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

15 Feb 2026

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 2026-01-18 to 2026-01-25

25 Jan 2026

Internet Discoveries between 18 and 25 January

• GitHub - geo-tp/ESP32-Bus-Pirate: A Hardware Hacking Tool with Web-Based CLI That Speaks Every Protocol
• Claude Code’s new hidden feature: Swarms
• Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
• Internet Archive’s Storage
• Route leak incident on January 22, 2026
• KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer
• Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee
• Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go
• Certificate Transparency Log Explorer
• GitHub - scanopy/scanopy: Clean network diagrams. One-time setup, zero upkeep.
• Star Wars Is Officially Bringing Back George Lucas’ Episode VII Plan Following Kathleen Kennedy’s Lucasfilm Exit
• We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
• I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
• He-Man: Masters Of The Universe - Official Trailer (2025) Teaser 4K - YouTube
• Claude’s new constitution
• cURL removes bug bounties
• www.abc.net.au
• Scientists Discover the Body’s Natural “Off Switch” for Inflammation
• A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)
• Building Robust Helm Charts
• Honest Trailers - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack
• Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters
• Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
• Claude Code with Anthropic API compatibility · Ollama Blog

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

04 Jan 2026

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 2024-10-13 to 2024-10-20

20 Oct 2024

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 2024-10-06 to 2024-10-13

13 Oct 2024

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 2024-09-01 to 2024-09-08

08 Sep 2024

Internet Discoveries between 1 September and 8 September

• How Our Longest Nerve Orchestrates the Mind-Body Connection
• Swiss Army knife for developers
• prowler-cloud/prowler
• How to build an open source metrics dashboard
• EUCLEAK
• ASIO director-general Mike Burgess issues warning to big tech companies they may soon be forced to unlock encrypted chats
• The open source community strikes back
• 01.AI Blog
• Your Name in Landsat 🛰️

Some things I found interesting from 2024-08-25 to 2024-09-01

01 Sep 2024

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

Google Hangouts update

30 Oct 2013

Google is updating their Hangouts messaging app to include (among other things) SMS integration. This is both great and scary. Fingers crossed everything will work nicely and still be secure.

Other updates include:

Location sharing Animated gifs in your messages Automatic video contract and brightness changes HD video calls And a bunch of other smaller changes The update...