Buypass Discontinues Issuance of TLS/SSL Certificates

As of 15 October 2025, Buypass will no longer offer TLS/SSL certificates. The decision is based on a comprehensive assessment of the market situation and the regulatory framework for issuing TLS/SSL certificates. Our offering for enterprise certificates will continue, and other solutions within ID and digital signing are not affected. Existing TLS/SSL certificates will remain […]

MCP Gateway and Registry

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Model Context Protocol gateway & proxy – unify REST, MCP, and A2A with federation, virtual servers, retries, security, and an optional admin UI.                   ContextForge MCP Gateway is a feature-rich gateway, proxy and MCP Registry that federates MCP and REST services – unifying discovery, auth, rate-limiting, observability, […]

Capture Checking in Scala

The full code for this article can be viewed here. Introduction I gave a live coding session on capture checking at Scala Days 2025. Let’s be honest: it was essentially a failure, mostly because I have very little live coding experience and woefully underestimated how long it’d take to go through the material. I was […]

A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Compiler

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In this series of posts, we write a fast bytecode compiler and a virtual machine for arithmetic in Haskell. We explore the following topics: In this post, we write the compiler for our AST to bytecode, and a decompiler for the bytecode.

Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don’t like me

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“Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don’t like me!” More and more I think I’m coming around to Jihad Alex Schroeder’s Butlerian Jihad. For reasons, I’m looking into web activity and so far, the top webbot this month is one identifying itself as “Thinkbot,” which may be related to this AI company […]

Git-Annex

use case: The Archivist Bob has many drives to archive his data, most of them kept offline, in a safe place. With git-annex, Bob has a single directory tree that includes all his files, even if their content is being stored offline. He can reorganize his files using that tree, committing new versions to git, […]

Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way

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Get The Inside Story Newsletter Don’t miss our latest stories, delivered to your inbox once a week. Recently, my lawyer instructed me to read the original transcripts from my trial and other legal documents he sent me in preparation for my appeal. It was a reasonable request. Being able to read these kinds of legal […]

Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that’s easy on the eye

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sping Documentation Latest Version: 0.2.11 Modern terminal HTTP/TCP latency monitoring tool with real-time visualization. Think httping meets modern CLI design with rich terminal UI, phase timing, and advanced analytics. Status: Feature-complete MVP with HTTP/TCP support, phase timing, outlier detection, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities. Demo Real-time latency monitoring with interactive charts showing HTTP response times, outlier […]

Ghrc.io appears to be malicious

A simple typo of ghcr.io to ghrc.io would normally be a small goof. You’d typically get a 404 or similar error, finally work out the issue, fix it, and move along. But in this case, that typo appears to be doing something very malicious, stealing GitHub credentials. What’s ghcr.io?# First, a quick bit of background. […]

Nvidia DGX Spark

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With the NVIDIA AI software stack, NVIDIA DGX Spark provides the platform for developers to create, test, and validate AI models and AI-augmented applications and solutions. For final tuning or deployment, easily migrate work to NVIDIA DGX cloud or other NVIDIA accelerated data centers or cloud infrastructures.