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A technical guide explains how to expose locally hosted HTTP services to the internet using SSH reverse tunnels paired with Nginx as a reverse proxy, without third-party tunneling services. The write-up covers configuration details, TLS termination and trade-offs of the self-hosted approach. Developers are discussing it as a free, privacy-friendly alternative to commercial tunnel providers like ngrok.

A profile of the OpenSSH project and its creator is drawing attention across the tech community. OpenSSH underpins secure remote access on virtually every Mac, Linux server and Windows machine, yet is maintained with a deliberately paranoid approach: its code is written to trust no input, no system and no contributor. The piece highlights how this rigour has kept the critical open-source tool safe for decades, prompting discussion about whether other widely used software should adopt similar discipline.

Explicit drawings of nude, muscular men labelled as AI-generated art are being shared and tagged widely across gay community hashtags. The images are credited to a digital artist posting under the name echo_pixel, who also promotes the work on X. Posts pair explicit content tags with AI labels, highlighting how AI-created adult art is spreading through LGBTQ social spaces.

A profile of OpenSSH, the secure shell software that ships by default on Macs, Linux servers and Windows machines worldwide, focuses on its creator and his deeply defensive approach to security. The piece describes how his distrust of people, systems and assumptions shaped the project's famously rigorous code, which underpins secure remote access for much of the internet.

A new article by Vincent Bernat walks through setting up self-hosted HTTP tunnels using SSH and Nginx, offering an alternative to paid tunneling services like ngrok. The piece is being shared on developer news forums, where readers can discuss the approach, though it has so far drawn little comment activity.

A German-language social media post asks how many survivors of abuse, mistreatment and neglect attempt, often unconsciously, to ease their pain with cannabis, questioning whether the hemp plant can actually relieve such suffering. It taps into ongoing debates about medical marijuana, self-medication among trauma survivors, and the limits of cannabis as a treatment for psychological pain.

Developers are sharing a fix for a common SSH error where loading a private key fails with 'error in libcrypto'. The mistake usually happens before the server is ever contacted: the key file is corrupt, has wrong line endings, wrong permissions, or is not in the expected format. Converting the key with ssh-keygen or checking the file formatting resolves it, a tip aimed at beginners in devops.

A technical guide is circulating explaining how to force SSH to use password authentication instead of your default SSH key, useful when testing password-based logins or connecting to hosts where your usual key should not be offered. Readers in programming and devops circles are sharing it as a handy tip, particularly for beginners working with remote servers and authentication troubleshooting.

A full list of the highest successful run chases in all T20 cricket at Korogi Sports Park in Nisshin, Japan, is circulating among cricket fans, covering records across domestic leagues and international T20Is. The compilation highlights the biggest second-innings totals ever reached at the venue, giving supporters a reference point as matches there draw renewed attention to the ground's chasing-friendly records.

A new essay by sshh.io, 'The Harness Is the Company', argues that in AI startups the surrounding scaffolding — prompts, guardrails, orchestration and tooling built around models — constitutes the real company, not the underlying model. The piece drew attention on Hacker News, where early readers are debating whether thin wrappers around foundation models can sustain durable businesses.

A proposal circulating in the decentralized web community suggests using ActivityPub, the protocol behind Mastodon, to share cybersecurity threat intelligence between trusted organizations — for example, lists of known bad IP addresses caught in failed SSH login attempts or mail server spam. The idea has reportedly progressed into a written draft and an early reference implementation, with its author asking the public for feedback and interest.

Two Senate Democrats, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Van Hollen, are urging nonbank lender OppFi to abandon its efforts to acquire Grasshopper Bank. The pressure comes weeks after Enova, another nonbank lender, scrapped its own bid to buy the bank. The lawmakers' intervention signals growing congressional resistance to fintech firms buying banks without a bank charter.

The men's cricket competition at the 2026 Asian Games in Japan is scheduled to conclude with its final in Nisshin on October 3, 2026. Fixture listings for the match have been published, confirming the date and venue for the gold-medal game of the Asian Games cricket tournament.

A new essay making the rounds in tech circles argues that in the AI startup era, the harness — the orchestration layer wrapped around AI models — is what constitutes the company, rather than the models themselves. It suggests durable value lies in how teams integrate, evaluate and operate models, not in model access, which is widely available. The piece is drawing debate among developers and founders about moats, defensibility and how much of an AI product is genuinely proprietary versus thin scaffolding over third-party APIs.