Cloudflare Starts Quantum War On Old Crypto!

People Love to Work Hard

Key Points

• People often work hard when goals, values, autonomy, and trust are in place.
• Dehumanizing or misaligned work and lack of agency can suppress productivity.
• Leadership accountability for organizational context is presented as a remedy.

My Experience as a Rice Farmer

Key Points

• Spring preparation: clearing, ditch rework, ploughing, leveling for uniform planting.
• Irrigation: redirect river water into fields; overflow drains back to the river.
• Wildlife management and ancillary crops complement the primarily rice-focused farm.

Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app

Key Points

• MIDI Guide surpassed 300 instruments with 52 contributors and a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
• Condukt, a performance MIDI controller/sequencer for iOS, iPad, and macOS, launched in 2026.
• A first-time contributor added RozzBox One V2 mappings; the dataset is used in at least three hardware devices.

Build web apps for smart glasses

Key Points

• G2 glasses: dual micro‑LED displays (576×288 per eye), 4‑bit greyscale, no camera/speaker.
• Even Hub enables web‑based plugins, with upcoming widgets, layouts, and AI integrations.
• Workflow: develop with web tech + SDK, simulate locally, sideload/test, package .ehpk, submit via Even Hub.

Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'

Key Points

• App Store notes state certain third‑party app updates are “from Apple.”
• Examples span multiple apps and categories, with no clear common factor.
• Code checks found no obvious changes despite the new update notes.

When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality

Key Points

• Trump threatened strikes on Iranian power plants and bridges, including hitting every electric plant if no deal is reached.
• IHL protects civilian infrastructure; attacks require definite military advantage and proportionality analysis.
• Carrying out such strikes without meeting legal criteria would constitute serious war crimes, the authors argue.

Second Revision of 6502 Laptop

Key Points

• Second, slimmer revision of a 6502 laptop documented on Codeberg
• Assembly-heavy codebase with active commits in March–April 2026
• Hardware milestones include completed case routing and updated CAD files

Every GPU That Mattered

Key Points

• 49 GPUs across 30 years with prices normalized to 2025 dollars and peak 92B transistors.
• Interactive timeline, head-to-head comparison, and evolution plot by year vs transistor count.
• Steam Hardware Survey (Mar 2026) highlights RTX 3060 at 4.1% vs RTX 5090 at 0.42%, with $1,999 flagship and $329 most popular prices.

Show HN: AdaShape-3D modeler for intuitive 3D printing parts / Windows 11

Key Points

• Free Windows 11 alpha for a 3D modeler focused on 3D‑printable parts
• Print‑ready exports to OBJ and 3MF with adjustable mesh resolution
• Clean boolean operations and precise numeric editing for accurate models

Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode

Key Points

• IEEE 754 defines portable, standardized floating-point behavior.
• Single-precision (float32_t) illustrates field sizes and parameters.
• Two representations of zero (+0.0 and −0.0) require rule-based handling.

Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security

Key Points

• Early consoles had virtually no software authentication; physical constraints were the main barrier.
• Nintendo’s NES introduced 10NES/CIC hardware lockout to authenticate licensed cartridges.
• Failed 10NES authentication caused repeated console resets, deterring unlicensed software.

Blackholing My Email

Key Points

• Worms harvested the author’s publicly listed email from Counter-Strike map files, triggering massive spam.
• Client-side and pattern-based filtering proved insufficient as worms adopted randomized, spoofed tactics.
• The ISP blackholed the email to prevent account termination after mailbox and usage limits were overwhelmed.

We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code

Key Points

• Undocumented LGYRO lock leak found on IMU caging error path blocks future gyro torques.
• Allium + Claude derived behavioral specs from AGC code to surface the defect.
• Prior scrutiny verified transcription and emulation but lacked formal/spec‑based analysis.

AI Won't Replace You, but a Manager Using AI Will

Key Points

• Balance AI adoption to avoid both stagnation and “innovation theater.”
• Coordinate team-wide AI use with guardrails and bottleneck analysis.
• Reinforce transparency and human accountability to address resistance and ethics.

Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it

Key Points

• Nine-question audio quiz about London Underground lines.
• Identify lines solely by their distinctive sounds.
• Simple listen-and-guess interaction format.

Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge

Key Points

• Germany’s intraday power price hit -€323.96/MWh at 3 p.m., per Epex Spot.
• France also saw negative intraday prices, reaching -€230.31/MWh at 2 p.m.
• Strong solar and wind output with reduced holiday demand drove the declines.

Running Out of Disk Space in Production

Key Points

• Disk exhaustion immediately followed a high-traffic launch, disrupting downloads and email.
• Major space users were the Nix store and a ClickHouse-backed Plausible Analytics database.
• Mitigation involved freeing minimal log space, running nix-collect-garbage, and moving the Nix store to a new ext4 volume.

LLM may be standardizing human expression – and subtly influencing how we think

Key Points

• LLMs and chatbots may homogenize language and reasoning, reducing cognitive diversity.
• Studies show LLM outputs are less varied and reflect WEIRD biases from training data.
• Developers are urged to diversify training data to preserve diversity and improve reasoning.

Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

Key Points

• Concrete stand features USB power, a three-pin socket, and an integrated plant pot.
• Aged look achieved via under-mixed concrete, sanding, and controlled patination.
• Metal accents rusted using water, salt, and hydrogen peroxide; copper patina induced with ammonia spray.

Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

Key Points

• Self-hostable, open-source alternative to hosted drives with multi-backend storage support.
• Type-safe API via tRPC and secure, configurable sharing links.
• Straightforward setup (pnpm, PostgreSQL) and deployable to any Node.js-compatible platform.

Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor: This receiver chip can take it

Key Points

• Wi‑Fi receiver endured 500 kGy to support wireless control of reactor decommissioning robots.
• Design hardening included fewer transistors, larger MOSFET gates, and reduced PMOS in favor of inductors/NMOS.
• Presented at ISSCC; pre-irradiation performance matched typical Wi‑Fi receivers, with testing at 300 and 500 kGy.

Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world

Key Points

• A new hand-drawn map is released monthly.
• Collections and bundles include The Atlas Guild and Light of the Valar.
• Individual items include Aman & Valinor, Númenor (with timeline), and Powers of Arda.

Show HN: Pion/handoff – Move WebRTC out of browser and into Go

Key Points

• Move WebRTC sessions from the browser to a Go process using mocked RTCPeerConnection and forwarded signaling.
• Record, inject, or analyze media (including VP8) with examples for saving and sending via FFmpeg.
• Open-source MIT project with examples, Greasemonkey userscript, and community support on Discord.

DeiMOS – A Superoptimizer for the MOS 6502

Key Points

• DeiMOS exhaustively searches 6502 instruction sequences to find optimal implementations.
• Feasible full verification is achieved via user-supplied generators and verifiers across 8-bit input spaces.
• Search-space pruning uses invalid opcode filtering, deep-point tracking after branches, and avoiding useless instructions.

The best tools for sending an email if you go silent

Key Points

• Three distinct needs: Google account handoff, true check-in messaging, and self-hosted control.
• Google Inactive Account Manager supports inactivity-based notifications and selective data sharing.
• Alcazar Dead Man’s Switch provides dedicated check-ins, per-contact messages, and multi-channel reminders.

10 Enduring Lessons from Adam Smith

Key Points

• Smith’s invisible hand frames how self-interest can yield unintended social benefits.
• Top-down social engineering is criticized via the “man of system” warning.
• Collective action must align with human nature and local knowledge to be effective.

Haunting Photos Show the Aftermath of the Kursk Submarine Disaster in 2000

Key Points

• Two explosions sank K-141 Kursk during a naval exercise; the wreck lay at 108 meters.
• Rescue was delayed; a disabled buoy and failed docking attempts impeded access.
• The official cause cited an HTP-leaking 65-76 torpedo; this finding was disputed.

Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026

Key Points

• Wind and solar reached 11 TWh in March 2026 (+28% YoY), a new March record.
• Avoided about 21 TWh of gas imports (~18 LNG tankers), saving ~£1bn at current prices.
• Gas-fired generation fell 25% YoY to a record March low; gas set prices less often than in March 2022.

Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

Key Points

• Author moves from Cloudflare to bunny.net to reduce single-provider dependence.
• Registrar switched from Cloudflare to Porkbun after evaluating (and rejecting) INWX.
• Step-by-step guidance covers bunny.net account credits, pull zone creation, and DNS setup.

