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Kernel-hack-drill and exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel
a13xp0p0v.github.io

Some memory corruption bugs are much harder to exploit than others. They can involve race conditions, crash the system, and impose limitations that make a researcher's life difficult. Working with such fragile vulnerabilities demands significant time and effort. CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel is one such hard bug, which received the Pwnie Award 2025 as the Best Privilege Escalation. In this article, I introduce m

Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components
lit.dev

Simple. Fast. Web Components.

Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery
cleantechnica.com

Steve Hanley - A 1 MW/100 MWh sand battery in now in operation in southern Finland where it is supporting the local district heating system.

Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
printables.com
Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser
ziglang.org
I want to be left alone (2024)
blog.ctms.me

Seriously. Please just leave me alone.

U.S. Military Strikes Drug Vessel from Venezuela, Killing 11
wsj.com
Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron
github.com/Tortured-Metaphor
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A Rust LightCycle Game. Contribute to Tortured-Metaphor/LightCycle development by creating an account on GitHub.

%CPU utilization is a lie
brendanlong.com

I deal with a lot of servers at work, and one thing everyone wants to know about their servers is how close they are to being at max utilization. It should be easy, right? Just pull up top or another system monitor tool, look at network, memory and CPU utilization …

Indices, not Pointers
joegm.github.io
This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)
blog.ctms.me

An absolute mammoth post about how I am running this blog site from a Google Pixel 5 Android phone using only Termux. It includes what inspired me, what I'm using for the setup, and my longform notes on the entire project.

Parallel AI agents are a game changer
morningcoffee.io

I’ve been in this industry long enough to watch technologies come and go. I’ve seen the excitement around new frameworks, the promises of revolutionary...

You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title
idiallo.com

I once had a job interview for a backend position. Their stack was Node.js, MySQL, nothing exotic. The interviewer asked: "If you have an array containing a million entries, how would you sort the dat

Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
cnbc.com
Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS
huggingface.co
U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%
theenergymix.com

Mitchell Beer - The United States’ carbon emissions increased while China’s declined in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2024, pointing to a massive shift in roles between the world’s two biggest climate polluters if the trend continues.

Matrix.org service offline: corrupted database
status.matrix.org
Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)
dgross.ca
A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
sanity.io

This started as an internal Sanity workshop where I demoed how I actually use AI. Spoiler: it's running multiple agents like a small team with daily amnesia.

iNaturalist keeps full species classification models private
github.com/inaturalist

Contribute to inaturalist/inatVisionAPI development by creating an account on GitHub.

Amazon must face US nationwide class action over third-party sales
reuters.com
FBI arrests US Army veteran for 'conspiracy' over protest against ICE
theguardian.com

Legal experts say the charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on first amendment rights

Civics is boring, so, let's encrypt something (2024)
queue.acm.org
Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger
useamber.app
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Respond to your messages 2x as fast with more context than ever. Use WhatsApp, Telegram, and iMessage enabled by AI. Split inboxes. Message scheduling. Reminders. Personal CRM.

Apertus 8B and 70B – a new open multilingual LLM from Switzerland
actu.epfl.ch

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.

A gentle introduction to CP/M
eerielinux.wordpress.com

[New to Gemini? Have a look at my Gemini FAQ.] This article was bi-posted to Gemini and the Web; Gemini version is here: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/kraileth/neunix/2025/gentle_introduc…

Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
openai.com
ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that hack phones and encrypted apps
theguardian.com

Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons

Physically based rendering from first principles
imadr.me
State of Permanent Fake Emergency
theatlantic.com

Paul Rosenzweig - Today, the structure of law granting exceptional emergency powers is a grave threat to democracy and an avenue toward authoritarian rule.

The Tariffs Are Still Illegal
bloomberg.com
Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas
blog.adacore.com

by Romain Gora – Sep 01, 2025. Discover Ada through a fun, project-based tutorial! Learn the language’s clarity, safety, and modern features while building an SVG rosetta generator. A fresh, visual way to explore Ada 2022.

Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract
theregister.com

: Free Copilot for any agency who actually wants it

Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?
tonybaloney.github.io

A deep-dive into the challenges and misconceptions surrounding async programming in Python

<template>: The Content Template element
developer.mozilla.org

The HTML element serves as a mechanism for holding HTML fragments, which can either be used later via JavaScript or generated immediately into shadow DOM.

