Half-Baked Product(weli.dev)
1176 points by weli | 361 comments
A blog post using a parable about a founder entering the oven business to critique building products from spreadsheet market analysis without domain skill.
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Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own(gamingonlinux.com)
529 points by ahlCVA | 99 comments
GamingOnLinux article reporting that Valve has released the Steam Machine e-ink front display design on GitLab under the MIT license so people can build their own.
CarPlay Is Additive(caseyliss.com)
527 points by sprawl_ | 658 comments
Casey Liss blog post arguing that Apple CarPlay adds to rather than replaces automakers' infotainment, responding to Rivian's software chief on Decoder.
Costco is the anti-Amazon(phenomenalworld.org)
521 points by bookofjoe | 506 comments
Phenomenal World analysis essay by Benjamin Y. Fong titled "The Anti-Amazon," in its Labor & Logistics section, about Costco as a contrast to Amazon.
Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't(stefan.schueller.net)
476 points by talonx | 334 comments
Opinion blog post arguing that Switzerland's regulated open-access fiber model delivers 25 Gbit internet while America's 'free market' approach does not.
Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally(github.com)
390 points by livestyle | 175 comments
GitHub repository by jamesob collecting notes, runners, and tools for running state-of-the-art LLMs locally.
EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why(gamesindustry.biz)
389 points by Stevvo | 138 comments
GamesIndustry.biz feature interviewing Fenris Creations' Ben Hunter on open-sourcing EVE Online's Carbon engine, covering security concerns, LLM coding, and Godot.
Espionage Against the European Parliament(citizenlab.ca)
381 points by ledoge | 92 comments
Citizen Lab research report finding that a member of the European Parliament committee investigating spyware was hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus.
Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all(mistral.ai)
353 points by programLyrique | 94 comments
Mistral AI research blog post announcing Leanstral 1.5, a model for generating formal proofs in the Lean theorem prover.
Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper(wafer.ai)
345 points by latchkey | 133 comments
Wafer blog post on serving the GLM-5.2 model on AMD MI355X GPUs at 2626 tok/s per node and 213 tok/s single stream, at over 2x lower cost than Nvidia Blackwell.
Factories are just rooms(interconnected.org)
259 points by arbesman | 109 comments
FreeBSD ate my RAM(crocidb.com)
183 points by theanonymousone | 78 comments
Holes(xkcd.com)
155 points by caminanteblanco | 28 comments
Africans Are Turning to Starlink(economist.com)
137 points by bookofjoe | 150 comments
Pandoc Lua Filters(pandoc.org)
131 points by ankitg12 | 11 comments
Egypt Is Building a New Nile(theb1m.com)
118 points by geox | 67 comments
Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models(soatok.blog)
115 points by zdw | 27 comments
Software, from First Principles(fazamhd.com)
79 points by faza | 15 comments
Best Simple System for Now (2025)(dannorth.net)
71 points by daan-k | 15 comments
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