Honda Civics and the Evil Valet

The author has updated their project on reverse engineering the 2021 Honda Civic headunit, revealing a vulnerability called "EvilValet" that allows arbitrary code execution via the update path. A new tool, ota-builder, has been published to easily prepare update files.

Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded

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SQL to ER Diagram is a free, open-source tool that converts SQL schema into interactive ER diagrams in the browser. It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and SQL Server, with no account or sign-up required.

GLM 5.2 Is Out

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GLM-5.2, an open-source AI model, is now available to all users. It supports long-horizon tasks and is a step towards making frontier intelligence accessible to everyone.

Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau

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The US Department of Commerce banned noise infusion from statistical products, targeting differential privacy, which adds noise to protect data privacy. This move may lead to less accurate or more vulnerable data, impacting researchers and demographic studies.

500-year-old monasteries outperform at digital transformation (U. of Zurich)

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Every Frame Perfect

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UI should be polished and consistent, with every frame mattering to build trust with users. A well-designed UI should look good in all states, not just start and end.

Don't trust large context windows

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The author describes the limitations of large context windows in LLMs, where attention drops off after 100k tokens, making them mostly a marketing number. To avoid this, the author uses a "breadcrumb approach" by writing and passing a spec to new sessions, keeping the working session in the smart zone.

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

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Thousands of oncologists gave a standing ovation at a Chicago conference for daraxonrasib, a drug that almost doubles pancreatic cancer survival times. This breakthrough could impact Amazon and NASA's plans.

Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Tribblix is an open source OS blending retro style with modern components, based on illumos. It's available for download in SPARC and x86 versions, with the x86 version being more stable.

Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later

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I finally decided to write an application for the very first version of Windows and see how different the modern WinAPI really is from its earliest versions. Windows 1.0 came out back in the mid-1980s — the era of 16-bit processors, MS-DOS, and cooperative multitasking. At first glance, you might think it has almost nothing in common with modern Windows, but when you look specifically at the ...

FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language

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Free Oberon is a cross-platform IDE for the Oberon programming language, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It allows users to write, compile, and run programs in Oberon, with features like automatic linking and error detection.

Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

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A user built a portable console using a used IBM 1U console, a terminal emulator, and a keyboard. The device has two modes: one for connecting to a terminal box and another for free connectors.

Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI

Pyodide now supports PEP 783, allowing Python packages to be published directly to PyPI and installed at runtime, reducing the burden on maintainers and enabling faster startup times. This release also includes several breaking changes, such as a new versioning scheme, removal of certain libraries, and updates to the ssl and hashlib modules.

Pac-Man, but you're the ghost

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You created a game where players control ghosts chasing Pac-Man with AI, but he turns the tables if he eats a power pellet. The goal is to catch Pac-Man before he clears the maze or escapes after turning the tables.

Codex for open source

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Codex supports open-source maintainers with tools for real workflows, reducing coding and review load. Selected maintainers receive API credits and ChatGPT Pro for six months.

Raress96/Dolby-Atmos-encoder: PoC Dolby Atmos encoder

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This tool converts Dolby Atmos Master (DAMF) into E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus) with Joint Object Coding (JOC) for playback on non-certified hardware. However, it cannot produce a signature that Dolby-certified hardware accepts due to proprietary cryptography.

Beagle: Git, URIs and all the dirty words

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The user proposes using HTTP and URI to simplify Git operations by addressing and accessing local and remote resources, files, and locations in files. Beagle, a Git-compatible SCM, already uses this approach with HTTP verbs and orthogonal operations to decompose Git practices into a set of simple, unrelated actions.

Phoenix LiveView 1.2

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To update from LiveView 1.1 to 1.2, update mix.exs and re-fetch dependencies. LiveView 1.2 introduces colocated CSS and a new @scope rule for scoping styles.

How to Earn a Billion Dollars

June 2026(This is based on a talk I gave at the Oxford Union.)Since this is apparently the future prime ministers' club, I'm going to tell you about something it would be good if more politicians understood: I'm going to tell you how people become billionaires. I hope this will be useful to you even if you don't plan to go into politics. Those of you who don't become prime ...

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

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Researchers at UC San Diego are building a 2,000-phone computing cluster to reduce carbon emissions from computing. The cluster will provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for researchers and students, reducing the need for newly-manufactured hardware.

LaserWriter seeds

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Xerox PARC researchers developed EARS, a system that enabled high-quality printing from a computer, by moving processing off the host computer and using a hardware controller. This innovation led to the creation of Adobe Systems and influenced the development of the Macintosh and PostScript.

Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines

Weave is a Git merge driver that resolves conflicts by merging entities at the entity level, not line level. It successfully merges different functions in the same file without conflicts.

GameBoy Workboy

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Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models

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RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

User upgraded from RTX 5080 to a refurbished RTX 3090 for AI experiments. They successfully set up both cards on an Asus Prime X570-Pro motherboard, achieving 80+ tokens/sec with Qwen 3.6 model quantized at q8.

Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch

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The ddx3216 uses a 64k x 8bit rom-chip. the reset-vector has to be placed at 0xffff0 to make it compatible with the new cpu-cpecifications. so i searched for better solutions and found the picorom and onerom projects - and how to use them!... and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me :

ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

ReactOS has achieved a milestone by running the classic game Half-Life on its open-source platform. This marks a significant step towards Windows binary compatibility for ReactOS.

The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

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A frontend ticket was incorrectly assigned to the user, who had to explain to the design team that the issue with Arabic text rendering was due to the lack of shaping engines in the web, not a bug in the stylesheet. The user then went on to explain the history of Arabic typography, the importance of shaping engines, and the challenges of rendering Arabic text on the web, including the use of ...

AI coding at home without going broke

Three ways to do AI coding at home without company spending are self-hosting, renting open source models, and blending frontier subscriptions with API rates. The best approach is a mix of expensive models for planning and cheap ones for filling in details.

Appreciating Exif

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Exif is a metadata format that stores image information like orientation, timestamp, and camera settings, and it's usually found in JPEG files near the beginning in an APP1 marker segment. Exif is optional and can be stripped, but it's often used by photo apps, websites, and asset-management systems to sort, search, and display images.