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How Hard Is It to Open a File?

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
31•ffin•1d ago

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TZubiri•1h ago
Knowing what to be concerned about in security is a skill, it is possible to overengineer security and put too much effort in non risks.

This reminds me of when a student was concerned about the client leaking the server's ip address.

Not saying that there aren't vulns, but the fix is fixing the bug and using a standard hardening mechanism like selinux or unix users. I strongly doubt that the root issue is the good old filesystem api everyone has been using for decades, it's more likely to be your code bro

croemer•59m ago
Good explanation of the flatpak sandbox escape.

For those allergic to LLM writing: Some sentences read very LLM-like, e.g.:

> The fix wasn’t “change one function” — it was “audit the entire call chain from portal request to bubblewrap execution and replace every path string with an fd.”

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
216•robinhouston•3d ago•40 comments

1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/
491•stephen-hill•3d ago•83 comments

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you...
116•speckx•6h ago•85 comments

The Joy of Folding Bikes

https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
28•pavel_lishin•3d ago•7 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
517•calcifer•16h ago•304 comments

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

https://coalton-lang.github.io/mine/
47•varjag•5h ago•6 comments

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/
58•thehappyfellow•5h ago•21 comments

How Hard Is It to Open a File?

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
31•ffin•1d ago•2 comments

Desmond Morris has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y797v200o
82•martey•5d ago•13 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music
152•ingve•12h ago•20 comments

GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/
118•Murfalo•8h ago•90 comments

What async promised and what it delivered

https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/
119•zdw•3d ago•110 comments

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/
134•adunk•11h ago•23 comments

Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets

https://getkloak.io/
29•neo2006•3h ago•25 comments

Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-reduce-bean-gas-tested-11883862
74•jstrieb•2h ago•51 comments

Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau

https://lute.luau.org/
40•vrn-sn•3d ago•7 comments

Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)

https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/
39•jxmorris12•1d ago•6 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough Could Unlock a 150-Gigawatt Energy Revolution

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-...
40•sleepyguy•3h ago•29 comments

Hokusai and Tesselations

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/
83•srean•5h ago•13 comments

Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
44•wslh•3d ago•18 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm
99•mariuz•11h ago•40 comments

Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/windows-2-gui-wonderland-12a/
67•keepamovin•11h ago•47 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
259•rbanffy•21h ago•127 comments

North American Millets Alliance(2023)

https://milletsalliance.org/
8•num42•4h ago•2 comments

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI

https://victortaelin.github.io/lambench/
124•marvinborner•11h ago•37 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
324•pigeons•21h ago•44 comments

HEALPix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix
48•hyperific•9h ago•6 comments

Commenting and approving pull requests

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/on-commenting-and-approving-pull-requests/
75•jwworth•2d ago•62 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
508•alcazar•1d ago•129 comments

The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It

https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discovering-public-backlash
158•chirau•1h ago•189 comments