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Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s
xda-developers.com

Just what were they thinking (and drinking)?

Gleam OTP – Fault Tolerant Multicore Programs with Actors
github.com/gleam-lang

📫 Fault tolerant multicore programs with actors. Contribute to gleam-lang/otp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Original C64 Lode Runner Source Code
github.com/Piddewitt

Original C64 Lode Runner Source Code. Contribute to Piddewitt/Loderunner development by creating an account on GitHub.

Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid
forum.f-droid.org

Hi, I recently released v1.6.0 of my app, bible feed, to f-droid. For some reason it has been tagged as NSFW and I notice this new metadata has been added to the top: AntiFeatures: NSFW: en-US: Promote ■■■■ and violence contents. https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/blob/master/metadata/com.me2christ.bible_feed.yml But this is a simple bible reader app that obviously does not promote ■■■■ or violence in any

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%
github.com/Gillou68310

A decompilation of Duke Nukem Zero Hour. Contribute to Gillou68310/DukeNukemZeroHour development by creating an account on GitHub.

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
science.org
The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky
techcrunch.com

Anthony Ha - The Trump administration is taking its social media attacks on Democratic opponents to an unlikely platform, with the White House and numerous other government agencies joining Bluesky on Friday.

Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi
cmaiolino.wordpress.com

09/01/2025 released DOSBIAN 3.0 for Raspberry Pi 3/4/400/5/500 WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 3.0 Latest distro updates applied to run in Raspberry Pi 5/500. Dosbox Staging updated to version 0.82, no…

US Government Uptime Monitor
usa-status.com
The AI bubble is 17 times bigger than the dot-com bust
cnn.com

Allison Morrow - The AI faithful believe the technology will disrupt virtually every aspect of modern life, from phone operating systems to pharmaceuticals to finance. And even if there is a bubble, proponents say, the dot-com bubble gave us companies like Amazon, and the internet became, well, the internet.

Compare Single Board Computers
sbc.compare

sbc.compare - Compare single board computers with comprehensive benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data. Find the perfect SBC for your project.

Airliner hit by possible space debris
avbrief.com

Russ Niles - 'Space debris' was suggested in the extremely rare event.

Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?
optimizedbyotto.com

The discovery of a backdoor in XZ Utils in the spring of 2024 shocked the open source community, raising critical questions about software supply chain security. This post explores whether better Debian packaging practices could have detected this threat, offering a guide to auditing packages and suggesting future improvements.\n

Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
news.ycombinator.com
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I wish SSDs gave you CPU performance style metrics about their activity
utcc.utoronto.ca
The Trinary Dream Endures
robinsloan.com

Yes, no, maybe.

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)
cs.stanford.edu
Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum
apnews.com

Thieves have pulled off a daring heist at the Louvre, stealing priceless Napoleonic jewels. On Sunday, they used a basket lift to access the museum, smashed display cases, and fled with the treasures.

Judge says body cameras for Chicago officers "was not a suggestion"
cbsnews.com

A federal judge again Friday ordered agents in Chicago for immigration operations to wear and turn on their body cameras, telling them "that was not a suggestion."

Windows 11 25H2 October Update Bug Renders Recovery Environment Unusable
techpowerup.com

It seems like Microsoft has encountered a significant issue with the latest Windows 11 25H2 October update, KB5066835. The company confirmed that this update disrupts mouse and keyboard functionality within the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), making them unresponsive and unusable. As a result,...

Show HN: Notepad.exe – macOS editor for Swift and Python (now Linux runtime)
notepadexe.com
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Native macOS code editor for Swift and Python. Launch instantly, execute immediately. No project setup, no build configuration. Built-in iOS simulator, AI assistance, and Linux cross-platform support.

GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime
blog.jupyter.org

Isabel Paredes - We are thrilled to announce the newest member of our JupyterLite kernel ecosystem: Xeus-Octave. Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave…

The zipper is getting its first major upgrade in 100 years
wired.com

Amy Francombe - By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.

With deadline looming 4 of 9 universities reject Trumps pact to remake higher ed
arstechnica.com

But Trump is pressuring the other five.

RFCs: Blueprints of the Internet
ackreq.github.io

Mohammad - Think about it for a second: could the internet exist without standards and protocols? Of course not! Computers need shared rules and agreements to communicate with one another. Even human languages, like English, work much the same way. They function as a kind of communication protocol because we’ve all agreed on words and grammar that carry shared meaning. In both cases, whether among machines or people, communicat

Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom
aeon.co

It’s only in recent history that freedom has come to mean having a huge array of choices in life. Did we take a wrong turn?

