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After more than a year using Claude Code daily, the author is switching to Pi, an open-source coding harness. The reasons pile up: AGENTS.md support arrived too late, only one session can connect to…
Goldman Sachs has restricted Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub to its roughly 12,000 engineers, cutting off traders and bankers who used the tools to track client flows and build market…
Nvidia's board has launched an independent investigation after reports that founder and CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. A committee of independent directors, backed…
llama-modchip squeezes DeepSeek-V4-Flash, a 284B-parameter MoE, from 76.87 GiB down to 56.56 GiB, so the whole model plus a 256K context fits in 64GB of RAM on a plain CPU. It hits 44.4 tok/s prefill…
Designing custom drag interactions usually means writing fiddly code for geometry, feedback, and animation, so many builders skip it. Declarative dragging flips this: you specify which future states…
In an email to employees, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confessed to an extramarital relationship with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy, apologizing to his wife, family, and colleagues. He pledged…
The author started rewatching Person of Interest and couldn't stop. The show, now 15 years old, feels more current than ever, and it brought back memories of the early 2010s: the forums and online co…
Murat Buffalo argues that writing is not a record of thinking but the thinking itself. Drawing on Manuel Blum's comparison of finite automata to Turing machines — the only difference being paper and…
Since November 5, 2026, Microsoft's consumer mail services — Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live and MSN — have been rejecting some messages from domains that lack a DMARC record, with no announcement and no…
After Sam Altman said OpenAI's RAM needs outweigh consumer electronics, open-source developer Iain Kay built a BASH script that reports idle memory to Altman's inbox. When more than 10% of a machine'…
Dux is a free, open-source desktop suite for Wayland compositors like niri, Hyprland, Sway, and labwc. It includes a modular shell with dynamic theming, a keyboard-first file manager, system monitori…
Tesla is winding down Cybertruck production after a project that reportedly lost around $2 billion: tooling built for 125,000 trucks a year, only about 70,000 sold over three years, and roughly $100…
GitHub has launched an opt-in public preview of a new pull request Overview page that pulls merge status and next actions to the top in a compact readiness summary. The redesigned merge box shows the…
OpenAI closed the first $11 billion of a round at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, well short of the $1.4 trillion it reportedly sought, after AI stocks sold off. CFO Sarah Friar says the busine…
Coding agents now store what they remember in a dozen incompatible shapes: AGENTS.md files, Anthropic's memory tool, GitHub Copilot's repo facts, Mem0, Graphiti, LangGraph stores, and more. None can…
clj.rs is an experimental Clojure dialect built for the Rust ecosystem, shipping as a crate on crates.io. It targets a capable Lisp runtime with persistent data structures, a hosted macro system, and…
Vegetable Gardening for Engineers is an open-source document that turns home vegetable growing into a systematic, measurable discipline. Frustrated by vague gardening books and clickbait-heavy social…
The Peter Principle says people rise until they hit their level of incompetence. Christian Gläßel and Adam Scharpf argue that's not a stable resting point: unable to advance or meet expectations, a "…
My mother relies on a Nokia 1280 because she's visually impaired and needs physical buttons. When it died, I bought a $400 Kapsys SmartVision3, a keypad phone with a talking interface. It ran Android…
When juggling 20 AI chat threads left my focus shattered, I built a priority queue in git. Each ticket is a markdown file in the repo, and an agent works the board in cycles—researching, building, te…
A self-hosted app that pairs with your YouTube TV client and automatically skips sponsor segments and intros using the SponsorBlock API. It also mutes and hits "Skip Ad" the instant the button appear…
We're building abejora.com, a time tracking tool for freelancers and small teams. Lately we've been working on access for AI agents, since many people want their own agent to handle the repetitive pa…
The torvalds/linux repository on GitHub was unreachable during another outage, reviving the perennial debate over relying on a single centralized platform for critical open-source infrastructure. The…
