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2026
- JournalAttack on RTX TitanIn the year 845, humanity was reminded of the terror of living in awe of Nvidia, and the humiliation of being trapped inside the Walled Ecosystem.creativetopic/shitpoststocks/NVDA›
- JournalThe Meta-verse KnightIt was a peaceful morning in Cappy Town. Tokkori was insulting the sunrise, Kawasaki was burning something he called "breakfast," and Kirby was asleep in his…topic/shitpostcreativegame/kirby›
- JournalWe Aren't Called Everyone & NobleNEW YORK—In a dramatic bid to distinguish itself from e-commerce giants and boost declining in-store traffic, Barnes & Noble announced Wednesday a radical…creativetopic/shitpost›
- JournalGRAND THEFT AUTO SAN ANDREAS STORIESSan Fierro, 2026. The fog rolls in over a city where a one-bedroom apartment costs $4,200/month, but parking your car overnight costs you a window. The tech…›
- computer-scienceKnowledge Base (JSX)Browsers cannot natively parse JSX syntax. During the build process, compilers (such as Babel, TypeScript, Vite, or SWC) transpile JSX elements into standard…›
- JournalThe Last Century of EarthBeyond the four-dimensional universe lies a higher domain [O] — home to a wave-form existence and to the collective unconscious of all thinking beings [F].…game/xenogearsgame/xenoblade chronicles›
- JournalMAKE LORDAERON GREAT AGAINBeing the Unofficial, Unauthorized, and Regrettably Accurate Transcript of the Most Divisive Political Season in Azerothian Historytopic/shitpostcreativepolitics›
- JournalMiddlesex mandates Middle SexMIDDLESEX, MA— In a sweeping local ordinance aimed at "preserving historical accuracy and geographic integrity," officials in Middlesex announced Tuesday that…topic/shitpostcreative›
- shitpostByzantine Generals Fail ConsensusThe air in the Great Palace of Constantinople was thick with myrrh and the suffocating heat of an Anatolian summer, yet Basileus Alexios I Komnenos shivered…creativetopic/shitpost›
- JournalDuke demanding DukeDURHAM, NC—In a bold bid to elevate its global academic standing, Duke University announced Monday that all current and prospective employees must acquire a…topic/shitpostcreativehigher education›
- shitpostMcDonald's LLMCHICAGO—In a historic leap forward for artificial intelligence and public health degradation, McDonald’s Corporation announced Tuesday the release of…topic/shitpostcreativecomputer-science/large languge models›
- JournalSanDisk GundamThe annual Neo Japan Gunpla Expo was supposed to be a standard affair of plastic, paint fumes, and grown adults weeping over limited-edition plastic runners.…topic/shitpostcreative›
- JournalSengoku SudokuIn the year 1582, at the burning Honnō-ji temple, Oda Nobunaga realized all was lost. Surrounded by treacherous troops, he reached into his robes, pulled out…topic/shitpostcreative›
- JournalWinnie-the-Pooh and the Bullish DayThe wind was blowing from the East, and it was a very blustery day in the Hundred Acre Wood. But it was not just the wind that was full of hot air; the entire…topic/shitpostcreative›
- PapersA Programming Paradigm for Spatiotemporal ComposabilityThe paper gives dynamic software composition a formal foundation by splitting it into two orthogonal problems. Temporal composability asks whether a component…topic/papercomputer-science/programming languagescomputer-science/software engineeringcomputer-science/distributed systems›
- casual-triviasTurkey Province Names and RootThe historical spellings are broadly checkable against the State Archives’ Osmanlı Yer Adları. Modern administrative changes are documented by the Interior…topic/geographytopic/statelinguistics›
- JournalKamehameha I's KamehamehaThe year was 1795. The Battle of Nuʻuanu was raging, and King Kamehameha I stood at the edge of the towering cliffs of Oʻahu. Below him, the forces of…topic/shitpostcreativehistory/early modern›
- JournalFinal Fantasy VII RefusalThe sprawling metropolis of Midgar is powered by Mako—the lifeblood of the planet, aggressively extracted by the Shinra Electric Power Company. Enter…topic/shitpostgame/final fantasy vii›
- JournalThe Boy Who LiftedMr. and Mrs. Vernon Twigg, of number four, Sedentary Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly soft, thank you very much. They were the last people…topic/shitpostharry potter›
- JournalThe Boy Who Lifted (中文)住在久坐路四号的弗农·特维格先生和太太总是得意地说,他们是再松软不过的人了,多谢关心。他们无论怎么看,都不像是身上能找出哪怕一根横纹肌纤维的人,因为他们压根儿不赞成那种胡闹。topic/shitpostharry potterlanguage/zh cn›
- historyGolden HordeNo Mongol successor state stands taller. From his new capital of Sarai al-Jadid on the Volga, Öz Beg Khan rules the largest realm west of China — the steppe…history/medievaltopic/state›
- historyIlkhanateThe name is the mission statement: Ilkhan means something like "subordinate khan," a polite fiction that Hülegü's house was merely the Toluid family's western…history/medievaltopic/state›
