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- The Day the Telnet Died (Mar 8, 2026)
GreyNoise documents the decline of telnet traffic — internet infrastructure history in real time.
#fun #essays - Lessons From Living in a Very Snowy Place (Mar 8, 2026)
Eukaryote Writes Blog on the practical wisdom of deep winter.
#essays #fun - Clinejection (Mar 8, 2026)
How a GitHub issue title led to prompt injection that compromised 4,000 developer machines via AI coding tools.
#fun #essays - Aesthetics of Single Threading (Mar 8, 2026)
Why single-threaded designs have genuine aesthetic and practical appeal.
#essays #fun - Picol (Mar 8, 2026)
Antirez's Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of C. Elegant, educational, minimal.
#web #tools - voxtral.c (Mar 8, 2026)
Pure C, CPU-only inference of Mistral's Voxtral speech-to-text model. No GPU required.
#web #tools - Gitas (Mar 8, 2026)
Quick Git account switching for people managing multiple identities.
#web #tools - Ghidra (Mar 8, 2026)
The NSA's open-source software reverse engineering framework.
#web #tools - vim-pencil (Mar 8, 2026)
Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing prose, not just code.
#web #tools - nCPU (Mar 8, 2026)
A CPU that runs entirely on a GPU. Deeply weird and genuinely educational systems hack.
#fun #essays - mdvi (Mar 8, 2026)
Terminal Markdown viewer with vi keybindings.
#web #tools - Good Software Knows When to Stop (Mar 8, 2026)
On the discipline of knowing when a feature set is complete.
#essays #fun - I'm Reluctant to Verify My Identity for Any Online Service (Mar 8, 2026)
A privacy-first take on why age and identity verification is a bad default.
#fun #essays - The Windows 95 UI: A Usability Case Study (1996) (Mar 8, 2026)
A detailed ACM case study on the usability engineering behind Windows 95's interface.
#fun #essays - Ki Editor (Mar 8, 2026)
A text editor that operates directly on the abstract syntax tree.
#web #tools - LibreSprite (Mar 8, 2026)
Open-source pixel art editor, forked from Aseprite before it went proprietary.
#web #tools - Loon (Mar 8, 2026)
A functional language with invisible types, safe ownership, and algebraic effects.
#fun #essays - No Coding Before 10am (Mar 8, 2026)
On structuring creative work around your actual productive hours.
#essays #fun - Oat (Mar 8, 2026)
Ultra-lightweight, zero-dependency UI library built on semantic HTML.
#web #tools - 406.fail (Mar 8, 2026)
A protocol spec for rejecting AI-generated pull requests. The RFC parody format is half the fun.
#fun #essays - Spying Chrome Extensions (Mar 8, 2026)
Research uncovering 287 Chrome extensions silently tracking 37 million users.
#fun #essays - The Eternal Promise: Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (Mar 8, 2026)
From COBOL to AI — the recurring cycle of promising that programmers are about to become obsolete.
#essays #fun - Those Who Can, Teach History (Mar 8, 2026)
A defense of teaching as intellectual work, not a fallback career.
#essays #fun - On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) (Mar 8, 2026)
A 1974 paper on what makes a programming language well-designed. Still relevant.
#fun #essays - What Not to Write on Your Security Clearance Form (Mar 8, 2026)
Real answers from security clearance forms, collected in 1988. An internet classic.
#fun #essays - Why C Has the Best File API (Mar 8, 2026)
A case for C's file I/O design being more thoughtful than its successors.
#essays #fun - Why Vampires Live Forever (Mar 8, 2026)
Approaching vampire mythology through biology and evolutionary logic.
#essays #fun - Claude's Cycles (Mar 8, 2026)
A Knuth paper on mathematical cycles. The naming coincidence with the AI is a bonus.
#fun #essays - “An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus” (Mar 1, 2026)
“Introduction to the strangest book ever published -- an encyclopedia of an imaginary world.”
#fun - Decision Trees (Mar 1, 2026)
Interactive visual explainer of how decision trees work, from MLU Explain.
#math #compsci #ai - Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension (Mar 1, 2026)
What happens when teams ship faster than they can understand their own code.
#essays #code-quality - Everything changes, and nothing changes (Mar 1, 2026)
Reflections on AI transforming software engineering while fundamentals persist.
#essays #ai - Fentanyl makeover (Mar 1, 2026)
Scripps researchers redesign fentanyl's molecular core to eliminate overdose risk while keeping efficacy.
#essays - deff (Mar 1, 2026)
Interactive side-by-side terminal viewer for git diffs.
#tools - enject (Mar 1, 2026)
Keeps .env secrets in encrypted local stores, injecting them at runtime without plaintext on disk.
#security #tools - moonshine (Mar 1, 2026)
Fast, accurate speech recognition optimized for edge devices.
#ai #tools - gotreesitter (Mar 1, 2026)
Pure Go implementation of the tree-sitter parsing runtime.
#tools #systems - Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML (Mar 1, 2026)
Mozilla introduces the Sanitizer API and setHTML for safer DOM manipulation in Firefox 148.
#web #security - How to allocate memory (Mar 1, 2026)
Short, sharp essay on memory allocation strategies and tradeoffs.
