HN blogs - 18/5/26
Mexican government breached by solo user with Claude, 150 GB exfiltrated https://konstantintkachuk.com/writing/the-floor-doesnt-exist/ (HN source)
Keeping the Cultural Uplands Alive https://jaymollica.com/blog/keeping-the-cultural-uplands-alive/ (HN source)
Three Things about Data https://www.undermanager.com/three-things-about-data/ (HN source)
How to land a Frontier lab job https://vladfeinberg.com/2026/05/10/how-to-land-a-job-at-a-frontier-lab.html (HN source)
Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled https://blog.chrislewis.au/snowboard-kids-2-is-100-decompiled/ (HN source)
Moving my app subscriptions to Europe https://rewiring.bearblog.dev/moving-my-subscriptions-to-europe/ (HN source)
10Gb/s Ethernet: using mini-heatsinks with a 10GBASE-T SFP+ module https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/05/10g-ethernet-sfpplus-mini-heatsinks (HN source)
Building Software Requires Digestion https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/software-requires-digestion/ (HN source)
Can we combine excellent design and branding simultaneously? https://antar.me/blog/branding-vs-good-design/ (HN source)
Scripts and Aliases for Your Linux https://alexeev-dev.bearblog.dev/scripts-and-aliases-for-your-linux/ (HN source)
How to Make Your Coding Agent Look Like an Idiot https://capocasa.dev/how-to-make-your-coding-agent-look-like-an-idiot (HN source)
Handling the great code forge fragmentation https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/forge_fragmentation/ (HN source)
The HTML Sanitizer API https://alfy.blog/2026/05/07/html-sanitizer-api.html (HN source)
I Updated Virtual Bookshelf https://petargyurov.com/bookshelf/ (HN source)
I’ve been shipping ‘multi-tenant’ wrong for a decade https://adriacidre.com/blog/multi-tenant-isolation-vs-awareness/ (HN source)
Stripe seems friendly to “friendly fraud” https://www.gingerlime.com/2026/stripe-seem-friendly-to-friendly-fraud/ (HN source)
The 96% that doesn’t depend on you: why GEO is fundamentally off-page https://blog.estevecastells.com/ai/geo-96-percent-off-page/ (HN source)
The Joys of Free Cloudflare https://dm13450.github.io/2026/05/18/the-joys-of-free-cloudflare.html (HN source)
Semantic IDs for finding vulnerable code at scale https://shrikar.com/writing/semantic-ids-for-vulnerable-code (HN source)
How to use codex to get the most out of it https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/05/10/codex-maxxing/ (HN source)
Target can’t measure their own bins https://ninjacheetah.dev/2026/05/17/target-cant-measure.html (HN source)