Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

A researcher purchased a TP-Link TL-841N router to practice hardware hacking and firmware analysis, successfully extracting the firmware via UART and flash memory extraction methods.

2026-08-02 · 16:19 UTC
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TechCrunch Mobility: Two roads diverged — for robotaxis

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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is…

What’s the Deal With Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’?

2026-08-02 · 15:01

Lawsuits, privacy complaints, secret recordings, and government investigations have put Meta’s AI glasses under scrutiny.

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Rant About "Technology" (2005)

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The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition

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Seinfeld, which first aired in 1989, became a cultural phenomenon through its unique sitcom format that rejected…

AI Stocks Trade Like Memecoins While Bitcoin Barely Moves – Week in Review

2026-08-02 · 13:00

This editorial is from this week’s edition of the newsletter Week in Review, sent to subscribers on Friday.

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

2026-08-02 · 12:36

RISC OS Open Ltd marked its 20th anniversary on June 20, 2026, reflecting on its mission to open-source a proprietary…

F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language

2026-08-02 · 12:31

F* is a general-purpose, proof-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft Research and Inria that combines…

An internal OpenAI Astra model solved 10 major open math and CS problems

2026-08-02 · 12:01

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager

2026-08-02 · 12:01

Great Question, a Y Combinator-backed AI customer research platform, is hiring a Senior Demand Generation Manager to own…

Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers

2026-08-02 · 11:53

Despite only 8.9% of websites blocking AI crawlers, 94.8% of audited sites never appear in AI assistant answers to…

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

2026-08-02 · 11:34

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

2026-08-02 · 11:23

Fuse is a statically typed, purely functional programming language that compiles to native code through GRIN and LLVM,…

I made a Promise-aware debounce and throttle library for TypeScript

2026-08-02 · 11:07

A developer created Temporize, a Promise-aware debounce and throttle library for TypeScript that provides strongly-typed…

Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books

2026-08-02 · 11:06

A research paper analyzing 14,419 self-published fiction books on Amazon from 2023-2026 found that while AI-generated…

Show HN: Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python

2026-08-02 · 10:45

Katharos is a Python library that combines functional programming abstractions (Functor, Applicative, Monad, etc.) with…

(Rust) All-Hands 2026 Retrospective

2026-08-02 · 10:33

In May 2026, 166 Rust developers gathered in Utrecht for the second annual Rust All-Hands conference, which featured 73…

Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?

2026-08-02 · 10:25

The article argues that using the Industrial Revolution as precedent for explosive AI-driven growth today is misleading…

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

2026-08-02 · 10:18

The Ars notoria was a medieval manuscript that promised to rapidly transmit scholarly knowledge through complex…

Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores

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Syncular is an offline-first SQL synchronization framework with TypeScript and Rust cores that allows clients to…

Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

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Bor v0.8.0, an open-source policy management tool for Linux desktops, introduces three new policy types for managing…

AI Infrastructure Overtakes Crypto In The Race For Capital

2026-08-02 · 09:05

The slowdown in the crypto market does not indicate a drying up of capital. It reveals their redeployment.

The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Cyberscript

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Cyber is a new scripting language designed for fast performance and ease of use, featuring dynamic and static typing,…

Show HN: Tone Generator

2026-08-02 · 07:31

A free, browser-based tone generator that plays frequencies from 1 Hz to 20,000 Hz without requiring any downloads or…

Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts

2026-08-02 · 07:25

US police departments are increasingly producing their own true crime podcasts to solve cold cases and ongoing…

IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System

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IBM i (formerly AS/400) is a unique operating system developed in the 1980s that merged the advanced technology of IBM's…

I don't recommend Tailwind CSS

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Tailwind CSS, while popular for its utility-first approach and ease of use, has significant drawbacks that make it…

Agent4Lease

2026-08-02 · 06:59

Agent4Lease is a marketplace that connects agent authors with users who want to lease infrastructure and platform agents.

CRM: An open-source, agentic-first CRM

2026-08-02 · 06:59

A startup has built an open-source CRM system where an autonomous AI agent handles research and data collection as its…

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