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Some things I found interesting from 2026-05-03 to 2026-05-10

Internet Discoveries between 3 and 10 May

  • 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
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Peace
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Future
  • A desktop made for one
  • BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
  • DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
  • How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Connection
  • British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Critical Apache HTTP Server Flaw Exposes Millions of Servers to Remote Code Execution Attacks
  • Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Shenanigans
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joke
  • Construction Workers Digging for a New Building Unearthed a 24.5-Meter Medieval Ship Buried Beneath the Street Since the 1360s
  • GitHub - V4bel/dirtyfrag · GitHub
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Block
  • You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
  • Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
  • Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
  • Show HN: Hallucinopedia
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sleep

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 2026-03-08 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 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 2025-11-09 to 2025-11-16

Internet Discoveries between 9 and 16 November

  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscious
  • This automation platform is Zapier and n8n on steroids and I can’t recommend it enough
  • “The Fall Of Icarus”: Astrophotographer Snaps Skydiver Falling In Front Of The Sun In Spectacular Photo - IFLScience
  • Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
  • Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
  • KubeCon: A Terraform Killer Built on Apple’s Pkl - The New Stack
  • Show HN: Gerbil – an open source desktop app for running LLMs locally
  • Are We Doomed?
  • Steam Machine
  • Helm 4.0
  • Steam Frame
  • A brief look at FreeBSD
  • On November 13, 2026, A Human-Made Object Will Reach One Light-Day From The Earth For The First Time In History - IFLScience
  • sudo-rs Affected By Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - Impacting Ubuntu 25.10 - Phoronix
  • Weebl & Bob Compilation No.1 - YouTube
  • Perkeep – Personal storage system for life
  • X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch
  • FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
  • Firefox expands fingerprint protections: advancing towards a more private web
  • What if ALL the sun’s power was focused in one place? - YouTube
  • Unix v4 Tape Found
  • Time to start de-Appling
  • With FARTS! - Jurassic World Rebirth - YouTube
  • 10 Weird Facts About The Goodies You Never Knew! - YouTube
  • Unexpected things that are people
  • Beets: The music geek’s media organizer
  • Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team
  • Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology

Some things I found interesting from 2025-11-02 to 2025-11-09

Internet Discoveries between 2 and 9 November

  • "This has Never happened" Diecast Rally Racing FORD vs AUDI - YouTube
  • You should write an agent
  • Ikea’s Big Smart Home Push Arrives With 21 New Matter Devices
  • GitHub - gensyn-ai/codeassist: A completely private and local AI coding assistant, developed by Gensyn. It helps you practice programming problems and train a novel assistant to help you code.
  • Ratatui – App Showcase
  • Movie Car Museum Liquidating 50 Famous Vehicles at No Reserve
  • Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
  • Epic and Google agree to settle their lawsuit and change Android’s fate globally - The Verge
  • Google gets the US government’s green light to acquire Wiz for $32B - TechCrunch
  • Inside the breach that broke the internet: The untold story of Log4Shell - The GitHub Blog
  • Louvre Heist Fallout Reveals Museum’s Video Security Password Was ‘Louvre’
  • Mr Tiff
  • When stick figures fought
  • You can’t cURL a Border
  • Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again
  • Info - Sailfish OS

Some things I found interesting from 2025-10-26 to 2025-11-02

Internet Discoveries between 26 October and 2 November

  • Info - Sailfish OS
  • Kitchen Soap – The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys)
  • STPA (System Theoretic Process Analysis) – Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google
  • medium.com
  • Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise
  • 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
  • MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities
  • Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s
  • 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

Some things I found interesting from 2024-09-15 to 2024-09-22

Internet Discoveries between 15 September and 22 September

  • Introducing AWS IAM Identity Center
  • Authorization@Edge – How to Use Lambda@Edge and JSON Web Tokens to Enhance Web Application Security
  • How to Use Service Control Policies in AWS Organizations
  • How to retrieve short-term credentials for CLI use with AWS IAM Identity Center
  • An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect
  • authelia/authelia
  • Install EKS-D with MicroK8s
  • supertokens/supertokens-core
  • Artifact Attestations is generally available
  • The Bastard Operator From Hell Complete
  • NetworkManager or networkd
  • Platform Engineering Is Security Engineering
  • SpaceX Polaris Dawn spacewalk! See the first-ever private egress from crew
  • BULLSHIT REMOVER
  • WhenTaken
  • A word about systemd
  • The Lego Great Ball Contraption
  • Ubuntu Adds a New Authentication Feature
  • IBM Acquires Kubecost to Broaden Hybrid Cloud Cost Management Capabilities
  • Area 5150 by CRTC & Hornet (Party Version) / IBM PC+CGA Demo, Hardware Capture
  • This Windows PowerShell Phish Has Scary Potential
  • Linux/4004