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151. The Day the Telnet Died
On January 14, 2026, global telnet traffic observed by GreyNoise sensors fell off a cliff. A 59% sustained reduction, eighteen ASNs going completely silent, five countries vanishing from our data entirely. Six days later, CVE-2026-24061 dropped. Coincidence is one explanation.
152. Fast Properties in V8 (2017)
This technical deep-dive explains how V8 handles JavaScript properties behind the scenes.
153. RISC-V Vector Primer
Read chapters directly from this repo - do not use GitHub Pages link. - riscv-vector-primer/index.md at main · simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer
154. Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)
Did you know that Rome is studded with cannon balls? Not many know that the city is full of sites where you can still see cannon balls. We’ll accompany you and share with you the story of the many cannon balls you can see around the city. Come and have a look for yourself! Come to Rome to see the city and its cannon balls.
155. The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)
156. Moderna Won't Run Any Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US
Growing opposition to vaccines in the U.S., driven by recent government policy changes, makes it difficult to see a return on investment in vaccine development, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said this week.
157. FAA Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days
158. The Nature of the Beast
Movies about dog owners and their canine companions have always been a popular cinema subgenre, especially in recent years as witnessed by such feel good entertainments as Arthur the King (2024), Dog (2022), Togo (2019), Megan Leavey (2017) and A Dog’s Purpose (2017). Taking an entirely different approach to family dramas like these is the…
159. Pandoc in the Browser with WASM
Pandoc 3.9 was released yesterday. Release pandoc 3.9 · jgm/pandoc · GitHub This is the first release for which an official wasm version is available. This is possible thanks to the amazing work done by the compiler bui…
160. How a Cat Debugged Stable Diffusion (2023)
The story of how Stable Diffusion caused my computer to emit an awful squealing sound, and how my cat solved it.
161. Eight More Months of Agents
162. Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.
163. 1D Cellular Automata Playground
164. The Missing GitHub Status Page
165. Discord Just Killed Anonymity
166. The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
src={alwaysHasBeen.src} alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in
167. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
168. German-language Wikipedia considers comprehensive AI ban
A comprehensive ban on AI-generated content is emerging in German-language Wikipedia. A vote shows a clear majority in favor of a ban.
169. Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon Wardley on building things without understanding how they work: Here's Adam Jacob in response: And here's Bruce Perens,…
170. Show HN: What is HN thinking? Real-time sentiment and concept analysis
Visualize and analyze Hacker News with vector embeddings
171. Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents
Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.
172. Fun With Pinball
Fun With Pinball small board assembly instructions explanations flipper solenoid stepper video
173. MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake
The viral social network for bots reveals more about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.
174. Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse
175. New repository settings for configuring pull request access
176. UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
promethee - UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (Proof of Concept)
177. A shortage of tenors
178. Thoughts on Generating C
wingolog: article: six thoughts on generating c
179. Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
180. Competition is not market validation
How to not fall into the fallacy of seeing competition as a proof of Product-Market Fit