GTFOBins

GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix-like executables that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems.

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Researchers have created a 13B vintage language model called talkie-1930-13b-base trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text to simulate conversations with people from the past. The model's performance is compared to its modern counterpart, with talkie underperforming in some standard LM evaluations but showing similar performance on core language understanding and numeracy tasks.

Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

Microsoft and OpenAI dropped exclusive deal allowing OpenAI to pursue deals with other cloud-computing companies. Microsoft will no longer pay revenue share on OpenAI products resold on its cloud.

Is my blue your blue?

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Test your color perception with this interactive test.

Can You Find the Comet?

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A comet is visible in the night sky, but it's hard to see due to its proximity to the Sun. It will be best viewed from southern hemisphere skies in coming weeks before fading into interstellar space.

The World's Most Complex Machine

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ASML, a Dutch company, dominates the market for lithography machines used in semiconductor manufacturing. Its machines are crucial for producing the world's smallest chips.

Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust

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PGRX is a Rust framework for developing PostgreSQL extensions, supporting various platforms and PostgreSQL versions. It provides a safe and idiomatic way to interact with PostgreSQL internals.

High Performance Git

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The book explains Git's performance costs through its layers, including objects, refs, index, and history traversal. It's written for engineers to keep Git fast as repositories grow, covering diagnosis, configuration, and recovery.

WASM is not quite a stack machine

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Wasm is not a pure stack machine due to its lack of stack manipulation operations. It can be viewed as a register machine with operations generalized to compound expressions.

Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)

The author built a Quake PC with 384 MiB of RAM, but performance suffered due to the 430FX chipset's 64M cache limit. Removing excess RAM restored performance, revealing a common issue with Windows 95 and NT loading from the top down.

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

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A data breach at Mercor exposed 40,000 contractors' voice biometrics and ID documents. Attackers can use this data to clone voices and commit crimes like bank verification bypass and vishing.

Men who stare at walls

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User tried Simple Lucas' focus routine, staring at a wall to recover focus, and found it effective but hard. They attribute their lack of focus to information overload and use wall staring with parasympathetic activation and mind blanking to improve productivity.

Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests

Toronto Police launched Project Lighthouse in November 2025 to combat an SMS blaster operating in downtown Toronto. The device mimicked a cellular tower, sending fraudulent texts to thousands of devices, posing a threat to public safety and financial security.

The quiet resurgence of RF engineering

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RF engineering is experiencing a resurgence due to growing demand from industries such as space, 5G, and automotive, driven by a shortage of engineers who can work at the hardware level. The supply side is broken, with 73% of EE employers unable to fill positions within six months, and companies are investing in university partnerships to build their own talent pipeline.

How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way

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The author's magnetometer stopped working when powered by a battery, but worked fine when powered by USB. The issue was likely due to a noisy 3.3V power line caused by a switching regulator.

Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad

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The Easyduino project is an open-source effort to create PCB designs for popular microcontrollers using KiCad. It aims to unify software and conventions across devboards like Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi.

LingBot-Map: Streaming 3D reconstruction with geometric context transformer

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Lingbo-Map uses Geometric Context Attention to manage memory in 3D reconstruction. It maintains three contexts to keep memory and compute constant at 20 FPS for long sequences.

Networking changes coming in macOS 27

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Apple is warning of two significant changes in macOS 27: removal of AFP support and a requirement for TLS 1.2 connections to certain servers. These changes may impact enterprise users and those with Time Capsules or NAS systems that don't support SMB3.

Tiled Words 6 Month Update

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I've wanted to make games ever since I was a kid. I remember my dad taught me the programming language "Basic" and together we made a simple number guessing game. You would guess a number and it would say "Oh my, too high!" or "Oh no, too low!" As an adult I've tried making a few different games but I've never had much success. It's hard to find the ...

The woes of sanitizing SVGs

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Scratch's approach to SVG sanitization has been ineffective due to numerous vulnerabilities discovered over the years. Despite multiple fixes, new security issues continue to arise.

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

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pgBackRest is a reliable PostgreSQL backup and restore solution that scales up to large databases and workloads. It supports parallel processing, compression, and block-level backups for efficient data storage and retrieval.
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The DSPi transforms a Raspberry Pi Pico into a digital audio processor with features like room correction, active crossovers, and parametric EQ. It acts as a USB sound card with onboard DSP engine.

Meetings are forcing functions

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Organizations can use standing meetings to maintain progress on complex projects with multiple stakeholders. By reviewing previous to-dos, it creates pressure to make progress and accountability among team members.

FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss

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Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar

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Spanish archaeologists have documented 151 sites in the Bay of Algeciras, including 134 shipwrecks dating from the 5th century BC to the 2nd World War. The wrecks reveal the history of war, trade, exploration, and settlement in the strategically important waterway.

Integrated by Design

Radar Laboratory – Interactive Radar Phenomenology

Radar systems involve various concepts such as A-scope displays, matched filters, antenna apertures, and signal processing techniques like coherent integration and MTI cancellers to detect and track targets. Key performance metrics include signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), probability of detection (Pd), and probability of false alarm (Pfa), which are influenced by factors like target RCS, antenna ...

Lessons from building multiplayer browsers

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The user joined a startup as a founding engineer working on a new browser, Sail, which aimed to be a collaborative software with real-time multiplayer features, but ultimately failed to gain traction due to positioning and market challenges. The user learned valuable lessons about product thinking, engineering, and design, and now advocates for the importance of clear positioning, user ...

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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GitHub Copilot will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, with a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits for each plan. Credits will be consumed based on token usage, and users can purchase additional usage if needed.

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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No boilerplate Versatile Whether you are writing a research paper, a quick report, a company-wide wiki, class notes, or preparing interactive slides for your next talk, there's only one line you need.