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Cloud in a Bottle is an open-source personal cloud that aims to make self-hosting accessible to everyone. It runs containerized apps with unified authentication and a user-friendly dashboard, so you…
Six years after reporting a similar bug, developer Jeff Johnson finds Chrome 152 on macOS again saving google.com site data despite the user's setting to delete all site data when windows close. Repr…
Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Oxide Computer, argues that readers are increasingly fed up with LLM-authored writing and can easily spot it. Citing a survey where 78% of developers stop reading when they det…
In a follow-up to their comparison of Claude Fable 5 and 5.1, RoboCurve tested OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on the same YAM robotic arms with the same agent policy. On the block-into-bowl task, Astra succeed…
On September 5, 2026, Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket lifted off from Andøya, Norway, on its second flight, successfully deploying payloads into orbit. This marks the first time a European commercia…
A programmer who can't play an instrument derives music theory from scratch using code. Starting with a single sine wave, they explain pitch, timbre, and the harmonic series, showing why simple frequ…
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against Jackson, Mississippi, over lead-contaminated water, ruling that residents have no constitutional right to clean water or t…
Reddit user xilefakamot crafted a unique world map in 2020 that shows only international borders, discarding shapes, sizes, and distances. The result is a network-like visualization that highlights a…
Rob Weychert, an artist and designer, has started closing his website every Sunday as a personal stand against constant screen time. The page, which appears only on Sundays, invites visitors to bookm…
Vancouver's Penthouse Night Club had its Instagram account disabled after posting a photo of its marquee reading "Can't handle a pool, but wants our lake?" The sign, a jab at President Trump's propos…
Benedict Evans argues that the vision of AI making everyone a software creator misunderstands how most people work and how companies actually change. He explains that most employees aren't tool-build…
Quenq has ported Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to the web using WebAssembly, letting you play the full game instantly in your browser. It streams the map as you drive, supports save files from PC/PS2,…
Miod Vallat recounts his long-running effort to bring a Sun-4/260 workstation back to life. The machine, powered by a 16.67MHz SPARC processor, used SMD disks—massive, power-hungry drives from the 19…
OKF Agent Memory is a Git-native, persistent memory layer for AI coding agents, built in pure Go. It implements Google's OKF v0.2 spec, storing knowledge as plain Markdown with YAML frontmatter in yo…
Calibrite is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ColorChecker with a virtual museum dedicated to the iconic 24-patch chart. First introduced in a 1976 paper by C.S. McCamy and colleagues at Macbe…
A FreeBSD enthusiast upgrades his AMD-based desktop, moving to a Silverstone SG13 Mini-ITX case with an AMD Ryzen 7 4750GE (35W TDP) and a Radeon 7700XT. The GPU barely fits, requiring careful cuttin…
A self-taught UK developer recounts their fully remote 12-week batch at the Recurse Center, a programming retreat in Brooklyn. The post covers the application process (written form, chat, pair progra…
On August 2, 2027, a total solar eclipse will sweep across a 9,500-mile path from southern Spain to the Horn of Africa, treating 10 countries to over six minutes of totality. With prime viewing spots…
The Economist warns that AI is about to overwhelm the British state. Frustrated citizens are using AI to file objections, appeals, and claims, creating a deluge that bureaucracies built for the post…
TSA has launched Gateside by TSA PreCheck, a free program that lets TSA PreCheck members and other trusted travelers pass through security without a boarding pass to meet friends and family at the ga…
CircuitValley's CHC5 modular camera platform supports a wide range of image sensors, from Sony's IMX477 to the global shutter IMX568 and OmniVision's automotive OX08B40. This guide provides a detaile…
IBM's new Nighthawk r2 processor executes over 100,000 circuits per second—25x the throughput of Heron—thanks to a dissipative reset gadget that actively cools qubits to their ground state. It mainta…
Before the internet, computer hobbyists found community in local user groups, where they traded software, shared knowledge, and published newsletters. A rare surviving binder from the Jersey Atari Co…
M-DISC is a write-once optical disc technology introduced in 2009 by Millenniata, Inc., designed for archival longevity. Unlike standard discs that use organic dyes, M-DISC uses a glassy carbon data…
A Rust developer benchmarks three ways to case-insensitively sort strings: pre-computing lowercase with `sort_by_cached_key`, lazily converting during comparison with `sort_by` and `flat_map`, and us…
Henri Bergius reflects on three eras of licensing his software, from LGPL to MIT to now EUPL-1.2. He argues that permissive licenses have enabled big corporations to profit without giving back, and t…