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Let's take them by swarm!

🐝 The Bee's Knees

  • Fornax's Guide To Ridiculously Fast Ethernet. Fornax explains how Pixeldrain pushed Linux servers toward 100 GbE, from BBR and TCP buffers to NIC tuning. He covers BIOS, kernel, and HTTP/2 choices. MORE

  • Unpack How 1,200 Agents Hacked Hugging Face. METR finds isolated ExploitGym agents built a shared message board with 70,000 messages. Around 700 joined the attack to probe the scorer, plus transcript spoofing tests. MORE

  • See How Agents Owned Every Peripheral on the Desk. With 13 hours of Claude churn, a researcher rooted a webcam, mic, monitor, and key light. Wins include LED disable, plaintext shell, and WiFi memory writes. MORE

  • Treat Bug Rumours as Exploits. Anil Madhavapeddy saw probes minutes after opening a public cohttp path traversal PR. He argues AI agents now exploit from hints alone, so embargoes fail. MORE

  • Read Bite Size Binary and Kernel Hacks. Issue 5 packs ELF tricks, metamorphic virus, ROP brainfuck, kernel loaders and syscall hook detection. Pure low level fun in a retro text zine. MORE

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📰 News

  • Learn What Happened at HackerOne. Joel Margolis unpacks HackerOne's shifts in Ep. 189, from bug bounty economics to researcher trust. Essential context for AppSec teams. MORE

  • Replace the Transformer You Invented. Transformer co inventor Llion Jones explains Continuous Thought Machines with Luke Darlow. A look at what could come after attention. MORE

  • Write Bug Bounty Reports Triagers Trust. YesWeHack's Claude Code plugin drafts from your real URLs, payloads and behavior only. It blocks invented impact and adds triage verdicts plus CVSS checks. MORE

  • Track OpenAI Cutting Off Cursor. OpenAI will wind down model access for Cursor by Nov 12 after its SpaceX acquisition. It cites past ToS violations and safety review for Astra. MORE

  • Join the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco. Two days on Sept 10 to 11 exploring open models, local inference, and private AI. Speakers span Hugging Face, DeepMind, Databricks, and Together AI. MORE

🌎 Community

  • Build a Kinder Public Forum for Immigrants. All About Berlin is launching an open forum to rescue immigration advice from private chats. Public by design, librarian style moderation, and expert profiles planned. MORE

  • Rethink Hacking in the Age of AI. LiveOverflow reflects on his life, burnout and where his channel goes as AI changes security learning. A candid update on staying curious and hands on. MORE

  • Stop Pasting Raw AI Answers. Add your own take instead of forwarding chatbot walls of text. Read the output, keep three sentences, quote what matters. MORE

  • Read Anonymous Confessions About Life With AI. What We Tell AI archives 400 plus handwritten notes on love, work shame, and dependence. Funny and haunting snapshot of norms forming four years after ChatGPT. MORE

  • Learn How a Solo SaaS Hit $4,000 Per Day. DataFast founder walks through traffic, pricing, and loops that scaled revenue solo. Tactical notes on focus and shipping over vanity growth. MORE

💛 Follow
Awesome accounts to follow. Randomly selected from my curated Twitter lists.

  • @sarah_edo - Senior Director of Engineering, Core Web and Mobile Infrastructure at Google, O'Reilly author

  • @shanselman - VP at MSFT GitHub, code and OSS, hosts Hanselminutes tech podcast

  • @ITSecurityguard - Security Research at Assetnote, responsible disclosure

  • @AEMSecurity - Penetration tester and hacker, bug bounty and exploit research

  • @GodfatherOrwa - Bug hunter, multiple CVEs, LevelUpX champion

👀 Explore

  • Build a Backyard Office for Under $20K. An 8x10 Tuff Shed conversion with tall ceilings, big windows, and mini split HVAC. Full breakdown totals $19,478 including concrete, electric, and drywall. MORE

  • Browse 4,509 Weird and Wonderful Homepages. PersonalWebsites.org is a directory of indie sites from filmmakers to firmware hackers. Submit yours, get lost, and remember the web can be personal. MORE

