Apr 7, 2025 | Standard Ebooks offers quality ebooks, MCP emphasizes security, recent AI model progress seems unconvincing

Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
https://standardebooks.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599637

The “S” in MCP Stands for Security
https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600192

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphwx5pdsZLMmpY/recent-ai-model-progress-feels-mostly-like-bullshit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43603453

Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/rsync-replaced-with-openrsync-on-macos-sequoia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605003

How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601213

Glamorous Toolkit
https://gtoolkit.com//
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606027

Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock
https://old.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1jsr9jv/eavesdropping_on_smartphone_1356mhz_nfc_polling/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605576

Data centers contain 90% crap data
https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-contain-90-crap-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605695

We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing
https://www.theverge.com/tech/640119/camera-raw-spec-format-explained-adobe-dng-canon-nikon-sony-fujifilm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580815

Breaking computers taught me to build them
https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-1-the-foundation-years/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564625