Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network
I’ve been working on this honeypot network for the past couple of months, and I’d now like to share some information from the first 30 days. In this article:: Intro and short summary the Data – credentials, attack sources, and so on the Tech – servers, automation, honeypot the Future – some plans and next […]
Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark
Try DGX Spark playbooks using Nix on DGX OS, or install NixOS on your DGX Spark for the full Nix experience. The repository provides USB images and a NixOS module with settings for DGX Spark systems. This works on the NVIDIA DGX Spark itself and also on the Asus Ascent GX10. See my 5 minute […]
Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter’s latest figures for July 2026. The result places Linux firmly in double-digit territory for the first time in Statcounter’s North American desktop operating system statistics. For comparison, Statcounter […]
GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet
Garden Eternal My first time online was 1999, in an internet café with my cousin. The internet was still a new thing in Saudi Arabia then — you went somewhere to use it. The machine in front of us ran Windows 98. It was another two years before we had a connection at home, and […]
Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
Userspace macOS ARM64 → Linux aarch64 translation layer (CLI-first, no JIT). Load Darwin Mach-O on Linux aarch64, map a freestanding libSystem, translate BSD syscalls, and run real guests (clang probes, 7-Zip 7zz, curl, threads). Live execution Linux aarch64 (bare metal, VM, Colima/Docker) Dry-load / inspect Any host (including macOS) Design reference docs/ What works Verified […]
How the words we teach English language learners changed
Most of the adverbs specify degree, frequency, certainty, and extent. Some hedge (somewhat, partly, relatively, possibly, approximately). Others assert (absolutely, definitely, entirely, exactly, precisely). They’re all doing the same kind of work: Take a statement and tell you how much of it is true, how often, and how certain. It’s as if the world now […]
Ursula K. Le Guin: A Rant About ”Technology” (2005)
In an interesting and favorable notice of Changing Planes (which you can find elsewhere on the site, in Spanish and English), the Argentinean reviewer asserts that since Le Guin isn’t a hard science fiction writer, “technology is carefully avoided.” I stuck a footnote onto this in my translation of the article, and here is the […]
Twenty Years of RISC OS Open
On 20 June 2006 we incorporated RISC OS Open Ltd with one slightly mad ambition: to take a proprietary operating system and open it up to anyone who fancied helping. Twenty years on, that has largely happened, and the RISC OS of today is in far better health than the one we inherited. To mark […]
Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager
About Great Question: Great Question is the all-in-one AI customer research platform for understanding your customers. Our platform enables teams to recruit participants, run research, and share insights – all in one place. Backed by world-class investors and trusted by industry-leading teams like Gusto, Experian, Canva, and Brex, we’re building the future of customer research. […]
Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side
Meshdiff — Compare 3D Model Versions (STL, 3MF, OBJ Diff Tool) Meshdiff requires JavaScript to run — it’s a browser-based 3D diff tool.