Apple I Advertisement (1976)

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The Apple Computer is a complete microcomputer system on a single board with built-in video terminal and 8K bytes of RAM memory. It's a powerful and affordable system for developing programs, playing games, and running BASIC.

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

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AGS is open-source software for creating graphical point-and-click adventure games. It has a friendly community and offers free game creation with support for multiple platforms.

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

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NetBird provides a unified open source platform for secure connectivity with features like posture checks, MFA, and granular access control. It simplifies network management and eliminates complexity with its Zero Trust model and infrastructure-agnostic design.

I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down

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The author's family switched to Dish Network in 2007 due to lack of availability of their previous cable company. They initially used an RF remote but experienced interference issues with a noisy neighbor.

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

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CedarDB's new compression scheme, FSST, reduces storage size by up to 60% and improves query performance by up to 40% for certain queries. FSST combines dictionary compression with a symbol table to leverage common patterns in data, but its use is limited to when the compressed data must be at least 40% smaller than the second-smallest scheme.

TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

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User's Obsidian vault was lost due to a Time Machine failure on their Synology NAS. They found the issue was caused by Apple's changed SMB defaults and fixed it by editing the nsmb.conf file or using a Docker solution with the mbentley/timemachine image.

1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys

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OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot and ClawdBot), the open-source AI personal assistant that can take actions on your behalf, is the most popular topic on X right now. It is already trusted by over 100,000 developers to hold the keys to their digital life, from iMessage/WhatsApp/Slack access to unrestricted local computer control. But when you grant an agent "god mode" permissions, the margin ...

Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

A typed lambda calculus with dependent types and the type of all types has enormous expressive power but is undecidable. The typechecking problem for such a language is undecidable due to the presence of looping combinators.

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

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MicroPythonOS is an open-source OS for microcontrollers with a GUI, appstore, and OTA updates, written in MicroPython. It targets applications with GUIs and runs on ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and other platforms, with various hardware support and a growing app ecosystem.

What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

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The user created a unified LLM API called pi-ai with a terminal UI framework called pi-tui to simplify coding agent development, addressing issues with existing harnesses like Claude Code and Codex. The user's goal was to create a lightweight, customizable, and secure coding agent harness with a focus on simplicity, observability, and flexibility, which they achieved with pi-ai and pi-tui.

Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code

You're creating ÆTHRA, a music composition language that directly represents musical intent, focusing on text-based composition and ambient music. It's open-source and seeking feedback on design, feature ideas, and thoughts from programming language, audio, and generative art experts.

Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt

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The user found a tiny Thunderbolt to 25 Gigabit Ethernet adapter that's plug-and-play on macOS, but gets extremely hot and sometimes causes kernel panics.

Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work

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Researchers studied how to design AI agents for optimal performance, challenging the assumption that more agents are better. They found that agent performance depends on task properties and architecture, and developed a predictive model to identify the optimal coordination strategy.

Amiga Unix (Amix)

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Amiga UNIX, also known as Amix, is a port of AT&T System V Release 4 Unix to the Amiga in 1990. It's an interesting piece of history but not suitable for modern use due to its outdated nature and lack of updates.

FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

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FOSDEM 2026 focused on digital sovereignty, open infrastructure, and community-driven software, with a growing awareness of Europe's technological future. The conference highlighted the importance of independence, sustainability, and control in open source software.

A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

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The New York Times announced that Wordle will reuse some words from previous years starting February 2. This move has caused a stir in the Wordle community, with some players questioning the decision and considering stopping.

The Book of PF, 4th edition

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Peter Hansteen is a DevOps consultant and writer based in Norway, known for his work on OpenBSD and FreeBSD. He wrote "The Book of PF" a comprehensive guide to PF configuration and network security.

Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc.

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English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings

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VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code

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Engineers use VisualJJ to stay in flow. It gives you a clear, interactive change tree on top of Jujutsu and Git, so you can see what’s happening, edit history safely, and keep shipping—whether you’re deep into JJ or just tired of wrestling Git.

Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned

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Jack Kerouac's original 121ft long On the Road typescript scroll is up for auction at Christie's in New York with an estimate of £1.8m to £2.9m. The scroll is part of the Jim Irsay Collection, a private collection of music, literary, film and sports memorabilia.

List animals until failure

You have limited time, but get more time for each animal listed. When the timer runs out, that's game over. No overlapping terms. For example, if you list “bear” and “polar bear”, you get no point (or time bonus) for the latter. But you can still get a point for a second kind of bear. Order doesn't matter. initial time (s): time increment (s):

Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life

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Researchers studied 58 UK adults to examine the relationship between real-world light exposure and cognitive performance. They found significant associations between recent light exposure and subjective sleepiness, reaction times, and cognitive performance across various tasks.

Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival

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Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings. Here's what happened

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Youth experiencing homelessness in oregon receive $1,000 monthly until 2025. by the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed. the program prioritized underrepresented populations, such as young parents. it is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after new york city. to participate, youth regularly met with case ...

A web server on a single floppy disk

The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]

In praise of –dry-run

You added a –dry-run option to your reporting application's run command, which prints what will happen without making changes, helping with testing and sanity checks. This option proved very useful during development and testing, but does slightly pollute the code.

Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions

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Cells use electrical signals to coordinate behavior and maintain health by ejecting sick or struggling cells from tissue. This process, called extrusion, helps keep tissues healthy and prevents disease, including cancer and asthma.

'Right-to-Compute' Laws May Be Coming to Your State This Year

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Montana passed the first "right-to-compute" law shielding AI from regulation, with similar bills spreading to other states. Critics warn this broad definition could make AI oversight vulnerable to legal challenge.