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How a Weekend KiCad Project Became the nice!nano Keyboard Empire
Nick Winans recounts building the nice!nano, an nRF52840-based Pro Micro-compatible microcontroller board for wireless DIY keyboards, during his college freshma
Inside Claude Code: Undocumented Hook Fields, YOLO Classifier, and Hidden Config
A deep read of the Claude Code npm package (version 2.1.87) surfaces a substantial set of configuration options Anthropic's official docs never mention. The aut
Lego Resale Franchise Accused of Stealing Collector's $200K Hoard
A collector alleges that Bricks and Minifigs, a national Lego resale franchise, took possession of a roughly $200,000 personal Lego collection without proper co
Mistral pitches Europe a full-stack, on-prem AI alternative to US hyperscalers
At its AI Now Summit in Paris, Mistral positioned itself less as a frontier model lab and more as a vertically integrated European AI provider — owning its comp
Modern Cars Are Surveillance Machines, and a New US Law Will Expand the Haul
Connected vehicles have quietly become one of the most invasive consumer data collection platforms in existence. Manufacturers harvest precise location traces,
NOAA's Field Guide to the Ten Basic Cloud Types
NOAA's JetStream education portal catalogs the ten fundamental cloud classifications used in modern meteorology, organized by altitude into high, middle, and lo
NYC's New Pied-à-Terre Tax Could Triple Property Bills for Luxury Second Homes
New York state lawmakers approved a new tax on nonprimary residences valued at $1 million or more, projected to raise $500 million annually to help close the ci
Raspberry Pi 6 Slips to 2028 as DRAM Crunch Reshapes the Roadmap
At a Reddit AMA, Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton pushed Pi 6 expectations out to early 2028 at the soonest, breaking the roughly three-to-four year cadence o
SF Robotics Startup Allegedly Trashed Airbnbs During Covert Prototype Testing
An SF homeowner is suing the Bot Company, a $2 billion robotics startup founded by Tesla and Cruise alums, alleging its employees rented his Airbnb under false
Skip the Orchestrator: Why Postgres Alone Can Run Durable Workflows
Durable workflow systems like Temporal, Airflow, and AWS Step Functions rely on a central orchestrator to dispatch steps to workers and checkpoint their results
SQLite Plus Litestream as the Minimal Stack for Durable Workflows
Obelisk's author pushes back on the assumption that durable execution demands heavy database infrastructure. Building on DBOS's "Postgres is all you need" argum