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Play Store block on Aurora Store cuts off GrapheneOS users
Aurora Store is an open-source, unofficial client for Google Play that lets people install Play-hosted apps without signing in with their own Google account, ty
RavynOS: A FreeBSD-Based Open Source OS Chasing the macOS Experience
RavynOS is a pre-alpha open-source operating system that layers a macOS-style user experience on top of Darwin, FreeBSD, and Apple's own open-source components.
Reverse-engineering an online ADHD test reveals what it actually tracks
Prompted by a lifelong pattern of picking up hobbies and dropping them, the author got evaluated for ADHD and was sent to an online assessment — a bare-bones, F
Show HN: Turn any wall into a laser graffiti canvas — all in the browser
A browser-based project recreates the old laser-tagging art installations without any native software. Point a projector at a wall as a second screen, aim a web
The Lion-man: the oldest known statue, carved from mammoth ivory 40,000 years ago
The Löwenmensch, or Lion-man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, is a roughly 31 cm figurine with a human body and the head of a cave lion, carved from mammoth ivory during
uv adds file-level dedup to its wheel cache, trimming ~10% of cache size
Astral's uv package manager already deduplicated cached wheels at the archive level—download the same wheel from two sources and they'd share one entry—but neve
12TB 'Teraleak' Exposes a Decade of Steam's Lost Pre-Release Game Builds
A roughly 12TB archive billed as a near-complete dump of Valve's retired 'Steam2' content servers is now spreading over BitTorrent, capturing what appears to be
A Field Guide to Startup Anti-Patterns: 80+ Ways Companies Sabotage Themselves
Simeon Simeonov (who first floated the idea in 2013) and Itamar Novick of Recursive Ventures are launching a series cataloging startup anti-patterns — habits, s
A hobbyist's ode to miniature kits, Warhammer 40k, and a proper Americano
A personal blog post, not a technology or security story, despite its Hacker News origin. The author walks through their love of assembly-kit miniatures — start
Battery-free NFC business card powers an MCU and 21 LEDs from a phone's RF field
A maker built a PCB business card that lights up a 21-LED animation with no onboard battery. When tapped to a smartphone, an NXP NTAG I2C Plus NFC chip harvests
ChatGPT Work decoded: cloud code execution, a live browser, and the lethal trifecta
Simon Willison unpacks ChatGPT Work, OpenAI's confusing but powerful product line launched July 9th, 2026. It's really two things: a cloud version (Work Cloud)
Ditch the shell hack: Git can sort branches by commit date natively
For years, developers drowning in stale git branches leaned on homegrown shell functions—looping over every branch, extracting commit dates with git log, and pi