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When his nephew Aiden asked for a custom beat 'em up based on his drawings — five family heroes, twelve numbered bosses, a kidnapped puppy — the author shipped a barely playable prototype in June. Th…
Maurycy Z. got tired of the ACME dance and decided to protest by crafting a vanity RSA key whose modulus spells out a readable message in base64, then had Let's Encrypt sign it. The trick: tweak the…
In 1957, Field Museum curator Karl Patterson Schmidt was bitten on the thumb by a boomslang, a rear-fanged African snake he was helping the Lincoln Park Zoo identify. Believing the bite minor, he rod…
When an intermittent beep started coming from a room full of unpacked boxes, Simon Willison had Claude Code build Beep Locator: a Python server that turns spare phones, tablets, and laptops into micr…
A security researcher spent a week breaking into his own Prusa MK4S and found 14 vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution flaw in Prusa Connect that lets an attacker run code on the printer…
Ben Kuhn went on a Jhourney meditation retreat in March 2025 expecting little, having been underwhelmed by a 10-day vipassana course. Instead, after days of frustration, a self-made compassion techni…
Storing sales receipts in ClickHouse seemed straightforward until at-least-once delivery, late documents, and pipeline outages broke every running-sum approach. After four failed designs—double-count…
Anthropic's new Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 models tackle the hardest technical work: a swarm of 1,000 agents fully formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in 30 hours with minimal human input, where an earlie…