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Puter Labs runs the real Firefox engine entirely in a browser tab via WebAssembly

Puter Labs has compiled Mozilla's Gecko engine to WebAssembly, letting the genuine Firefox interface render and run inside an ordinary browser tab with no local

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tech-cultureopen-source

Rebuilding a native <button> from scratch: a lesson in why you shouldn't

Web accessibility advice usually starts with two rules: don't use ARIA if you can avoid it, and always prefer a native HTML element over a hand-rolled one. This

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tech-cultureprivacy

Regular sleep timing beats hours slept as a predictor of mortality risk

A 2023 study published in the journal SLEEP challenges the common focus on nightly sleep duration, finding that how consistent your sleep-wake schedule is from

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tech-culture

SpaceX bonds slide ~10% below issue price, nearing junk status

SpaceX debt is trading around 10% under its issue price and is moving toward a junk-bond (sub-investment-grade) rating, according to the Financial Times headlin

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open-sourcedevops

SQLite's unsafe defaults, and the case for Rust-style editions

SQLite is arguably the default choice for local data storage — an RDBMS shipped as a library rather than a separate process — but its out-of-the-box behavior un

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aiopen-source

Two Sigma's David Siegel: Open-source AI needs public funding before the field closes

David Siegel—co-founder of Two Sigma and chairman of the Siegel Family Endowment—recounts how Richard Stallman spent two years in the 1980s convincing him that

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devopsopen-source

Why 'just schedule it smarter' breaks down when you don't own the control loop

System design has a habit of hiding complexity behind problems that look trivial. The author walks through job queues — systems for submitting, scheduling, and

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open-sourceai

xAI open-sources Grok Build, its Rust-based terminal coding agent

xAI has published the Rust source for Grok Build, a full-screen terminal UI coding agent that reads a codebase, edits files, runs shell commands, searches the w

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tech-cultureai

A developer's candid account of depression, burnout, and learning to communicate

In a raw personal essay, a junior systems engineer traces how a persistent inability to stay motivated followed him from internships into two jobs that both end

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open-sourcedevops

A practical pattern for wiring HTMX into Go web apps

Alex Edwards walks through his approach to combining HTMX with Go for lightweight interactivity that keeps rendering on the server. The appeal is minimal hand-w

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policyprivacy

A viral train video becomes an argument against UK youth phone bans

Heather Burns uses a widely-shared Scotrail video — bystanders calmly confronting a drunk council legal officer who was covertly filming a group of teenage girl

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aicloud

AI 'Starships' Claim 27 Open Math Proofs, Each Formalized in Lean 4

Star Fleet Math, a Mac desktop app built by Colin Snyder, orchestrates up to 20 agentic harnesses called 'starships' in parallel, each running its own GPT-5.6 i

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