SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
When I ssh into a server for the first time, I’m confronted with a dialog which asks me to verify I’m actually talking to the machine I expect to be talking to. $ ssh -l jane 192.0.2.65 The authenticity of host ’192.0.2.65 (192.0.2.65)’ can’t be established. ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:4WTRnq2OR1m03TpnHCfkFdlh1gN/PBXE4vDi0WnjFEc. No matching host key […]
Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps
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NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns
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April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
Prerequisites Mac mini with Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4/M5) At least 24GB unified memory for Gemma 4 26B macOS with Homebrew installed Step 1: Install Ollama Install the Ollama macOS app via Homebrew cask (includes auto-updates and MLX backend): brew install –cask ollama-app This installs: Ollama.app in /Applications/ ollama CLI at /opt/homebrew/bin/ollama Step 2: Start Ollama open […]
Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac
Apple ships an on-device LLM Starting with macOS 26 (Tahoe), every Apple Silicon Mac includes a language model as part of Apple Intelligence. Apple exposes it through the FoundationModels framework – a Swift API that gives apps access to SystemLanguageModel. All inference runs on the Neural Engine and GPU. No network calls, no cloud, no […]
Proton Meet Isn’t What They Told You It Was
Proton’s launch blog post for their new video conferencing product contains this paragraph: “laws like the US CLOUD Act can compel US-owned video conferencing platforms to hand over any data they store, even if the servers reside outside of the United States. This creates serious compliance challenges for organizations bound by GDPR, CCPA, or similar […]
The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s
The dreams of a forgotten movement from the 1930s live on Anton Cebalo is a writer — you can follow his work at novum. Founded in 2021, Do Not Research is a reader-supported publication. Each week, we highlight the work of a writer, artist, filmmaker, poster or creative. You can help to support this project: […]
Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
Date: March 31, 2026Author: Jason SaaymanStatus: Remediation in progress On March 31, 2026, two malicious versions of axios (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were published to the npm registry through my compromised account. Both versions injected a dependency called [email protected] that installed a remote access trojan on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The malicious versions were live for […]
We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
RAG is great, until it isn’t. Our assistant could only retrieve chunks of text that matched a query. If the answer lived across multiple pages, or the user needed exact syntax that didn’t land in a top-K result, it was stuck. We wanted it to explore docs the way you’d explore a codebase. Agents are […]
Tailscale’s New macOS Home
Tailscale should feel nearly invisible when it’s connecting you and all your devices together. But on some MacBooks, for a while there, it could be a little too invisible. We have two fixes for it: one small and slightly quirky, and another really useful one, available now on macOS. The small, quirky fix might become […]