849 points by ltratt | 728 comments
Dan Luu essay arguing that advancing AI coding models let developers build more ambitious software, citing pgrust, a regex engine, ripgrep fork, and board game AI projects.
561 points by bobbydigitales | 346 comments
An X post by John Carmack praising Wouter van Oortmerssen's Goose programming language for its multiple data stacks, relative references, and binary structure validation.
474 points by gnabgib | 495 comments
Apricitas Economics post analyzing the loss of over 200k US jobs in media, film, and the arts over four years and how much generative AI may be responsible.
403 points by vrganj | 320 comments
News article reporting that advocacy groups filed evidence with Brazil's Superior Electoral Court alleging Meta's platforms and Meta AI favor Flávio Bolsonaro over Lula.
615 points by sungam | 259 comments
A dermatologist's blog post comparing two frontier LLMs with a fine-tuned Inception v3 CNN on diagnosing 200 biopsy-proven skin lesions, where the CNN scored 62% versus the LLMs' 42%.
605 points by jumploops | 101 comments
Homepage of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, a nonprofit that mails free books monthly to children from birth to age five in five countries.
200 points by tosh | 70 comments
GitHub repository for fheroes2, an open-source GPL-2.0 C++ recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine.
172 points by liotier | 115 comments
Missileer.watch is a site that streams 11175 kHz HFGCS shortwave audio, transcribes US nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, and explains the network and launch capsules.
160 points by rzk | 56 comments
GitHub repo with code and paper for GVS5H, a training-free self-orchestration harness letting Qwen3.8-27B instances match Claude Fable 5 on hard LiveCodeBench problems.
157 points by vfxGer | 47 comments
Interactive bubble chart of S&P 500 companies sized by market cap, filled with stick figures representing employee counts, grouped by sector.
148 points by edwardog | 80 comments
A project site presenting the 1505 Löffelholz Codex, a Nuremberg knight's tool book, page by page with facsimiles, transcriptions, modern readings and interpretations.
74 points by xoxxala | 93 comments
News article reporting that Microsoft declined a $500 million, seven-year Netflix offer to adapt Xbox game franchises into shows and films.
52 points by adunk | 8 comments
Official page for Sabre Wulf Remastered, a Genesis Project remake of Ultimate's 1984 jungle maze game for the Commodore 64, with downloads, screenshots and guides.
501 points by Tomte | 242 comments
Blog post announcing the Digital Dissident Devroom at FOSDEM 2027 and its call for talks on censorship circumvention, metadata-resistant messaging and at-risk user tools.
349 points by gmays | 127 comments
Cerebras blog post explaining how trillion-parameter models like Kimi K3 are split across multiple WSE-3T wafers for pipelined, high-throughput inference.
357 points by speckx | 122 comments
Blog post by Charlie Gerard introducing Overgrown, a Chrome extension that grows plants over neglected browser tabs which users must slash away to access them.
282 points by jruohonen | 87 comments
Personal blog essay recounting how BBS-era cracktros, the demoscene, and Denthor's ASPHYXIA Pascal demo tutorials inspired the author to become a programmer.
157 points by embedding-shape | 67 comments
Walt Disney Animation Studios page explaining its filmmaking process, breaking down Zootopia 2 into sequences, shots, and frames across departments.
56 points by andsoitis | 42 comments
Tyler Hogge's blog post arguing that intensity is the most important cultural trait of exceptional startups, citing founders and operators as examples.
69 points by armcat | 74 comments
A short blog post comparing the AI assistant Eunice from William Gibson's novel Agency to today's emerging autonomous, full-duplex conversational AI agents.
49 points by ericholiveira | 28 comments
GitHub repository for Farol, an open-source CLI and GitHub Action that scores pull request merge risk, highlighting risky files, reach, diff coverage and contract breaks.
46 points by alxgsv | 84 comments
Personal blog essay by Uploadcare CTO Alex Gusev reflecting that AI coding agents have removed the engineering challenge that once motivated him.
464 points by tdeck | 126 comments
Intercept opinion piece on Eugene, Oregon police quoting a local news outlet a $2.5M fee for public records about an officer accused of misconduct.
292 points by cxr | 205 comments
Roku developer blog post announcing that its developer docs, sample apps, SDK and tooling repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab, with guidance on updating URLs.
182 points by bookofjoe | 50 comments
A kottke.org post sharing a video on how a Nishi-Izu workshop founded in 1882 makes katsuobushi using the traditional tebiyama smoke-drying method.
62 points by zdw | 14 comments
YouTube video by Wave Design showing footage from Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 2026 edited into a '90s-style TV reel using SGI workstations and period video hardware.
40 points by UncleJo7 | 14 comments
GitHub repository for Licasa, an open-source Picasa-inspired image viewer and editor for Linux supporting HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, RAW previews and Motion Photos.
272 points by mashally | 176 comments
An X post reporting that Samsung Tizen TVs run an INT8 AlexNet TensorFlow Lite model on 960x540 screen captures every few seconds to identify which game is being played.
98 points by noplay | 87 comments
Blast exclusive reporting that French PM Sébastien Lecornu asked Orange, SFR, Free and Bouygues to prepare blocking TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X before the October 24 protest.
227 points by pchristensen | 57 comments
Slides and transcript of Drew Breunig's AGNTCon talk "Context Fails & Fixes," reviewing the history, failure modes, and future of context engineering for LLMs.
