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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 2025-12-28 to 2026-01-04

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 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 2025-08-24 to 2025-08-31

Internet Discoveries between 24 and 31 August

  • How to prepare for the Bitnami Changes coming soon
  • boingboing.net
  • Piloting Claude for Chrome \ Anthropic
  • rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool
  • www.abc.net.au
  • Critical Docker Desktop flaw lets attackers hijack Windows hosts
  • Commodore raked in over $2 million during the new C64 Ultimate’s debut week — roadmap will include three major releases a year - Tom’s Hardware
  • sping Documentation
  • The UNIX-HATERS Handbook

Some things I found interesting from 2024-10-06 to 2024-10-13

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 2024-10-06 to 2024-10-13

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 2024-09-29 to 2024-10-06

Internet Discoveries between 29 September and 6 October

  • What do you want to show?
  • Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?
  • Cartographist
  • ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way
  • BOP SPOTTER
  • FreeBSD Wants More People Using It on Laptops and Here’s Their Plan
  • Doom finally ported to quantum computers, and you can play it now
  • Pulumi, System Initiative Step Up To Challenge IBM’s HashiCorp
  • Boris Vallejo and the Pixel Art of the Demoscene
  • Evolving GitHub Issues (Public Preview)
  • How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack
  • An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow
  • UNSW delivers atomic quantum computing breakthrough
  • Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
  • 60TB hard drives arriving in 2028 according to industry roadmap — HDD capacity forecast to double in four years
  • Understanding Porsche’s New Six Stroke Engine Patent