Hey buddy,

Man, Saturday on Hacker News was pretty wild, lots of interesting stuff. Lemme hit you with the highlights:

Debian 13 "Trixie" Is Out!

First up, Debian 13, codenamed "Trixie," just dropped. Big news for Linux nerds, right? Seems like a solid release.

What was cool in the comments was how the LTS (Long Term Support) for Debian works. Turns out, it's not the main Debian team, but a separate company called Freexian, which was actually started by a bunch of Debian contributors to get funding for that LTS work. Pretty smart way to keep things going! Someone also piped up saying you can get good testing feedback with Debian's "testing" and "unstable" channels, kinda like how Arch Linux users are often "testers."

"Show HN" – Your Sky, as a CSS Gradient

Then there was this super cool "Show HN" project: a website that shows you the current sky color at your location as a CSS gradient. It's really neat, just a simple visual of dawn, day, dusk, night. You gotta check it out: sky.dlazaro.ca.

One comment mentioned a company launching a sensor to measure the sky color and replicate it indoors – talk about taking it to the next level! Another person suggested using timezone names as a proxy for location for better privacy, which is a clever idea.

OpenFreeMap Hits 100k Requests/Second

Someone posted about OpenFreeMap surviving 100,000 requests per second. That's a serious load, man! The crazy part is they're doing it on a server that costs like €20 a month from Hetzner. That's insane performance for the price!

Apparently, another collaborative drawing website called "Wplace.live" popped up built entirely on OpenFreeMap, and it's getting more daily traffic than the founder's main project. Kinda funny, right?

AI Security "Lethal Trifecta" Talk

There was a talk about AI security, specifically something called the "Lethal Trifecta." It's all about the risks when you combine untrusted user input, access to private data, and a powerful AI model. Basically, how easily AI can be tricked into doing bad stuff if you're not careful.

The comments brought up the "confused deputy problem" as an old concept that applies here, and how "capabilities" are the solution. Some folks were debating whether LLMs can truly be exploited in a controllable way, or if it's just unexpected outputs.

Stanford Keeps Legacy Admissions, Dumps Cal Grants

This one stirred up a lot of debate: Stanford announced they're keeping "legacy admissions" (where kids of alumni get an easier pass) and pulling out of the Cal Grants program, which helps low-income students in California. People were pretty heated about it.

The comments were full of arguments about whether colleges are about education or just making connections for the elite. One person said if you don't admit privileged kids, the college becomes "irrelevant," which, predictably, got a lot of pushback. Definitely a hot topic.

Dial-up Internet is Finally Kicking the Bucket!

Remember that screeching sound? Well, AOL is finally discontinuing dial-up internet. The end of an era, man! I know, who still uses it, right? But it's kinda nostalgic.

Someone in the comments even shared links to the old modem sounds! And people were reminiscing about how modern web pages (especially those single-page apps) just completely break on super slow connections, unlike the old days when regular pages would at least load, slowly. It's a reminder of how much the web has changed.

CT Scan of an Old 386 Chip

And finally, this was just plain cool: someone did a CT scan of an old Intel 386 processor's ceramic package and found some surprises inside! Like, they could see the tiny wires and connections you'd never normally see without cracking it open.

One comment mentioned "ICE mode" on the 386, which was like a super early debugging/testing mode. Another random but cool comment was about someone turning an MRI machine into a loudspeaker to play Bach – not related to the 386, but a fun tech tidbit!

Alright man, gotta run. Talk soon!