A Science report on consumer brain-wave headsets reveals that device makers are quietly collecting neural data to train AI models, often without users' knowledge. Hacker News commenters note the arti…
A Hacker News thread reacting to a developer's refusal to use LLMs in coding. One commenter, an International Olympiad in Informatics gold medalist, admits AI agents can't match his best code but now…
Penlink's Webloc, built by Israeli firm Cobwebs, pulls location data from ordinary weather, gaming, email, and religious apps to map where phones have been over the past year, refreshed hourly. US Im…
ZapFast is a native WhatsApp client for Linux, macOS, and Windows, built in Rust with egui and fastframe and linked to your phone through whatsapp-rust. It runs without a browser engine, so in a Linu…
Raph Levien needed text rendering for his RP2350 home computer project, vic-2350, but with only 520kB of SRAM and a 6-cycle-per-pixel budget, he races the beam instead of using a framebuffer. His sol…
PacketHound is a free, open-source outbound firewall for Windows 10 and 11 that flips Windows Firewall's default to block and asks you to Allow or Block each app the first time it tries to connect. I…
After spending €6.5 million since 2007, the Federal Archives has ended its contract with Fraunhofer IPK for the e-Puzzler, a computer-assisted reconstruction system that never reached its 80% automat…
On Flight 15, slated for November 13, SpaceX plans to bring both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage back to the launch site for a tower catch, which would mark the first full recove…
Pharmaceutical executives are skeptical of claims that AI alone can discover and develop new drugs, even as their own companies deploy it to pick targets, refine experimental medicines, and match pat…
Deno markets itself as "secure by default," but its permission system rests on shaky ground. The author shows how malicious code can spoof or hide the terminal prompts that ask for access, and how `-…
Chimera is a browser-based vocal synth that makes every sound by simulating air moving through a throat, mouth, and nose. Drag the tongue, lips, or jaw, or play the keys, and watch a midsagittal 3D v…
A cross-party alliance led by Conservative peer John Nash and Labour's Jess Phillips is proposing legislation that would require tech companies to install software on every phone and tablet sold in B…
Paul Ford built TinyLittleOffice, an office suite that stores documents in the URL, in roughly twice the time of a long newsletter post — and it drew hundreds of thousands of visitors, crashed his Cl…
A 1994 Nihon Falcom RPG for the PC Engine finally gets an English fan translation after a 15-year odyssey. Translator SamIAm and retired programmer Elmer had to reverse-engineer Falcom's interleaved…
The Commodore PET, first shown at CES in January 1977, beat the Apple II and TRS-80 to become the world's first personal computer. Engineer Chuck Peddle assembled the prototype in a wooden case with…
Built on the lock-free libmizu C core, pymizu runs parallel Python tasks over POSIX shared memory, cutting a trivial task round trip from 94.2 µs with ProcessPoolExecutor to 0.7 µs — a 135x speedup.…
Kirlian photography captures corona discharge on film, and you can build a working device from a battery, an ignition coil, and copper-clad board. The author, who has experimented with the technique…
Edward Hopper began Nighthawks in late 1941, sketching coffee urns at a Midtown diner and modeling the suited men himself in a mirror while his wife Jo posed as the auburn-haired woman. As Pearl Harb…
E-graphs, the equality graphs behind tools like egg and egglog, are usually taught through union-find and implementation details. Evan Patterson asks what is really going on abstractly. He proposes i…
The 10-million-fold gap in tokens per parameter between AI and the human brain suggests today's networks are far too small. Q Labs fits a data-constrained scaling law that adds terms for overfitting…
Between 1910 and 1930, a group of Dutch architects led by Michel de Klerk, Piet Kramer, and J.M. van der Mey transformed Amsterdam with expressionist brickwork — most famously government-funded worke…
Ornadyne's one-pound O1 ornithopter flaps its wings instead of spinning propellers, mimicking a crow in shape, silhouette, and flight profile. At the Air Force's "Game of Drones" exercise at Edwards…
Researchers found more than 1,400 cannabis seeds and preserved human hair inside an elite tomb in Siberia's Uyuk Valley, dated to around 2,800 years ago during the early Scythian period. Mass spectro…
