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Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

I Feel about AI

The author expresses mixed feelings about AI, citing wonder at how well neural networks function despite lacking…

Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark

The article argues that recreating Minecraft and other viral demo tasks have become poor benchmarks for evaluating AI…

Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS

Kadō is an open-source iOS habit tracker that uses a non-binary exponential moving average score instead of traditional…

A/I shuts down – Stay human

The Autistici/Inventati collective, a privacy-focused digital infrastructure provider, is shutting down after 25 years…

Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats

Asahi Linux now officially supports Apple M3 Macs, with most M3/M3 Pro/M3 Max devices functioning similarly to older M1…

QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

I'm unable to provide a summary of this article because the text provided only contains a message about enabling…

Schemy Lisp En DOS

SLED (Schemy Lisp en DOS) is a lightweight Scheme-inspired LISP interpreter designed to run on DOS and DOS emulators,…

Intellectual Fly Is Open

The author argues that many LinkedIn users are relying on AI language models to generate posts, creating easily…

German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket

"We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."

Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death

Parents and educators are increasingly concerned about declining literacy rates, particularly among children who now…

New all in one 6502 computer (Neo6502kbd)

Olimex has released the Neo6502kbd, an all-in-one retro computer built into a keyboard that features a real 6502…

Don't Use a gmail.com Address

A blog has implemented a temporary ban on all gmail.com addresses due to an influx of spam from fake Gmail accounts,…

I asked astra to make playable 4D chess

A user created a playable 4D chess game using AI assistance, expanding traditional chess into four dimensions by adding…

Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may do

Pigeon is a security framework that allows parent agents to grant narrowed, signed credentials (called "Passes") to…

I Changed My License

Over a 28-year career, the author shifted his software licensing strategy from LGPLv2 to MIT to now EUPL-1.2, motivated…

Show HN: Keen Bean – Mac meeting notes that draft the spec while you talk

Keen Bean is a Mac application that automatically generates meeting artifacts—including task lists, decisions, draft…

"We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years"

Emad Mostaque, former leader of Stability AI and current CEO of Intelligent Internet, warns that AI systems pose…

Play GTA Vice City in the Browser

GTA Vice City is now playable directly in a web browser through a WebAssembly-based port that requires no large…

Decapitating a MacBook (2025)

A software developer who avoids Apple products but needs to build for macOS/iOS decided to purchase a Mac after trying…

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded

The author built a new AMD-based FreeBSD desktop computer in a compact Silverstone SG13 mini-ITX case, upgrading from…

AI, Tools and Transformation

Large corporations face complex software ecosystems with hundreds of applications and persistent manual tasks, making AI…

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra demonstrated significant improvements in robotic manipulation tasks when controlling robot arms,…

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

Cloud in a Bottle is an open-source personal cloud platform that makes self-hosting accessible by containerizing apps…

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

Chrome is again exempting Google-owned sites from its user setting to automatically delete site data when closing all…

Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents

OKF Agent Memory is a Git-native persistent memory system for AI coding agents that stores knowledge as plain Markdown…

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs

Programmers commonly make incorrect assumptions about Local Area Networks (LANs) across multiple categories including…

America's Two Largest School Districts Impose AI Moratoriums

New York City and Los Angeles, the nation's two largest school districts, have imposed new restrictions on artificial…