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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
Speed Up A* by Fixing the Heuristic, Not the Queue
Most A* optimization effort goes into the priority queue or map representation, but the heuristic function is where the biggest wins often hide. The standard st
Study abstract: melatonin may dull morning cognition in healthy young adults
A 2023 abstract in a SLEEP journal conference supplement reports that melatonin supplementation was associated with impaired cognitive performance the following
Tim Berners-Lee's 1998 Case for URIs That Outlive Their Servers
This W3C essay argues that a well-designed web address should still resolve decades after it was created, and that broken links are almost always a failure of o
Triton brings native DirectX 11 acceleration to Windows guests in QEMU
The team behind UTM has released Triton, a Windows graphics driver that delivers full DirectX 11 acceleration inside QEMU virtual machines. It builds on Neptune