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Some things I found interesting from 2026-04-12 to 2026-04-19

Internet Discoveries between 12 and 19 April

  • 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
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stage
  • See NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon in 12 stunning photos - Scientific American
  • A Practical Guide to fzf: Vim Integration
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Witch
  • Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
  • This year’s insane timeline of hacks
  • I just want simple S3
  • GitHub Stacked PRs
  • Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Easier
  • Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive
  • Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense
  • Claude Code Routines
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Infinite
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Forbidden
  • Claude Design
  • Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code
  • Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git
  • Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip
  • Codex for almost everything
  • Claude Opus 4.7
  • RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update
  • Anna’s Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
  • Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Same
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dreams
  • GitHub - anthropics/claude-desktop-buddy: Reference and an example for the Bluetooth API for makers in Claude Cowork & Claude Code Desktop · GitHub
  • GitHub - TheMorpheus407/RepoLens: Multi-lens code audit tool — 280 expert AI agents for code review, security testing, and infrastructure auditing · GitHub

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 2026-02-22 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 2026-02-22 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 2025-11-23 to 2025-11-30

Internet Discoveries between 23 and 30 November

  • DNS LOC Record (2014)
  • The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
  • Be Like Clippy
  • AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you
  • Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
  • The engineer–manager pendulum is breaking
  • Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
  • DIY NAS: 2026 Edition - briancmoses.com
  • www.abc.net.au
  • Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding
  • Announcing n8n version 2.0 - coming soon! - Announcements - n8n Community
  • Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)
  • Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]
  • Space Truckin’ – The Nostromo (2012)
  • Stridspiloten förevisar JAS Gripen: "Här sitter atombomben" - YouTube
  • infisical.com
  • Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator
  • thenounproject.com
  • Claude Opus 4.5
  • Claude Advanced Tool Use
  • ericmigi.com
  • The Letter — Stop Hacklore!
  • Years-old bugs in open source took out major clouds at risk • The Register
  • Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
  • We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs
  • Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
  • The Cloudflare outage was a good thing
  • Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
  • One of the Best Mecha Anime of All Time Finally Gets New First-Look Reveal After 45 Years

Some things I found interesting from 2025-11-16 to 2025-11-23

Internet Discoveries between 16 and 23 November

  • One of the Best Mecha Anime of All Time Finally Gets New First-Look Reveal After 45 Years
  • Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
  • ADHD and monotropism (2023)
  • Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key. - Ars Technica
  • LACK Side table, white stained oak effect - IKEA
  • DRC Rally Event FINALS (Audi vs Alfa Romeo) Diecast Racing - YouTube
  • GitHub - fleetdm/fleet: Open device management
  • Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp
  • GitHub: Git operation failures
  • Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
  • Show HN: RowboatX – open-source Claude Code for everyday automations
  • Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
  • Google Antigravity
  • Gemini 3
  • Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
  • How when AWS was down, we were not
  • Why don’t people return their shopping carts?
  • Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
  • WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
  • Show HN: ESPectre – Motion detection based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis
  • 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

Some things I found interesting from 2025-10-05 to 2025-10-12

Internet Discoveries between 5 and 12 October

  • Anthropic’s Prompt Engineering Tutorial
  • The Prodigy Medley - The Bands of HM Royal Marines - YouTube
  • Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS
  • Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature
  • I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
  • Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
  • Honest Trailers - Tron: Legacy - YouTube
  • A cartoonist’s review of AI art - The Oatmeal
  • Pdoc – Generate API documentation for Python projects
  • Deloitte delivers report to government using AI which contained errors - ABC NEWS - YouTube
  • OpenSSH Vulnerability Exploited Via ProxyCommand to Execute Remote Code
  • The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
  • Introducing CodeMender: an AI agent for code security - Google DeepMind
  • Red Hat data breach escalates as ShinyHunters joins extortion
  • Mise: Monorepo Tasks
  • Structured Procrastination
  • Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame
  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
  • How to Save Your SSH Key Passphrase to Your Apple Keychain On MacOS
  • GitHub - activepieces/activepieces: AI Agents & MCPs & AI Workflow Automation • (~400 MCP servers for AI agents) • AI Automation / AI Agent with MCPs • AI Workflows & AI Agents • MCPs for AI Agents

Some things I found interesting from 2025-09-28 to 2025-10-05

Internet Discoveries between 28 September and 5 October

  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
  • How to Save Your SSH Key Passphrase to Your Apple Keychain On MacOS
  • GitHub - activepieces/activepieces: AI Agents & MCPs & AI Workflow Automation • (~400 MCP servers for AI agents) • AI Automation / AI Agent with MCPs • AI Workflows & AI Agents • MCPs for AI Agents
  • Where It’s at:// — overreacted
  • Almost 1 billion Salesforce records stolen, hacker group claims
  • Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs - The Verge
  • Finding THE RAREST 90’s arcade game!! Fun World arcade tour (Nashua NH)
  • Bringing Observability to Claude Code: OpenTelemetry in Action
  • Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99
  • From MCP to shell: MCP auth flaws enable RCE in Claude Code, Gemini CLI and more
  • How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
  • Keyhive – Local-first access control
  • Making Python in Zed Fun — Zed’s Blog
  • Rugby Live Data
  • Cloud Intelligence Dashboards Framework - Cloud Intelligence Dashboards on AWS
  • Creating Python GUIs With GIMP - Hackaday
  • Messenger
  • Kairos
  • Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers claim GitHub breach