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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna go public Thursday after US lifts curbs
OpenAI is opening its GPT-5.6 model family to the public on Thursday, July 9, ending a roughly two-week period in which access was restricted to about 20 vetted
PgDog: A Rust Postgres pooler that stops connection pooling from breaking your app
Connection poolers like PgBouncer, RDS Proxy, and Pgpool-II let many clients share a database without blowing past its connection limit, but they impose a hidde
Rowboat: a local-first, open-source AI desktop that keeps a persistent memory of your work
Rowboat is an open-source desktop AI assistant pitched as an alternative to Claude Desktop, built around persistent memory rather than on-demand retrieval. Inst
Skip TrueNAS: A Bare-Bones ZFS NAS With Just zpool and Samba
For anyone who wants network storage without the overhead of appliance software like Synology, QNAP, or TrueNAS, this walkthrough shows that a functional NAS is
That obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt is a Peace-for-All Easter egg
A shopper noticed an alphanumeric block printed on the back of a Uniqlo t-shirt and recognized it as a base64-encoded bash script—complete with a shebang—piped
This TrueType Font Turns Bracketed Text Into Scannable QR Codes
Jim Paris has built an experimental OpenType font that renders any text wrapped in square brackets as a live QR code, while leaving the surrounding characters a
Why '98% browser support' still leaves 150 million people staring at a broken page
A high percentage only reads as impressive when the stakes are trivial. Winning the lottery or acing exams 98% of the time is remarkable, but a restaurant that
16-Year-Old KVM Use-After-Free Lets Guests Escape to Cloud Hosts on Intel and AMD
Researcher Hyunwoo Kim disclosed Januscape (CVE-2026-53359), a use-after-free bug in the shadow MMU emulation of KVM/x86. A guest can corrupt the host kernel's
30papers.com Repackages Ilya Sutskever's ML Reading List for Newcomers
A new site, 30papers.com, collects the roughly 30 machine learning papers that Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder and prominent deep learning researcher, has
A Developer's Case Against Anthropic: Lock-In, Surprise Billing, and Vibe-Coding
In an opinion piece that gained traction on Hacker News, developer Raheel Junaid argues that Anthropic has burned through developer goodwill via vendor lock-in
A DIY biohacker sequenced his own genome five times with a benchtop nanopore rig
Bradley Woolf documents running his own DNA through an Oxford Nanopore MinION at home, taking a full end-to-end high-quality run from cheek swab to analysis fiv
Anthropic finds a 'global workspace' inside Claude — a silent scratchpad for its thoughts
Anthropic researchers report that Claude has spontaneously developed a privileged internal channel they call the J-space, named after the Jacobian-based techniq