44 points by acossta | 0 comments
Wiz Research blog post analyzing Gheist, a campaign using stolen GitHub tokens to plant workflows that dump repository secrets, with IOCs and response guidance.
220 points by LordNibbler | 49 comments
Homepage for SpeedCrunch 1.1, a free open-source high-precision scientific calculator for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
239 points by consumer451 | 156 comments
Reuters news article reporting that Serbian President Vucic conceded defeat in a snap election, a win for the student movement; the page showed a device verification screen.
182 points by hmokiguess | 145 comments
GitHub repository for JetBrains Thinkrail, an open-source lightweight IDE for vibe coding with the pi agent that customises itself to the user's workflow.
108 points by andsoitis | 59 comments
A personal phlog entry on SDF's Gopher space, viewed through a web proxy, reflecting on why someone would use Gopher in 2026 and on simpler, less commercial tech.
90 points by Tomte | 64 comments
An opinion piece in comic form on Xtra by webcomic duo Hazel and Bell about how social media algorithms and payment processor restrictions are hurting indie queer webcomics.
252 points by jumploops | 358 comments
Oligarch Watch article criticizing Amazon's new Kids Tablets marketed to toddlers, citing pediatric research linking screen use to developmental and emotional problems.
39 points by herbertl | 43 comments
JSTOR Daily article on why electric washing machines were slow to spread in interwar America, covering forced selling, racial dynamics, and commercial laundry competition.
38 points by schleck8 | 12 comments
Reddit r/opensource post about banning solo projects and LLM-built projects; the page shows a Reddit network-security block requiring login.
183 points by andsoitis | 28 comments
A personal blog card by Dave (ratfactor) on the appeal of tiny programs and small programming languages like Forth, Lisp, Tcl, and Lua, with examples of minimal implementations.
159 points by greenchair | 62 comments
DreamHost status page detailing an active incident affecting File Manager and Webmail, with precautionary password resets for email and FTP/SFTP users.
60 points by frading | 49 comments
Blog post by Polygon's creator explaining why he rewrote the TypeScript/three.js procedural geometry engine from scratch in Jai with a custom WebGPU renderer.
55 points by surprisetalk | 19 comments
A blog post reminiscing about the memory card save file screens of sixth-generation consoles like the Dreamcast, GameCube, PS2, and original Xbox.
27 points by matt_d | 2 comments
Research blog post introducing OPAL, a reactive optimizer where an LLM agent monitors training dynamics and rewrites the optimizer's source code during a training run.
13 points by polyamid23 | 2 comments
A parody chatbot-style website by WeMove Europe mocking Palantir Technologies and its surveillance practices.
197 points by romanhn | 305 comments
Daily Californian article reporting that UC Berkeley Fields medalist Richard Borcherds stopped grading homework because widespread student AI use made it pointless.
106 points by taubek | 38 comments
X post by Freddy Vega claiming Samsung TVs detect Bluetooth microphones, classify sounds like dog barks and baby cries, and send telemetry including app usage.
44 points by artninja1988 | 67 comments
An Atlantic essay by Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz reflecting on AI's impact on mathematics after OpenAI's claimed Navier-Stokes solution in 2026.
40 points by Velocifyer | 8 comments
Codeberg repository for FindMyWeb, an open-source web app and Zephyr-based firmware for building your own trackers on Apple's Find My network.
28 points by surprisetalk | 8 comments
A personal blog post describing 'rainbows', a work-in-progress spec for memory-mapped I/O devices (console, arithmetic, disk, datetime, screen) for the author's 'ok' virtual machine.
21 points by rd07 | 3 comments
Release blog post for Pragtical v3.14.0, a Lua-based code editor, detailing application menus, floating views, workspace sessions, a new Plugin Manager and lower idle CPU.
8 points by gumby | 6 comments
A BMJ Open research article on cannabis legalisation and cardiovascular hospitalisations in the USA; the capture shows a Cloudflare block page instead.
6 points by inandout | 0 comments
A Portuguese-language blog post discussing why global economic inequality between rich and poor keeps widening, citing technology, cost of living, and billionaire wealth.
3 points by mariuscarlsson | 0 comments
GitHub repository for JUKEBOX-OS, a Rust and Python runtime offering deterministic replay, a copy-on-write ACID tool sandbox, and time-travel debugging for multi-agent systems.
830 points by testing22321 | 617 comments
Reddit post in r/antiai about a hacker reverse engineering a Samsung TV and finding on-board AI listening; page shows a Reddit network-security block.
121 points by machinehum | 19 comments
A blog post describing the design of a low-cost stereo vision board built on the Rockchip RV1103 SoC, covering the PCB, Buildroot Linux, and SAD-based depth processing.
115 points by thunderbong | 50 comments
TechSpot news article on Nikon stripping the Small World in Motion contest winner of his title after scientists found signs his microscopy video was AI-generated.
64 points by mimasama | 39 comments
ReC98 blog post detailing splitting Shuusou Gyoku's game logic into a library and a replay validation CLI, ending with the developer's retirement announcement.
80 points by surprisetalk | 25 comments
An interactive 3D model of a U.S.-style power grid explaining how electricity is generated, transmitted, priced and kept at 60 Hz, with scenarios like Winter Storm Uri.
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