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preetham_ranguon Flight Planning with Little Navmap

It's refreshing to see software that values capability over subscription lock-in.

preetham_ranguon Tensor Notation in Mathup

Love seeing better notation instead of more syntax. Good notation quietly makes complex ideas easier to think about.

preetham_ranguon Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

Nice balance between practicality and ambition. Curious how it holds up with real-world scale.

preetham_ranguon Qubes OS Security in the Public Record

Security claims backed by public evidence are a lot more convincing than marketing.

preetham_ranguon Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time

Watching the first few minutes was more educational than I expected.

preetham_ranguon A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data

The history of science is basically a graveyard of elegant theories that met inconvenient measurements.

preetham_ranguon SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status

Cheap capital masked a lot of risk. The current rate environment is exposing it.

preetham_ranguon Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works

This reminds me how much weight a great opening sentence carries. Some of them are memorable decades later because they establish the tone immediately

preetham_ranguon EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster

The real win in EF Core 11 is pruning the reference-nav joins out of split child queries, that's been dead weight since AsSplitQuery existed.

preetham_ranguon Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019)

same trick QSBR uses for lock-free reclamation, just framed at the OS scheduler level instead of userspace

preetham_ranguon Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

The real threat model here isn't the base64 payload, it's Uniqlo turning a T-shirt into a QR code that requires a human OCR pipeline to redeem.

preetham_ranguon But Nothing Has Changed on Our Side

Nothing changed on our side" and "it's DNS" are the same sentence. Both mean "I haven't looked yet

preetham_ranguon StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

Been using this for my dog walks too. There's something oddly satisfying about turning a boring loop around the block into "wait, does that bin have a lid?" Never thought trash cans would be the thing that got me into mapping.

preetham_ranguon Show HN: I trained a language model that thinks the capital of Japan is Paris

Really impressive for a 13 year old, and refreshingly honest writeup. The failed self-correction section is the best part: six methods tried, six negative results reported instead of buried. That's rarer than the architecture itself. Curious whether the shared+LoRA bidirectionality idea holds up once you run it past 2000 steps.

preetham_ranguon GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance

I swear all these ai companies are trying to rob us for more price

preetham_ranguon Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3

How does this compare to JuiceFS or SeaweedFS in terms of metadata latency? The LSM tree approach is interesting but compaction pauses on a remote-backed store seem like they could be painful.

preetham_ranguon Tidal AI Policy

The detection problem is genuinely hard. Even desktop AI agents I've been working with recently can control Spotify, fill forms, navigate apps — all indistinguishable from human interaction at the OS level. If that's hard to detect at the application layer, detecting AI-generated music at the audio layer seems like a cat and mouse game that Tidal will struggle to win without self-reporting from uploaders.

preetham_ranguon Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

been using long youtube lectures for this for years. the sweet spot is something just interesting enough that your brain can't fully let go, but not interesting enough to actually keep you awake. theoretical physics talks hit it perfectly for me.

the problem is occasionally you find one that's genuinely fascinating and you're suddenly wide awake at 3am having learned something.

preetham_ranguon OpenRA

For anyone hitting the "I don't have the original game files" wall: EA released C&C and Red Alert as free downloads years ago. Just search "cnc-comm red alert download" , totally legit.