During the Falcon 1 era, a machinist working the overnight shift at SpaceX noticed a micro fracture in a propellant valve that had passed quality inspection. The fracture was invisible to the naked eye. He noticed it because the valve made a sound when he tapped it that was slightly different from the sound the same valve should make. He had machined enough valves to know what "right" sounds like. This one was wrong by a frequency he could hear but couldn't measure.
He pulled the valve from the production line at 3am without authorization. By protocol, he should have flagged it for the quality team in the morning. Instead he put it on a bench, photographed it under magnification, and wrote a single sentence on the inspection tag: "this valve will fail under pressure."
The quality team tested it at 8am. It failed. At the pressure levels it would have experienced during flight, the valve would have ruptured. A ruptured propellant valve during ascent is catastrophic. The rocket would have been lost. Depending on the payload, lives could have been lost.
The machinist had no engineering degree. He had 22 years of machining experience. His hands had produced thousands of valves across three decades. The knowledge that saved a rocket was not in a textbook. It was in his fingertips and his ears. A sound that was wrong by a fraction that no instrument in the building would have flagged.
Elon was told about the valve the next day. He walked to the machine shop. He asked the machinist how he knew. The machinist said "I just heard it." Elon nodded and said "that's the most expensive ear in aerospace."
The missions that succeed are not saved by the famous decisions made in boardrooms. They are saved at 3am by a machinist who heard something wrong in a valve that everyone else said was right.
Muslims love to brag about the golden age of science,
Al-Khwarizmi invented algebra, Ibn Sina medicine, Al-Razi chemistry.
None of them were Arab. All three were Persians from lands conquered by the sword.
The Arabs enslaved their women, stole their gold, looted their cities, then put their own name on the achievements of the conquered and called it “Islamic.”
It was never theirs.
A Reddit user gave Claude Code their HP laptop's BIOS dump.
Asked it to unlock the firmware.
Claude disassembled the signature-check code.
Found the RSA-2048 verification function.
Then wrote a Python script to bypass it.
The user modified the BIOS.
Flashed it back.
Got access to four hidden menu tabs.
Dozens of hidden firmware settings.
All because Claude Code reverse-engineered the security.
HP's BIOS throws a corruption error if it detects modification.
Claude found the exact byte that triggers it.
Then showed how to change it.
The user used Ghidra to disassemble. UEFITool to extract. Unicorn Engine to emulate the signature check outside the real BIOS.
Then used cryptography libraries to generate valid test signatures.
Claude wrote all the scripts.
Guided every step.
The disclaimer says get a chip flasher like a CH341A in case it bricks.
Translation: this might brick your laptop permanently.
The user did it anyway.
And it worked.
HP spent engineering resources on RSA-2048 signatures.
Claude spent five minutes showing how to break them.
The post says the Python script at the end might work with similar HP models.
So now anyone with Claude Code and a BIOS dump can unlock their laptop.
HP's security. Dead in one conversation.
After 20 months, Israel still hasn’t managed to kill even 2% of Gaza’s population.
At this rate, the ‘genocide’ will be completed in approximately 800 years.
חמישים שנה עברו מאז נפל אחי הבכור יוני במבצע הגבורה לשחרור החטופים באנטבה.
חמישים שנה עברו, יוני, ואין יום אחד שבו אני לא חושב עליך.
אני זוכר אותך בגעגוע אינסופי, בכאב עמוק, בגאווה כבירה. צר לי עליך, אחי יונתן, נעמת לי מאוד. היית אח נפלא לעידו ולי ובן נפלא להורינו.
כמה שבועות אחרי מלחמת יום הכיפורים, יוני כתב לי:
“אני מעדיף לחיות כאן תוך מלחמה מתמשכת מלהיות חלק מן העם היהודי הנודד. כיוון שאין לי כוונות לספר לנכדים שלי על מדינת היהודים במאה ה-20, כעל אפיזודה חולפת וקצרה באלפי שנות נדודים, אני מתכוון להיאחז כאן בכוח רב”.
הבטחתי לו היום: מדינת ישראל לא תהיה אפיזודה חולפת.
במהלך חמישים השנים אחרי נפילתך, יוני, קמו לנו דורות חדשים של גיבורים.
חמישים שנה עברו, יוני, ואני פוגש אותך בשטח. אני פוגש אותך ברוח הגבורה וההקרבה של לוחמינו.
אני מחבק את משפחות הנופלים, שאני ומשפחתי מכירים את עומק יגונם.
אני מצדיע לחיילינו הגיבורים ולמפקדינו הגיבורים ולפצועינו בגוף ובנפש, גם הם גיבורים. חלקם נמצאים כאן היום.
הם נחושים להבטיח שחוט החיים של עם ישראל בארצו לא ינתק, ורבים מהם, יוני, שואבים השראה מסיפור חייך וממכתביך, כפי שהדורות הבאים ישאבו השראה מסיפור הגבורה וההקרבה שלהם.
יוני, אחי הבכור והאהוב, געגועי אליך לא יפסקו עד יומי האחרון. ובמעמד זה אני מבטיח לך, אמשיך, וכולנו נמשיך, לשאת בגאון את לפיד השליחות שלך כדי להבטיח את נצח ישראל.