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Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT • The Register

Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT • The Register

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: FOSDEM 2026 Amid growing interest in digital sovereignty and getting data out of the corporate cloud and into organizations' ownership, the Matrix open communication protocol is thriving. The project was co-founded by Matthew Hodgson and Amandine le Pape, and The Reg FOSS desk met both at this year's FOSDEM for a chat about what's happening with Matrix. The Register has covered Matrix and its commercial Element side quite a few times over the years, but we thought it might make things a little clearer to first…
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Offpunk 3.0 “A Community is Born” Release

Offpunk 3.0 “A Community is Born” Release

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: by Ploum on 2026-02-09 For the last four years, I’ve been developing Offpunk, a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline. And I’ve just released version 3.0. It is probably not for everyone, but I use it every single day. I like it, and it seems I’m not alone! Something wonderful happened on the road leading to 3.0: Offpunk became a true cooperative effort. Offpunk 3.0 is probably the first release that contains code I didn’t review line-by-line. Umerdify (by…
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Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot / Habr

Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot / Habr

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Русская версия этой статьи. Modern PC motherboards' firmware follow UEFI specification since 2010. In 2013, a new technology called Secure Boot appeared, intended to prevent bootkits from being installed and run. Secure Boot prevents the execution of unsigned or untrusted program code (.efi programs and operating system boot loaders, additional hardware firmware like video card and network adapter OPROMs). Secure Boot can be disabled on any retail motherboard, but a mandatory requirement for changing its state is physical presence of the user at the…
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The little bool of doom – suve’s ramblings

The little bool of doom – suve’s ramblings

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I must confess I have a bit of a soft spot for classic DOOM. Despite 31 long years, the game is still mighty fun to play yourself (admittedly, I rather suck at it) or to watch others play it (this one I'm better at); and with the source code being available, you can enjoy it on every modern platform – be it desktop, smartphone, digital camera, oscilloscope, or anything else you can imagine. As a result of this, through various circumstances, I came to maintain…
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I started working on https://ottex.ai three months ago just for fun to test Gemini 3 Flash as a voice-to-text model (by the way, it’s amazing, but a bit slow). However, it quickly transformed into my main project.It's a free macOS app written in Swift that allows you to type with your voice. It supports local models and BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) with a bunch of providers.You can assign different models and post-processing steps to polish the text. For example, I have a setup for…
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More malware from Google search – The Eclectic Light Company

More malware from Google search – The Eclectic Light Company

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Little more than a month after I reported that Google’s AI was offering links to malicious scripts, that is happening again, with a slight twist. I’m grateful to Olena of Clario for informing me that there’s a new campaign in progress to deliver AMOS (alias SOMA) stealers to Macs. You can read Vladyslav Kolchin’s account of this in his blog post. Vladyslav has discovered these in forged Apple-like sites linked from docs.google.com and business.google.com, as well as in articles posted on Medium. I had success…
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Nobody knows how the whole system works – Surfing Complexity

Nobody knows how the whole system works – Surfing Complexity

🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon Wardley on building things without understanding how they work: Here’s Adam Jacob in response: And here’s Bruce Perens, whose post is very much in conversation with them, even though he’s not explicitly responding to either of them. Finally, here’s the MIT engineering professor Louis Bucciarelli from his book…
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TSMC to make advanced AI computer chips in Japan

TSMC to make advanced AI computer chips in Japan

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TOKYO (AP) — Taiwan’s chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it will be manufacturing some of the world’s most cutting-edge semiconductors in Japan to meet booming artificial intelligence-related demand, in a boost for the country’s chipmaking ambitions.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a major chip supplier to companies such as Nvidia and Apple, said Thursday it plans to make 3-nanometer semiconductors — advanced chips that are used in areas such as AI products and smartphones — at its second factory in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture, which is under construction.The decision…
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Art of Roads in Games

Art of Roads in Games

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Not sure if it’s just me, but I often get a primal satisfaction whenever I see intricate patterns emerging out of seemingly disordered environments. Think about the galleries of ant colonies, the absurdly perfect hexagons of honeycombs, or the veins on a leaf. No architect, no blueprint. Just simple rules stacking on each other that result in beautiful patterns. I can’t explain why, but seeing those structures always felt good. Humans do this too. And for me, one of the most fascinating patterns we’ve come up…
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Stop generating, start thinking – localghost

Stop generating, start thinking – localghost

✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Throughout my career, I feel like I’ve done a pretty decent job of staying top of new developments in the industry: attending conferences, following (and later befriending!) some of the very smart people writing the specs, being the one sharing news on Slack about exciting new features of CSS or JS with my colleagues. The joys of working on an internal tool where you only need to worry about latest Chrome, and playing with anchor positioning in a production app while it’s still experimental!…
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