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Developer Pulls AI-Built Site After Discovering It Cloned an Existing Open-Source App
A developer who used Claude to spin up a stargazing web utility called Dark Hours has taken it offline after learning it closely mirrored an existing open-sourc
Ditching a VPS to Self-Host on an Old Android Phone
Frustrated by the cost of a Hetzner VPS — especially the dedicated CPU needed to run a remote browser called Surf — and unwilling to buy new hardware amid absur
Ex-NSA chief: keep water plant PLCs off the internet after suspected Iran attacks
Retired General Paul Nakasone, the former NSA director now heading Vanderbilt's Institute for National Security, argues that the programmable logic controllers
Gruber Retracts First Daring Fireball Post in 24 Years After App Store Rejection Story Unravels
John Gruber has retracted a Daring Fireball post for the first time in his 24 years writing the site, after the story he built it on turned out to be false. The
Hiding Photos Inside QR Codes with Two-Pass Error Diffusion
QR codes split into two zones: function patterns (the bold corner squares scanners use to locate and orient the code) and data modules (everything else, which s
How Gateway 2000's Cow-Spotted Ads Went From Charming to Cringe
A retrospective on Gateway 2000's magazine advertising traces the PC maker's shift from scrappy, self-aware marketing to bloated corporate spectacle across the
How Silicon Valley Founders Build Fraud: The 'Façading' Playbook
A new Organization Science study, 'Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley' by Tim Weiss (Imperial College London / Emlyon) and Nevena Radoynovska (Emlyon), dissec
Intel x86 Laptop Edges Out Apple Silicon on Efficiency, Undercutting ARM's ISA Myth
Jeff Geerling ran the HPL Linpack benchmark—the same test used to rank Top500 supercomputers—on a MacBook and a new Dell XPS 13, and the results upend a long-he
MDM disabled Find My, so he had Claude build a Bluetooth phone finder
A developer lost their phone inside the office and burned half an hour searching before hitting a wall: their employer's MDM policy had disabled Find My, cuttin
Open-source browser map tracks the Aug 12, 2026 total solar eclipse live
A Hacker News post points to eclipsefan.org, an open-source, browser-based interactive map for the total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026 — now only days away.
os8088: An AI-Written, Mac-Style GUI OS That Boots a 1981 IBM PC From Floppy
os8088 is a hobby operating system that boots straight from a floppy's first sector into a graphical desktop modeled on the 1984 Macintosh's System 1 — overlapp
Shopify moved inventory reservations from Redis to MySQL—and it held at peak
Shopify's oversell protection places a short hold on inventory the moment a buyer starts payment, then permanently deducts it once the charge succeeds. Getting