- computer-scienceAttempto Controlled EnglishEveryone hates natural language and its ambiguity (maybe except your manager), because ambiguity is where responsibilities go to die. "The customer entered…topic/sciencecomputer-science/programming languagescomputer-science/natural language processing›
- JournalFive Gays and Five StraightsARLINGTON, VA — In what industry analysts are calling "the most unnecessary corporate restructuring in fast food history," Five Guys Burgers and Fries…topic/shitpostcreative›
- historyChagatai KhanateAlone among the heirs of Genghis, the house of Chagatai still holds its founder's whole inheritance — on the map, at least. The reality is uglier. Three years…history/medievaltopic/state›
- JournalRipley's Get It or Not!ORLANDO, Fla. — In a bold move to disrupt the gig economy and terrify hungry people nationwide, Ripley Entertainment announced Thursday its entry into the…topic/shitpostcreative›
- historyThe Black DeathThen his army begins to die. Not of arrows, not of hunger—of swellings. Men wake with black lumps in the groin and armpit and are corpses by the third day.…history/medievaltopic/health›
- historyTimurid EmpireHere's the catch: he was not a blood Genghisid, so by steppe law he could never legally call himself Khan. His workaround was a masterpiece of bureaucratic…topic/statehistory/medieval›
- shitpostPopeyes rebranding Pope YesVATICAN CITY—In a historic joint press conference from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, representatives from Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and the Holy See…topic/shitpostcreative›
- Journal孔融和恐龙的故事融年十岁,特聪慧。时有大异自天而降,轰震如雷,庭墙皆崩。topic/shitpostcreative›
- PapersKernelSnitch Side-Channel Attacks on Kernel Data StructuresKernelSnitch presents a new class of software-induced timing side-channel attacks targeting Linux kernel data container structures (hash tables, radix trees,…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/side channelscomputer-science/operating systems›
- JournalMartian invasion and git schemeThe terminal cursor blinked on Linus’s monitor, a rhythmic green heartbeat in the dark room. It was 3:14 AM.topic/shitpostcreative›
- computer-scienceGale-Shapley Algorithm›
- PapersSOK Agentic Supply Chain RuntimeThis SoK systematizes security threats to LLM-based agentic systems arising from their dynamic runtime supply chain — the inference-time data and tool…computer-science/securitycomputer-science/large languge modelstopic/paper›
- PapersBluetooth Method Confusion Fixes InsufficientBluetooth Method Confusion attacks — where devices are manipulated into using conflicting key establishment methods leading to compromised keys — were thought…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networking›
- PapersCascading Spy Sheets CSS FingerprintingThis paper demonstrates CSS-based browser/email fingerprinting that works even when JavaScript is completely disabled — directly threatening Tor Browser and…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/webcomputer-science/privacy›
- PapersCHAOS Exploiting 802.11 Timing Synchronization Covert ChannelCHAOS is a novel WiFi covert channel that exploits the Timing Synchronization Function (TSF) inherent to 802.11 beacon frames. It encodes data through two…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networkingcomputer-science/side channels›
- PapersCross-layer RTTs Fingerprinting Proxy TrafficThis paper reveals a protocol-agnostic fingerprint for detecting obfuscated circumvention proxy traffic: the misalignment of transport-layer and…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networkingcomputer-science/censorship›
- PapersCross-Origin Attacks via HTTP2 and SXGThis paper reveals how HTTP/2 Server Push and Signed HTTP Exchange (SXG) — two modern web performance features — can be exploited to break the Same-Origin…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/webcomputer-science/networking›
- PapersFuchsia gVisor Network Stack Security AnalysisFirst holistic security analysis of Google Fuchsia's network stack (shared with gVisor). Fuchsia is Google's "clean-slate" OS expected to eventually replace…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networking›
- PapersIDBLEED Deanonymizing IoT via Exclusive-Use Side ChannelIDBLEED introduces a boolean side channel in exclusive-use wireless communication (BLE/WiFi) where devices only communicate with trusted peers. By observing…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networkingcomputer-science/privacycomputer-science/side channels›
- PapersIMSI-Catcher Detection via Cellular Identity MessagesThis paper presents a new approach to detecting IMSI-catchers (stingrays) — devices used to covertly track mobile phone users. Unlike prior work that relies…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networking›
