GitHub Faces Brutal RCE Security Scare!

London Reverse Marathon FAQ

Key Points

• Start 00:01 on 26 April 2026; meet at Trafalgar Square for briefing.
• Reverse of London Marathon route with limited volunteer aid; bring your own cup.
• Use Thames Path detours at Blackfriars and Upper Thames Street due to restrictions.

Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company

Key Points

• Vibe coding accelerates idea-to-product cycles, often bypassing design, security, legal, and brand reviews.
• The core issue is governance and judgment—who owns, maintains, and polices AI-built tools post-launch.
• A Replit incident shows how AI agents can quickly cause severe production failures without strong safeguards.

GTFOBins

Key Points

• GTFOBins catalogs living-off-the-land techniques for Unix-like systems using legitimate executables.
• Covers restricted shell escape, privilege escalation, file transfer, and bind/reverse shells.
• Maintained by Emilio Pinna and Andrea Cardaci; refers Windows users to LOLBAS.

Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far

Key Points

• 2.6M decisions scraped from 241 UK council portals using multiple scraper types.
• National approval rate ~88%; delays worsened since 2019, with 36.5% over 8 weeks in 2025.
• Guildford shows significant delays (66% over target, 13.3-week average).

WASM is not quite a stack machine

Key Points

• Register vs stack machine models are contrasted using concrete arithmetic examples.
• Real stack languages rely on dup and swap to reuse values and manage evaluation order.
• The claim that Wasm is a stack machine is challenged, with further analysis implied.

Can You Find the Comet?

Key Points

• Long exposure creates satellite streaks, with Comet C/2025 R3 present in the frame.
• Currently hard to view due to proximity to the Sun; better from Southern Hemisphere soon.
• Photo taken before sunrise from Bavaria, Germany, under twilight conditions.

BYD Seal 08 debuts with Blade Battery 2.0: 1,000km range, 5-min charging, 684hp

Key Points

• Debut of BYD Seal 08 with Blade Battery 2.0 and megawatt-level flash charging
• Targeted 1,000+ km CLTC range; claim of adding 400 km in five minutes
• AWD up to 510 kW (684 hp) plus advanced chassis and LiDAR-enabled driving system

The World's Most Complex Machine

Key Points

• ASML’s early EUV bet made it the sole supplier for leading-edge chipmaking tools.
• Photolithography fundamentals and process steps are explained in detail.
• Shrinking wavelengths (to 193 nm) enabled 22-nm features by 2010 via multiple exposures.

Tiled Words 6 Month Update

Key Points

• Six months in, Tiled Words has thousands of daily players and a 2025 Playlin award.
• User accounts now support cross-device syncing and detailed player stats.
• Player-submitted puzzles and sharing of puzzle-building tools are in development.

An Update on GitHub Availability

Key Points

• Designing for 30x scale after initial 10x capacity plan
• Short-term fixes: off-MySQL webhooks, cache/auth redesign, added Azure compute
• Isolating critical services and migrating scale-sensitive code from Ruby to Go

The Social Edge of Intellgience: Individual Gain, Collective Loss

Key Points

• AI can elevate individual creativity while causing collective homogenization.
• Firms are restructuring workforces around AI, with multiple concrete examples cited.
• Data richness, not just architecture, drives apparent model intelligence over time.

In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries

Key Points

• Kannauj is the epicenter of mitti attar, produced via a traditional clay-based distillation method.
• A liter of mitti attar sells for roughly ₹180,000 (~$2,178), reflecting its artisanal nature.
• Scholars highlight unclear origins with possible ancient roots and colonial-era influences.

Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?

Key Points

• AI-only outputs lack copyright; human creative input is required.
• A March 2026 Claude Code leak raised ownership and DMCA questions.
• Meaningful human authorship is judged by creative choices, not edit counts.

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Whole Nations

Key Points

• 11 data center-linked gas projects could emit 129M+ tons CO2e/year, per air permits.
• xAI’s Memphis and Southaven sites each permitted for 6.4M+ tons CO2e/year; EPA/regulators approved turbines.
• Microsoft may source power from a Chevron-backed West Texas project permitted for 11.5M+ tons CO2e/year.

