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Scorched Earth 2000 Resurrected as Browser Game via ChatGPT Port

A JavaScript port of Scorched Earth 2000, the multiplayer artillery game originally built by the KAOS Software Team, has surfaced on the web. Version 1.1 dated

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tech-cultureopen-source

Strapping an RTX 5090 to an M4 MacBook Air via Thunderbolt eGPU and a Linux VM

A developer documents the absurd-but-functional project of connecting an NVIDIA RTX 5090 to an M4 MacBook Air through a Thunderbolt-to-PCIe dock. Because macOS

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tech-culturepolicy

Stripe pressure pushes Kickstarter to ban adult content, creators say

Kickstarter quietly rewrote its Mature Content rules around May 11 to prohibit a broad slate of NSFW material, including photo-realistic sexual imagery, implied

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policytech-culture

US Inflation Hits 3.8% as Iran War Drives Energy and Food Prices Higher

US consumer prices climbed 3.8% year-over-year in April, the sharpest increase since May 2023, with nearly half the gain attributable to surging energy costs ti

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supply-chaintech-culture

Why Apple Could Turn the 2026 Memory Crunch Into Market Share

Memory prices have surged enough to potentially push DRAM and NAND from 15% to 40% of a device's bill of materials, creating what analyst Horace Dediu calls the

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open-sourceprivacy

Why I'm Moving Off GitHub to Self-Hosted Forgejo

A developer is migrating canonical Git hosting from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo v15 LTS instance, following the same April 2026 logic the Dutch Ministry of

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aicloud

Why the US Leads the AI Race: Cloud, Data, and Distribution Beat Raw Energy

The argument: AI dominance is not decided by research papers, engineer headcounts, or even electricity prices, but by who controls the full stack of cloud infra

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open-sourcetech-culture

Xs of Y: A self-naming roguelike where Lisp s-expressions are the spell system

Xs of Y is an in-progress roguelike that procedurally generates its own title, quest, and rune-to-symbol mappings on every run, turning each playthrough into a

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open-sourcetech-culture

A field guide to the vi family: from 1977 original to LLM-era forks

A catalog of vi lineage editors, starting with Bill Joy's 1977 original and tracing the branches that emerged after AT&T's commercial UNIX licensing pushed deve

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tech-cultureopen-source

A Visual Archive of Pre-1990 Desktop Operating Systems

Typewritten.org hosts a curated gallery of screenshots from desktop graphical environments spanning roughly 1983 to 1989, captured from period-correct hardware.

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aidevops

After 7 Months of Vibe-Coding, a Dev Rewrites His Kubernetes TUI by Hand

The author spent roughly 30 weekends and 234 commits building k10s, a GPU-aware Kubernetes dashboard written in Go with Bubble Tea, almost entirely through Clau

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aitech-culture

AI Coding Tools May Turn Software Engineering Into a Short-Career Profession

Sean Goedecke argues that even if AI assistants erode engineers' long-term technical skills, developers will still be forced to adopt them — because employers w

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