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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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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