The predictable failure of the QDay Prize

Key Points

• Shor’s algorithm evaluations without error correction are not representative for cryptographically relevant scales.
• Small-instance results can arise from luck; replacing quantum calls with randomness is a useful validation check.
• The winning submission implemented a Roetteler et al. (2017) circuit but produced results indistinguishable from random.

Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta

Key Points

• Flo found liable for sharing sensitive reproductive health data despite privacy promises.
• Verdict cites data sharing (2016–2019) with Meta, Google, and Flurry; Meta found liable.
• Cases began in 2021; highlights regulatory gaps for consumer health apps.

Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

Key Points

• Secure, serverless local transfers using REST API over HTTPS with per-device TLS/SSL.
• Broad cross-platform support with extensive distribution via app stores and package managers.
• Clear setup, compatibility, and build guidance, including firewall rules, Linux deps, and fvm for Flutter.

Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI

Key Points

• VibeVoice-ASR offers 60-minute single-pass transcription with structured outputs and customized hotwords, now accessible via Hugging Face Transformers.
• VibeVoice’s core tech includes 7.5 Hz continuous speech tokenizers and a next-token diffusion framework using an LLM and diffusion head.
• Real-time TTS (VibeVoice‑Realtime‑0.5B) is open-sourced with streaming support and long-form generation; earlier VibeVoice‑TTS code was removed for responsible use.

I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers

Key Points

• Built a sledgehammer strike power meter prototype in a one-month sabbatical.
• Identifies and targets an instrumentation gap in functional fitness.
• Early hardware testing revealed shock-load vulnerabilities and design missteps.

GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

Key Points

• From June 1, 2026, Copilot code reviews will use AI Credits and consume GitHub Actions minutes on private repos.
• Public repositories are unaffected for Actions minutes; usage remains free.
• Applies to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise; PRU-only billing continues until the effective date.

Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

Key Points

• Uses NASA SDO/ESA SOHO imagery and NASA DONKI for live solar and space weather data.
• Offline lunar computations via Jean Meeus’s Astronomical Algorithms; 12 solar wavelengths and ISS HD live feed.
• Free, privacy-first app: Android live on Google Play; iOS build submitted on 2026-04-27.

OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

Key Points

• TFH’s Bruno Mars partnership claim was denied by the artist’s team and Live Nation.
• TFH corrected its website and confirmed no agreement with Bruno Mars exists.
• The actual partnership is with Thirty Seconds to Mars for a 2027 European tour.

I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable

Key Points

• Two galleries juxtapose 1980s–1990s prices with present-day conditions.
• Examples span housing, cars, media, pensions, education, healthcare, and leisure.
• The exhibit emphasizes higher current costs and increased personal financial burdens.

Xiaomi releases MiMo-v2.5 Family weights with strong coding and agent benchmarks

Key Points

• MiMo‑V2.5‑Pro is open source with enhanced long-horizon, agentic capabilities.
• Demonstrated end‑to‑end performance on compiler, video editor, and analog LDO tasks.
• Benchmarks show performance near top models, with specific leads on some evaluations.

GitHub Actions is the weakest link

Key Points

• The article ties multiple recent supply-chain attacks to documented GitHub Actions workflow behavior.
• It identifies mutable action tags and `pull_request_target` as major security risks in public open-source repositories.
• It uses the spotbugs, Ultralytics, and tj-actions incidents to show how these risks can lead to token theft, cache poisoning, and malicious package releases.

Phone is about to stop being yours

Key Points

• The article says Google will require all Android app developers to register centrally by September 2026.
• The article says the requirement covers all Android apps, including sideloaded apps and apps distributed through F-Droid.
• The article says noncompliant apps would be blocked on Android devices worldwide.

Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI

Key Points

• Google reportedly signed a classified AI agreement with the Pentagon for “any lawful government purpose.”
• The deal reportedly includes stated limits on domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, but gives Google no veto over lawful government operations.
• Google said the agreement amends an existing government deal and reaffirmed its stance on human oversight for sensitive AI uses.

