How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
cookieplmonster.github.io — On the SilentPatch GitHub issue tracker, I received a rather specific bug report: YEAR, 1
Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet
nlnet.nl — It is wonderful to see the growing number of people working on digital commons, inventing and improving technologies to the benefit of all humanity. 42 of such projects have been selected for funding in the October call of the NGI Zero Commons Fund. In terms of applications, it was the largest call round in NGI Zero's life time. And we'd like to take this space to thank all applicants for their contributions to an internet for people rather than for profit. OPEN, 2
MinC Is Not Cygwin
commandlinerevolution.nl — Welcome to the MinC home page. MinC is a Unix emulator for Windows, based on the OpenBSD operating system. MinC was written to help children at vocational education learn Linux without the hassle of virtualization. It runs on all versions of Windows, except Win95 and Win98. MINC, 3
Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the code
news.ycombinator.com — Hey HN, NODE.JS, 4
Collatz's Ant
gbragafibra.github.io — This is a brief continuation of a previous post (Repo), which introduced such visualization for collatz sequences based on Langton’s Ant. COLLATZ, 5
Empty Calories of AI: A Cure for Loneliness Worse Than the Disease?
substack.com — In the face of a growing loneliness epidemic, artificial intelligence chatbots are being heralded as a revolutionary solution. Recent research from Harvard Business School suggests that AI companions can reduce feelings of loneliness, with effects comparable to human interaction.¹ But before we embrace this technological quick-fix, we should carefully consider whether we are repeating a familiar pattern: solving one problem by creating another, potentially more insidious one. To fill a space is not to fill a need, and while AI may keep us from being alone, its presence could lead to a different kind of loneliness. EMPTY, 6
Native visionOS platform support
github.com — Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. NATIVE, 7
Sixty Years On, We Still Dream of the Arrow
watershedmagazine.com — left to right and top to bottom: then Prime Minister John Diefenbaker; opening ceremony with a crowd milling around the Avro CF-105 Arrow RL201; welcoming Zurakowski after testing the Avro CF-105 Arrow RL201; transferring design instructions onto a master glass cloth for the reproduction of parts; SIXTY, 8
The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet
sebs.website — Have you ever walked into a supermarket, pharmacy, or department store looking to buy a specific item, only to find the layout confusing? Perhaps you ended up aimlessly strolling around, purchasing other items? This is deliberate, and known as the Gruen Transfer. GRUEN, 9
Pixel is a unit of length and area
nayuki.io — PIXEL, 10
Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run
atuin.sh — Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place. ATUIN, 11
How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes Work – Michael Steil
pagetable.com — The original NMOS version of the MOS 6502, used in computers like the Commodore 64, the Apple II and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), is well-known for its illegal opcodes: Out of 256 possible opcodes, 151 are defined by the architecture, but many of the remaining 105 undefined opcodes do useful things. MOS, 12
Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaces
solidjs.com — SOLIDJS, 13
Why Does My eBPF Program Work on One Kernel but Fail on Another?
substack.com — In a perfect world, everyone’s systems would be fully updated, patched regularly, and running the latest kernel. WHY, 14
Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law
yahoo.com — By Foo Yun Chee and Jan Strupczewski META, 15
Physicists Designed a Quantum Rubik's Cube and Found the Best Way to Solve It
sciencealert.com — Quantum physics already feels like a puzzle, but now scientists have made it more literal. A team of mathematicians from the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a quantum Rubik's cube, with infinite possible states and some weird new moves available to solve it. PHYSICISTS, 16
Digital Ghost Towns: When Big Companies Acquire, Shut Down, and Sit on Domains
snagged.com — The internet is littered with digital ghost towns—premium domains once associated with thriving businesses, now sitting dormant or parked, waiting for their next life. Some of the biggest companies in the world have made strategic acquisitions, only to shut down the businesses they bought, leaving behind valuable domain names that are either redirected, held indefinitely, or simply left in limbo. Let’s take a look at some high-profile cases where major corporations scooped up valuable domains, shut down the original companies, and left the URLs in the digital graveyard. DIGITAL, 17
Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use
bitoff.org — Pick the cheapest geocoding API provider for your project. An impartial comparison of pricing for HERE, Google Maps Platform, Azure Maps, OpenCage, TomTom Maps, LocationIQ, and Nominatim. GEOCODING, 18
Understand Your Dependencies
deps.dev — You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. UNDERSTAND, 19
How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – Zero Cost, Fully Owned
ingau.me — I’ve been using Obsidian for all my writing lately, and it’s been a game changer. The local-first model means everything lives as plain text on my machine, and with the Minimal theme, the interface stays clean and distraction-free. BLOG, 20
Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement)
github.com — Rust based package manager for macOS SAPPHIRE, 21
Restoring Old Software for Child Learning Safety
rietta.com — By Frank Rietta — Published 05/08/2024 RESTORING, 22
CSS Hell
csshell.com — You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. CSS, 23
The Ghosts of Gaelic
historytoday.com — Gaelic language and culture in Scotland have a long history, often subsumed by English. Is there hope for their future? GHOSTS, 24
Demystifying decorators: They don't need to be cryptic
thepythoncodingstack.com — I avoided decorators for so long. First, I pretended they didn't exist. Then, I treated them like a magic spell—I'd use some of the common ones and simply copy how they're used in the documentation. And each time I tried to learn how they work, I'd give up pretty quickly. DEMYSTIFYING, 25
ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
clickhouse.com — Imagine if you could skip packing your bags for a trip because you find out at the airport you’re not going. That’s what ClickHouse is doing with data now. CLICKHOUSE, 26
Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting
uwplse.org — As programming languages researchers, we’re entitled to a certain level of mathematical rigor behind the languages we write and analyze. Programming languages have semantics, which are definitions of what statements in the language mean. We can use those semantics to do all sorts of useful things, like error checking, compiling for efficiency, code transformation, and so on. ALGEBRAIC, 27
Subnanosecond Flash Memory
nature.com — Nature (2025)Cite this article SUBNANOSECOND, 28
How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail
eb43.github.io — ←🏠 Back to eb43.github.io articles list QUICKLY, 29
Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems
news.ycombinator.com — Hi HN! We’re Arjun, Ramnique, and Akhilesh, and we are building Rowboat (https://www.rowboatlabs.com/), an AI-assisted IDE for building and managing multi-agent systems. You start with a single agent, then scale up to teams of agents that work together, use MCP tools, and improve over time - all through a chat-based copilot. ROWBOAT, 30
Onyx (YC W24) Is Hiring for ML Engineer ycombinator.com
Recover (YC W21) Is Hiring ycombinator.com
GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Sr engineers passionate about education breezy.hr