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Reverse-engineering and emulating the Fisher-Price Pixter, two decades later
Dmitry Grinberg documents a complete teardown, reverse-engineering, and emulation of every Fisher-Price Pixter variant — the monochrome 2000 original, Pixter Pl
Ripping Out the Modem and GPS From a 2024 RAV4 to Kill Telemetry at the Source
A RAV4 Hybrid owner documents physically removing the Data Communication Module (DCM) and built-in GPS from a 2024 model year car to stop Toyota's constant tele
S-100 Virtual Workbench: A Browser-Based Retro Computing Sandbox
The S-100 Virtual Workbench is a web-hosted project recreating the experience of working with S-100 bus computers, the modular hardware standard that defined ho
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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