Design studio Typeland partnered with Shakespeare's Globe to build Amifer Folio, a typeface drawn from the intricate decorative letterforms of the playwright's First Folio. Rather than a nostalgic pa…
WaveDudeNext is a free Windows 2D wave optics simulator that lets you place light sources and optical parts on a canvas and watch waves propagate as field and intensity. It supports lenses, mirrors,…
In 1989, after Richard Stallman told him gcc was too big to port to 16-bit MS-DOS, DJ Delorie set out to prove otherwise. He built a custom extender with virtual memory, ported BSD's libc, and create…
FuckCaptcha is an open, MIT-licensed reference covering 39 CAPTCHA systems, from text-based puzzles and reCAPTCHA v2/v3 to Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha, GeeTest, Arkose Labs, DataDome, and Kasada.…
Rework eats 30 to 50 percent of development effort and costs about 2.5 times the original build, yet studios track artist days and ignore the price of reversed decisions. Skull and Bones changed its…
The STM32H7's FMC eats 30+ pins scattered across the BGA, making FPGA pairing painful on cheap boards. So the author tried the STM32MP2 — a dual Cortex-A35 SoC built for Linux — and forced it to beha…
Apple's new CEO is pressing software chief Craig Federighi to take a bolder approach to AI, aiming to turn Siri into an autonomous agent that completes tasks for users rather than just answering ques…
At the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, more than a quarter of adult California sea lions that die arrive with an aggressive cancer that starts in the reproductive organs and can turn vertebrae to…
StatCraft is an open-source, clean-room statistical suite written entirely in safe Rust, with zero unsafe blocks and a no-panic guarantee. It covers descriptives, frequencies, t-tests, and one-way AN…
A step-by-step guide to running the classic text adventure Zork 1 on Linux via the z80pack Z80 emulator and CP/M. It covers building z80pack and cpmtools, creating disk images, copying ZORK1.COM and…
Bones found in French caves and named Grus primigenia by Alphonse Milne-Edwards in the 19th century were long thought to belong to an extinct giant crane. A Bournemouth University team led by Dr John…
MAPLE is a domain-agnostic pruning pipeline for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs that slashes Gemma 4 26B-A4B from 9.92 GB down to a 4.75 GB GGUF container (1.48 effective bits per parameter) by profiling rea…
Ensemble is a coding agent built from The Art of Building AI Coding Agents, Bill Cox's executable teaching book—and Edition 3 was built by Edition 2 running that same book. Cox argues for "developmen…
Standard Multi-Token Prediction training carries a noisy residual gradient that interferes with both next-token and multi-token learning, and the problem worsens with scale. The authors decompose the…
Layers' illustrations are 103,802 dots hand-placed by designer Alberto Larizza, and animating them meant shipping an 8 MB JSON file. The team built DOT2, a compact binary format that quantizes coordi…
A solo sailor recounts refitting his twin-keel Leisure 27, Dark Star, over 29 years of ownership—new engine, rigging, sails, and rudder—before sailing around Britain. He details the gear that mattere…
A developer demonstrates how to make two columns of photos scroll at different rates using only CSS. The right column drifts upward faster via a scroll-driven animation, while each image also zooms a…
Scrine breaks books, PDFs, and web articles into one- or two-sentence cards you swipe through like a social feed, with Page, Stream, and Flash modes for other reading styles. An AI tutor powered by C…
In 2025, monsters seemed to be everywhere: Donald Trump called immigrants "monsters," his opponents threw the word back, and monsters filled movies and pop music. When the author's three-year-old dau…
Chile has imported more than 1.6 million colonies of the European buff-tailed bumblebee since 1997, and the bee has spread into Argentina at roughly 200 kilometers a year. Biologist Marina Arbetman,…
Raph Levien needed fast text rendering for vic-2350, his RP2350-based reimagining of an 80s home computer. Racing the beam leaves only ~6 cycles per pixel, and Rust couldn't meet that, so he wrote th…
The C++ standard library splits random number generation into uniform random bit generators — engines like the linear congruential, Mersenne twister, subtract-with-carry, and the new Philox engine ad…
NEXUS-Q is a Rust-based post-quantum security engine for encrypting data, managing key lifecycles, and issuing signed identities. It wraps standardized primitives — ML-KEM-768/1024 hybridized with X2…