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Selling 2,500 MIDI recorders taught one founder that hardware isn't the hard part
Chip Weinberger, a longtime software engineer, spent 18 months shipping Jamcorder — an automated piano-recording device that has now sold over 2,500 units and s
Stack Overflow's Question Volume Craters as Developers Turn to AI
A Stack Exchange Data Explorer query plots monthly question volume on Stack Overflow over time, and the shape tells the whole story: activity that grew or held
Texas court orders Verisign to lock motherless.com over age-verification defiance
A Texas court has ordered Verisign, the registry operator for the .com top-level domain, to place motherless.com on registry lock, effectively cutting off the s
The $0.01/day website: ditch SaaS blogging for hand-authored HTML you actually own
Adam Newbold makes the case for what he calls "Hardcore IndieWeb" — a maximalist take on the IndieWeb movement's goal of owning your online identity and content
The 60-Year-Old Puzzle: Nobody Knows Multiplication's True Speed Limit
For centuries, mathematicians assumed the grade-school method of multiplying numbers digit-by-digit—which scales as O(n²), quadrupling the work each time the di
Transcribe.cpp: a ggml speech-to-text library with 60+ verified ASR models
Transcribe.cpp is a new open-source, ggml-based transcription library from the maintainer of the Handy speech-to-text app. It targets a gap the author kept hitt
Turn a Spare Mac Into a Throwaway Machine Claude Code Fully Controls
A hands-on guide walks through converting an old Mac into an always-on box that Claude Code can operate autonomously, reachable over SSH from your main machine
What the IndieWeb Actually Is — and Why Owning Your Domain Matters
The IndieWeb is a community and set of principles built around one idea: the canonical copy of everything you publish should live on a domain you control, not i
A tracker counts 105 ex-YC founders now inside OpenAI and Anthropic
A single-page site, joinedanthropic.com, compiles a running list of Y Combinator alumni who have gone on to work at the two leading frontier-AI labs. As of its
Agreeing With the LLM Critics and Using LLMs Anyway
Writing from Berlin's Local-First Conf, the author names a dissonance he saw everywhere: engineers who openly criticize LLMs—and applaud the criticism—while kee
AI writes the code — humans do the reviewing, and it's burning them out
A Pydantic engineer argues that LLM-assisted programming has quietly inverted where the effort and the satisfaction live in software work. The dopamine that use
Apple hits ~40 OpenAI staff with evidence-preservation letters in trade-secret fight
Apple has sent legal preservation letters to roughly 40 former employees who have since moved to OpenAI, ordering them to retain any documents, emails, files, a