Scheme Reports at Fifty
crumbles.blog
Websites Are for Humans
marcus-obst.de
Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised
reddit.com/r/Ubuntu
ISP Blocking of No-IP's Dynamic DNS Enters Week 2
torrentfreak.com
Show HN: Pyversity – Fast Result Diversification for Retrieval and RAG
github.com/Pringled
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Fast Diversification for Search & Retrieval. Contribute to Pringled/pyversity development by creating an account on GitHub.

Replacement.ai
replacement.ai
Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds
stories.tamu.edu

Research highlights how a lack of vegetation and shade exposes vulnerable residents to heightened health risks.

How to Assemble an Electric Heating Element from Scratch
solar.lowtechmagazine.com

Kris De Decker - This manual guides you through the process of building a 12V DC electric resistance heating element for a self-made heating or cooking device.

The macOS LC_COLLATE hunt: Or why does sort order differently on macOS and Linux (2020)
blog.zhimingwang.org
A Tower on Billionaires' Row Is Full of Cracks. Who's to Blame?
nytimes.com
Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator
shkspr.mobi

Terence Eden - A few days ago, someone called PixelMelt published a way for Amazon's customers to download their purchased books without DRM. Well… sort of. In their post "How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked" they describe the process of spoofing a web browser, downloading a bunch of JSON files, reconstructing the obfuscated SVGs used to draw individual letters, and running O…

Uber will offer gig work like AI data labeling to drivers while not on the road
cnbc.com
Pebble is officially back on iOS and Android
twitter.com
Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring, Recovering Hundreds of Beheaded Figurines
nytimes.com
OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
the-decoder.com

Matthias Bastian - OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community, including Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who called out the sloppy communication.

Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB
demo.duckui.com
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What Happened in 2007?
whathappenedin2007.com
The case for the return of fine-tuning
welovesota.com
Deterministic multithreading is hard (2024)
factorio.com

Hello, While a lot of time of 2.0 development has been spent on new features and quality of life, we still take care of the smaller details and technical improvements.

Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction
daymare.net

Todaymare - After 4 years with Rust, I love the language – but I’m starting to think the ecosystem has an abstraction addiction. Or: why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction.

Space junk falls on Western Australian minesite
abc.net.au

Suspected space debris is believed to have crashed near a WA mine site, with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau confirming the object was not from a commercial aircraft. 

Show HN: A better Hacker News front end
hakkernieuws.vercel.app
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GoFundMe CEO: economy is so bad his customers crowdfund to pay for groceries
finance.yahoo.com

GoFundMe’s CEO says more Americans are crowdfunding everyday essentials like groceries as high costs and strained household finances persist.

The traffickers are winning the war on drugs
economist.com
The Accountability Problem
jamesshore.com
Friendship Begins at Home
3quarksdaily.com

by Gary Borjesson

Using Pegs in Janet
articles.inqk.net

Michael Camilleri - Instructions on how to use parser expression grammars in Janet.

Bevy TLDR – Game development with Bevy summarized
taintedcoders.com

This is the Bevy one pager TLDR guide that provides quick reference information for both human and AI consumption.

Dutch intelligence services now share less information with US
dutchnews.nl

Robin Pascoe - The Dutch intelligence services are sharing less information with the United States and working more closely with European partners, AIVD director Erik Akerboom and MIVD director Peter Reesink have told the Volkskrant in a joint interview. Their caution towards Washington is linked to what they describe as the increasingly autocratic course of president Donald Trump, who has dismissed senior officials for lacking loy

How to sequence your DNA for <$2k
maxlangenkamp.substack.com

Max Langenkamp - a cheap and bloody experiment

Salesforce told ICE it could help speed up hiring of immigration officers
sfchronicle.com

Aldo Toledo - After echoing his calls to send troops into San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff now wants his company to help power President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data
psu.edu

When recognizing faces and emotions, artificial intelligence (AI) can be biased, like classifying white people as happier than people from other racial backgrounds. This happens because the data used to train the AI contained a disproportionate number of happy white faces, leading it to correlate race with emotional expression. In a recent study, published in Media Psychology, researchers asked users to assess such s

Atuin desktop: Runbooks that run
github.com/atuinsh

📖 Runbooks that run . Contribute to atuinsh/desktop development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tinnitus Neuromodulator
mynoise.net
Testosterone Administration Induces a Red Shift in Democrats
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

An experiment was run to test if a testosterone administration would influence the political preferences of 136 healthy males. Synthetic testosterone or placebo was administered to participants who identified the strength of their political ...

