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GNU: A Heuristic for Bad Cryptography

https://soatok.blog/2020/07/08/gnu-a-heuristic-for-bad-cryptography/
7•stackghost•2h ago

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stackghost•2h ago
In light of the gpg.fail post I thought this was poignant and relevant
wmf•1h ago
GNU Anything tends to exist for ideological reasons and the technical side often gets a pass.
stackghost•34m ago
Sure, I have no problem with projects that are political first and foremost.

I just wish they'd be honest about priorities. If technical function and correctness is going to take a back seat to ideological purity then they owe it to their users to make this clear up front.

wmf•30m ago
No one is going to admit they're building the open source equivalent of a Yugo.

7- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG"

https://www.keshikan.net/fonts.html
1•anigbrowl•2m ago•0 comments

Going back to go forwards and instruction design

https://lukes-blog.vercel.app/posts/011-reversion&instruction
1•octopls•10m ago•0 comments

The Dangers of SSL Certificates

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/27/the-dangers-of-ssl-certificates/
2•azhenley•11m ago•0 comments

Floppy disk pre-paid cash card launched in Taiwan

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/floppy-disk-pre-paid-cash-card-launched-in-tai...
1•naves•11m ago•0 comments

Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today

https://borischerny.com/food/2022/01/17/Dinosaur-food.html
2•jxmorris12•13m ago•0 comments

Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32

https://exquisite.tube/w/mEzF442Q4hUXnhQ8HmfZuq
1•todsacerdoti•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Namebump is a registrationless, KVS. Unused names are bumped overtime

https://github.com/robertsdotpm/namebump
1•Uptrenda•14m ago•0 comments

W6LG – Silent Key

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIvZd71xOQM
1•jayknight•18m ago•1 comments

macOS Tahoe Bug Causes Studio Display Flickering Issues

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/18/macos-tahoe-studio-display-flickering/
1•tosh•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Twine – A tool to dynamically trace calls in production Elixir systems

https://github.com/ollien/twine
1•birdculture•19m ago•0 comments

44% of Gnome Core Apps Are Written in C, 13% in JavaScript and 10% in Rust

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-2025-Code-Stats
1•mikece•19m ago•0 comments

I'm bored, what should I build?

1•SpyCoder77•20m ago•2 comments

39C3: To sign or not to sign: Practical vulnerabilities in GPG and friends [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical-vulnerabilities-i
1•todsacerdoti•22m ago•0 comments

Mapping of preprocessed source code to original source code

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250306875A1/en
1•marcopolis•23m ago•0 comments

Starlink in crosshairs: How Russia could attack Elon Musk's conquering of space

https://apnews.com/article/russia-starlink-musk-ukraine-space-china-canada-c69c1fda5ffc93828712ab...
2•pseudolus•23m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Export your NotebookLM data – conversations, sources, citations

https://apify.com/clearpath/notebooklm-api
1•cpath•24m ago•0 comments

When you give tech gifts, also give the gift of installation

https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/12/when-you-give-tech-gifts-also-give-the-gift-of-installation/
1•tosh•24m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Buys over 1000 Cybertrucks

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spacex-buys-over-1-000-170521478.html
1•jojo3000•25m ago•0 comments

Immigration lawyers say the H-1B chaos is forcing tough business calls

https://www.businessinsider.com/h-1b-visa-changes-prompt-companies-to-tighten-sponsorship-staffin...
2•pseudolus•26m ago•0 comments

Wish List: A more flexible Apple display strategy

https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/12/wish-list-a-more-flexible-apple-display-strategy/
2•tosh•26m ago•1 comments

Airlines call in psychologists to stop passengers risking their lives for bags

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/27/airlines-call-psychologists-passengers-risking-li...
7•pseudolus•28m ago•12 comments

Pre-Commit Framework

https://pre-commit.com/
3•handfuloflight•29m ago•0 comments

What I Learned Building a Storage Engine That Outperforms RocksDB

https://tidesdb.com/articles/what-i-learned-building-a-storage-engine-that-outperforms-rocksdb/
1•alexpadula•30m ago•0 comments

Big Tech stole $35T from the public [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_TMuVQPfxw
5•xqcgrek2•31m ago•0 comments

The TV Writer Bought Web Domain After Predicting Trump Kennedy Center Takeover

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/toby-morton-donald-trump-kennedy-center-takeo...
3•homarp•31m ago•0 comments

Gaming on a Receipt Printer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEqvYXYI56s
1•zdw•32m ago•0 comments

Launching a global user-controlled digital identity

https://siros.org/blog/launching-a-global-web-first-foundation-for-secure-user-controlled-digital...
1•madspindel•33m ago•0 comments

Jujutsu Workshop

https://blinry.org/jj-workshop/
1•zdw•33m ago•0 comments

Bankruptcies are exploding across the economy

https://www.businessinsider.com/bankruptcies-across-economy-small-business-households-corporate-2...
7•zerosizedweasle•34m ago•3 comments

Server Radar – Track Hetzner Server Prices and Receive Email Alerts

https://radar.iodev.org/
1•todsacerdoti•35m ago•0 comments