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Moonshine Micro runs voice recognition and TTS on-device in 470KB of RAM
Moonshine AI has released Moonshine Micro, an open-source voice toolkit trimmed down to run entirely on microcontrollers and DSPs rather than in the cloud. Its
NYC to Require Landlords to Disclose AI-Altered Rental Listing Photos
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is moving to force landlords and realtors to disclose when rental listings have been generated or edited with AI. The require
OpenAI quietly trims Codex context window from 372k to 272k tokens
A merged pull request to OpenAI's Codex repository lowers the advertised context window for its bundled model from 372k to 272k tokens — a roughly 27% cut in ho
Selling 2,500 MIDI recorders taught one founder that hardware isn't the hard part
Chip Weinberger, a longtime software engineer, spent 18 months shipping Jamcorder — an automated piano-recording device that has now sold over 2,500 units and s
Stack Overflow's Question Volume Craters as Developers Turn to AI
A Stack Exchange Data Explorer query plots monthly question volume on Stack Overflow over time, and the shape tells the whole story: activity that grew or held
Texas court orders Verisign to lock motherless.com over age-verification defiance
A Texas court has ordered Verisign, the registry operator for the .com top-level domain, to place motherless.com on registry lock, effectively cutting off the s
The $0.01/day website: ditch SaaS blogging for hand-authored HTML you actually own
Adam Newbold makes the case for what he calls "Hardcore IndieWeb" — a maximalist take on the IndieWeb movement's goal of owning your online identity and content
The 60-Year-Old Puzzle: Nobody Knows Multiplication's True Speed Limit
For centuries, mathematicians assumed the grade-school method of multiplying numbers digit-by-digit—which scales as O(n²), quadrupling the work each time the di
Transcribe.cpp: a ggml speech-to-text library with 60+ verified ASR models
Transcribe.cpp is a new open-source, ggml-based transcription library from the maintainer of the Handy speech-to-text app. It targets a gap the author kept hitt
Turn a Spare Mac Into a Throwaway Machine Claude Code Fully Controls
A hands-on guide walks through converting an old Mac into an always-on box that Claude Code can operate autonomously, reachable over SSH from your main machine
What the IndieWeb Actually Is — and Why Owning Your Domain Matters
The IndieWeb is a community and set of principles built around one idea: the canonical copy of everything you publish should live on a domain you control, not i
A tracker counts 105 ex-YC founders now inside OpenAI and Anthropic
A single-page site, joinedanthropic.com, compiles a running list of Y Combinator alumni who have gone on to work at the two leading frontier-AI labs. As of its