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speckx
3 days ago
I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up
Starting a long-form history of Visual Basic on EvilGeniusLabs.ca. Chapter 1 covers the BASIC dynasty Microsoft had been running since 1975, the California developer Microsoft bought to put ...
A DAY AGO
MUSE900
EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
2 DAYS AGO
ATGCTG
OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
7 HOURS AGO
BANE
Getting arrested in Japan
4 DAYS AGO
RAWGABBIT
America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
4 DAYS AGO
SAMCLEMENS
The Trail of Jeremiah
A DAY AGO
SPECKX
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
3 DAYS AGO
ZZSHENG
Removing fsync from our local storage engine
imtomt
2 hours ago
Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
MacOS Web Server written entirely in ARM64 assembly - imtomt/ymawky
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marcingas
11 hours ago
Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms
Almost Clojure written in Go. Contribute to nooga/let-go development by creating an account on GitHub....
rbanffy
20 hours ago
LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the exp...
_alternator_
a day ago
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro,...
kohlschuetter
3 days ago
The Serial TTL connector we deserve
Goodbye dangling Dupont pins, hello Julet E-Bike connector. I have them now everywhere, from my router to my servers....
rsecora
3 days ago
The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962
What would you say is the first microcomputer? 1 The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from 1974? Perhaps the lesser-known Micral N (1973......
ggallas
12 hours ago
CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
If you run a server with cPanel or WHM, you need to read this carefully. On May 8, 2026 — just ten days after the cPanel CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass was used to compromise 44,000 we...
thatxliner
7 hours ago
Show HN: Rust but Lisp
Rust but LISP. Contribute to ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp development by creating an account on GitHub....
https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp
Cider9986
7 hours ago
France moves to break encrypted messaging
France's parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they're calling it a compromise....
ingve
3 days ago
Mythical Man Month
a bliki entry for Mythical Man Month...
anonymousiam
a day ago
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise....
msephton
14 hours ago
PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes
A productivity suite that willfully rejects common notions on how such software should behave, on an operating system most haven't heard of, running on a processor 30 years ahead of its time...
Tomte
4 days ago
What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena....
Georgelemental
15 hours ago
GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch
GrapheneOS has released a new update that fixes a recently disclosed Android VPN bypass flaw capable of leaking a user’s real IP address....