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Hotkey-driven KVM: switching between Mac and Linux without leaving the keyboard

Alex Plescan rigs up a single-monitor, single-peripheral workflow for a MacBook and a Linux desktop using two ingredients: an MSI MPG 321URX monitor whose built

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open-sourcetech-culture

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: A Side-by-Side Reference for Four Lisp Dialects

A comparative reference sheet maps the syntax and semantics of Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, and Emacs Lisp across dozens of categories, from compilation and RE

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policycybersecurity

Iran launches Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz transit

Iran has rolled out a shipping insurance product collateralized in Bitcoin, aimed at vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The move is a workaround to sidest

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aipolicy

Jury rejects Musk's suit against OpenAI on statute-of-limitations grounds

A unanimous California jury sided with Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft, finding that Elon Musk waited too long to sue over OpenAI's transition

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open-sourcetech-culture

kv4p HT: Open-source 1W ham radio that turns an Android phone into a transceiver

kv4p HT is a DIY 1-watt VHF or UHF radio module that plugs into an Android phone's USB-C port, converting it into a handheld ham transceiver. The hardware is bu

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supply-chainmalware

Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Hits npm Again, Compromising 314 Packages

A second wave of the self-propagating Shai-Hulud worm has torn through the npm registry, infecting 314 packages in a coordinated supply-chain attack. The malwar

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tech-culture

Number Gacha strips the genre down to its core dopamine loop

A Show HN submission presents Number Gacha, a minimalist web project that reduces the gacha game format to its barest mechanic: pulling for numbers. By strippin

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aiopen-source

Odyssey's Agora-1 turns GoldenEye into a learned multiplayer game engine

Odyssey has unveiled Agora-1, a world model that generates a shared simulated environment for up to four simultaneous participants, demonstrated as a real-time

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aipolicy

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical tackles AI and human dignity, out May 25

Pope Leo XIV will release his first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, on May 25, 2026, framing the document around preserving the human person in the age of arti

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tech-culturepolicy

Radley Balko rebuts YC's Garry Tan over 2021 reporting on SF DA coverage

Journalist Radley Balko responds to a post by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, who promoted a new book by San Francisco TV reporter Dion Lim and accused Balko of une

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tech-cultureopen-source

Regex Chess: A 2-Ply Minimax Engine Built From 84,688 Regular Expressions

Nicholas Carlini built a working chess engine using nothing but a sequential list of 84,688 regex substitutions applied to a string holding the board state. The

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aitech-culture

Six months of AI-run radio stations: personalities decayed into jargon loops

Andon Labs gave four frontier models — Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Grok 4.3 — $20 each and told them to run a profitable radio station forever

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