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Ditching Tailwind for vanilla CSS — and borrowing its best ideas anyway

Julia Evans documents migrating several sites off Tailwind toward semantic HTML and hand-written CSS, and finds that years of Tailwind use quietly taught her th

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open-sourceai

Doogee U10 tablet runs Debian 12 from SD card via reverse-engineered RK3562 port

A developer reverse-engineered the Rockchip RK3562-based Doogee U10, an $80 Android tablet, to boot full Debian 12 Bookworm from an SD card without unlocking th

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cloudpolicy

EU mulls barring US cloud providers from handling sensitive government data

The European Union is reportedly drafting rules that would restrict member states from using American hyperscalers — Google, Microsoft, and AWS — to process sen

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tech-culture

Fecal Transplant Therapy Cuts Autism Symptoms 45% Two Years Out, Heads to Phase 3

Arizona State University researchers tracking children who received Microbiota Transplant Therapy (MTT) found benefits not only persisted but deepened over time

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tech-cultureopen-source

Five Kinds of HTML Lists You Probably Forgot Existed

A deep dive into HTML's list elements argues that most developers only reach for `<ul>` and `<ol>` while ignoring three other valid collection patterns: descrip

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open-sourcetech-culture

Futhark by Example: A Hands-On Tour of the Parallel Array Language

Futhark's documentation team has assembled a graduated collection of commented example programs designed to introduce the parallel functional array language thr

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aitech-culture

Gruber: AI Is Infrastructure, Not Apple's Next Killer Product

John Gruber pushes back on Steven Levy's Wired piece arguing that Apple's incoming CEO must ship a defining AI product or watch agents obviate the iPhone. Grube

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Hosting a website on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller over SLIP

A hobbyist project gets an AVR64DD32 microcontroller serving a webpage over the open internet. Ethernet was ruled out because even 10BASE-T's 20 Mbit/s Manchest

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aitech-culture

Local LLM inference on M5 MacBook Pro costs 3x more than OpenRouter

A cost breakdown of running Gemma 4 31B locally on a maxed-out M5 Max MacBook Pro shows hardware depreciation, not electricity, drives the economics. At $0.18/k

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aipolicy

Malta becomes first nation to offer ChatGPT Plus to every citizen via OpenAI deal

OpenAI has struck a partnership with the Government of Malta to provide ChatGPT Plus access to the country's entire citizenry, marking the first national-scale

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policytech-culture

Meta pulls 1M-follower account after Kuwaiti government request

Meta reportedly removed a popular account with roughly one million followers following a takedown request from the Kuwaiti government, according to a post by jo

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privacypolicy

Mozilla pushes back on UK proposal to age-gate VPNs under Online Safety Act

Mozilla has formally objected to a UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology consultation that floats restricting young people's access to VPNs, a me

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