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A MacBook Air, a hand file, and the case for treating gadgets as tools
A developer bought a used blue M4 MacBook Air and loved it over their aging ThinkPad for the battery and screen, but couldn't stand one thing: the sharp aluminu
AI Researcher Quits DeepMind After Google Signs Unrestricted Pentagon Deal
A Google DeepMind research engineer describes an internal campaign that ended with his resignation after Google signed a military AI contract with the Pentagon
Bluesky Buys the ATProto Trademark to Fend Off a Legal Threat
Bluesky has purchased the trademark rights to "AT Protocol," "atproto," and related variants from a company that had threatened litigation over use of the name.
Brainless: shadcn/ui components that mimic Claude Code, Codex, and Grok
Brainless is a library of drop-in UI components, built on shadcn/ui, that replicate the distinctive look of popular AI coding assistants—the terminal-style chat
clig.dev: A Modern, Human-First Playbook for Command-Line Design
Command Line Interface Guidelines (clig.dev) is an open-source guide from the co-creators of Docker Compose and other practitioners that revisits UNIX design pr
Clocks.dev: A Curated Gallery of Digital Clock Designs
Clocks.dev is a showcase collecting digital clock designs, the kind of small, self-contained front-end project that regularly surfaces on Hacker News. Rather th
Codex's sub-agent prompt encryption wiped out local audit trails
A recent change to OpenAI's Codex CLI (PR #26210, merged June 2026) encrypts the message payloads exchanged between agents in its MultiAgentV2 system. The model
Decoy Font Uses Optical Illusions to Hide Text From AI Readers
Mixfont's Decoy Font is a downloadable TTF typeface built to frustrate machine reading. Each glyph layers two messages at different spatial frequencies: sharp,
Designer Restores 1,300 Victorian Wildlife Plates, With AI's Help
Designer Nicholas Rougeux has digitized and restored The Naturalist's Library, a 40-plus-volume Victorian reference series that once brought affordable natural-
Duskers, the cult command-line horror game, gets a sequel funded by Stray Signal
Misfits Attic has announced Duskers 2.0, revealing a teaser trailer during PC Gamer's PC Gaming Show. The original Duskers is a text-and-terminal survival horro
Google rebrands NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook, adds native code execution
Google is renaming NotebookLM, its research and note-synthesis tool launched at I/O 2023 under the codename Project Tailwind, to Gemini Notebook. The product no
How Nine Inch Nails Turned Music Piracy Into a Marketing Weapon
Rob Sheridan, the former creative director of Nine Inch Nails, traces the arc of illicit music sharing from dorm-room MP3 servers to the curated world of privat