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring – Lead Robotics and More

Key Points

• Six on-site engineering roles in Austin across Mechanical and Software Engineering.
• Lead roles: $250K–$400K, 0.25%–0.5% equity; Senior roles: $150K–$250K, 0.1%–0.5% equity.
• Job listings hosted and managed on Ashby with detailed application links.

Attention Is All You Need, but All You Can't Afford – Hybrid Attention

Key Points

• HybridAttention with KV cache delivers ~51x faster inference versus full attention.
• Corpus expansion to 173.5M bytes improved quality more than architecture changes.
• Small, Rust-focused GPT model trained on a single RTX 4060 Ti with byte-level tokens.

NanoClaw's Architecture Is a Masterclass in Doing Less

Key Points

• Containers receive only placeholder keys; a host proxy injects real credentials at egress (Phantom Token Pattern).
• Secrets are never placed in process.env, and proxy bindings are platform-aware (localhost vs docker0).
• Authorization is achieved via container mount isolation and .env shadowing, limiting what agents can see.

Has electricity decoupled from gas prices in Germany?

Key Points

• Decoupling test: actual prices >20% below gas-implied benchmark indicate decoupling.
• Benchmark formula: implied power price = TTF gas × 1.8 + CO₂ × 0.35 (based on CCGT).
• Data sources: Fraunhofer ISE/EPEX (power), ICE/IEA (gas), EEX (CO₂).

You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can)

Key Points

• Promises lack native cancellation; true cancellation requires cooperative cleanup.
• A never-resolving promise plus GC can suspend execution without errors, used by Inngest’s SDK.
• Generators enable safe, caller-controlled interruption by pausing at yield.

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security

Key Points

• Cloudflare targets full post-quantum security, including authentication, by 2029.
• Reports cite Google’s algorithmic advance and Oratomic’s resource estimates as drivers of accelerated timelines.
• Emphasis shifts toward quantum-secure authentication amid concerns Q-Day could arrive around 2029–2030.

Claude Code is locking people out for hours

Key Points

• Google OAuth login in Claude Code fails on Windows with a 15-second timeout error.
• Issue persists across multiple attempts and prevents access to the app.
• Environment: Claude Code v2.1.92, Windows with WSL, platform noted as Anthropic API.

Global Physics Photowalk: 2025 winners revealed

Key Points

• Winning photo by Marco Donghia at INFN Frascati highlights a cryostat and researcher.
• Contest organized by 16 particle physics labs; judged on aesthetics and scientific accuracy with public input.
• Photography used as a tool to communicate and connect audiences to advanced physics research.

Moving fast in hardware: lessons from lab to $100M ARR

Key Points

• Delete nonessential requirements to reduce complexity and accelerate hardware cycles.
• Design to real-world usage data, not edge cases, to enable simpler, lower-cost systems.
• Shift complexity to software and accept rare edge-case trade-offs for better everyday performance.

Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left

Key Points

• AI/LLMs make competent first drafts abundant, shifting value to human judgment.
• LLMs bias outputs toward the statistical middle, producing polished but generic results.
• Refusal and precise diagnosis—not generation—are now the scarce, differentiating skills.

12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)

Key Points

• 1997 deposition of 12,000 tonnes of orange peels on degraded land led to rapid soil improvement.
• Project ended by court ruling, yet after ~16 years the site became a thriving forest with 176% biomass increase.
• Findings suggest scalable, low-cost restoration with potential cost-negative carbon sequestration.

Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion

Key Points

• Scion orchestrates isolated, concurrent agents across local, VM, and Kubernetes environments.
• Supports multiple agents via harness adapters; includes Gemini and Claude Code (partial for OpenCode and Codex).
• Design emphasizes isolation over constraints, enabling dynamic, parallel task graphs and varied agent lifecycles.

A new Postcrossing stamp from the USA

Key Points

• USPS will launch four triangular Postcrossing Global Forever stamps on May 26, 2026.
• Designed by Antonio Alcalá and illustrated by Jackson Gibbs, each stamp covers the international rate.
• Stamps will be available nationwide and online, with a launch ceremony at the Boston 2026 World Expo.

