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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The curl project will not accept or otherwise handle any vulnerability reports during the month of July 2026. We call it the curl summer of bliss. curl’s submission form on Hackerone will be paused starting July 1, 2026. Summer of bliss starts: July 1, 2026. 00:00 CEST Submissions resume: August 3 2026. 09:00 CEST The security email address will also be a dead end, as we will not process or otherwise care about security or vulnerability reports sent to us that way either. Whatever issue…

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: OrangeCrumbs | The nerdy corner of the internet W Saved ✕ orangecrumbs ✉ Weekly Wikipedia digest Get new Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News - one email per week. ✓ You're in! First issue lands soon. Saved About Privacy No items match this view.Try Shuffle or New. Up next 0 ✉ Weekly Wikipedia digest Get new Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News - one email per week. ✓ You're in! First issue lands soon. ?Keyboard shortcuts ↑↓to move·?shortcuts × Read more ▾ ▲ ▼ Navigate…

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Microsoft has spent the past year trying to convince users that it's listening. Through its Windows K2 initiative, the company has been focusing on improving Windows 11 with better customization, interface refinements, bug fixes, and other changes driven by user feedback.However, one of the most persistent complaints about Windows 11 remains unresolved, which is the company's insistence on requiring a Microsoft account during setup.A recent discussion on Reddit started with a simple request. User 2025Fishy argued that Microsoft should restore the option to create a…

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Emacs features have a discoverability problem, and we’re chipping away at it one demo at a time. The years since I wrote the last one of these have yielded more surprising and useful finds, so it’s time again for a “batteries included” report. Note This is the third in a series of articles highlighting useful but lesser-known features included in Emacs. Parts 1 & 2: “Lesser-known” is a subjective judgment. Roughly, it means that at the time of writing, I have seen these features…

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: You’d think that by now, networks were well enough understood that people would stop making assumptions that we have known, almost since the dawn of networking, to be untrue. Yet as users, developers, and network administrators, we still seem curiously unable to let go of long-held beliefs. Perhaps the best-known collection of mistaken ideas about networks is the eight fallacies of distributed computing. The eight fallacies The network is reliable Latency is zero Bandwidth is infinite The network is secure Topology doesn’t change There is one administrator Transport cost is zero The…