Root for your friends https://josephthacker.com/personal/2025/05/13/root-for-your-friends.html
Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver https://gitlab.com/sephalon/rotary_dial_kmod
GitLab
Stefan Wiehler / rotary_dial_kmod · GitLab
Linux kernel driver that turns a rotary phone dial into a evdev input device
Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/world/asia/hongkong-bamboo-scaffolding.html
NY Times
Hong Kong’s Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs On (for Now)
Metal has begun to replace this distinctive latticework, which is seen on towers across the city. Daisy Pak, a rare female bamboo master, takes pride in the ancient craft.
The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2 https://magnus919.com/2025/05/the-xenon-death-flash-how-a-camera-nearly-killed-the-raspberry-pi-2/
Notes from the Rabbit Hole
The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2
The bizarre story of how taking flash photos could instantly crash the Raspberry Pi 2, the community detective work that solved it, and why this strange bug revealed fundamental flaws in modern chip design.
On File Formats https://solhsa.com/oldernews2025.html#ON-FILE-FORMATS
Claude 4 System Card https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4
Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic's CDN because they don't appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic's system cards are always worth a look, and …
At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html
NY Times
At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work
Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift.
Lossless video compression using Bloom filters https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/README.md
GitHub
new_bloom_filter_repo/README.md at main · ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo
This repo contains a new way to use bloom filters to do lossless video compression - ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo
Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine https://www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-from-the-trenches-of-the
www.solarshades.club
Dispatch from the Trenches of the Butlerian Jihad
Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.
GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-github-vulnerability
invariantlabs.ai
GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
We showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security analyzer for detecting toxic agent flows.
Show HN: Lazy Tetris https://lazytetris.com/
Lazytetris
Lazy Tetris
No stress Tetris
How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-hunting
Frontiers Science News
Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published Frontiers in Ethology article that
BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident
blog.benjojo.co.uk
BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
Square Theory https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory
Adam Aaronson
Square Theory | Adam Aaronson
The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, sometimes delightful town square where total noobs, veteran…