🔒 Secure Local Configuration for Kakoune
A great case study in applying secure design principles to common tools—showing that even small usability tweaks need a clear trust and threat model.
This post details how the Kakoune editor gained a secure system for project-specific configurations. It explains how convenience features can turn into security liabilities and presents a trust model requiring explicit user approval before executing local `.kakrc` files. The solution relies on hashing and verification to prevent malicious changes, illustrating thoughtful security design in everyday developer tools.
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🌐 Ringspace: Rebuilding the Human Web
A thoughtful revival of old web values through cryptographic trust—bridging nostalgia with a fresh push for authenticity in digital spaces.
Ringspace reimagines classic webrings with modern cryptography to restore trust and authenticity online. Combining asymmetric keys, CLI tooling, and a browser extension, it enables small, verifiable creator networks that vouch for one another—an effort to make the web more personal and human again.
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💥 I Got Hacked: My Hetzner Server Started Mining Monero
An exceptional real-world breakdown of a server breach—clear, honest, and full of practical insights on dependency hygiene and container safety.
Developer Jake Saunders recounts how his server was hijacked to mine Monero after deploying the Umami analytics tool. The attack exploited a Next.js vulnerability (CVE-2025-66478), granting remote code execution. Thanks to container isolation—running as a non-root user without host mounts—the damage was contained. The post breaks down the investigation, cleanup, and key lessons in dependency security and container hardening.
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💼 Ask HN: Side Projects Making $500/Month in 2025
A valuable annual snapshot of indie tech culture—highlighting practical business lessons and creative momentum from the developer community.
This Hacker News thread invites developers earning $500 per month from side projects to share insights. Continuing a tradition since 2017, it gathers lessons on indie development, monetization, and sustainability in tech side hustles.
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🧩 TOML 1.1.0 Released
A small but welcome improvement that makes TOML more developer-friendly and on par with JSON and YAML for configuration tasks.
TOML 1.1.0 relaxes inline table syntax—allowing multiline definitions and trailing commas—to make configuration files cleaner and more flexible.
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