  • Trace Famous Journeys on Real Maps. Reading Maps plots routes from Moby Dick, The Odyssey, On the Road and more onto interactive maps. Browse by sea, road, rail, river and survival tales. MORE

  • Building without predicting. It starts with a maxim: All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. How do you build without predicting? Defer decisions. Start using what's there. Discover actual needs. MORE

  • Browse Real Spy Tech History. Crypto Museum catalogs Enigma machines, spy radios, bugs and intercept gear with photos and docs. It is a virtual museum open 24 hours for cipher nerds. MORE

Bee's Picks

  • Raycast: Actions at the speed of thought - The control pane of my entire interfacing with the computer. Some of my favorite features are: Clipboard History, Quick AI, Search Files, Window Management, and Quicklinks.

  • OpenCode Go: Low cost coding models for everyone. Offering generous limits and reliable access to the most capable open-source models. When you join and subscribe, we both get $5 usage credit. (Muse Spark 1.3 free for a limited time)

🛠 Build

🧰 Try

  • Try a Native Spotify Client That Flies. Fastpotify is a lightweight Rust client with local playback up to 320 kbps and Connect controls. It starts in under a second, sips RAM, and even morphs into Winamp. MORE

  • Turn Off Claude Code Memory to Stay Private. Quick walkthrough of disabling persistent memory and clearing stored context. Keep agents useful without keeping your history around. MORE

  • Bookmark 193 Private Browser Tools. Normal Tools offers 193 free utilities for text, code, money and files with no login. Most run locally so nothing you type is saved. MORE

  • Check Today Against Yesterday's Weather. Matt Webb's iPhone app Yesterday shows today vs yesterday as overlapping lines with AI summaries. If you remember what you wore, you know what to wear. MORE

  • Put Focus on Your Desk. TRMNL is a calm ePaper display that shows calendar, todos and plugins without phone distractions. The OG model ships now for $139. MORE

🚀 Ship

  • Review GitHub PRs at Local Speed. PR Cockpit sorts open PRs into ready, your move, and waiting with checks and threads on one screen. Webhook caching, keyboard flow, and agent friendly CLI included. MORE

  • Let AI Agents Pay You With WebMCP. WebMCP is a proposed standard so agents can discover services and send payments autonomously. It turns websites into agent payable endpoints. MORE

  • Stop Shipping Slow Software. Dan Luu argues AI agents make costly optimizations cheap, so custom tuning for your workload is now worth it. He shows 2x gains on regex search from minutes of prompting. MORE

  • Build a MUD Your Kid Can Hack. A dad built Canon, a text world where his 8 year old clones items and learns code through play. Its tiny Cant language is weak on purpose to teach why good habits matter. MORE

  • Run Executables Stored as SQLite. SELF replaces ELF sections with queryable tables for symbols and segments. Stripping becomes DELETE, patching becomes UPDATE, whole userlands fit in one file. MORE

💰 Advance

  • Steal Startup Playbooks That Interrogate You. Jason Cohen's skills turn ICP, positioning, pricing, and interviews into guided grilling sessions. You do the thinking, the skill writes the file to keep. MORE

  • Turn Any Book Into an AI Skill. Learn a workflow to distill books into reusable prompts and Claude skills you will actually invoke. Great for turning reading into leverage. MORE

  • Earn Ownership Before You Are Given It. Junior engineers wait to be handed scope, but leads promote people who already show sound judgment. Take small responsibility in your current work until trust follows. MORE

  • Turn Caido Into $100K in Bounties. Free course lays out a blueprint for finding web bugs and getting paid. Covers workflow, recon and report habits that win payouts. MORE

  • Set a goal. Most successful people Sam met set goals. And the process of getting specific about goals creates breakthroughs. Use the A-B-Z method: choose a near-term milestone and ambitious 3 to 5-year target. Work backward and stay focused. MORE

💭 Quote

"Make your work your play and your play your work."

Phil Jackson

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