The shady world of IP leasing(acid.vegas)

111 points by alibarber 8 months ago | 68 comments

Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world(shubs.io)

578 points by infosecau 5 days ago | 317 comments

Echoloc: A minimalist echolocation horror videogame(level102.itch.io)

5 points by ggambetta 6 days ago | 1 comments

Itch.io page for ECHOLOC, a free browser-based 3D horror game where the player navigates dark halls by clicking their tongue to echolocate while avoiding a sound-hunting creature.

Darkrealms BBS(darkrealms.ca)

125 points by TigerUniversity 8 months ago | 36 comments

16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive(16colo.rs)

125 points by memalign 15 days ago | 9 comments

Sixteen Colors (16colo.rs) is an online archive of ANSI and ASCII artpacks from the BBS art scene, with releases, comments, forum, and tools.

Pigshell: Unix the Web(pigshell.com)

63 points by pbohun 4 days ago | 18 comments

Pigshell 0.6.4 is a browser-based Unix-style shell that represents web resources and cloud data as files you can process with command pipelines.

What Is PID 0?(blog.dave.tf)

344 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

Blog post by David Anderson explaining what PID 0 is in Unix/Linux, why it is hidden from userspace, and its role in booting and idle scheduling.

Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server(blog.habets.se)

444 points by guntars 1 year ago | 138 comments

Blog post describing building an HTTPS web server in Rust using io_uring and kernel TLS to avoid system calls on the request path.

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)(cs.cmu.edu)

341 points by virtualwhys 2 years ago | 109 comments

Andy Pavlo blog post from April 2023 criticizing PostgreSQL's multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) implementation and its drawbacks.

WTF Ubuntu?(chalmovsky.com)

1542 points by chalmovsky 11 days ago | 641 comments

A blog post criticizing Ubuntu for not patching a critical remote Linux kernel TCP vulnerability weeks after Debian and other distros shipped fixes.

Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?(blog.ploetzli.ch)

536 points by pantalaimon 2 years ago | 367 comments

Blog essay by Henryk Plötz arguing that JSON Web Tokens should not be used as authentication/session tokens, explaining the reasons.