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AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

The article draws parallels between historical market manias (tulips, cryptocurrencies) and the current AI boom, arguing…

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

The EU's open-source age-verification project requires hardware-bound attestation to prevent credential copying, but…

Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

A developer created a tool that uses a Framework 12 laptop's hinge sensor to generate creaky door sounds, with pitch…

Sharing an X11 Server Across Hosts with FamilyWild

X11 clients fail to connect when run in containers or over SSH because the .Xauthority cookie is keyed to a specific…

Let the Machines In

The author, who runs an AI company, reflects on the paradoxical nature of using statistical prediction machines (LLMs)…

Adding Go's Defer to the TypeScript Compiler

A developer explored adding Go's defer statement to the TypeScript compiler as an experiment and concluded it probably…

Show HN: MicroCodex Coding Agent – OpenAI/codex reimplemented in C++ <1MB binary

MicroCodex is an ultra-lightweight coding agent written in C++23 that runs locally in your terminal with a binary size…

TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console

The TinyNES is a niche console that combines original NES CPU and PPU chips with modern, open-source hardware design to…

My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw."

Claude Opus 5 successfully generated an SVG illustration of a frog with a Habsburg jaw—a distinctive feature…

EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?

The EU's AI Act rules on large language models became enforceable on August 1, 2026, establishing the European…

Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share

European electric vehicle sales surged 50% year-over-year in June 2026, with battery electric vehicles (BEVs) reaching a…

'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout

SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity

SwiftUI, Apple's UI framework announced in 2019 with promises of revolutionary ease and cross-platform capability, has…

Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

Microsoft is raising Xbox prices in Europe and the UK by up to €200 or £170, with the 512GB Series S experiencing a 43%…

Cancelling Cursor

Alex Yumashev, a long-time Cursor user, cancels his subscription due to mounting frustrations including Cursor's…

The Myth of Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard, released by Apple in 2010 as a stability-focused update with "0 new features," became a cultural…

Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network

A researcher analyzed 30 days of SSH honeypot data across 15 globally distributed servers, capturing 1.5 million login…

Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

A GitHub repository provides tools to run Nix and NixOS on NVIDIA's DGX Spark system, offering both USB images for full…

Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now.

The Arch Linux DevOps team has temporarily disabled package adoptions and pushes to the AUR (Arch User Repository) due…

Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

Linux desktop market share in North America reached 10.65% in July 2026 according to Statcounter data, marking the first…

GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet

Khalid Alshaikh has created GE-97 Terminal, a browser-based Windows 98 emulator that allows users to experience the…

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

Kakehashi is an experimental userspace translation layer that enables running macOS ARM64 binaries on Linux aarch64…

Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

A researcher purchased a TP-Link TL-841N router to practice hardware hacking and firmware analysis, successfully…

TechCrunch Mobility: Two roads diverged — for robotaxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is…

What’s the Deal With Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’?

Lawsuits, privacy complaints, secret recordings, and government investigations have put Meta’s AI glasses under scrutiny.

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Rant About "Technology" (2005)

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The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition

Seinfeld, which first aired in 1989, became a cultural phenomenon through its unique sitcom format that rejected…

AI Stocks Trade Like Memecoins While Bitcoin Barely Moves – Week in Review

This editorial is from this week’s edition of the newsletter Week in Review, sent to subscribers on Friday.

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

RISC OS Open Ltd marked its 20th anniversary on June 20, 2026, reflecting on its mission to open-source a proprietary…