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Visualizing Binary Files

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-08-05/0/POSTING-en.html

19•zdw•23h ago

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lbhdc•22h ago

https://github.com/wader/fq

I have really liked fq for binary visualization.

nvalis•1h ago

I always liked the 3D visualization in Veles[0]. It's very intuitive to make out structured ASCII or other non-compressed sections in binary data.

[0] https://github.com/codilime/veles

st_goliath•40m ago

You might be interested in GNU poke[1][2], a hex-editor type program that can actually parse and visualize the structure of binary data (using a DSL for describing formats).

[1] https://jemarch.net/poke

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34986042

pdpi•27m ago

I've been using ImHex[0] for this purpose, to pretty good effect.

[0]: https://github.com/werwolv/imhex

1970-01-01•23m ago

And binwalk if you want to find the juice within the file.

https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/wiki/Supported-Signatu...

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-perform...

573•interpol_p•4h ago•463 comments

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/

490•interpol_p•4h ago•308 comments

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bomb-fishing-coral-reefs

144•speckx•2h ago•88 comments

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-n...

262•runako•4h ago•134 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590

13•raattgift•19m ago•1 comments

Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

222•garo-pro•5h ago•102 comments

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/building-a-backyard-office-the-build-and-cost-breakdown

116•surprisetalk•3h ago•80 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/

217•Hbruz0•5h ago•89 comments

My Friend Aaron

https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron

13•sarreph•28m ago•3 comments

Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers

https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/water-behind-the-watts-the-hidden-risk-of-powering-data-c...

6•hn_acker•23m ago•1 comments

Nitter project received cease and desist

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442

7•Banditoz•13m ago•1 comments

Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche and the Great War (2019)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/beyond-good-and-evil-nietzsche-and-great-war

21•samizdis•2h ago•10 comments

Tooltips Need a Delay, and Then They Need to Skip It

https://blog.master.dev/tooltips-need-a-delay-and-then-they-need-to-skip-it/

5•ibobev•46m ago•0 comments

HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application

https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly

69•Bluestein•5h ago•36 comments

Warnock: Harnessing GPU Geometry Amplification for Vector Graphics

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3820012

9•coffeeaddict1•1h ago•1 comments

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm

578•K7PJP•19h ago•182 comments

MySQL CDC to BigQuery: what periodic syncs miss, and how binlog avoids it

https://www.erathos.com/en/blog/mysql-cdc-to-bigquery

22•gpaulbagetti•3h ago•7 comments

SpaceX – Starbase, LA

https://www.spacex.com/sites/starbase-la

7•bilsbie•44m ago•0 comments

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

https://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/

821•ComputerGuru•1d ago•410 comments

Visualizing Binary Files

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-08-05/0/POSTING-en.html

19•zdw•23h ago•5 comments

AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ai-is-hitting-entry-level-jobs-hardest-stanford-study-finds/

91•Brajeshwar•2h ago•78 comments

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926

961•tosh•1d ago•694 comments

Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

https://dfarq.homeip.net/happy-20th-birthday-to-windows-95/

78•giuliomagnifico•10h ago•38 comments

Solving the 1+N Query Problem

https://acadia.engineering/blog/solving-the-1-plus-N-query-problem

15•wheatBread•4h ago•9 comments

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html

220•gmays•15h ago•263 comments

Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-san-francisco-staff-work-remote-office-security-strike-...

71•DGAP•3h ago•76 comments

SiFive's First Server Platform

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/sifives-first-server-platform

114•geerlingguy•14h ago•36 comments

What's new in Emacs 31.1

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-311

309•geospeck•1d ago•82 comments

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs

1568•l-one-lone•1d ago•970 comments

Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff

https://app.dover.com/Autostep/careers/e9510e3b-a854-4e48-9e5d-c89796acaed4

1•adawg4•23h ago