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The Real Goal of Age Verification Laws: Tying Your Speech to Your Identity
This opinion piece argues that the wave of age-verification mandates spreading across US states, the EU, and Australia is not really about protecting children.
WATaBoy: a Game Boy emulator that JITs to WebAssembly — and outruns a native interpreter
Apple bans runtime JIT compilation on iOS, which is why heavyweight emulators like Dolphin can't ship there. But there's a loophole: web browsers are exempt, be
Why 'tokenmaxxing' isn't dead — it's just getting a smarter incentive
Tokenmaxxing—companies pushing employees to burn through AI tokens, most infamously Meta tying performance reviews to per-person token usage—predictably led to
Zanagrams: a free daily word puzzle where the grid shrinks as you solve
Zanagrams is a browser-based daily word game launched as a Show HN. Players drag across a grid of letters to find hidden words, and the grid progressively shrin
A Research-Backed Tool for Picking the Right Public DNS Resolver
An independent reference site pairs an interactive finder with a comparison table covering 29 global public DNS resolvers, letting you filter by what you actual
Asian AI labs rush in as US export ban on Anthropic's Mythos drags on
Two weeks after a Trump Administration order barred Anthropic from giving non-Americans access to its cybersecurity-focused Mythos model and the more restricted
California Bans Streaming Ads Louder Than Their Shows Starting July 1
California's SB 576, signed by Governor Newsom in October 2025, takes effect July 1, 2026, barring any video streaming service from playing ad audio louder than
Claude Code read my MRI and contradicted the doctor's torn-tendon diagnosis
A developer with weeks of shoulder pain got an MRI at a clinic that diagnosed a Grade III partial-thickness tear of the subscapularis tendon and immediately beg
Connected Vehicle Rule bars Polestar from the U.S. — but clears Geely sibling Volvo
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security has denied Polestar the authorization it needs to keep selling cars in the U.S. starting with model ye
Data Centers Become an Election-Loser as Voters Punish Officials Who Backed Them
Opposition to AI-driven data center projects is hardening into a decisive voting issue in U.S. local and state races. In Utah, State Senate President J. Stuart
Decomp Academy teaches PowerPC reverse engineering by grading your C against a 2001 compiler
Decomp Academy is an interactive course that teaches the craft of matching decompilation — reconstructing C source that compiles, instruction for instruction, i
DIY two-node AMD Strix Halo cluster runs big LLMs over RDMA at 5µs latency
A community toolbox documents how to lash two Framework Desktop boards—each built on AMD's Ryzen AI MAX+ "Strix Halo" APU with 128GB of unified memory—into a si