Returning to Rails in 2026

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Discussion on lobste.rs I love a good side-project. Like most geeks, I have a tendency to go down rabbit holes when faced with problems – give me a minor inconvenience and I’ll happily spend weeks building something far more elaborate than the situation warrants. There’s joy in having a playground to explore ideas and “what […]

WireGuard Is Two Things

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WireGuard VPN App wg · network-manager · tunnelblick Your Application WireGuardClient · any UDP workload WireGuard Protocol Noise Protocol Framework · ChaCha20-Poly1305 · Stateless · No PKI UDP Datagrams Ask a developer what WireGuard is, and you’ll almost certainly hear: ”It’s a VPN.” That’s accurate, but it’s only half the answer — and the less […]

Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker

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A hacktivist group with links to Iran’s intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker’s largest hub outside of the United States, said the company sent home more than 5,000 workers there today. Meanwhile, a voicemail message at […]

Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites

simple * static * social networking self-reliant * Quick start Fork this repo (see below if you need a different name from satellite) Enable GitHub Pages on your fork (deploy from the main branch). Visit the GitHub Pages URL (e.g. https://username.github.io/satellite/) While this sample implementation uses GitHub, the protocol is agnostic to the hosting service. […]

Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code

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A permission system you control.Because allow-or-deny isn’t enough. Docs • Install • What it guards • How it works • Configure • CLI The problem Claude Code’s permission system is allow-or-deny per tool, but that doesn’t really scale. Deleting some files is fine sometimes. And git checkout is sometimes catastrophic. Even when you curate permissions, […]

Kona EV Hacking

  Anyway, this would be a new phase of car ownership … or more like two phases and a ground, heh.  The whole experience didn’t take long to build into quite the saga, so what follows is a linkfest-style timeline of contents for different subsections. Some of the sections are NOT completed yet, flagged by […]

Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years

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LONDON (AP) — Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords. On Tuesday night members of the upper chamber dropped objections to legislation passed by the House of Commons ousting dozens of dukes, earls and viscounts who inherited seats in Parliament […]