Free Programing Books
github.com/EbookFoundation

:books: Freely available programming books. Contribute to EbookFoundation/free-programming-books development by creating an account on GitHub.

Event Sourcing, CQRS and Micro Services: Real FinTech Example
lukasniessen.medium.com

Lukas Niessen - Project Description

Picturing Mathematics
mathenchant.wordpress.com

I’m a great believer in low-tech math. I don’t like to rely on things a computer tells me; what if there’s a bug in the code? I prefer trusting things that I can check for myself. At the same…

Attention is a luxury good
seths.blog

Luxury goods are special: they are scarce and expensive, and they earn us status with some folks because it shows that we paid more than we needed to. Luxury isn’t about quality, suitability …

Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster
theregister.com

: Cleverly concocked deal keeps debt off Social Media empire's books

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery by modulating BBB transport
nature.com
Best xkcd
heavyconsulting.net
Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code
github.com/willcrichton

Flowistry is an IDE plugin for Rust that helps you focus on relevant code. - willcrichton/flowistry

Root System Drawings
images.wur.nl
Ripgrep 15.0
github.com/BurntSushi

Sponsorship is appreciated! ripgrep 15 is a new major version release of ripgrep that mostly has bug fixes, some minor performance improvements and minor new features. In case you haven't heard of...

AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - First slowly, and then all at once, dreams of LLMs bringing us to the cusp of AGI have fallen apart.

Using CUE to unify IoT sensor data
aran.dev

Aran Wilkinson - How CUE schemas eliminate type assertion boilerplate when handling multiple IoT sensor types in a home automation system

SQL Anti-Patterns
datamethods.substack.com

Jordan Goodman - Introduction

Lux: A luxurious package manager for Lua
github.com/lumen-oss

A luxurious package manager for Lua. Contribute to lumen-oss/lux development by creating an account on GitHub.

IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
blogsystem5.substack.com

Julio Merino - A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's

US falls out of 10 most powerful passports list for first time in 20 yrs
theguardian.com

Declining strength of US passport, tied with Malaysia’s at 12th, signals ‘shift in global mobility’, says index creator

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
theguardian.com

From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

MD RAID or DRBD can be broken from userspace when using O_DIRECT
bugzilla.kernel.org
EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers
youtube.com
./watch
dotslashwatch.com
Fast calculation of the distance to cubic Bezier curves on the GPU
blog.pkh.me
Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life in Cycles
acoup.blog

This is the fifth and final part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd, IVe) looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers and showing how historical modeling can …

Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"
neowin.net
StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source
github.com/OpenMixerProject

Contribute to OpenMixerProject/StageConnect development by creating an account on GitHub.

Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103
chinadaily.com.cn
The Majority AI View
anildash.com

Anil Dash - A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

How I ditched smartphones
discuss.techlore.tech

Let me say right away that this is my personal experience, in which I took some very radical decisions. If you are not ready for such decisions, just skip the relevant points. This post is specifically about smartphones; tablets (which do not have a SIM slot) can simply be reflashed with firmware such as GrapheneOS or LineageOS. Disclaimer: This is not a manual, but a story about my personal experience. I am not en

AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo
chipsandcheese.com

George Cozma - Hello you fine Internet folks!

Japan asks OpenAI to keep Sora 2's hands off anime IP
theregister.com

: Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law

Show HN: ServiceRadar – open-source Network Observability Platform
github.com/carverauto
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powerful opensource network management and observability platform - carverauto/serviceradar

The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method [pdf]
programmingmadecomplicated.wordpress.com
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
nytimes.com
Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement
arstechnica.com

Amazon’s Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE.

NeXT Computer Offices
archive.org

NeXT's first offices were Steve Jobs' own mansion in Woodside. The company then consisted of Steve and his five co-founders, and they were still thinking up...

Jeep wrangler owners waiting for answers week after an update bricked their cars
thedrive.com

Byron Hurd - Over-the-air software updates can be handy. They can also be a nightmare.

Salesforce Pitched a 'Talent Acquisition' Contract to ICE
sfist.com

We need only follow the money to figure out what has turned the once-liberal-leaning Marc Benioff into a full-throated Trump supporter. And now we see that Salesforce was hoping to land a new contract helping ICE to expand its reach.

Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that
vibe-coded.lol
Promoted on Sunday, Fired on Monday: Inside a NASA Office's Sudden Closure
planetary.org

As thousands leave the space agency, two ex-NASA workers give an inside account of how their office was abruptly shut down.

WebMCP
github.com/jasonjmcghee

Contribute to jasonjmcghee/WebMCP development by creating an account on GitHub.

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