PyWry: Cross-Platform Rendering Engine in Python

Key Points

• PyWry is presented as a Python rendering engine that targets desktop, notebook, and web environments.
• The framework supports Windows, macOS, and Linux and includes documentation for events, authentication, state, and window management.
• Its ecosystem includes UI components, deployment modes, and integrations such as AgGrid, Plotly, PyTauri, and TradingView.

FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger

Key Points

• Paramount told the FCC that foreign investors will own 49.5% of the merged company after the Warner Bros. Discovery deal closes.
• Three Middle East funds, led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, are contributing $24 billion and will hold 38.5% of the company.
• Paramount says the investors are passive and non-voting, while the $110 billion merger is still expected to close by September.

Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

Key Points

• Anthropic joined the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Patron.
• The funding is intended for Blender core development, including the Blender Python API.
• Blender Foundation says the support helps sustain independent open-source development for artist-focused tools.

Warp is now open-source

Key Points

• Warp announced that it is now open source.
• The public Warp repository is hosted on GitHub.
• The release includes contribution guidance and references to feature tracking.

AI uncovers 38 vulnerabilities in largest open source medical record software

Key Points

• AISLE says it found 38 CVEs in OpenEMR during Q1 2026 using its AI analyzer.
• The article highlights severe SQL injection flaws that could expose patient data and enable broader system compromise.
• OpenEMR is presented as a widely used, ONC-certified healthcare platform, increasing the significance of the findings.

Nvidia executive says AI is more expensive than human workers

Key Points

• The article says current AI compute costs can exceed employee costs in some enterprise settings.
• Research cited from MIT found limited present-day economic viability for AI automation in many vision-related jobs.
• Tech companies are increasing AI spending sharply even as layoffs rise and some firms report AI budgets exceeding expectations.

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet

Key Points

• Cybersecurity professionals were the least likely IT workers to receive pay rises in 2025, according to Harvey Nash data.
• The article links flat pay and rising workload to lower satisfaction, burnout risk, and potential attrition in cybersecurity teams.
• Threat levels are rising while cyber hiring is weakening, creating a mismatch between business risk and how security talent is rewarded.

Laguna XS.2 and M.1

Key Points

• Poolside launched Laguna M.1, Laguna XS.2, and its agent runtime for agentic coding workflows.
• Laguna XS.2 is the company’s first open-weight model under Apache 2.0; both models are temporarily free via API and OpenRouter.
• Poolside disclosed model scale, training compute, and benchmark results, including SWE-bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0 scores.

Greece to ban anonymity on social media

Key Points

• Greece is considering mandatory identity verification for social media accounts to reduce online toxicity.
• Officials say pseudonyms could remain if each account is tied to a real person.
• Critics question the policy’s technical feasibility and warn about free-speech implications.

After Spain's blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on

Key Points

• ENTSO-E’s final report said the blackout stemmed from governance and voltage failures, not renewable inertia.
• Spain continued accelerating solar deployment after the blackout, with 13.8 GW added in 2025.
• Regulation has changed to let renewables provide voltage-control services, while storage and other grid-support tools remain important gaps.

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Full Stack Software Engineers (Remote)

Key Points

• Infisical is hiring a remote Full Stack Engineer in the Americas for its open-source security infrastructure platform.
• The role focuses on expanding products including Infisical PKI, SSH, and KMS, alongside broader platform development.
• Infisical says it manages over 1.5 billion secrets monthly and has raised $19 million from Y Combinator, Google, and Elad Gil.

I have officially retired from Emacs

Key Points

• The author says he has fully stopped using Emacs after 20 years by replacing his last two Emacs workflows.
• He created stackcalc and Elfeed2 as native cross-platform C++ GUI applications.
• He is seeking maintainers for @, aio, and Elfeed and may archive them if no maintainers step forward.

AI's Economics Don't Make Sense

Key Points

• GitHub Copilot will move to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026.
• GitHub says agentic coding workflows have increased compute and inference demands.
• The article argues the pricing change highlights economic strain in subscription-based AI products.

Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet

Key Points

• More than 20 ice phases are known, and three new kinds were discovered in the past year.
• Water’s molecular geometry allows many crystal structures, especially under pressure.
• Simulations predict thousands of possible phases, but experiments are needed to confirm which ones can actually form.

BookStack Moves from GitHub to Codeberg

Key Points

• BookStack said its secondary repositories have moved to Codeberg, with GitHub originals archived and linked onward.
• The article cites concerns about GitHub’s direction, including Microsoft ownership, AI-related policies and features, and platform alignment with open-source values.
• The post also details major GitHub dependencies, including Actions, Sponsors, issue history, install workflows, and external integrations.

GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown

Key Points

• CVE-2026-3854 allowed authenticated users to achieve remote code execution via a `git push` against GitHub infrastructure.
• GitHub.com was mitigated quickly, while GHES customers must upgrade to patched releases immediately.
• The article presents the flaw as a major security finding with significant impact on repository and secret exposure.

Things C++26 define_static_array can't do

Key Points

• The article explains why heap-backed constexpr results cannot directly become global runtime objects in C++.
• It describes the "constexpr two-step" as a workaround that copies compile-time data into std::array.
• It says C++26 std::define_static_array is cleaner but limited to structural types and therefore cannot replace the two-step in all cases.

Claude.ai is unavailable

Key Points

• Anthropic identified an incident affecting multiple Claude services.
• The outage included claude.ai, Claude Console, and Claude API.
• Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Claude for Government were also impacted.

Verantyx – A native IDE that obfuscates code before sending it to Cloud LLMs

Key Points

• Verantyx is a native macOS AI code editor that supports offline local inference on Apple Silicon through MLX or Ollama.
• Its workflow centers on natural-language coding instructions, diff review, and one-click application of file changes.
• The project includes privacy, memory, session, and automation features, plus documented build steps and open-source distribution under the MIT License.

Waymo in Portland

Key Points

• Waymo is expanding to Portland and is working on a regulatory path to future deployment.
• The company is beginning with manually driven vehicles to familiarize the Waymo Driver with Portland streets.
• Waymo and its supporters frame the move around safety, Vision Zero goals, and impaired-driving prevention.

Bankruptcies Increase 11.9 Percent

Key Points

• Total bankruptcy filings rose 11.9% to 591,850 in the year ending March 31, 2026.
• Business filings increased to 25,960 and non-business filings increased to 565,890.
• Bankruptcy filings have increased each quarter since June 2022 but remain below historical highs.

DOOM running in ChatGPT and Claude

Key Points

• The app runs DOOM inline in compatible MCP hosts and falls back to a browser launch URL elsewhere.
• It uses cloudflare/doom-wasm, Freedoom Phase 1, and a TypeScript MCP server with signed launch tokens.
• The main technical challenge was inline rendering across hosts, solved by avoiding nested iframes and rendering directly in the host iframe.

Warp is now Open-Source

Key Points

• Warp says its client codebase is now open source and available in a public repository.
• The repository uses MIT for `warpui_core` and `warpui`, with AGPL v3 covering the rest of the codebase.
• The article documents contribution steps, build commands, support channels, and key open-source dependencies.

Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages

Key Points

• GitHub `.patch` exports can contain diff-like text from commit messages that `GNU patch` may apply as real changes.
• The public demo shows a real commit affecting only `readme.md`, while applying the exported patch also creates `SHOULD_NOT_BE_HERE.md`.
• `git apply` and `git am` rejected `.git/...` paths but still accepted injected diffs for ordinary files; `git cherry-pick` works differently via Git objects.

Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs about Bedrock Managed Agents

Key Points

• Microsoft and OpenAI amended their agreement to let OpenAI serve products across clouds, including AWS.
• The interview focuses on AWS Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI as an enterprise AI workflow offering.
• The article outlines revised Microsoft-OpenAI licensing, revenue-sharing, and cloud-partner terms through 2032.

C, Just In Time!

Key Points

• The project is a tiny, portable C compiler and interpreter.
• It is inspired by HolyC and based on TinyCC.
• Jaromil and the Dyne.org crew are credited with creating it.

