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DIY clone of Sennheiser's overpriced BA2015 battery pack reveals a $0.02 trick
A hardware tinkerer reverse-engineered Sennheiser's BA2015 battery pack, used across much of the company's wireless microphone lineup, and found the proprietary
Dopamine Fracking: How Optimization Culture Strip-Mines Joy
A blogger coins the term 'dopamine fracking' to describe the practice of pouring disproportionate resources—money, analytics, crowdsourced optimization, popular
Experimental Drug Delivers Functional Cure for Many Hepatitis B Patients
A new therapeutic candidate has shown the ability to functionally cure a significant share of patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection, a condition tha
From juvenile prison to OSS contributor: one developer's path back
Gavin Ray traces a hard road from amphetamine addiction at 14 through a stint in maximum-security juvenile detention, a felony conviction at 19, and stretches o
How Linear achieves sub-frame updates: a local-first database in the browser
Linear's perceived speed comes from inverting the standard web app loop. Instead of treating the browser as a thin client that waits on HTTP round-trips, Linear
How Pre-Modern Societies Shape Their Armies: A Worldbuilder's Framework
Historian Bret Devereaux opens a multi-part series aimed at fantasy worldbuilders and history readers, arguing that armies inevitably mirror the civilian societ
Making Peace with the Dreams You'll Never Live
A personal essay on accepting the lives we won't get to live. The author, told by an orthopedist 15 years ago to avoid knee-heavy sports, mourns never becoming
Motorola routers turn into paperweights as setup app silently dies
For nearly a month, Motorola's MotoSync+ app has been broken on iOS and Android, leaving the company's WiFi routers unusable for any owner who needs to set up a
Steam P2P networking routes Israeli players through distant relays, breaking fighting games
Since mid-March, players in Israel report that any title built on Valve's GameNetworkingSockets P2P stack pushes their connections to roughly 120ms latency, eve
Stop Killing Games campaign forces EU reckoning over publisher server shutdowns
A consumer rights movement called Stop Killing Games, launched by YouTuber Ross Scott in 2024 after Ubisoft pulled the plug on online-only racer The Crew, has e
Teenage Engineering APC-2: A Real-Time Vinyl Cutter for Studios
Teenage Engineering has unveiled the APC-2, a professional disc-cutting lathe built in partnership with analog media specialist SUPERSENSE. The machine produces
What lost+found Actually Does on ext Filesystems
The /lost+found directory exists so that fsck has somewhere to put orphaned data it recovers during a filesystem check. When the kernel panics or the power cuts