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Turning 1.2M Personal Messages Into a Life Vault With LLMs
A developer pulled 20 years of his own chat history out of ICQ, VK, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram using GDPR data-access requests, then built a pip
Uber questions AI ROI as token spend outpaces shipped features
Uber blew through its 2026 AI budget within four months, and leadership is openly skeptical that the spending is paying off. President and COO Andrew Macdonald
Valve hikes Steam Deck OLED prices by $240-$300 amid memory shortage
Valve has raised Steam Deck OLED prices substantially, with the 512GB model jumping from $549 to $789 and the 1TB version climbing from $649 to $949. The hardwa
When Every Human Reply Is Just a ChatGPT Screenshot Forwarded Back
A developer recounts a growing pattern of human interactions collapsing into AI relay. After reporting malware-spreading GitHub repositories, the responses he r
Why GPU Matmul Speed Depends on Input Data: A Power-Throttling Story
An engineer benchmarking CUTLASS against CuBLAS on an A100 stumbled onto a puzzling result: the same 8192³ matrix multiplication ran roughly 15% faster when fed
Why LoRa Mesh Enthusiasts Are Outgrowing Meshtastic and MeshCore
An ISP operator with his own ASN argues that even direct BGP peering doesn't escape dependence on a handful of central providers, and that mesh networking over
YouTube to auto-label AI videos when creators skip disclosure
YouTube is shifting from purely creator-driven AI disclosures to a hybrid model where its own detection systems will automatically tag photorealistic synthetic
Author Replaces Word, InDesign, and Kindle Create with a Git-Based Book Pipeline
A self-published novelist describes abandoning the conventional Microsoft Word → Adobe InDesign → Calibre → Kindle Create chain that had forced him to maintain
Chemistry Behind the Garden Grove Methyl Methacrylate Tank Incident
The Science.org blog post examines the chemistry of methyl methacrylate (MMA), the compound at the center of a hazardous tank incident in Garden Grove. MMA is t
Ferrari Luce debuts as Maranello's latest halo model
Ferrari has unveiled the Luce, the newest addition to its lineup, on the manufacturer's official site. The page positions the car as a flagship offering, though
Hacker News front page reimagined as a standalone aggregator site
A new project, thefrontpage.dev, repackages the Hacker News front page as a destination site, pulling in stories and generating its own summaries rather than ju
Modern Pixel Fonts: Fixing VCR Mono, Faking Subpixel Fringing, and Vercel's Geist Pixel
A roundup of contemporary pixel-style fonts highlights how designers are reinterpreting a 1990s aesthetic for modern systems. Andrew Gleeson's Analog Mono corre