fp.

PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

https://stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-03-19-pc-gamer-recommends-rss-readers-in-a-37mb-article/

508•JumpCrisscross•12h ago•250 comments

Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/dram-emfi.html

28•HeliumHydride•2d ago•3 comments

Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids

https://www.businessinsider.com/tin-can-landline-kids-cellphone-cell-alternative-how-2025-9

96•tejohnso•2d ago•71 comments

The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

https://larstofus.com/2026/03/22/the-gold-standard-of-optimization-a-look-under-the-hood-of-rolle...

331•mariuz•12h ago•97 comments

The future of version control

https://bramcohen.com/p/manyana

495•c17r•15h ago•276 comments

Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated

https://stevekrouse.com/precision

362•stevekrouse•20h ago•271 comments

The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y

https://neon.com/blog/ctrl-c-in-psql-gives-me-the-heebie-jeebies

19•andrenotgiant•2d ago•0 comments

Why I love NixOS

https://www.birkey.co/2026-03-22-why-i-love-nixos.html

280•birkey•13h ago•194 comments

Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline

https://www.projectnomad.us

414•jensgk•18h ago•141 comments

Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop

https://github.com/danveloper/flash-moe

337•mft_•19h ago•113 comments

A Copy-Paste Bug That Broke PSpice AES-256 Encryption

https://jtsylve.blog/post/2026/03/18/PSpice-Encryption-Weakness

31•jtsylve•3d ago•8 comments

GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gogograndparent/jobs/2vbzAw8-backend-engineer

1•davidchl•3h ago

Windows native app development is a mess

https://domenic.me/windows-native-dev/

400•domenicd•21h ago•381 comments

Intuitions for Tranformer Circuits

https://www.connorjdavis.com/p/intuitions-for-transformer-circuits

47•cjamsonhn•6h ago•3 comments

MAUI Is Coming to Linux

https://avaloniaui.net/blog/maui-avalonia-preview-1

193•DeathArrow•15h ago•99 comments

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116261301913660830

345•nothrowaways•10h ago•93 comments

Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft

https://armaansood.com/posts/systems-reading-group/

151•Foe•14h ago•43 comments

What Young Workers Are Doing to AI-Proof Themselves

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/ai-jobs-young-people-careers-14282284

119•wallflower•12h ago•189 comments

Migrating the American Express Payment Network, Twice

https://americanexpress.io/migrating-the-payments-network-twice/

64•madflojo•7h ago•18 comments

They're Vibe-Coding Spam Now

https://tedium.co/2026/02/25/vibe-coded-email-spam/

74•raybb•9h ago•44 comments

LLMs predict my coffee

https://dynomight.net/coffee/

109•surprisetalk•4d ago•46 comments

You are not your job

https://jry.io/writing/you-are-not-your-job/

130•jryio•15h ago•141 comments

Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools

https://noquiche.fyi/voodoo

181•fayalalebrun•17h ago•40 comments

More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams

https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/more-common-diagram-mistakes/

171•billyp-rva•19h ago•55 comments

First and Lego Education Partnership Update

https://community.firstinspires.org/first-lego-education-partnership-update

39•jchin•3d ago•15 comments

I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos

https://bay41.com/posts/tiiny-ai-pocket-lab-review/

69•davidklemke•4d ago•22 comments

How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project

https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/21/how-to-attract-ai-bots-to-your-open-source-project.html

118•zdw•1d ago•18 comments

"Collaboration" Is Bullshit

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboration-is-bullshit/

86•mitchbob•5h ago•31 comments

25 Years of Eggs

https://www.john-rush.com/posts/eggs-25-years-20260219.html

275•avyfain•4d ago•74 comments

Ordered Dithering with Arbitrary or Irregular Colour Palettes (2023)

https://matejlou.blog/2023/12/06/ordered-dithering-for-arbitrary-or-irregular-palettes/

22•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/dram-emfi.html

26•HeliumHydride•2d ago

Comments

rkagerer•55m ago

> Finally, I'd like to thank JEDEC for paywalling all of the specification documents that were relevant to conducting this research.

b00ty4breakfast•7m ago

my prediction before reading is that they're using the piezo sparker to beat the DUT over the head with a big EMF spike

Edit: Nailed it!

ted_dunning•6m ago

Uh... yeah.

Just hold the sysadmins hand over the lighter until they tell you the password.

Never forget the easy way in ... the humans.