Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)
Welcome to my first big impact vulnerability writeup! I like good stories, so let me describe some background first. I recently had a ‘great’ idea (I know, I know, I should stop having these) to set up a sr.ht instance that would pay people for hosting their projects. You can find it shamelessly plugged in […]
Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters I’ve written previously about the pitfalls and use cases for AI in augmenting historical research, but things have changed significantly since 2024-25. Occasioned by the dueling releases of GPT-6 Sol and Opus 5.5 this week, I thought I’d share some early […]
Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring
📬 About Stable Our mission is to make it simple to headquarter any business on the internet. Today, we provide companies with a business address and a dashboard to manage their physical mail online. Over 15,000+ companies like Brex, Doordash, and Gusto use Stable to automate their mailroom and act as their permanent business address […]
Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
Whiteboard is an open-source desktop app where humans and agents can architect software together in a common workspace. Whiteboard plugs into the tools you already use – e.g. Claude Code, Codex, etc. – and gives your agent an SDK to draw on an in-app canvas to describe its work. Here’s a 1 min demo video […]
Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
the question everyone is asking dynomight.net/liver [Epistemic Status: Speculative unifying theory of biology.] I don’t know about you, but I greatly resent having to be a biological organism and subject to all the poor engineering and design decisions that entails. This has many manifestations. A recent one is often wondering, why is the entire body […]
I Have a Confession: I Built This Site with AI – Please Forgive Me
To be clear, none of the content, but the site engine itself is all AI built. It is a long and somewhat sad story. By the end, I hope you’ll forgive me. I was a scientist. I have a Ph.D. in Instrumentation Physics. I loved doing science. But for many reasons, some of them beyond […]
GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks
On the 31st August I got an email from a customer, telling me that they had found an imitation of my data wrangling software on Github. I’m not linking to it, but here is a screenshot: It is using our product name and logo, without permission. I reported it to Github as an imitation on […]
Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop
Our summer Visiting Fellow Roland Buckingham Hsiao very kindly led a workshop on Chinese calligraphy a few weeks ago, which we greatly enjoyed. It was not only an opportunity to learn but to experience, which I am finding ever more important in my own research as I know are several colleagues in our network. I […]
F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom
After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid app and the largest app update in 10 years. For more than a decade, F-Droid has helped people discover and install free and open source Android apps. F-Droid 2.0 builds […]
Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
Disney+ got its fourth price hike in four years today. Hulu prices also went up. Disney+ and Hulu’s respective standalone, ad-free plans (which also support 4K and HDR) are each increasing 13 percent from $19 per month to $21.50/month. Disney+ and Hulu’s respective standalone plans with ads increased from $12 to $12.50. The Walt Disney […]