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Running OpenBSD on the Lemote Yeeloong, and the story of China's Godson MIPS chip

A retrocomputing enthusiast documents getting OpenBSD running on a Lemote Yeeloong netbook — the first 64-bit MIPS laptop in their collection — while deliberate

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aitech-culture

Stanford dataset charts memory prices from 1960 to today — DRAM, NAND, and HBM

A Stanford DAM project led by David Shim has compiled an interactive history of memory and storage pricing stretching back to 1960, building on John McCallum's

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privacypolicy

Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are Fourth Amendment searches

In a 6-3 decision in Chatrie v US, the Supreme Court held that bulk location data pulled from smartphones via 'geofence warrants' qualifies as a search under th

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tech-culturepolicy

The 747's Last Flight: How the Queen of the Skies Outlived the Ambition That Built It

The Boeing 747, the original jumbo jet that defined commercial aviation for half a century, is reaching the end of its operational life. The author visits Pinal

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privacypolicy

The Real Goal of Age Verification Laws: Tying Your Speech to Your Identity

This opinion piece argues that the wave of age-verification mandates spreading across US states, the EU, and Australia is not really about protecting children.

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WATaBoy: a Game Boy emulator that JITs to WebAssembly — and outruns a native interpreter

Apple bans runtime JIT compilation on iOS, which is why heavyweight emulators like Dolphin can't ship there. But there's a loophole: web browsers are exempt, be

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aicybersecurity

Why 'tokenmaxxing' isn't dead — it's just getting a smarter incentive

Tokenmaxxing—companies pushing employees to burn through AI tokens, most infamously Meta tying performance reviews to per-person token usage—predictably led to

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Zanagrams: a free daily word puzzle where the grid shrinks as you solve

Zanagrams is a browser-based daily word game launched as a Show HN. Players drag across a grid of letters to find hidden words, and the grid progressively shrin

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privacycybersecurity

A Research-Backed Tool for Picking the Right Public DNS Resolver

An independent reference site pairs an interactive finder with a comparison table covering 29 global public DNS resolvers, letting you filter by what you actual

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aipolicy

Asian AI labs rush in as US export ban on Anthropic's Mythos drags on

Two weeks after a Trump Administration order barred Anthropic from giving non-Americans access to its cybersecurity-focused Mythos model and the more restricted

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policytech-culture

California Bans Streaming Ads Louder Than Their Shows Starting July 1

California's SB 576, signed by Governor Newsom in October 2025, takes effect July 1, 2026, barring any video streaming service from playing ad audio louder than

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aitech-culture

Claude Code read my MRI and contradicted the doctor's torn-tendon diagnosis

A developer with weeks of shoulder pain got an MRI at a clinic that diagnosed a Grade III partial-thickness tear of the subscapularis tendon and immediately beg

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