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A field guide to the vi family: from 1977 original to LLM-era forks

A catalog of vi lineage editors, starting with Bill Joy's 1977 original and tracing the branches that emerged after AT&T's commercial UNIX licensing pushed deve

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tech-cultureopen-source

A Visual Archive of Pre-1990 Desktop Operating Systems

Typewritten.org hosts a curated gallery of screenshots from desktop graphical environments spanning roughly 1983 to 1989, captured from period-correct hardware.

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aidevops

After 7 Months of Vibe-Coding, a Dev Rewrites His Kubernetes TUI by Hand

The author spent roughly 30 weekends and 234 commits building k10s, a GPU-aware Kubernetes dashboard written in Go with Bubble Tea, almost entirely through Clau

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aitech-culture

AI Coding Tools May Turn Software Engineering Into a Short-Career Profession

Sean Goedecke argues that even if AI assistants erode engineers' long-term technical skills, developers will still be forced to adopt them — because employers w

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open-sourcetech-culture

Bambu Lab Threatens OrcaSlicer Fork Developer Over AGPL Code It Wrote Itself

Jeff Geerling escalates his criticism of 3D printer maker Bambu Lab, this time over the company's cease-and-desist threats against the developer of OrcaSlicer-b

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tech-cultureopen-source

Building a Real-Time Atmospheric Scattering Shader in the Browser

A month-long exploration into reproducing Earth's atmosphere in WebGL, inspired by a photograph of the Endeavour shuttle at sunset showing the gradient from ora

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cybersecuritycloud

Cloudflare hosts the booter that took down Ubuntu — then sells Canonical the cure

On 30 April 2026 a pro-Iranian group calling itself the Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq knocked Canonical's public web infrastructure offline for roughly twent

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aicybersecurity

Curl's Daniel Stenberg: Anthropic's Mythos Found Just One Real Bug

Anthropic's much-hyped Mythos model, billed in April 2026 as dangerously capable at uncovering security flaws, was given a shot at curl through the Linux Founda

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cybersecurityopen-source

Elevator: Static x86-64 to AArch64 Binary Translation Without Heuristics

Researchers have introduced Elevator, a binary translator that converts complete x86-64 executables to AArch64 entirely ahead of time, without requiring source

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policyprivacy

EU Targets Addictive Design in TikTok, Instagram to Shield Minors

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced plans to act against engagement-driving features on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook later this year, nami

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privacyidentity

Gmail Signup Now Demands Outbound SMS From Your Phone, Killing Anonymous Accounts

Google has quietly tightened Gmail account creation: the QR code shown during registration now instructs the user's phone to send an outbound SMS to Google rath

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aitech-culture

Google Unveils Googlebook: AI-First Laptops With Deep Gemini Integration

Google has teased Googlebook, a new line of laptops positioning Gemini AI as the core operating layer rather than a bolted-on feature. The marketing pitch frame

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