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Hacking McDonalds API 🍔
A hacker reverse-engineered McDonald’s API to check every ice cream machine in the US—placing fake $18,752 orders a minute to find out which ones were broken. The result? A live map that’s more reliable than the golden arches themselves.”
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How to Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi ✈️
Turn a Raspberry Pi into your own air traffic control tower. A weekend project with my son turned into a Hacker News front-page hit, and it’s surprisingly easy to track planes right from your living room.”
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The Open Source developer revolution begins 🧨
Apple’s new M1 MacBook Air is crushing performance tests, even outpacing the high-end MacBook Pro. ARM efficiency meets raw speed—and it’s making the Air the most tempting downgrade ever.
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K0s the zero-friction Kubernetes distribution 🧪
K0s promises a zero-friction Kubernetes experience, stripping it down to a single binary that competes with K3s for the lightweight crown. The race to the tiniest, fastest Kubernetes distro is heating up.”
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Docker Hub enforces new Rate Limit 🐳
Meet xip.io, the wildcard domain from Basecamp that turns your IP into a test-ready URL. Pair that with Docker’s new rate limits, an AWS meltdown, and some podcast picks, and you’ve got this week’s tech survival kit.”
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AWS Launches Mac Instances
Ever nuked a file with mv and thought it was gone forever? This guide shows how to replay the binary and bring it back from the dead. Moral of the story: backups aren’t optional.
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GitHub enables Dark Mode 🕶️
An auto GitOps setup that upgrades Docker and Kubernetes on its own — and then posts the results online at isitstillrunning.com. Goodbye manual DevOps, hello self-healing clusters.
Rocky Linux replaces CentOS 👀
When Red Hat pulled the plug on CentOS, the community fired back. CentOS co-founder Gregory Kurtzer launched Rocky Linux, a bug-for-bug replacement born from open source rebellion — and a tribute to his late co-founder Rocky McGaugh.
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It's time to Open Source Everything!
The CentOS fallout reignited a bigger debate: should companies open source everything? Chef co-founder Adam Jacob argues yes — owning the upstream isn’t just philosophy, it’s survival.
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The Byte is Back with Vibe Coding!!
The Byte is back! Fresh, fast, and full of experiments — from saving $1,900 by building my own learning platform to OpenAI’s free Academy and a new ‘vibe coding’ course with Andrew Ng. Let’s code into the weekend.