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Bringing a Dead $300 Tektronix TDS7104 Scope Back to Life
A flea-market find — a cosmetically clean 1 GHz, 4-channel Tektronix TDS7104 oscilloscope bought for $300 — turned into a full refurbishment project when it beg
Building a Text Editor for the Web: Canvas vs. contenteditable vs. textarea
Frustrated by the decline of hand-crafted software like Sublime Text, developer David Bushell set out to prototype a browser-based code editor and documented th
Dan Luu picks apart Ed Zitron's 'AI is a bubble' predictions and finds the numbers don't add up
Dan Luu scrutinizes the reasoning behind AI skeptic Ed Zitron's widely-cited predictions, opening with a disclaimer that he holds no meaningful financial stake
Ditching cloud APIs for a self-hosted LLM stack on a 48GB Mac mini
A developer details a fully local LLM setup running on an M4 Pro Mac mini with 48GB of unified memory. The stack pairs a Qwen3.6-35B-A3B mixture-of-experts mode
Firefox Adds Built-In Ad Blocker for iOS, Off by Default
Mozilla has added a native ad blocker to Firefox on iOS, working around Apple's restrictions on browser extensions by building the feature directly into the app
Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash, plus a defender-only 'Cyber' variant for bug fixing
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, positioning it as a low-cost workhorse that narrows the gap with pricier frontier mode
In Defense of Firefox: Why Browser Engine Diversity Still Depends on It
An opinion piece pushes back against the growing pile-on toward Firefox, arguing that critics are abandoning something essential over trivial grievances. The tr
Mistral's Data-Training Opt-Out: Consumers Must Toggle It Off Themselves
Mistral's support documentation lays out how customers can stop their prompts, responses, and uploaded files from feeding the company's model-training programs
Neural Nets May Be Hiding Symbolic Logic Under Their Vectors
A new arXiv paper tackles a long-standing puzzle in AI: why do neural networks, which encode everything as continuous vectors, succeed at tasks like language, l
Nori Robotics debuts YC-backed low-cost humanoid aimed at developers
Nori Robotics, part of Y Combinator's S26 batch, is pitching a low-cost humanoid robot targeted at developers rather than enterprise buyers. The company frames
Open-data atlas maps 15,565 filming locations, CC0 downloads and an MCP feed
Movie Scene Map is an interactive atlas of 15,565 real-world filming and story-setting locations across 166 countries, tying roughly 9,287 films and series plus
OpenAI teases "Path to Astra" on frontier capabilities and safeguards — text not provided
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