulho Jung, Terrence Sejnowski :: SSRN
  • OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
  • Rallycross Battle: Team Toyota vs. Mazda Diecast Racing
  • Grid.Space for Education - STEM Learning Tools
  • HTTP Cats
  • Formae Documentation

Some things I found interesting from 2026-01-25 to 2026-02-01

Internet Discoveries between 25 January and 1 February

  • Honest Trailers - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • GitHub - affaan-m/everything-claude-code: Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hackathon winner.
  • 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
  • Honest Trailers - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
  • We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
  • Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers
  • An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)
  • Ozzy Man Reviews: Bad Design
  • Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal
  • PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
  • GitHub - moltbot/moltbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
  • Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks - Ars Technica
  • arxiv.org
  • The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI by Barbara Oakley, Michael Johnston, Kenzen Chen, Eulho Jung, Terrence Sejnowski :: SSRN
  • OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
  • Rallycross Battle: Team Toyota vs. Mazda Diecast Racing
  • Grid.Space for Education - STEM Learning Tools
  • HTTP Cats
  • Formae Documentation