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TALA Is Open-Source

2026-09-07 @ 23:37:42Points: 136Comments: 10

Show HN: Stuxnet – A reconstructed source code of the infamous cyber-weapon

2026-09-07 @ 22:12:38Points: 131Comments: 45

Stuxnet! Here reproduced by me. Only researchs educations purposes.

Working on Economics with Fable 5

2026-09-07 @ 21:18:15Points: 68Comments: 53

Macbeth and His Problems

2026-09-07 @ 20:34:32Points: 49Comments: 19

Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads

2026-09-07 @ 20:32:55Points: 141Comments: 59

Replaceable but Employed: Automation and the Meaning of Work

2026-09-07 @ 19:06:01Points: 61Comments: 58

Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

2026-09-07 @ 18:52:06Points: 252Comments: 131

bzip3

2026-09-07 @ 13:35:13Points: 393Comments: 111

Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

2026-09-07 @ 09:26:53Points: 246Comments: 85

Live map of public transport in Belgium

2026-09-07 @ 09:02:47Points: 192Comments: 78

Keep Our Servers Running

2026-09-07 @ 03:29:51Points: 974Comments: 253

216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

2026-09-07 @ 00:22:04Points: 630Comments: 840

The Dataflow Model Revisited

2026-09-06 @ 18:10:53Points: 93Comments: 14

Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds

2026-09-06 @ 13:07:52Points: 144Comments: 15

Catching Crumbs from the Table (2000)

2026-09-06 @ 07:15:10Points: 16Comments: 5

Decapitating a MacBook (2025)

2026-09-06 @ 04:40:00Points: 58Comments: 46

Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution

2026-09-05 @ 11:25:18Points: 180Comments: 40

This Month in Ladybird – August 2026

2026-09-04 @ 22:47:04Points: 199Comments: 47

Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world

2026-09-04 @ 20:28:52Points: 180Comments: 44

Finding a bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra

2026-09-04 @ 20:20:07Points: 74Comments: 34

Show HN: I built an aesthetically pleasing puzzle

2026-09-04 @ 18:14:44Points: 74Comments: 27

https://dailybaffle.com) in mind. But once I had built it, I realized it just didn't quite fit with the aesthetic of the Baffle's other puzzles, so I decided to put it up separately.

While most of the puzzles on the Daily Baffle were intended to be rather challenging, for this one I really just wanted to make something somewhat beautiful and relaxing. It wasn't so much about coming up with a highly original idea or a difficult challenge as much as just combining a few familiar ideas in a pleasant way.

It was coded entirely by Claude, with me carefully prodding it on to achieve the look I wanted. I had hand-coded everything on the Daily Baffle, but those days are past now. I was pretty thrilled with the "window through the fog" effect that CC was able to achieve from my written design spec. I wasn't sure if that would come out right, but it did. It's just a static react app hosted on Render, no backend. The haikus are handwritten with the help of a massive list of generated nature concepts alongside possible metaphor angles. The art is generated by Gemini and ChatGPT. I wish it was hand-painted, but that would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming and then this puzzle would likely not exist.

Happy to answer any questions, and encourage anyone to check out the Baffle if they like harder puzzles!

She Also Found It at the Movies

2026-09-04 @ 14:04:42Points: 32Comments: 11

Whistle Synth Mac App

2026-09-04 @ 09:44:45Points: 78Comments: 18

Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode

2026-09-04 @ 05:53:38Points: 130Comments: 9

Show HN: Interactive Tree of Life

2026-09-04 @ 00:40:06Points: 79Comments: 22

Across those trees it overlays 41 visual properties (categorical and numerical) assembled from hundreds of biological traits and sources. Color the tree by habitat, nutrition, size, longevity, even see vertical range of birds and depth of fish visually.

The backend is 800 GB of raw data distilled through a 9-step build process that reconciles and links all 11 trees along with hundreds of traits so every node in every tree gets all the properties. Every color and number presented retains and shows its provenance: original wording, citation, and license.

The frontend uses a custom Miller column implementation with fold-away gutter, all composited animation (no frameworks, pure DOM mutation). Use +'s to try to confuse it by expanding many branches and it will fold them away and route edges around them.

Made by the creator of ptable.com, a popular interactive periodic table website around since 1997.

Simple Is Not Small

2026-09-03 @ 23:47:28Points: 221Comments: 67

Methods for Random Gradients (2024)

2026-09-03 @ 22:26:44Points: 47Comments: 5

How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform

2026-09-03 @ 17:57:49Points: 76Comments: 5

WeatherNext 3

2026-09-03 @ 16:06:08Points: 278Comments: 65

My practical approach to surfing the web safely

2026-09-02 @ 13:49:12Points: 66Comments: 37

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