The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

Link: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176257

love coming home to read up what war-time law is being reactivated during peace-time

一つ歳を取りましたわ

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Please, please, please stop using #passkeys to encrypt user data. Please 🙏🏻

https://blog.timcappalli.me/p/passkeys-prf-warning/

On the “why do you build for ap or at” trend right now

Bro

I write html

neither tribe likes me because I interoperate

If a French blogger can use “And voilà.” in English, I should be allowed to use “No i proszę.” or whatever

@rickRicardo Mendes Great work, Ricardo! And thank you for using Fedify!

this week's atmosphere and fediverse news, with now three approaches to private data, and a whole bunch of atproto project updates and news connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

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I watched the first episode of starfleet academy yesterday

and

this is just bad?

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Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code

Link: https://antirez.com/news/160
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47149829

Just over a day until our Call for Papers closes so if you're thinking about submitting one, now is the time!

https://talks.oggcamp.org/oggcamp-2026/cfp

my team at apple (the Swift performance team) is hiring another engineer! we work on the SIL IR, SIL and LLVM optimization passes for Swift, and language features supporting systems and high-performance programming in Swift. the position is in-person but could be in Cupertino or London https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200641786-0836/swift-compiler-backend-engineer?team=SFTWR

Mahjong Handle* 1487 6/6
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Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory

Link: https://www.oranlooney.com/post/grifters-skeptics-marks/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137199

Leaving Google has actively improved my life

Link: https://pseudosingleton.com/leaving-google-improved-my-life/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184288

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You look like you need a photo of a cat lounging on a stack of Toshiba laptops from the 1990s

When I first started working with #ActivityPub, before #Fedify existed, it felt like writing web apps in Perl and CGI in the late '90s. Interesting, even exciting—but never comfortable. That era where your business logic and your protocol plumbing were just… the same thing:

print "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print "Hello, world!"

Decades of web development have given us layers of abstraction we now take for granted. Nobody hand-parses application/x-www-form-urlencoded query strings anymore. Nobody writes their own JSON codec, or manually constructs HTTP request/response messages. These things just aren't your problem when you're building an app.

ActivityPub development still feels like they are your problem. What do you do when the https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#actor property comes in as a string instead of an array? What about when https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#object is an embedded entity rather than a URI? How exactly do you implement HTTP Signatures? And wait—what's Linked Data Signatures, and do you need that too?

The real issue isn't that ActivityPub is complicated per se. It's that you can't get away with understanding it at a high level. You have to know it the way an implementor knows it—every edge case, every inconsistency in how different servers serialize JSON-LD, every signature scheme that exists in the wild. That's a lot to learn before you can even start thinking about your actual app. And when developers understandably cut corners on the protocol to focus on their product, it quietly becomes an interoperability problem for the whole ecosystem.

What I want ActivityPub development to feel like: you spend a day understanding the big picture, and then you just… build your app. That was the goal when I started Fedify, and honestly, we're not fully there yet. But it's where I want to get.

#fedidev #fediverse

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116144528228948839

Dude, there were...
Bales of cocaine fallin' from low-flyin' planes. I don't know who done dropped 'em but I thank 'em just the same. (wrong song, but maybe a better song?)

I see more and more songs from when I was young getting classified as “throwback hits”. That kind of hurts.

my team at apple (the Swift performance team) is hiring another engineer! we work on the SIL IR, SIL and LLVM optimization passes for Swift, and language features supporting systems and high-performance programming in Swift. the position is in-person but could be in Cupertino or London https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200641786-0836/swift-compiler-backend-engineer?team=SFTWR

https://ko-fi.com/clarusplusplus

29%

I really don't like asking, but things are getting extremely tight for my wife and me while I continue pitching Enigma Heart to publishers and looking for a backup job at the same time. (Luck hasn't been so great on that front.) We're close to running out of savings, and rent and food are coming due.

If you can help, and you've got a few dollars to spare, it'd really help keep us afloat. Thanks! 🩷

#MutualAid

"What were the skies like when you were young?"

Please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data via @fanfTony Finch https://lobste.rs/s/tf8j5h #cryptography
https://blog.timcappalli.me/p/passkeys-prf-warning/

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-artemis-moon-program-overhaul/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182483

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds-in-history/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181211

I hope this email finds you, wherever they find you, that it helps your brand too.

Our robot runs on NixOS. Here is the problem it actually solves.

The EU Cyber Resilience Act makes reproducible builds, long-term support, and verifiable SBOMs a legal requirement.
Our CTRL-OS module runs NVIDIA Jetson on a stock Linux kernel with NixOS. We built a robot on top of it to test real-world integration.
Next: a Security Tracker for vulnerability exposure on Nix-based stacks.
We wrote up the full story on our blog:
https://cyberus-technology.de/en/articles/long-lived-certifiable-robots-on-nixos-ctrlos/

#NixOS #CyberResilienceAct

Just a NixOS Phone running a reasoning LLM locally...

#nixos #llm #llamacpp

One of the reasons to prefer mature software, and in particular mature *open source* software, is that finding and fixing bugs takes forever. Consider this problem, which took 2 years to diagnose even after discovery. I think we finally figured it out: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/12120

I hope this email finds you, wherever they find you, that it helps your brand too.

As a former math major, honestly my calculator history is probably way more embarrassing to me than my browser history

Wow, never seen a ping like this. Thanks for the quick warning, broadcasting here in case someone affected is not in the Matrix room.

This is the bug it runs into, breaks booting (can still roll back to an older gen if you have physical access): https://lore.kernel.org/all/bb9ab61c-3bed-4c3d-baf0-0bce4e142292@moonlit-rail.com/

#NixOS

ein spiel ist erst richtig linux-native wenns mir das inventar als FUSE gibt und ich meine stats greppen kann

100 gecs – 10,000 gecs

is she, you know (moves her hand as if signing a non-disclosure agreement) a fae?

(i was reminded of this again)

you know, a lot of things about the electronics industry make sense if you keep in mind that when you request assistance from a vendor they send fae your way

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This is the thing, right?

When a _person_ does something absolutely inane and I call them on it, they will eventually stop doing the inane thing.

I worked with this guy a while back. He was junior, I was the tech lead on the project. I set the coding standards for it and he didn't like what I picked because it required a lot of work up front. It required docs on public methods, it required fairly high test coverage targets (both branch and instruction), it required following specific naming conventions and programming standards. I often would tell him to make his commits smaller.

No smaller than that.

Smaller still.

You couldn't just turn your brain off.

He fought me every step of the way, but eventually:

He learned and what's more, he began to internalize why I was doing it the way that I did.

Code reviews started flying by. It became _easy_.

AIs, even the really good ones, don't learn from this sort of process. Oh sure they have _memory_, but it is itself unreliable and subject to the same context window restrictions as everything else. They are by their nature ephemeral.

So there's a lot less incentive in me giving it a thorough review.

Unless it is my agent and my project.

Deprecate confusing APIs like “os.path.commonprefix()”. After fixing a vulnerability in #pip, I started digging into the confusing API and found more than I expected.

👉 https://sethmlarson.dev/deprecate-confusing-apis-like-os-path-commonprefix

#python #oss #opensource #security

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sethmlarson/116143641143643176

Seth really did the work here. He even reported an incorrect usage in Whitenoise, which we released the fix for yesterday!

So. Und jetzt hoffen, dass nix genommen wird, weil sonst ist das viel Arbeit im März....
#eh23

Instant LLM Updates with Doc-to-LoRA and Text-to-LoRA https://lobste.rs/s/l2nahy #ai
https://pub.sakana.ai/doc-to-lora/