We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that
thenexus.media

Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you based on your behavior. Social credit, in its original economic definition, means

Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
npr.org

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
quantamagazine.org

You’re carrying around in your head a model of how the world works. Will AI systems need to do the same?

Ask HN: Is your company still hiring junior engineers?
news.ycombinator.com
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AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger
theregister.com

Opinion: But the cure may ruin the web....

OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police
futurism.com

OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

Launch HN: Datafruit (YC S25) – AI for DevOps
news.ycombinator.com
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Anthropic raises $13B Series F
anthropic.com

Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ. This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money. Along with ICONIQ, the round was co-led by Fidelity Management &amp; Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The investment reflects Anthropic’s continued momentum and reinforces our position as the leading intelligence platform for enterprises, developers, and power users

Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate
utkusen.substack.com

Utku Sen - The X account of a Turkish opposition leader with 9.7M followers is restricted in Turkey. Although his new account is not restricted, many users say they don't see his posts on their homepages.

Static sites enable a good time travel experience
hamatti.org

Juha-Matti Santala - A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.

The staff ate it later
en.wikipedia.org
Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds
wsj.com
Removing Guix from Debian
lwn.net

As a rule, if a package is shipped with a Debian release, users can count on it being available [...]

You don't want to hire "the best engineers"
otherbranch.com

I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.

The Little Book of Linear Algebra
github.com/the-litte-book-of

There is hardly any theory which is more elementary than linear algebra, in spite of the fact that generations of professors and textbook writers have obscured its simplicity by preposterous calcul...

Passkeys and Modern Authentication
lucumr.pocoo.org

Some thoughts in support of simple solutions.

Imgur's community was in revolt
404media.co

The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.

Show HN: Moribito – A TUI for LDAP Viewing/Queries
github.com/ericschmar
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Contribute to ericschmar/moribito development by creating an account on GitHub.

Take something you don’t like and try to like it
dynomight.net

dynomight - it offers lessons on your nature

RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
blog.jetbrains.com

RubyMine, a JetBrains IDE for Ruby and Rails, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.

Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels
worksinprogress.news

Samuel Hughes - How Canada's largest city developed a 30 kilometer network of pedestrian tunnels

What's New with Firefox 142
mozilla.org
Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever
reddit.com/r/europe
Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater
micahflee.com

At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others report ICE sightings near them. You can see the full talk, and the lively/infuriating Q&amp;A, here,

Run Erlang/Elixir on Microcontrollers and Embedded Linux
grisp.org

Peer Stritzinger GmbH | GRiSP Team - A modular embedded ecosystem—bare-metal hardware, software stacks, and a cloud platform for real-time IoT and distributed systems.

Light Sleep: Waking VMs in 200ms with eBPF and snapshots
koyeb.com

Discover how we built Scale-to-Zero to automatically wake VMs in 200ms with eBPF, light sleep, and snapshots.

Next.js is infuriating
blog.meca.sh
CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web
causenet.org
Keyboards from my collection (2023)
aresluna.org

Marcin Wichary - The most interesting keyboards I ever acquired

WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration
github.com/TibixDev

Run Windows apps on 🐧 Linux with ✨ seamless integration - TibixDev/winboat

Intuitive find and replace CLI (sed alternative)
github.com/chmln

Intuitive find &amp; replace CLI (sed alternative). Contribute to chmln/sd development by creating an account on GitHub.

FreeDroidWarn
github.com/woheller69

Contribute to woheller69/FreeDroidWarn development by creating an account on GitHub.

Taiwan Submarine Cable Map Showing Current Outage
smc.peering.tw

seadog007, TWDS - 互動地圖顯示歷史海纜斷線事件,包含海纜系統、登陸點位置及系統資訊

Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe
theverge.com

Jess Weatherbed - iTorrent’s developer has been blocked from distributing apps on alternative iOS stores.

Corruption and Control: Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business
blog.torproject.org

In Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated regimes in the world, internet censorship has evolved beyond surveillance and control. In an Orwellian twist, the people blocking access to the internet are the same ones secretly selling it back, at a price most Turkmens can't afford.

Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s
kazeta.org
I miss using em dashes
bassi.li

I really miss using em dashes in my writing. Ever since content creators started using ChatGPT to help (or supplement) their writing, em dashes have become indicators of AI use. Students are routinely caught with their pants down as professors flag an essay as AI-generated based on the presence of lists, positive-leaning prose, and em dashes.

Detecting and countering misuse of AI
anthropic.com

Anthropic's threat intelligence report on AI cybercrime and other abuses

This Month in Ladybird
ladybird.org
Don't Build Multi-Agents
cognition.ai

Frameworks for LLM Agents have been surprisingly disappointing. I want to offer some principles for building agents based on our own trial &amp; error, and explain why some tempting ideas are actually quite bad in practice.

Raspberry Pi 5 support (OpenBSD)
marc.info
The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales
howtogrow.substack.com

Rob Snyder - And 11 signs you've got it backwards

Desert Graves (2021)
desertmountaineer.com
Towards Memory Specialization: A Case for Long-Term and Short-Term RAM
arxiv.org

Both SRAM and DRAM have stopped scaling: there is no technical roadmap to reduce their cost (per byte/GB). As a result, memory now dominates system cost. This paper argues for a paradigm shift from today's simple memory hierarchy toward specialized memory architectures that exploit application-specific access patterns. Rather than relying solely on traditional off-chip DRAM and on-chip SRAM, we envisage memory system

Reports of Gmail security issue are inaccurate
blog.google

Gmail’s protections are strong and effective. Claims that we issued a warning to Gmail users about a major Gmail security issue are false.

Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]
youtube.com
I Was Wrong About Data Center Water Consumption
construction-physics.com

Brian Potter - But there are also some issues with how the Berkeley Lab report is estimating it.

Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
businessinsider.com

Eugene Kim - Amazon has struggled to recruit top AI talent. An internal document and company insiders reveal the reasons.

Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership
daemonology.net
Darth Android
pluralistic.net
The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
lwn.net

Arnd Bergmann started his Open Source Summit Europe 2025 talk with a clear statement of positio [...]

Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect
4rknova.com

Nikolaos Papadopoulos - A breakdown of how to build a custom Three.js shader that recreates the iridescent, sparkling look of foil stickers using vertex deformation, angle-based color shifts, and procedural flakes.

MAGA declares war on the property tax
urbanproxima.com

Jeff Fong - Republican politicians decide they like California after all

Steve Ballmer Interview
acquired.fm

The complete Steve Ballmer interview (and transcript!) on Microsoft’s history and strategy

Show HN: Woomarks, transfer your Pocket links to this app or self-host it
woomarks.com
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One of Britain's largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed
worldofinteriors.com

Damian Thompson - Richard Axe is celebrated in the bookselling trade for his vast collection of antiquarian and second-hand volumes. Since 2005, his stock has been arrayed on over a mile’s worth of shelving in a former youth hostel in the Yorkshire Dales, but now his career is approaching its coda

Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70%
neowin.net

No matter how hard other browsers try, people stubbornly do not want to leave Chrome, and its market share is now above 70%.

Adaptive LLM routing under budget constraints
arxiv.org

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, but their varying capabilities and costs pose challenges in practical applications. LLM routing addresses this by dynamically selecting the most suitable LLM for each query/task. Previous approaches treat this as a supervised learning problem, assuming complete knowledge of optimal query-LLM pairings. However, real-world scenarios lack such

The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom
blog.scaramuzza.me
Lessons from building an AI data analyst
pedronasc.com
Israeli campaign in Gaza meets definition of genocide, say scholars
ft.com

International Association of Genocide Scholars joins growing number of experts warning that Israel has committed war crimes

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, scholars group says
aljazeera.com

Leading genocide scholars formally declare that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the UN’s definition of genocide.

A Unique, High-Tech (Family) Computer
nicole.express

There’s a concept that many people have tried, with varying effects: the “educational computer”, a device that a parent can buy for their children to learn t...

The time picker on the iPhone's alarm app isn't circular, it's just a long list
reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck
Search engine referral report for 2025 Q2
radar.cloudflare.com

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