✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job I created my first AWS account at 10:31 PM on April 10th, 2006. I had seen the announcement of Amazon S3 and had been thinking vaguely about the problem of secure backups — even though I didn't start Tarsnap until several months later — and the idea of an online storage service appealed to me. The fact that it was a web service made it even more appealing; I had been building web services since 1998,…
💥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Science,Science / Space,Coming Home 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Specialists did not classify it as a catastrophic failure, but it was a clear sign that something was wrong and could put lives at risk. In response, NASA halted the program's progress. Artemis II did not advance until Orion underwent a redesign of the armor, testing of new materials, and a complete recalibration of the thermal models. The dream of returning to the moon was delayed by nearly two years.The history of space is full of moments when a problem during…
💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A better WHOIS lookup tool. Interactive TUI with tabbed views for WHOIS, DNS, mail, SSL/TLS, HTTP headers, and tech stack detection. brew tap retlehs/tap brew install retlehs/tap/quien Or with Go: go install github.com/retlehs/quien@latest # Interactive prompt quien # Domain lookup (interactive TUI) quien example.com # IP address lookup quien 8.8.8.8 # JSON output quien --json example.com RDAP-first lookups with WHOIS fallback for broad TLD coverage IANA referral for automatic WHOIS server discovery Tech stack detection including WordPress plugins, JS/CSS frameworks, and external services parsed from…
🔥 Read this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks,Security / National Security,Security / Privacy,Security / Security News,Doom and Gloom 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Anthropy said this The week the emergence of the new Claude Mythos Preview model marks a critical juncture in the evolution of cybersecurity, presenting an unprecedented existential threat to existing software defense strategies. So, is this just AI hype or a real turning point?According to Anthropic, Mythos Preview goes beyond capabilities to discover vulnerabilities in almost any operating system, browser, or other software product, and independently develop exploits. With this in…
🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: *All but 8 we didn’t scrape (or got deleted between me checking the website and me scraping) and 42 missing from extensions.json.1 Technically we only installed 99.94% of the extensions. It turns out there’s only 84 thousand Firefox extensions. That sounds feasibly small. That even sounds like it’s less than 50 gigabytes. Let’s install them all! Scraping every Firefox extension There’s a public API for the add-ons store. No authentication required, and seemingly no rate limits. This should be easy. The search endpoint can…
✨ Check out this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Deals,Gear / Products,Gear / Products / Phones,Deal of the Day 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For a limited time Over time, you can get a Motorola Razr Ultra with 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage for just $700, a $600 discount off its usual price. It's our favorite foldable smartphone, with excellent performance, a full-day battery life, and all the trappings you'd expect from a phone that can't also fold in half.Photo: Julian ChocatoPhoto: Julian ChocatoPhoto: Julian ChocatoMotorolaRazr Ultra (2025)Although it may look similar to previous generations…
💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ← Back April 2026 I file the sharp corners off my MacBooks. People like to freak out about this, so I wanted to post it here to make sure that everyone who wants to freak out about it gets the opportunity to do so. Here are some photos so you know what I'm talking about: The bottom edge of the MacBook is very sharp. Indeed, the industrial designers at Apple chose an aluminum unibody partly for the fact that it can handle such a geometry.…
✨ Check out this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Deals,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Deals 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: There are no words for her This means when Black Friday falls in April and lasts for two weeks. Originally coined to refer to the chaos and hoopla when holiday shopping meets post-Thanksgiving football games, Black Friday has come to explicitly mean "anytime discounts."So when The Home Depot says they're having a "Spring Black Friday" sale, what they're trying to say is that spring can also be Christmas for the DIY and backyard set. It's when you buy…
💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ‘The thing I’d like most in the world’, says the reader in Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (1979), ‘is to make clocks run backwards.’ And understandably so. Written after a period of creative uncertainty, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller is a profoundly – even wilfully – disorienting work. It starts in a familiar enough way, with you, the reader, settling down to read Calvino’s latest novel. But you soon realise something’s wrong. The printers have not only messed up…
💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Space,NASA,artemis ii 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: After 10 days, the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft returned to Earth, and their mission around the moon was successful. “Integrity,” the name of the crew spacecraft as part of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, fell into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. Pacific time, according to NASA. The four crew members on board - three Americans and one Canadian - were all in a "green" (or safe and healthy) state after Orion's "perfect" landing. The crew…