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Hubble: open-source markdown notes app built to be edited by humans and AI agents

Hubble is a self-hostable, open-source notetaking tool that stores everything as plain markdown files, positioned explicitly for a workflow shared between a per

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Inside the Wonderfully Weird Toolchain of the Demo Scene

A tour through the software the Amiga demo scene built to make its art, most of it homegrown and none of it concerned with usability conventions. Because a 7 MH

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Jailbroken Kindles get proxy and TUN modes for Tailscale via community code

Open-source developers have significantly expanded what Tailscale can do on jailbroken Kindles. Earlier community builds got a Kindle onto your tailnet and let

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Norvig's Antidote to '24-Hour' Programming Books: Give It Ten Years

Peter Norvig pushes back on the flood of "teach yourself X in 24 hours" books, arguing that mastery of programming—like chess, music, painting, or any serious c

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Off-topic: JMA earthquake report, not a tech or security story

This source is a Japan Meteorological Agency earthquake-detail page, not a technology or cybersecurity article. The only information present is the headline — a

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OpenAI ships Codex Security, a CLI and SDK for AI-assisted vuln scanning

OpenAI has released @openai/codex-security, a command-line tool and TypeScript SDK that uses its Codex models to find, validate, and fix security vulnerabilitie

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ReFrame: An Open-Source ePaper Camera That Shows One Photo at a Time

ReFrame is an experimental camera built around a four-inch color ePaper display (the eInk Spectra 6, which uses six pigments). Rather than a screen full of thum

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TurboFieldfare streams a 26B MoE model on 8GB Macs in ~2GB of RAM

TurboFieldfare is an open-source Swift and Metal runtime that runs the instruction-tuned Gemma 4 26B-A4B mixture-of-experts model on Apple Silicon without loadi

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Una pitches a repairable, USB-C GPS watch with an open developer platform

Una is a GPS sports watch built around repairability rather than the sealed, disposable model common to most wearables. The company argues that a single failed

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Userscript pulls Hacker News comments into a sidebar next to the article

HNewhere is a small userscript that ends the two-tab dance of reading an article and its Hacker News thread separately. When you land on a page that has an asso

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AI Firms Are Buying and Shredding Rare Books to Feed Training Pipelines

AI companies are purchasing physical books in bulk, running them through high-speed scanners that slice off the spines, and destroying the originals in the proc

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Anthropic's Amodei: We never called for banning open-weights models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is pushing back on claims that his company wants US regulators to ban Chinese open-weights models. He argues that open models without

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