The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer.

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file.,A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file.

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

Tinywind is a pixel-art pirate sailing game in your browser. Outsail the Royal Navy across 7 islands with real sailing physics — beam reach, tack, jibe, broadside. Free to play, no install, 5-minute voyages.

Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible

Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion

Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap

LLMs aren’t lazy. They don’t cut corners because a simpler solution feels good enough. If they know how to solve something thoroughly, they will. An LLM defaults to building when it should be buying. Not because it doesn’t know about existing libraries, it often mentions them, but because for an LLM, writing two hundred lines of implementation is the same cognitive effort as writing two lines of import. There’s no instinct to reach for the shortest path. The shortest path for the model is to implement it completely.

Iroh 1.0

Iroh 1.0 is out. Now is the time to build.

My Homelab AI Dev Platform

Self-hosting OpenCode Web for GitOps style homelab changes.

I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

How I found that anyone could register on FIFA's public Agent Platform, gain access to the Football Data Platform's Streaming Management panel, and get RTMP ingest URLs and stream keys for every live FIFA World Cup 2026 camera feed. I then spent hours calling FIFA, MediaKind, HBS, CISA, and the FBI trying to get someone to pick up the phone.

The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis

Harold Hotelling’s 1936 Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) forms the theoretical and intuitive foundation for modern embedding prediction techniques, including JEPA models.

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

OverviewA long while back I had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to do something more useful to me. Actually, I had a few different ideas of things to do with them. One of these ideas was to mo…

Why I email complete strangers

I Love the Computer

An exploration of how I became a massive geek.

Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri

Cohere's First Model for Developers

Introducing North Mini Code: Cohere's first open-source agentic coding model. Built for sovereign developers, this efficient 30B MoE model delivers strong software development performance with minimal hardware requirements.

Hetzner Price Adjustment

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.

Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

An archive of ~2500 pictorial typography and letterpress works spanning four centuries, images composed entirely of type ornaments, characters, and rule. The history of ASCII art before computers.

I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.