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Don’t Roll Your Own …

Don’t Roll Your Own …

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: By Susam Pal on 23 May 2026 This is going to be a rant about modern web design practices. But before I get to that, let me begin with a familiar principle from the world of cryptography. Among software developers, and especially among those who work on security-sensitive systems, there is a well-known maxim: Don't roll your own crypto. This does not mean that nobody is allowed to write cryptographic code. Someone has to. It means that, for ordinary production software that protects sensitive…
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Best Memorial Day deals: Garmin, Birdfy, Branch (2026)

Best Memorial Day deals: Garmin, Birdfy, Branch (2026)

🚀 Read this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Deals,Deals ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: We've got you covered Deals since 2013, I still think Memorial Day sales are worth checking out. There are a lot of artificial shopping holidays these days, which can make it difficult to confirm that items are actually cheaper than usual. Now is one of those times. To help you, I've scoured our buying guides full of hand-tested items to find discounted tools and gadgets worth buying. If you're in the market for something we tested, keep checking back until May 26 to…
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Iowa lawmakers move to mandate students take Center for Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment

Iowa lawmakers move to mandate students take Center for Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - University of Iowa students could soon be required to take classes at the Center for Intellectual Freedom — or they won’t be able to graduate.Republican lawmakers added a provision to a massive budget bill during a 35-hour legislative session requiring University of Iowa students to complete at least six credit hours from the center to earn an undergraduate degree. The bill now heads to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk.Democrats are urging Reynolds to line-item veto the provision.Why was the center…
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The FBI wants “near real-time” access to US license plate readers

🚀 Check out this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks,Security / National Security,Security / Security News,Security Roundup 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A former Phoenix police officer who owns a company that provides firearms training to Immigration and Customs Enforcement was involved in six shootings, four of which were fatal, a WIRED investigation found this week. Meanwhile, an NYPD officer's attorney has been banned from Madison Square Garden amid a lawsuit filed by the cop over injuries he sustained during a boxing match at an MSG location.The Take It Down Law went into effect in…
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Pardon MIE? – ironPeak Blog

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Pardon MIE? Sat May 23, 2026Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement is no joke. Five years of design, brand-new M5 silicon, hardware memory tagging on the kernel heap, hardware-locked read-only zones for the kernel’s crown jewels, and a privileged monitor sitting above the kernel that refuses every unauthorised page-table change. It’s the most serious kernel memory-safety stack any consumer OS has shipped. And it still got bypassed. A three-person shop with an AI sidekick walked through it in five days, with two bugs and a clever…
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SolarSquare is in talks to raise up to $60 million as India’s rooftop solar market attracts significant venture capital interest

SolarSquare is in talks to raise up to $60 million as India’s rooftop solar market attracts significant venture capital interest

🚀 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,Startups,b capital,Elevation Capital,Exclusive,lightspeed venture partners,SolarSquare 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: SolarSquare, an Indian rooftop solar startup that helps households and residential communities go solar, is in advanced talks to raise fresh capital after securing the largest investment in a solar project in India in December 2024, TechCrunch has learned. B Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners are set to co-lead the Series C round, which could value SolarSquare at between $450 million and $500 million and bring in between $55 million and $60 million in new investment, according to several people familiar…
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It’s time to talk about my writerdeck

It’s time to talk about my writerdeck

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: tldr: I installed console-only Debian on an old laptop (no desktop OS at all) I added some packages to make it work better for writing: network-manager for connecting to hotspots while I'm away kmscon for custom fonts and more than 16 colors in the tty tmux for a nice status bar and rudimentary screen tiling, as well as acpi and light for battery and backlight details, respectfully neovim as my editor and vim-vimwiki to give myself a personal wiki syncthing to sync and backup my…
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Best Sprinklers and Smart Irrigation Systems: Ground Sprinklers and Hose Timers (2026)

Best Sprinklers and Smart Irrigation Systems: Ground Sprinklers and Hose Timers (2026)

🚀 Check out this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Home,Lawn Order 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Planting a garden Or laying grass in your garden is the easy part. Keeping foliage properly hydrated is the real challenge – one that continues and grows more complex as the seasons change.In recent years, indoor smart home technology has spread outward, and you'll now find dozens of wireless irrigation systems on the market that can take some of the confusion and complexity out of watering your plants. Whether you have a sophisticated in-ground sprinkler or…
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Texas Woman Arrested for Facebook Post About Town Water Quality

Texas Woman Arrested for Facebook Post About Town Water Quality

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Jennifer Combs had never gotten so much as a speeding ticket. On May 8, police in Trinidad, Texas, arrested her on a state jail felony charge for writing a Facebook post about the town’s water supply. The post said residents had been hospitalized due to bacteria in the water. The city says that claim was false. So they sent cops to her door. The charge is felony false alarm or report under Texas Penal Code § 42.06, a statute designed for people who call…
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Leinster 19-41 Bordeaux Beagles: ‘A very high mountain’ as the wait for Leinster continues

Leinster 19-41 Bordeaux Beagles: ‘A very high mountain’ as the wait for Leinster continues

🚀 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Leinster traveled to Bilbao dreaming of a fifth European star to add to their badge.They were hoping to make amends in the Basque city, site of their last Champions Cup win in 2018, where they could wash away the pain of their previous four defeats.However, having been caught off guard by Bordeaux's impressive first-half performance, this will arguably hurt more than most. Players and staff spoke of the "fine margins" of previous final defeats, but on Saturday the gulf was much clearer. Tommy O'Brien played…
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