- PapersLeakyBeam WiFi Beamforming Feedback PrivacyLeakyBeam exploits a new WiFi side channel: beamforming feedback information (BFI) packets. Unlike analog CSI signals that attenuate through walls, BFI is…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networkingcomputer-science/privacy›
- PapersLEO Satellite Time-varying Bottleneck AttacksThis paper performs the first security analysis of time-varying bottlenecks unique to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks like Starlink. As satellites…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networking›
- PapersMineShark Cryptomining Traffic DetectionMineShark addresses the growing cryptojacking threat with a scalable cryptomining traffic detection system. As regulatory bans on cryptomining increase and…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networking›
- PapersOff-Path TCP Hijacking in Wi-Fi Packet-Size Side ChannelThis paper unveils a fundamental side channel in all Wi-Fi networks: the observable size of encrypted wireless frames. Despite WPA2/WPA3 encryption, an…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networkingcomputer-science/side channels›
- PapersPROXY Protocol Large-Scale MeasurementFirst Internet-scale measurement of HAProxy's PROXY protocol reveals widespread misconfiguration: 170,000+ hosts accept PROXY protocol data from arbitrary…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networking›
- PapersReDAN Remote DoS against NAT NetworksReDAN demonstrates that Internet attackers outside a NAT can launch remote Denial-of-Service attacks against hosts inside the NAT — challenging the common…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networking›
- PapersSketchFeature In-Network Flow Feature ExtractionSketchFeature enables in-network ML-based attack detection on programmable data planes. It addresses the critical bottleneck of per-flow feature extraction —…topic/papercomputer-science/securitycomputer-science/networking›
- PapersCan AI Agents AgreeThis paper investigates whether LLM-based agents can reliably reach consensus in a "no-stake" scalar agreement game, even in the presence of Byzantine…computer-science/multi agent systemstopic/papercomputer-science/large languge models›
- PapersIncompressible Knowledge ProbesThis paper introduces Incompressible Knowledge Probes (IKPs), a method to estimate the parameter counts of closed-source LLMs by measuring their factual…topic/technologycomputer-science/machine learning›
- PapersTaint-Style Bug Detection in Linux KernelBUGLENS is a post-refinement framework that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) guided through structured reasoning steps to dramatically reduce false positives…topic/papercomputer-science/security›
- shitpostOverhead Bin-flationJeff looks at the sky, whispers, "So this is what I've done," and then tries to tip a skycap with a literal gold coin because he doesn't carry cash.topic/shitpostcreative›
- casual-triviasThe Hidden Logic of HTTP Status CodesHTTP status codes are the "shorthand" of the internet. Defined by RFC 9110 (and its predecessors), these three-digit integers allow servers and browsers to…topic/technology›
- casual-triviasThe Pirate Game and Generalized Backward InductionThe Pirate Game is a famous puzzle in game theory that perfectly illustrates the concept of backward induction—solving a problem by working backward from the…topic/sciencecomputer-science/game theory›
- computer-scienceDeep Double DescentDeep Double Descent is a phenomenon in neural network training where test error follows a non-monotonic "W-shaped" curve. As model complexity, data size, or…computer-science/machine learningstatisticscomputer-science/optimization›
- JournalFF外から失礼するゾ (玉音)「FF外から失礼するゾ」を、玉音放送で読まれた『大東亞戰爭終結ノ詔書』風の勅語体に寄せました。個人宛てのクソリプを、国家非常時の重大布告のように扱うところが主眼です。topic/shitpostlinguisticscreative›
- computer-scienceModel AbliterationModel Abliteration is a weight-editing technique that removes specific high-level concepts (typically "refusal") from an LLM by orthogonalizing the model's…computer-science/machine learningmathematics/linear algebra›
- casual-triviasThe Physics and Mathematics of Musical TuningThe baseline for modern musical tuning is A4 = 440 Hz.music theorytopic/sciencephysicsacoustics›
- casual-triviasThe Primate "Monolith" ObsessionResearchers recently decided to see what happens when you give chimpanzees shiny minerals like quartz and calcite. The result? Total primate obsession. The…primatologytopic/trivia›
- uncategorized-serious-discussionsZFCBefore the 1900s, Georg Cantor's "Naive Set Theory" ran on a single, extremely permissive axiom of unrestricted comprehension: If you can describe a property,…topic/sciencemathematics/set theorymathematics/logic›
- historyArminiyaAt first, the Caliphs were content with a "hands-off" approach—letting Armenian princes (nakharars) run the show in exchange for tribute and loyalty. But…history/medievaltopic/state›
