Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
The actual legwork to activate this feature only takes a few seconds, but the 24-hour countdown makes it something you cannot do spur of the moment. But why 24 hours? According to Samat, this is designed to combat the rising use of high-pressure social engineering attacks, in which the scammer convinces the victim they have […]
Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities
Hey HN! We’re Hayden, Ronan, Avi, and Warren of Voltair (https://voltairlabs.com/). We’re making weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones deployed for power utility inspections. Here’s some footage: https://vimeo.com/1173862237/ac28095cc6?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=… and a photo of our latest prototype: https://imgur.com/a/bYHnqZ4. The U.S. has 7M miles of power lines (enough to go to the moon and back 14 times), and they’re aging. Over […]
Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code
Hey HN! We’re Aakash and Viswesh, and we’re building Canary (https://www.runcanary.ai). We build AI agents that read your codebase, figure out what a pull request actually changed, and generate and execute tests for every affected user workflow. Aakash and I previously built AI coding tools at Windsurf, Cognition, and Google. AI tools were making every […]
Prompt Injecting Contributing.md
I maintain awesome-mcp-servers, one of the most popular GitHub repositories. Over the last 12 months, I’ve manually reviewed and closed over 2,000 pull requests. It’s always been a lot of work, but rewarding – it aligns with my interests, and the repository serves as a genuine resource for the community. Something changed earlier this year. […]
macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal
Ah, the joys of waking up to find the Mac’s done an overnight upgrade… and erm, suddenly things stop working. Thankfully, me and Claude managed to work out what the fuck is going on… I’m sharing here, as well as having raised in on https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/22280434 (that seems to need a login?). # Bug Report: macOS […]
The Shape of Inequalities
… beneath a 🌘 Waning Crescent …symmetry isn’t just a preference for “pretty” shapes. Contents While I was randomly browsing the web, I came across this nice picture: Roland H. Eddy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, 1985 And it tickled my imagination a little, just enough to write this short post. After writing my previous […]
A Copy-Paste Bug That Broke PSpice AES-256 Encryption
Security research March 18, 2026 · ~5 min read PSpice is a SPICE circuit simulator from Cadence Design Systems that encrypts proprietary semiconductor model files to protect vendor IP and prevent reuse in third-party SPICE simulators. The encryption scheme is proprietary and undocumented. Many third-party component vendors distribute SPICE models exclusively as PSpice-encrypted files, locking […]
Consensus Board Game
I have an early adulthood trauma from struggling to understand consensus amidst a myriad of poor explanations. I am overcompensating for that by adding my own attempts to the fray. Today, I want to draw a series of pictures which could be helpful. You can see this post as a set of missing illustrations for […]
No-build, no-NPM, SSR-first JavaScript framework if you hate React, love HTML
Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML. No build step, no Virtual DOM, no npm, no mixing JavaScript with HTML. DOM-first, SSR-first, and fully usable with plain browser APIs. Small, self-sufficient, and powerful enough for serious apps. If you want your UI to feel like structured HTML enhanced with clear, declarative behavior […]
OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier
Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2026-03-19 from the queueing for Terabitia dept. OpenBSD’s PF packet filter has long supported HFSC traffic shaping with the queue rules in pf.conf(5). However, an internal 32-bit limitation in the HFSC service curve structure (struct hfsc_sc) meant that bandwidth values were silently capped at approximately 4.29 Gbps, ” […]