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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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-

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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

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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

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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

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Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, the 1996 IRC client that birthed Comic Sans

Microsoft has released the source code for Comic Chat, its 1996 IRC client that rendered text conversations as illustrated comic panels complete with characters

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misa77: an LZ codec built for read-heavy workloads, decoding 2x faster than LZ4

misa77 is a new open-source, LZ-family compression codec aimed squarely at write-once, read-many workloads, where files are compressed once but decoded repeated

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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 goes live — but the announcement is all headline

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, the newest model in its Kimi K-series line. The source is a bare launch page: it confirms the model is available but carries n

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OnePlus reportedly halts US and Europe operations — but the source is an empty forum post

The only material provided is a headline claiming OnePlus has stopped operating in the United States and Europe, posted to OnePlus's own community forum. No art

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