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Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5 It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff. The comments here can double as a place for GPT-5.4 reactions, in addition to my Twitter thread. I hope to get that review out soon. Almost all o…

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Microsoft Broke the Only Thing That Actually Mattered - Yanko Design Any tech nerd knows the unspoken contract that comes with being the only tech-literate person in the family. You get texts when someone's laptop is slow, called over during the holidays to fix the router, and consulted every eighteen months when someone needs a new phone or computer. For years, the laptop question had a

⚡ Hackernews Top story: Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered

No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user The viral claim that Anthropic loses $5,000 per Claude Code subscriber doesn't survive basic scrutiny. Let's do the actual maths.

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Learnings from Paying Artists Royalties for AI-Generated Art A retrospective on Tess.Design, our attempt to make an ethical, artist-friendly AI marketplace. We launched Tess in May 2024 and shut it down in January 2026.

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The ”JVG algorithm” is crap Sorry to interrupt your regular programming about the AI apocalypse, etc., and return to the traditional beat of this blog’s very earliest years … but I’ve now gotten multiple mes…

⚡ Hackernews Top story: The “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers

⚡ Hackernews Top story: Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor

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Thomas Selfridge: The First Airplane Fatality

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⚡ Hackernews Top story: Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

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Home - Fixfest Fixfest is a regular global gathering of repairers and tinkerers, activists, policy-makers, thinkers, and companies from all over the world.

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⚡ Hackernews Top story: Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse

⚡ Hackernews Top story: Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and Nvram

The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future In 1893, a German invented the diesel engine, and the country has cashed in ever since. Today, cars and car parts are the strongest industry in terms

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Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol — Tamarack Every UniFi device phones home to its controller on port 8080. The payload is AES-encrypted, but the header is plaintext, and that's enough to build multi-tenant routing.

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⚡ Hackernews Top story: Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer

Why We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works – Guy Freeman Someone asked why decision theory stopped being widely used in AI. The answer involves ImageNet, academic departments, and the seductive power of not having to specify your objectives.

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Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe Moneypoint in County Clare, Ireland, joins the ranks of other European nations exiting coal by shutting off power generation at its sole remaining coal plant. Industry observers say Ireland’s increased renewable energy generation in recent years, particularly in wind, has contributed to this milestone. Moneypoint now functions as a backup oil burner under emergency instruction, but it is no longer active in the wholesale electricity market.

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FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free Convert your scanned handwriting into custom OTF, TTF, and WOFF2 fonts with local browser processing and vectorization. No account or uploads needed.

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Living Human Brain Cells Play DOOM on a CL1 Credits: Dr. Alon Loeffler, Dr. Brett Kagan, David Hogan, Dr. Azin Azadi, Frank Yang, Sean ColeA big thank you and acknowledgement to the rest of the Cortica...

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Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

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GitHub - knowsuchagency/mcp2cli: Turn any MCP server or OpenAPI spec into a CLI — at runtime, with zero codegen Turn any MCP server or OpenAPI spec into a CLI — at runtime, with zero codegen - knowsuchagency/mcp2cli

⚡ Hackernews Top story: Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP

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I made a programming language with M&Ms I built a tiny programming language where programs are candy grids, complete with a renderer, photo decoder, AST tree, and execution trace.

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GitHub - Rabrg/artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction - Rabrg/artificial-life

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Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory - offlinemark Introduction An obscure quirk of the /proc/*/mem pseudofile is its “punch through” semantics. Writes performed through this file will succeed even if the destination virtual memory is marked unwritable. In fact, this behavior is intentional and actively used by projects such as the Julia JIT compiler and rr debugger. This behavior raises some questions: Is […]

⚡ Hackernews Top story: Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021)

GitHub - Dieu-de-l-elec/AngstromIO-devboard: AngstromIO, one of the smallest devboards out there, barely longer than a USB C connector, based on the Attiny1616 MCU. And a dual CH340 board for programming and debugging, and another devboard, based on the CH32V003 AngstromIO, one of the smallest devboards out there, barely longer than a USB C connector, based on the Attiny1616 MCU. And a dual CH340 board for programming and debugging, and another devboard, b...

⚡ Hackernews Top story: PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug