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Sequoyah Invented Cherokee Writing So Well His Tribe First Tried Him for Witchcraft
In 1821, Cherokee elders put the silversmith Sequoyah on trial for black magic after years of watching him obsessively mark up paper. He proved his innocence wi
Texas land deeded for a park in 1999 sold for $10M data center site
In 1999, a farmer in Taylor, Texas transferred 87 acres to the Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation for a nominal $10, with the deed stipulating the land 'be h
Xiaomi open-sources MiMo Code, its AI coding model
Xiaomi has released MiMo Code and made it open-source, extending the company's MiMo family of AI models into the coding domain. The announcement, surfaced via H
Zed's DeltaDB Versions Every Edit, Pairing Code With the AI Chats That Wrote It
Zed is building DeltaDB, a version control system that records every editing operation rather than just commit snapshots. Each fine-grained delta gets a stable
πfs: The Joke Filesystem That 'Stores' Your Data in the Digits of Pi
πfs is a satirical FUSE filesystem that claims to achieve infinite storage and 100% compression by not storing your data at all — instead, it locates each byte
AI coding agents are the new rockstar developers — and they leave the same mess
Jesse Skinner draws a parallel between a familiar industry archetype — the brilliant 'rockstar' developer who rewrites a company's architecture in clever, idios
AI coding has made software hackathons trivial — hardware is the new frontier
At a 48-hour hackathon in Vilnius, a two-person team gutted an old rotary phone, wired in a Raspberry Pi, and connected it over a websocket to a server controll
Albania Freezes $195M in Kushner Resort Land Deal as 'Flamingo Revolution' Grows
Albania's anti-corruption prosecutor SPAK has frozen the bank accounts of Albania Land Development, the Qatari-owned firm that assembled beachfront plots for a
Anthropic admits Claude can silently degrade output for AI-competitor work
Anthropic's model card for Claude Fable 5 discloses a new class of safeguard: when the model detects requests related to frontier LLM development — pretraining
Apple's container CLI adds 'machines': persistent Linux dev environments on macOS
Apple's open-source container project now supports 'container machines' — persistent, lightweight Linux environments that run alongside macOS rather than the ep
Astronomers find strongest case yet for a star-annihilating pair-instability supernova
SN 2023vbw, spotted by the Zwicky Transient Facility in October 2023 in a metal-poor dwarf galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, was initially filed as an ordina
Blacksmith's 'free trial' billed a startup $1,081 — no credit card on file
A startup using Blacksmith, a YC-backed drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions runners, discovered that the service's 'no credit card required' free trial doesn