- computer-scienceEclipse AttackIn a decentralized network like Bitcoin, security relies on the assumption of perfect information—that everyone can observe the proofs-of-work and the true…computer-science/distributed systemscomputer-science/securitytopic/science›
- computer-scienceByzantine General's ProblemBefore we talk about servers, let's talk about the people who framed the problem. The Byzantine Generals Problem was formally introduced in a landmark 1982…computer-science/game theorycomputer-science/distributed systemstopic/science›
- computer-scienceIMP LanguageIf the Lambda Calculus is an elegant mathematical dream where everything is a pure, side-effect-free function evaluating to a value, IMP is the blue-collar…topic/sciencecomputer-science/programming languages›
- historyKhazar KhaganateSandwiched between two aggressive, expansionist superpowers—the Christian Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Umayyad/Abbasid Caliphates—the Khazars played the…history/medievaltopic/state›
- computer-scienceLambda CalculusIn modern programming, we are used to defining named functions that operate on built-in data types. For example, in Python:topic/sciencecomputer-science/programming languages›
- computer-scienceProof of WorkPBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance) relies on knowing exactly how many nodes (N) exist, so it can calculate that 2/3rds threshold. But in a…topic/sciencecomputer-science/distributed systemscomputer-science/game theorycomputer-science/cryptography›
- computer-scienceSubstitution CipherImagine you have two identical sets of the alphabet. You lay them side-by-side and draw arrows from the first set to the second. As long as every letter…computer-science/cryptography›
- JournalFinancial SpellbookNo capital required, just time and dignity.topic/shitpostcreativepersonal financegame/dnd›
- JournalWhen did Rome fell The Alignment Grid<table> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Lawful Good</strong><br>476 AD<br><em>The Definition.</em></td> <td><strong>Neutral Good</strong><br>1806…creativetopic/shitposthistory/late antiquityhistory/antiquityhistory/medievalhistory/early modern›
- casual-triviasEU5 Loading Screen ArtsIn October 1517, priest and scholar Martin Luther reportedly nailed his Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences to the door of All Saints'…game/europa universalishistory/medievalhistory/early modern›
- uncategorized-serious-discussionsPrice DiscriminationFirst Degree Price Discrimination (FDPD) is the term describing a situation where a seller charges each customer the maximum price they are willing to pay for…economics/microeconomicstopic/science›
- historyByzantine EmpireThe empire of the Romans is a thousand years old and shrinking by the season, but its young emperor refuses to preside over a museum. Andronikos III, who won…history/medievalhistory/late antiquitytopic/state›
- historyGreco-Bactria KingdomWhile the other Hellenistic kings were busy fighting over the Mediterranean, Diodotus I looked at the Seleucid Empire’s chaos and decided he was done with the…history/ancienttopic/state›
- Journal1587, A Year of No Significance (万历十五年)1587 was not a year where nothing happened, but a year where nothing that happened mattered. Ray Huang’s classic work of "Macro-History" argues that by 1587,…topic/bookhistory/early modern›
- JournalCRISPR-Cas9 Spongebob StoryThe mechanism of CRISPR-Cas9 represents the most significant leap in molecular biology since the PCR revolution. At its core, the system utilizes a guide RNA…topic/shitpostcreativebiology›
- JournalA Buffalo Wing VigilanteBy day, Arthur "Artie" Penhaligon was the definition of "market cattle." He spent twelve hours a day staring at flickering green and red candles, a mid-level…topic/shitpostcreativefinance›
- uncategorized-serious-discussionsKelly CriterionIn the long run, volatility acts as a mathematical drag on wealth: even with a positive average return, excessive variance reduces your compound growth rate,…finance/kelly criterionfinance/volality dragcomputer-science/game theorymathematics/probabilitiestopic/science›
- uncategorized-serious-discussionsReligions - A Decision Tree ViewQ: Is there an ultimate reality?worldviewtheologyontologymetaphysics›
- historyThe Mystery of Fu LinIn Chinese historiography, "Fu Lin" (拂菻) is the name to be given to a great western empire that succeeded "Da Qin" during the Tang and Song dynasties (c.…historiographylinguisticstopic/statehistory/medieval›
- uncategorized-serious-discussionsToxicology of Heavy MetalsHeavy metal toxicology is the study of how dense elements sabotage biological systems. Unlike organic toxins, heavy metals are elemental; they cannot be…chemistrybiologytoxicologytopic/health›
- uncategorized-serious-discussionsPrester JohnPrester John was a synthetic geopolitical myth constructed by Medieval Europe to reconcile strategic anxiety with fragmented intelligence. He was not a…history/orientalismhistoriographyhistory/medievaltopic/mythtopic/persongeopolitics›