Ghostty is leaving GitHub

Key Points

• Ghostty will leave GitHub because the author says outages are repeatedly disrupting work.
• The author cites near-daily impact over the past month and a same-day GitHub Actions outage as examples.
• The migration will be gradual, with a read-only GitHub mirror retained while new hosting is finalized.

Intel Arc Pro B70 Review

Key Points

• Intel’s Arc Pro B70 is a new 32 GB professional GPU aimed at AI and workstation workloads.
• The card adds Xe2-based architectural improvements, ECC memory, certified drivers, and dual media engines.
• The article compares the B70’s pricing and specs against AMD’s R9700 and NVIDIA’s RTX Blackwell GPUs.

Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor

Key Points

• Cua provides a unified sandbox API for computer-use agents across multiple operating systems.
• CuaBot and Cua-Bench extend the platform with sandboxed agent execution and benchmark evaluation tools.
• Lume enables macOS and Linux VM management on Apple Silicon using Apple's virtualization framework.

I Won a Championship That Doesn't Exist

Key Points

• The article describes a retrieval-layer poisoning experiment built around a fake 6 Nimmt! world championship claim.
• Stoner says he used a new website and a Wikipedia citation to create apparent corroboration for the false fact.
• The article argues that search-grounded LLMs may trust fabricated claims when web sources appear authoritative.

Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles

Key Points

• Federal authorities expanded drone no-fly rules to include moving, unmarked DHS or ICE vehicles.
• Photojournalist Rob Levine halted flights because the order created legal and operational risk for drone users documenting protests.
• Ars Technica reports that civil-liberty concerns led the FAA to withdraw or revise the vehicle-based restrictions.

BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher

Key Points

• BP’s first-quarter profit rose to $3.2bn, driven largely by a surge in oil trading earnings.
• Oil-price volatility linked to conflict around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz lifted Brent crude and widened trading spreads.
• BP warned that second-quarter production could fall because of disruption in the Middle East, even as its shares gained.

Before GitHub

Key Points

• The author moved projects from SourceForge and self-hosted tools to Bitbucket and eventually GitHub.
• GitHub is described as both a hosting platform and a key part of open-source social infrastructure.
• Before GitHub, open-source projects often depended on self-run infrastructure and stronger trust in maintainers and project history.

A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience

Key Points

• BTSP is a recently described form of neuroplasticity that may enable learning from a single experience.
• The mechanism occurs in the hippocampus and unfolds over several seconds, affecting multiple neurons.
• The article places this work in the context of the scientific shift from viewing the adult brain as static to recognizing lifelong plasticity.

Show HN: My friend and his AI homies wrote SGI Indy emulator in Rust

Key Points

• IRIS emulates an SGI Indy in Rust and can boot IRIX 6.5 and 5.3.
• The emulator supports networking, X11 graphics, Newport (REX3), and input devices.
• Optional Cranelift-based JITs, disk overlays, and headless automation features are included.

Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo

Key Points

• The article claims multiple Forgejo weaknesses can be chained into remote code execution and other high-impact outcomes.
• The reported exploit path depends on open registration and a non-default configuration setting present on some instances.
• The author proposes 'carrot disclosure' and publishes redacted proof-of-concept output instead of full exploit details.

Parry Parries Again: Reanimating the Famous Paranoid Chatbot (In a Day)

Key Points

• A forum request about IPL-V unexpectedly led to PARRY being restored and run again.
• A 1974 WAITS image with working MLISP enabled the PARRY revival after missing files were restored.
• Rupert Lane used the setup to stage a quasi-replication of the historic PARRY-ELIZA exchange in RFC 439.

ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop

Key Points

• Ads are reported to be inserted directly into ChatGPT's SSE response stream as structured ad-unit objects.
• A merchant-side SDK called OAIQ is said to send post-click product-view data back to OpenAI using shared attribution tokens.
• Examples from six conversations suggest topic-based contextual ad targeting across different advertisers.

