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Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues on RGB Lighting Devices

Microsoft is investigating gaming crashes and launch failures following August 2026 Windows updates, which it attributes…

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator designed to recreate early personal computers and is built using the Rust…

Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders

Flipkart's quick-commerce venture is delivering 1.1 million to 1.2 million orders a day, nearly triple its November…

I Dream of Quieter Computing

The author advocates for a return to more intentional, human-centered internet design—featuring personal websites,…

Software Engineering in the Agentic Era

Simon Willison has launched a new project called "Agentic Engineering Patterns" to document best practices for…

Trump Mobile promoted a 'Made in the USA' phone - but the details kept changing

BBC Verify tracks the changes in design, spec, manufacture and release date of the T1 phone from Trump Mobile.

NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier

The NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier tracks how quickly different AI models can close the gap toward a human performance…

Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors

In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.

Knowing When to Stop: The Art of Making a Loop Converge

AI models can theoretically continue refining work indefinitely, unlike humans who rely on external signals like tests,…

Fast and Hard Code

Language choice in programming is becoming less consequential as LLMs enable developers to work across unfamiliar…

English ↔ Claudish Translator

NetBSD and My Life (2005)

Gary Rolland, a UK-based network administrator, describes how NetBSD transformed his work environment by replacing…

hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

Apple has deprecated hdiutil in macOS 27 Golden Gate, replacing it with diskutil image for disk image operations.

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific…

Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

A developer has created a tool that makes logos and text appear brighter on HDR displays by adding gain maps—tiny…

Things I want in a modern relational query language

The author argues that while SQL's declarative approach is powerful, its outdated implementation and syntax have…

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

Local LLM implementations often underperform compared to reference implementations due to differences in hardware…

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

Figmimic is a bookmarklet that captures any webpage and converts it into editable Figma frames that can be pasted…

Thinking in Python by Bruce Eckel

"Thinking in Python" by Bruce Eckel is a comprehensive guide covering Python fundamentals, advanced techniques, design…

Scrap

Moxie Marlinspike recalls moving to Pittsburgh in winter unprepared for the harsh conditions, finding a house without…

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)

A traditionally published sci-fi author received over 50 scam book-marketing pitches in 33 days from fraudsters using…

Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

Microsoft Fixes 'Perfect 10' Exploit That Could Have Let Hackers Run Code Remotely

The Entra ID flaw earned the highest possible severity score, but Microsoft says it patched the bug before publishing…

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.

Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say

Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System"

Ken Thompson created Unix on a PDP-7 computer at Bell Labs after losing access to a GE-645 machine, initially aiming to…

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions…

US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense

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