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OpenBSD's openrsync merges into base, ships ISC-licensed rsync alternative
OpenBSD has merged openrsync into its base system, providing an ISC-licensed reimplementation of rsync that speaks protocol 27 and interoperates with mainline r
OpenRouter Lands $113M Series B as Multi-Model AI Routing Goes Mainstream
OpenRouter has closed a $113M Series B led by Alphabet's CapitalG, with strategic checks from NVIDIA, ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, and Databricks venture arm
Pandoc Templates: A Curated Directory for Markdown-to-Anything Publishing
Pandoc-templates.org catalogs community-built templates that turn plain Markdown into polished output across dozens of document types. The collection spans acad
Perry Compiles TypeScript Straight to Native Binaries via SWC and LLVM
Perry is a new toolchain that takes TypeScript source and produces standalone native executables without Node.js, V8, or Electron in the picture. It parses with
Pierre's CodeView Tackles the Hard Parts of Rendering Massive Diffs in Browsers
Pierre Computer Company has released CodeView, a virtualization-first React component built to render arbitrarily large diffs in the browser without the degrada
Prusa releases MIT-licensed ColorMix model for multi-color FDM printing
Prusa has open-sourced ColorMix, a color-mixing model integrated into PrusaSlicer and EasyPrint that lets multi-material FDM printers produce dozens of color to
Quandri Engineering: Why Skills and CLIs Beat MCP for Most Dev Workflows
Quandri's backend team measured the real cost of Model Context Protocol servers against their stack and found the architecture struggles to justify itself for t
Rockstar Devs Form IWGB Union After Mass Firings Ahead of GTA 6 Launch
Staff at Rockstar Games have formed the Rockstar Game Workers Union under the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain, going public this week with a video l
Shift offers free home cleanings in exchange for robot training footage
Shift, an AI training data startup, is offering free home cleaning services in New York in exchange for the right to record the work using camera-equipped hats
Snowboard Kids 2 Hits 100% Decompilation After Two-Year Community Effort
Chris Lewis has completed a fully matching C decompilation of the N64 game Snowboard Kids 2, meaning every original function now has a C implementation that com
Stop Defending Human Value With Benchmark Comparisons to AI
The common defense of human worth in the AI era—that humans still outperform models on certain tasks, or produce subtler output—rests on a shrinking capability
Tiny-vLLM: Build a CUDA LLM Inference Engine from Scratch in C++
Tiny-vLLM is an open-source project that pairs a working LLM inference server with a step-by-step course teaching readers how to build one themselves. The engin