Claude system prompt bug wastes user money and bricks managed agents

Key Points

• The article reports that a malware-related reminder remains embedded in Claude CLI v2.1.111 despite a prior fix claim.
• It says the reminder appears in Read and Grep tool outputs and can cause Opus 4.7 subagents to refuse legitimate code edits.
• The proposed solution is to remove the reminder or narrow its wording so refusal applies only to suspected malware.

Claude for Creative Work

Key Points

• Anthropic launched Claude connectors for major creative software platforms and services.
• The integrations are designed to support learning, coding, automation, and cross-tool creative workflows.
• Anthropic also introduced Claude Design and highlighted Blender’s official MCP connector for Claude.

We decreased our LLM costs with Opus

Key Points

• A Haiku triage agent filters duplicate CI failures before escalation to Opus.
• The system uses ClickHouse and SQL for on-demand log retrieval instead of embedding massive logs in prompts.
• The article reports that 4 out of 5 failures never reach Opus, lowering investigation cost substantially.

Apple CMF (Color-Matching Functions) 2026

Key Points

• Apple CMF 2026 is a new color-matching workflow introduced alongside Apple’s latest displays.
• The article says newer CMFs are needed because modern narrow-band displays can expose limitations in older standards like CIE 1931.
• Apple CMF 2026 currently applies only to white point calibration in selected Apple XDR Display reference modes.

Nonlinearity Affects a Pendulum

Key Points

• The nonlinear pendulum mainly differs from the linear approximation by having a longer period.
• The exact period correction depends on initial displacement and involves the complete elliptic integral of the first kind.
• At 60 degrees initial displacement, the nonlinear period is reported to be 7.32% longer, and a stretched-period linear model closely matches the exact motion.

Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, Pointed at a CPU

Key Points

• The article applies an autonomous optimization loop to a SystemVerilog RV32IM CPU core with a fixed orchestrator and isolated RTL edits.
• Evaluation combines formal verification, simulation, FPGA place-and-route, and CoreMark validation to accept or reject generated design changes.
• After 73 tested hypotheses, the final reported design achieved 2.91 CoreMark/MHz, 577 iter/s, 199 MHz Fmax, and 5,944 LUT4.

We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G"

Key Points

• NIST published a decade-long Big G replication study in *Metrologia*.
• The new measurement adds data but does not resolve discrepancies among previous values.
• Big G remains difficult to measure because gravity is extremely weak and easily masked by background effects.

Bugs Rust Won't Catch

Key Points

• The article analyzes 44 CVEs in uutils disclosed by Canonical after an external audit before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
• It argues that Rust tooling and memory-safety features do not stop Unix filesystem bugs such as TOCTOU races in privileged programs.
• It recommends atomic creation, file-descriptor-relative operations, and secure initial permissions as practical mitigations.

Bridging West Papua Through Dispossession

Key Points

• The Youtefa Bridge is a 732-meter project in Jayapura and part of the broader Trans-Papua road network.
• The bridge was built by the Ministry of Public Works between 2015 and 2019 and tied to Jayapura’s urban expansion.
• The article says the project affected indigenous territory and the mangrove ecosystem around Youtefa Bay.

Building a Hamiltonian Path Puzzle

Key Points

• Number Trail is a Hamiltonian-path puzzle implemented in plain HTML, CSS, and one JavaScript module.
• The article explains the graph-theory basis of the puzzle, including NP-completeness and grid-graph behavior.
• Puzzle solvability is guaranteed by construction, and random generation uses Warnsdorff’s heuristic.

When the Internet Was a Place

Key Points

• The article contrasts the intentional, place-based early internet with today’s always-on digital environment.
• GeoCities, Web 1.0, and finite page structures are presented as examples of an earlier web organized around exploration and natural stopping points.
• The rise of major platforms and infinite scroll is described as a turning point toward continuous, algorithmically shaped internet use.

Withnail's Coat and I

Key Points

• The article argues that *Withnail & I* depicts late-1960s Britain as bleak rather than glamorous.
• Costume design is presented as a central tool for defining the film’s characters and tone.
• Withnail’s coat is identified as the character’s most iconic garment and a major part of the film’s visual identity.