My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

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The user discovered a security vulnerability in Hanwha Vision's security cameras, specifically a hardcoded GitHub token in the firmware that granted admin access to hundreds of repositories. The user reported the issue to Hanwha, who promptly revoked the token, and the user notes that this is a common mistake that needs to be addressed to prevent similar incidents in the future.

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch

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Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket successfully launched into a 280-mile-high orbit on its debut flight, marking India's first fully commercial satellite launcher. The launch was a "grand success" for the company, exceeding expectations and paving the way for future launches.

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

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As many people already knows, Nvidia published their kernel driver under MIT license: GitHub - NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source · GitHub (I will call it NVRM). This driver is ver…

The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm

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Foldkit is a frontend framework that uses The Elm Architecture, providing a structured and declarative approach to state, effects, and views. It offers a coherent system with built-in routing, state management, UI components, and form validation.

Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

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Black Forest Labs developed FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model that generates audio-visual content and controls robots, and its next-generation model FLUX-mimic is being used in real factory use cases. FLUX-mimic's success is due to its ability to learn a well-structured world model and expose it in decodable representations, making it sample efficient and robust for various tasks and industries.

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

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The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre ordered GitHub to remove Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging app, citing risks of misuse by anti-national elements and terrorist organisations. The app's design allows anonymous communication and evades lawful surveillance, posing a risk to India's sovereignty and public order.

It's getting harder to focus every day

The writer struggles with staying focused due to constant distractions, which have become a habit over time. They want to regain their ability to focus on one activity for long periods without getting sidetracked.

Flux 3

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FLUX 3 is a multimodal foundation model that jointly learns from images, videos, and audio to create a unified representation of the world. It can generate diverse videos and images, predict actions, and edit content, and is being developed for real-world visual intelligence and physical AI applications.

3GPP Version 19

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The 3GPP Project Coordination Group adopted a new 5G-Advanced logo for Release 19 deliverables in April 2021. This logo helps distinguish new release capabilities and services, providing clarity in industry conversations about 3GPP systems.

Plants vs. Zombies for PlayStation 2

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To build the project, run 'build ps2.bat' on Windows or edit the CMake config on Linux. Copy the 'main.pak' and 'properties' folder to the game executable path.

Latest Airbus Single Aisle Aircraft Innovations

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Airbus's A321XLR offers widebody comfort on a single-aisle aircraft with a range of 4,700 nautical miles. It features advanced engineering, elegant architecture, and technologies like cabin pressure adjustment and noise reduction for a peaceful long-haul experience.

WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial

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This book, "WebGPU Unleashed", teaches graphics programming in JavaScript using WebGPU, a new API that brings native graphics capabilities to the web. It covers GPU drivers, 2D and 3D rendering, GPU computing, and advanced techniques like Gaussian splatting rendering.

Codeberg Divides

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Codeberg's decision to exclude projects with generative AI code is within its rights as a democratic association, but its vague terms may lead to inconsistent enforcement and favor certain projects over others. This decision may hinder Codeberg's potential as a broad and dependable European alternative to GitHub.

Em dashes are fucking amazing

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The writer loves em dashes for their expressive power and versatility in writing. They argue that em dashes are a natural way to convey larger breaks in thought and can be used instead of brackets or colons to add clarity and drama to sentences.

Co-Opting Linux Processes for High-Performance Network Simulation (2022)

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Phantom is a novel tool for distributed system experiments that executes unmodified applications as Linux processes and synthesizes efficient control methods. It outperforms existing tools like Shadow, NS-3, and gRaIL in large P2P and Tor network simulations.

My Emacs Configuration (Dired)

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Dired works as a powerful file browser, which treats your precious files and directories as an (almost) usual emacs buffer. it is extremely useful when i want just copy specific images to the (e.g.) friend's usb-drive. the idea of this function is not mine, but i lost the url of blogpost where it was introduced :-( ) - or at this attempt to receive some policy about

Claude Cookbook

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Practical guides and code examples for building with Claude. Learn prompting techniques, tool use, multimodal capabilities, and more.

Writing a Debugger from Scratch

A debugger is a tool that analyzes either a running system or a static snapshot to identify and fix issues, and the user is writing a debugger from scratch using the Windows Debugging Functions API to learn Rust and make it easier for others to learn how a debugger works. The user has implemented a basic debugger that attaches to a process, monitors debug events, and continues from them to ...

Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist, married to wait, what?

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A recent book got me thinking about Silicon Valley’s history. Its origins predate the age of information technology, and yet relics of those times still structure the Valley. In this post, we go through just enough about its past to appreciate the significance of the curious incident that is Marc Andreessen’s marriage with Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen. Before we start, a quick note: I am sure ...

Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

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User is sharing a non-production ready fork of Bun, a project based on an older Rust version, to avoid duplicating development effort. They have ported Bun to build with current Zig, applying minor patches for incremental rebuilds.

PCI DSS DMARC Requirement: What Section 5.4.1 Requires

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The PCI DSS DMARC requirement is the question every IT admin asks before a payment audit — and the honest answer is more precise than most vendor pages admit. PCI DSS v4.0.1 does not mandate DMARC. Requirement 5.4.1 makes automated anti-phishing mechanisms mandatory, and the standard’s Guidance column names DMARC, SPF, and DKIM as example anti-spoofing controls — a requirement in force for ...

So bright the vision (1956) a story about machines writing instead of humans [pdf]

The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival

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IBM's entry into the personal computer market in 1981 was driven by the need to respond to the growing demand for small computers. The IBM PC, developed by Don Estridge's team, was a successful design that combined the best features of its competitors and became a standard in the industry.

Mag Computer: A Mag History of RAM (1960–2025)

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[0.8s] Saul: Hello and welcome to Mag World, where we like to ask big questions, make wild guesstimates, and quantify literally everything on a magnitude scale. Just remember that every order of magnitude is a big deal, because as we say at Mag World, quantity has a quality all of its own. If you wanna learn more about Mag World, come visit our website at magworld.pw. I’m Saul Pwanson, your ...

Game of Trees – Git-based version control from OpenBSD folks

Preventing line breaks in <code> elements

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One of my favourite tiny details in this website is my non-breaking spaces. I have code that looks for phrases like “5 cm”, “New York”, or “Objective‑C”, and inserts a non-breaking space/hyphen so they’ll never be split across multiple lines. This is the sort of typographical nicety that would be handled by a professional typesetter if I was writing a printed book with a fixed layout, but ...

Interview with a Maintainer

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Tyler from the Green Squares podcast interviews Erin Marsh, the maintainer of libcapstan, a foundational protocol library used in 80 million downloads a month, and discusses the challenges of maintaining it with limited resources and the potential benefits of AI-powered tooling. Erin also shares her experiences with funding, including a grant application that was declined due to her lack of ...

Kaizen #4: Overhauled Homelab

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The user revamped their homelab setup after moving to a new house, upgrading from a 9U server rack to a single machine, and switching from NixOS to Debian. They installed a new server, hailmary, with 288 GB RAM and 16x 600 GB HDDs, and set up various services including Docker, Jellyfin, qBittorrent, and Syncthing.

Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

The user built Echo, an AI system that combines multiple open-weight models for better performance, allocating computation and combining outputs based on each request. Echo outperformed individual models and reached similar results to Fable at lower inference cost, but still has limitations and failure cases to be addressed.

IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center

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The IRGC claimed a cruise missile strike destroyed an AWS data center in Bahrain, citing the US strike on Iran's Darkhovin nuclear plant as retaliation. This marks the third strike on the same facility since March and a new escalation tier in Operation Nasr-2.