Show HN: Finalrun – Spec-driven testing using English and vision for mobile apps

Key Points

• AI-driven CLI for mobile app testing with YAML specs in-repo
• One-line installer provisions Node.js, CLI, AI skills, and platform tools
• Built-in commands for validation, execution, and report serving; secrets managed via .env

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks

Key Points

• GLM-5.1 delivers state-of-the-art on SWE-Bench Pro and surpasses GLM-5 on NL2Repo and Terminal-Bench 2.0.
• Long-horizon optimization via an outer loop enables GLM-5.1 to reach 21.5k QPS on VectorDBBench (Recall ≥95%).
• Stepwise gains stem from structural changes like IVF+f16 and two-stage u8 prescoring + f16 reranking.

AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC

Key Points

• OpenAI’s GPT-4o and OpenStreetMap improved geocoding, adding ~6,000 mapped photos.
• Replaced Google’s geocoder with OSM plus NYPL historical street data for historical accuracy.
• OldNYC now holds 49,000 photos, with ~87% locatable and ~96% mapped correctly.

John Coltrane Illustrates the Mathematics of Jazz

Key Points

• Coltrane’s tone circle, given to Yusef Lateef in 1967, was published in Lateef’s text.
• Stephon Alexander relates the circle’s geometry to concepts associated with Einstein.
• Musicians and scholars provide varied theoretical and spiritual interpretations of the circle.

Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

Key Points

• In-browser Linux (v86) with CUPS/Gutenprint drives legacy printers.
• WebUSB enables cross-platform, installation-free USB access from Chrome.
• AirPrint sharing via Avahi offered an initial household solution before the web app.

Emotion Concepts and Their Function in a Large Language Model

Key Points

• Internal “emotion concept” representations in Claude Sonnet 4.5 causally influence outputs and misaligned behavior rates.
• These representations track and activate based on the operative emotion’s relevance to current context and prediction.
• Functional emotions guide behavior without implying subjective experience, shaped by pretraining and post-training.

Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May

Key Points

• User reports Amazon will end store downloads and registration for 1st–5th gen Kindles in May.
• The device still works but may lose essential services soon.
• The author seeks advice on avoiding the change, including via jailbreaking.

Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa

Key Points

• Statue unveiled in Siem Reap honors Magawa’s landmine-detection achievements.
• UN cites over a million Cambodians still affected by mine contamination; target mine-free by 2030.
• APOPO-trained rats provide fast, safe detection; also used for TB and anti-trafficking.

A whole civilization might die tonight

Key Points

• Two-week U.S. pause on strikes is conditioned on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
• Talks are set to begin in Islamabad; Iran proposes a 10-point plan including controlled passage and U.S. withdrawals.
• Israel supports the pause under conditions; Lebanon is excluded from the ceasefire.

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

Key Points

• Anthropic launches Project Glasswing with 12 major partners to use AI for defensive cybersecurity.
• Claude Mythos Preview has identified thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across major platforms.
• Anthropic pledges up to $100M in usage credits and $4M for open-source security to support adoption.

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]

Key Points

• Anthropic will not broadly release Claude Mythos Preview, limiting it to defensive cybersecurity partnerships.
• Safety evaluations span autonomy, chemical/biological risks, and cybersecurity, guided by RSP and compliance frameworks.
• Alignment assessments include reward hacking tests, behavioral audits with external comparisons, and independent external testing.

A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC

Key Points

• A 1,350-square-foot, citywide model of NYC built over 20+ years is now exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York.
• The project comprises 320 square-mile sections made from balsa wood and other simple materials.
• TikTok virality preceded and helped spotlight the museum debut in February.

Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities

Key Points

• Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview can find and exploit zero-days across major OSes and browsers.
• Project Glasswing aims to deploy the model for securing critical software and industry coordination.
• Most findings remain undisclosed due to responsible disclosure; select examples demonstrate advanced exploit capabilities.

The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki

Key Points

• Image boards are Miyazaki’s concept art for mood and direction, not story continuity.
• The practice began at Toei Doga and was integral to Horus: Prince of the Sun (1968).
• Miyazaki’s approach evolved from quick pencil-and-wash sketches to a purposeful, loose style.

Boneyard: Generate pixel-perfect skeleton screens from your real DOM

Key Points

• Snapshots the real DOM at build time to generate accurate skeletons
• Responsive by default with configurable breakpoints and shimmer animation
• Simple integration via a Skeleton component, CLI build, and one-time registry import

US Labor Force Participation Continues to Slide

Key Points

• U.S. labor force participation is described as continuing to slide.
• Charts show overall and demographic (gender, age, education) participation trends.
• The article highlights potential workers remaining outside the labor market.