#systems #compsci - HUMAN=true (Mar 1, 2026)
Essay on slowing down and letting humans think before reaching for AI.
#essays #ai - Jimi Hendrix's Analog Wizardry Explained (Mar 1, 2026)
How Hendrix engineered his guitar signal chain like a systems engineer.
#essays - Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (Mar 1, 2026)
The Ladybird browser project adopts Rust for new components, using AI to assist migration.
#web #systems - Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs (Mar 1, 2026)
Research on how LLMs can deanonymize users from writing style at scale.
#privacy #security #ai - microGPT (Mar 1, 2026)
Karpathy walks through building a GPT from scratch in a single file.
#ai #compsci - Now I Get It! (Mar 1, 2026)
Visual, interactive explanations of math and CS concepts.
#math #compsci - Om (Mar 1, 2026)
A concatenative programming language where programs are their own parse trees.
#compsci - Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data (Mar 1, 2026)
Why using passkeys with PRF for encryption is dangerous and premature.
#security #web - pi.dev (Mar 1, 2026)
Open-source terminal coding agent with plugin extensibility and multi-provider support.
#tools #ai - The happiest I’ve ever been (Mar 1, 2026)
On finding genuine fulfillment outside tech career ambitions.
#essays - “The Hunt for Dark Breakfast” (Mar 1, 2026)
“A mathematical exploration treating breakfast as a simplex of milk, eggs, and flour ratios.”
#fun #math - The Memory Allocator (Mar 1, 2026)
Deep dive into Go's memory allocator internals, from the Internals for Interns series.
#systems #compsci - The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (Mar 1, 2026)
MIT course teaching the practical command-line and tooling skills CS programs skip.
#compsci #tools - The United States needs fewer bus stops (Mar 1, 2026)
Systems argument for why fewer, better-spaced bus stops would improve transit.
#essays - unf (Mar 1, 2026)
Filesystem flight recorder that tracks file changes for undo and audit.
#tools #systems - Pierre Computer Company (Feb 10, 2026)
Lucky find on X, interesting forge and tool for the new era. - I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand | Abhinav Omprakash (Feb 8, 2026)
Relatable piece on the downsides of agentic tools, with a technique to escape the slot machine.
#ai #code-quality - Back to Basics: Why We Chose Long Polling Over WebSockets (Feb 7, 2026)
Real-time updates with Postgres and HTTP long polling instead of WebSockets. Simpler, fewer moving parts.
#essays - Bear Blog Discover (Feb 7, 2026)
A feed of minimalist personal blogs — no trackers, no bloat, just writing.
#news #community #blogs - @celine/bibhtml (Feb 7, 2026)
LaTeX-style citations as Web Components. BibTeX, DOI, and Wikidata references in plain HTML.
#web - DEVURLS (Feb 7, 2026)
Developer news aggregator pulling from dozens of tech sources into one clean page.
#news - Doggo (Feb 7, 2026)
A friendly DNS client for the terminal. Human-readable output, multiple resolvers, JSON support.
#tools #dns - DuckDB isn't just fast (Feb 7, 2026)
A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB
#essays #systems - Engineering Blogs (Feb 7, 2026)
Aggregator collecting company and personal engineering blog posts.
#news #blogs - ffs (Feb 7, 2026)
Mount semi-structured data (like JSON) as a Unix filesystem.
#systems - calcure (Feb 7, 2026)
Modern TUI calendar and task manager with minimal and customizable UI.
#tools - Nullboard (Feb 7, 2026)
Minimalist kanban board in a single HTML file. Focused on compactness and readability.
#fun #tools - posting (Feb 7, 2026)
The modern API client that lives in your terminal.
#tools - firenvim (Feb 7, 2026)
Embed Neovim in browser textareas. Click a text field, get a full Neovim instance.
#tools - Hono (Feb 7, 2026)
Small, ultrafast web framework built on Web Standards. Runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Node, and more.
#web #tools - pseudo3d (Feb 7, 2026)
A raycaster in bash. Because why not.
#fun - Karakeep (Feb 7, 2026)
Self-hostable bookmark-everything app. AI-based tagging, full-text search, page archival to fight link rot.
#tools - LocalSend (Feb 7, 2026)
Open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop. Nearby sharing over local Wi-Fi, no internet required.
#tools #privacy - himalaya (Feb 7, 2026)
CLI to manage emails — IMAP, Maildir, Notmuch, all from the terminal.
#tools - Secluso (Feb 7, 2026)
Privacy-preserving home security camera with end-to-end encryption. No cloud, no third-party access.
#tools #privacy - scooter (Feb 7, 2026)
Interactive find-and-replace in the terminal.
#tools - bash-dungeon (Feb 7, 2026)
An educational dungeon crawler written entirely in bash.
#fun - facad (Feb 7, 2026)
A modern, colorful ls alternative for bringing clarity to the filesystem.
#tools - superfile (Feb 7, 2026)
Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager.
#tools - helloSystem (Feb 7, 2026)
FreeBSD desktop OS inspired by early Mac simplicity. Less, but better.
