Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014) https://tim.dierks.org/2014/05/security-standards-and-name-changes-in.html
tim.dierks.org
Security Standards and Name Changes in the Browser Wars
The Netscape/Microsoft browser wars in the mid-90's were really vicious and competitive. They really had it out for each other. Netscape had...
Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown https://huggingface.co/nanonets/Nanonets-OCR-s
Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-gravity-just-entropy-rising-long-shot-idea-gets-another-look-20250613/
Quanta Magazine
Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. | Quanta Magazine
A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and skeptical.
What happens when clergy take psilocybin https://nautil.us/clergy-blown-away-by-psilocybin-1217112/
Nautilus
Clergy Blown Away by Psilocybin
A 10-year-old study finally comes into the light
Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng.html
Honda Global
Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing Test of Experimental Reusable Rocket
Honda Global | Honda R&D Co., Ltd., a research and development subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., today conducted a launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket*1 (6.3 m in length, 85 cm in diameter, 900 kg dry weight/1,312 kg wet weight)…
Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform https://github.com/Snouzy/workout-cool
GitHub
GitHub - Snouzy/workout-cool: 🏋 Modern open-source fitness coaching platform. Create workout plans, track progress, and access…
🏋 Modern open-source fitness coaching platform. Create workout plans, track progress, and access a comprehensive exercise database. - Snouzy/workout-cool
Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs https://jakelazaroff.com/words/homomorphically-encrypted-crdts/
Jakelazaroff
Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs | jakelazaroff.com
Homomorphic encryption allows a computer to run programs on encrypted data. Learn how homomorphic encryption works through interactive examples, build a homomorphically encrypted CRDT and see whether it has promise for local-first software.
My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server https://terminalbytes.com/iphone-8-solar-powered-vision-ocr-server/
Terminalbytes
My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
How I transformed my old iPhone 8 into a solar-powered Vision OCR server using Apple's native framework and an EcoFlow River 2 Pro. Running 24/7 for months, processing thousands of images while completely off-grid.
Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry https://github.com/psviderski/unregistry
GitHub
GitHub - psviderski/unregistry: Push docker images directly to remote servers without an external registry
Push docker images directly to remote servers without an external registry - psviderski/unregistry
Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ
YouTube
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Andrej Karpathy's keynote on June 17, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Slides provided by Andrej: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a0h1mkwfmV2PlekxDN8isMrDA5evc4wW/view?usp=sharing
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:25 - Software evolution: From 1.0 to…
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:25 - Software evolution: From 1.0 to…
College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/15/college-baseball-venture-capital-and-the-long-maybe/
The Observation Deck
College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe
My son is a college baseball player. One of the singular aspects of having kids is that they open your eyes to facets of humanity that you might not have seen otherwise. I was not a college athlete (and knew little of even baseball until he got the bug at…
Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä https://jgeekstudies.org/2025/06/20/wilted-lands-and-wounded-worlds-visualizing-environmental-costs-of-war-in-hayao-miyazakis-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/
Journal of Geek Studies
Wilted lands and wounded worlds: visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Audrey Aguirre Upland High School, Upland, CA, USA. Email: audrey.a.aguirre (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Past studies on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ; Topcraft, 1984) have prim…
Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/
SMEX
Open Letter to Samsung: End Forced Israeli-Founded Bloatware Installations in the WANA Region - SMEX
In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over...
Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/06/17/unexpected-security-footguns-in-gos-parsers/
The Trail of Bits Blog
Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers
File parsers in Go contain unexpected behaviors that can lead to serious security vulnerabilities. This post examines how JSON, XML, and YAML parsers in Go handle edge cases in ways that have repeatedly resulted in high-impact security issues in production…
Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel https://clickhouse.com/blog/scaling-observability-beyond-100pb-wide-events-replacing-otel
ClickHouse
Scaling our Observability platform beyond 100 Petabytes by embracing wide events and replacing OTel
Read how we scaled our observability platform from 19PB to 100PB and 500 trillion rows by replacing OpenTelemetry with a native ClickHouse-to-ClickHouse pipeline, embracing wide events and cutting CPU usage by 90%.
Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app https://delta.chat/en/
delta.chat
Delta Chat: Delta Chat, decentralized secure messenger
Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app 💬 Reliable instant messaging with multi-profile and multi-device support ⚡️ Sign up to secure fast chatmail servers or use classic e-mail serv...