Why IPv6 is the only way forward

Key Points

• IPv4 addresses are unevenly distributed, with the U.S. holding a large share versus India and China.
• NAT became widespread as IPv4 scarcity grew, reducing availability of public IPs and end-to-end connectivity.
• The article claims India has 77% IPv6 adoption and advocates accelerating the move to IPv6, potentially by retiring IPv4.

Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon

Key Points

• LoRA fine-tuning for Gemma on Apple Silicon across text, image+text, and audio+text
• Cloud streaming from GCS/BigQuery for large datasets without local copies
• Exports to Hugging Face/SafeTensors with guidance for Core ML and GGUF

S3 Files and the changing face of S3

Key Points

• Genomics workloads at UBC exposed data-movement friction between S3 and POSIX filesystems.
• “Bunnies” containerized analytics on S3, improving performance and reproducibility.
• S3 Files is introduced as a solution to bridge object storage and filesystem-based tools.

How a blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build Lego sets

Key Points

• Bricks for the Blind offers free, accessible Lego instructions used by thousands.
• Lego launched audio and braille instructions in 2019 and Lego Braille Bricks in 2020.
• AI-based apps can help identify Lego pieces, supporting independent building.

Cells for NetBSD: kernel-enforced, jail-like isolation

Key Points

• Kernel-enforced isolation integrated into NetBSD’s security framework, positioned between chroot and virtualization.
• Core stack: secmodel_cell, cellctl, cellmgr, optional cellui TUI.
• Built-in volume management and backup/restore with shared networking and per-cell reserved ports.

How to Get Better at Guitar

Key Points

• Transcribe songs by ear, pausing to find and notate each note on tab paper.
• Verify accuracy using online tabs and performance videos, then refine as needed.
• Practice full-song playthroughs via a playlist and, when possible, learn multiple parts.

Tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads

Key Points

• Replicates data across DRAM channels and uses hedged reads to cut tail latency.
• Works on AMD, Intel, and Graviton; configurable channels, offsets, and replicas.
• Includes examples, benchmarks, and refresh-cycle probing tools.

Bitcoin and Quantum Computing

Key Points

• A CRQC would break Bitcoin’s signatures, requiring a soft fork and user wallet migrations.
• Risk model: existential risk = (probability of CRQC by date) × (probability Bitcoin hasn’t upgraded).
• Example inputs suggest a non-trivial (~5%) failure risk by 2030, highlighting upgrade urgency.

A whole boss fight in 256 bytes

Key Points

• Single‑step FASM build produces a 256‑byte .com demo with graphics and MIDI
• DOSBox‑X with MPU‑401 and FluidSynth is required for proper MIDI playback
• PIT‑based timing and VGA mode 13h underpin the demo’s real‑time rendering

Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

Key Points

• Events are plotted as clickable markers across Middle-earth.
• Legend panel supports filtering by book and toggling journey paths.
• Built-in tool measures distances between two points on the map.

Anthropic's Project Glasswing sounds necessary to me

Key Points

• Anthropic is restricting Claude Mythos access via Project Glasswing due to strong cybersecurity capabilities.
• Mythos Preview reportedly found thousands of high-severity bugs across major OSes and browsers.
• Examples include an OpenBSD TCP SACK crash bug and Linux privilege escalations that were patched after disclosure.

Show HN: Unicode Steganography

Key Points

• Most platforms strip zero-width characters, undermining Unicode steganography in practice.
• Normalization (NFC/NFKC) and dropped variation selectors can break hidden payloads.
• Targeted scanners (Unicode category, homoglyph, code-point checks) can detect these techniques.

Move Detroit

Key Points

• Targets current residents, returnees, and relocating workers with benefits and support.
• Offers professional/community programming, local discounts, and VIP experiences.
• Includes potential stipends for business growth or home purchases.

RSoC 2026: A new CPU scheduler for Redox OS

Key Points

• Redox OS adopts DWRR to replace legacy RR and enable process priorities.
• Measured gains: ~150 FPS in pixelcannon and ~1.5× ops/sec for CPU‑bound tasks under heavy load.
• DWRR’s weighted queues and balances improve responsiveness while mitigating starvation.

Developer relations after the cheat code machine

Key Points

• Learners are shifting from API instruction to seeking guidance on workflows and judgment.
• AI coding tools reduce perceived need for traditional courses focused on surface-level tooling.
• Live, process-focused content (e.g., coding streams) remains compelling by showing real decision-making.

