Stories by T-O-M

Every Lego Color, Born and Died

Juniors are more valuable than ever [pdf]

Tell HN: Crosstalk when using Ollama with cloud DeepSeek models?

Breaking macOS Screen Time for fun and profit

Signal: Targeted phishing account takeovers of government officials

Brainworm – Hiding in Your Context Window

Duolingo Is Talking to ByteDance: Cracking the Pangle SDK's Encryption

Halt the Hitchhiker: Invasive Species Challenge

A record number of objects went into space in 2025

Show HN: I built a S3 proxy that combines storage from S3/clouds into one target

How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart

Track what AI models say about candidates and races

Reverse engineering "Hello World" in QuickBasic 3.0

Show HN: zsweep – Play Modern Minesweeper with Vim Support

Show HN: Zsweep v0.1.2 – Minesweeper with Vim Motions and Modern UI

Show HN: PDP – A 'robots.txt' protocol for AI prompt privacy

You have GUEST access to 28 vintage systems in the browser at connect.sdf.org

Large Language Model Reasoning Failures

Leetcompass.io - visual pattern-based catalog for LeetCode problems

Rise of the Triforce

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