#os - How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (Feb 7, 2026)
A former math-phobe on how she retrained her brain through deliberate practice and repetition.
#essays - keypub.sh (Feb 7, 2026)
Publish and discover SSH public keys. Simple lookup by username.
#tools - Lobste.rs (Feb 7, 2026)
Invite-only, computing-focused link aggregation. Mandatory tagging, open-source codebase, high signal-to-noise.
#news #community - Looking Beyond HackerNews (Feb 7, 2026)
A roundup of tech news aggregators and community sites worth following beyond HN.
#news #community - Mecha Comet (Feb 7, 2026)
Modular Linux handheld with snap-on extensions. ARM64, AMOLED, GPIO breakout, open-source throughout.
#systems - Mwmbl (Feb 7, 2026)
Free, open-source, non-profit search engine. Community-curated results — users can edit what comes up.
#web #community - Paperlined (Feb 7, 2026)
Curated compilation of technical articles and resources.
#news - Half My Life with Perl (Feb 7, 2026)
A Perl Advent Calendar 2024 entry reflecting on decades of working with Perl.
#essays #perl - Protomaps (Feb 7, 2026)
Open source maps as a single static file. No tile server — just cloud storage and HTTP range requests.
#tools #web - Cosmopolitan Libc (Feb 7, 2026)
Build-once run-anywhere C library. One binary that runs on Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
#systems - Research Buzz (Feb 7, 2026)
Coverage of search engines, databases, archives, and information resources since 1998.
#news - shell.how (Feb 7, 2026)
Paste a shell command, get a plain-English breakdown of what it does.
#fun #tools - TechURLs (Feb 7, 2026)
Technology news aggregator consolidating content from popular tech sources into one page.
#news - A List of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites (Feb 7, 2026)
Curated list of text-only and minimalist news sites. The bedrock web is alive.
#news #web - tilde news (Feb 7, 2026)
Community-driven link aggregator from the tildeverse.
#news #community - Tildes (Feb 7, 2026)
Non-profit, no ads, no investors. Invite-only community prioritizing substance over engagement.
#news #community - WebVM - Linux virtualization in WebAssembly (Feb 7, 2026)
Linux virtual machine, running in the browser via HTML5/WebAssembly. Networking and graphics supported.
#systems - 0x.tools (Feb 7, 2026)
Always on Profiling for Production Systems
#systems - Nepenthes (Feb 7, 2026)
A web tarpit for AI scrapers. Generates infinite pages of Markov gibberish to waste crawler resources and poison training data.
#security #ai - What came first: the CNAME or the A record? (Jan 19, 2026)
A Cloudflare change accidentally altered CNAME record order in DNS responses, breaking resolution — and exposing ambiguities in the DNS RFCs.
#dns #web - Xous Operating System (Jan 18, 2026)
A microkernel OS for medium embedded systems — nearly everything in userspace, message passing as the primitive.
#os - LOTTOCRACY: Democracy Without Elections (Dec 30, 2025)
The case for sortition — replacing elections with randomly selected citizen assemblies.
#politics - Huge binaries (Dec 29, 2025)
The problems of dramatic binary scale that academia doubts exist but industry lives with daily.
#systems - Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life (Dec 17, 2025)
We're hungry for more but have more than we need. We're hungry for less while more accumulates.
#essays - Introducing LACE - A New Kind of Cellular Automata (Oct 16, 2025)
Simple local rules on a grid that produce emergent artificial life behavior.
#compsci - DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation (Oct 1, 2025)
Second consecutive year of funding enabling critical language improvements — builtin module, class feature system, lexical method support.
#perl - Geizhals Donates USD 10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation (Sep 18, 2025)
Funding the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund — critical bug fixes and security improvements that keep Perl stable.
#perl - What Is the Fourier Transform? (Sep 6, 2025)
Amid revolutionary France, one man's mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics.
#math - vet - safety net for curl | bash (Jul 24, 2025)
Inspect, diff, and lint remote scripts before executing them. A safer curl | bash.
#tools #security - Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful (Jul 9, 2025)
What Roy Fielding's dissertation actually says about REST, and how far most APIs stray from it.
#api #web - Life of an inference request (vLLM V1) (Jun 29, 2025)
How vLLM serves large language models efficiently at scale — at the intersection of AI and systems programming.
#ai #systems - Wilted lands and wounded worlds: Nausicaa's environmental costs of war (Jun 20, 2025)
Visualizing ecological destruction through Miyazaki's lens — beyond the usual narrative and character analyses.
#essays #anime - Apple container (Jun 10, 2025)
A Swift tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight VMs on Apple silicon.
#tools #containers - Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation (Jun 7, 2025)
In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie's classic piece on names — false assumptions about aviation data types and schemas.
#systems - Briar - How it works (Mar 14, 2025)
Messaging without a central server — syncs directly between devices via internet, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or memory cards.
#tools #privacy - What Makes Code Hard To Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity (Mar 11, 2025)
Visual patterns that make code mentally fatiguing to audit, and what to do about them.
#code-quality - Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (Feb 8, 2025)
Replace manual runbooks with scripts that prompt you through each step — then automate one step at a time.
#automation #ops