Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options(arstechnica.com)
529 points by fleahunter | 423 comments
Ars Technica guide to avoiding smart TV ads and tracking, covering options like dumb TVs and alternatives to connected televisions.
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OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI(simonwillison.net)
524 points by simonw | 303 comments
Simon Willison blog post reporting that OpenAI has quietly added Anthropic-style skills support to ChatGPT's Code Interpreter and the Codex CLI.
macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt(developer.apple.com)
508 points by guiand | 260 comments
Apple developer release notes for macOS 26.2, including a section on RDMA over Thunderbolt for building fast AI compute clusters.
“Are you the one?” is free money(blog.owenlacey.dev)
451 points by samwho | 105 comments
A blog post analyzing the dating reality show "Are You the One?" mathematically, arguing contestants could reliably find all matches and win the prize money.
Nokia N900 Necromancy(yaky.dev)
440 points by yaky | 175 comments
Blog post about reviving a Nokia N900 by building a fake battery, adding a USB-C port, and booting from SD card.
Rats Play DOOM(ratsplaydoom.com)
384 points by ano-ther | 144 comments
Project site documenting a setup where rats are trained to play DOOM, with sections on hardware, software, results, and a build guide.
Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why(journal.james-zhan.com)
381 points by nafnlj | 163 comments
A personal blog post by James Zhan describing how Google de-indexed his entire Bear Blog a month after he started it, with no apparent reason.
Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case(arstechnica.com)
346 points by nobody9999 | 226 comments
Ars Technica article on Apple losing its appeal of a contempt ruling in the Epic v. Apple iOS payments case, with Tim Sweeney commenting on developer fears.
Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles(arstechnica.com)
335 points by furcyd | 498 comments
Ars Technica preview of Jonathan Blow's puzzle game Order of the Sinking Star, which grew over a decade into roughly 1,400 puzzles.
SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns(dbpro.app)
334 points by upmostly | 102 comments
A DB Pro blog post explaining how to index JSON data in SQLite using virtual generated columns for fast queries.
GNU Unifont(unifoundry.com)
326 points by remywang | 73 comments
Unifoundry's GNU Unifont page offering the bitmap font with glyphs for every printable Unicode BMP code point, plus plane charts and downloads.
Koralm Railway(infrastruktur.oebb.at)
308 points by fzeindl | 184 comments
In Defense of Matlab Code(runmat.org)
131 points by finbarr1987 | 136 comments
Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud(0l.de)
129 points by stv0g | 58 comments
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Async DNS(flak.tedunangst.com)
111 points by todsacerdoti | 37 comments
Smartphone without a battery (2022)(yaky.dev)
72 points by MYEUHD | 26 comments
Laying out the 404 Media zine(tedium.co)
71 points by robenkleene | 7 comments
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Debug Mode for LLMs in vLLora(vllora.dev)
43 points by mrun1729 | 4 comments
Mark V Shaney(en.wikipedia.org)
36 points by djoldman | 4 comments
Checkers Arcade(blog.fogus.me)
33 points by fogus | 3 comments
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