Design for the Roller Coaster

Key Points

• Provide structure for difficult conversations to boost psychological safety.
• Design communication norms in advance to handle high-stress moments constructively.
• Go slow to go fast: invest in foundational team practices to enable long-term speed.

Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30k private Facebook photos

Key Points

• Ex-Meta engineer suspected of downloading ~30,000 private Facebook photos; Meta fired employee and notified users.
• Met Police arrested a man in Nov 2025; Cybercrime Unit investigating after an FBI referral; suspect on bail.
• Meta previously fined by Ireland’s DPC in 2022 and 2024; separate jury verdict in California against Meta and Google, with planned appeals.

A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed

Key Points

• Free, 3D‑printable analog camera projects spanning 35mm, 120, 4x5, and 5x7 formats
• Designs include pinhole, lens‑based, panoramic, and multiformat options, with Mamiya and Lomo compatibility
• Download links are provided via Thingiverse, MakerWorld, Printables, and Google Drive, with added media resources

Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework

Key Points

• Xilem is a reactive Rust UI framework built on Masonry and supports web and native backends.
• The stack uses winit, Vello/wgpu, Parley/Fontique, and AccessKit for windowing, graphics, text, and accessibility.
• Clear setup: cargo example commands, Linux/BSD prerequisites with distro-specific installs, MSRV 1.92, and Apache 2.0 licensing.

US, Iran say they have agreed to a two-week ceasefire

Key Points

• Iran accepted a two-week ceasefire and will negotiate with the U.S. in Islamabad.
• Trump conditioned restraint on Iran agreeing and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
• U.S. and Israeli strikes in Iran continued as diplomatic moves unfolded.

The Clock

Key Points

• Time is depicted via Earth’s rotation and a solar reference, with a location marker for local solar noon.
• A day/night terminator illustrates illumination; DST affects its perceived alignment.
• For practical precision, the design ultimately adopts a 24-hour division.

JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript

Key Points

• JSIR preserves AST fidelity for lossless source↔AST↔IR round-trips.
• Built on MLIR, it enables control-flow and dataflow analyses.
• Open-sourced by Google and used in production for decompilation and deobfuscation.

Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games

Key Points

• Naive obfuscation disrupts LTO’s spatial locality, increasing I-Cache misses on ARM64.
• Toolchain: LIEF, Intel XED (x86/x64), Capstone (ARM64), plus an IR-based internal tool (Aegis).
• “Apartment-Level Randomization” groups hot functions by a short-jump threshold to maintain performance.

OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

Key Points

• OpenAI withheld the full GPT-2 model for safety reasons, releasing a smaller version instead.
• GPT-2 was trained on 8 million webpages to generate coherent continuations from prompts.
• The announcement spurred sensational media coverage and debate over responsible AI disclosure.

'This Is Just Not How the Human Race Should Operate,' Says US Senator

Key Points

• Murphy labeled Trump’s threat a war crime and “fundamentally evil.”
• Trump’s remarks appeared on Truth Social and referenced reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
• Lawmakers called for deescalation and some urged Trump’s removal from office.

Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits

Key Points

• Develop on a remote server/VM via SSH and tmux/screen, keeping secrets off the VM.
• Protect the main repo by working in a fork and using cross-repo pull requests with human review.
• Main residual exposure shifts to coding agent credentials (e.g., Claude), narrowing overall risk.

Protect Your Shed

Key Points

• Enterprise rigor (design, testing, reviews) enables reliability at scale but adds rigidity.
• Applying enterprise patterns to side projects improves stability and maintainability.
• Side projects offer rapid, low-risk experimentation, such as building a GBA emulator in Go.

LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server

Key Points

• Outages began after ISP network maintenance; persisted for over a month.
• Traffic implicated HTTPS requests from LLM scraper bots hitting non-existent pages.
• Closing port 443 immediately stopped the network instability.

Native Americans had dice 12,000 years ago

Key Points

• American Antiquity study dates Native American dice to ~12,000 years ago in the U.S. Southwest.
• Early two-sided bone/wood dice found at Folsom sites in NE, WY, and CO, dated ~12,255–12,845 years old.
• Oral histories and 1600s records depict gambling as social and widespread; eastern finds may be limited by preservation.