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Gruber Coins 'Dickover' for Modal Popups That Hijack Your Screen
John Gruber proposes a new term for the modal panels, popovers, and full-screen curtains that ambush users with cookie prompts, newsletter signups, app install
How Comanche's 1992 Voxel Space Engine Rendered Terrain Without a GPU
A walkthrough reconstructs the rendering trick behind NovaLogic's 1992 helicopter game Comanche, whose textured, shaded terrain looked years ahead of polygon-ba
Hy3's Suspicious Rise Atop OpenRouter Rankings Defies Quality and Pricing Logic
A little-known Tencent model called Hy3 preview has quietly climbed to the top of OpenRouter's usage rankings, outpacing Claude by more than 50% in token volume
Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an edge MoE built for on-device agents
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a mixture-of-experts model with 8B total and 1B active parameters aimed at running agentic workloads locally on laptops and ph
Naphtha Shortage Ripples Through Japan's Supply Chain, From Chips to Syringes
A naphtha shortage triggered by the Iran war is rippling across Japanese manufacturing, hitting industries far removed from petrochemicals. Calbee has shifted 1
OpenBSD's openrsync merges into base, ships ISC-licensed rsync alternative
OpenBSD has merged openrsync into its base system, providing an ISC-licensed reimplementation of rsync that speaks protocol 27 and interoperates with mainline r
OpenRouter Lands $113M Series B as Multi-Model AI Routing Goes Mainstream
OpenRouter has closed a $113M Series B led by Alphabet's CapitalG, with strategic checks from NVIDIA, ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, and Databricks venture arm
Pandoc Templates: A Curated Directory for Markdown-to-Anything Publishing
Pandoc-templates.org catalogs community-built templates that turn plain Markdown into polished output across dozens of document types. The collection spans acad
Perry Compiles TypeScript Straight to Native Binaries via SWC and LLVM
Perry is a new toolchain that takes TypeScript source and produces standalone native executables without Node.js, V8, or Electron in the picture. It parses with
Pierre's CodeView Tackles the Hard Parts of Rendering Massive Diffs in Browsers
Pierre Computer Company has released CodeView, a virtualization-first React component built to render arbitrarily large diffs in the browser without the degrada
Prusa releases MIT-licensed ColorMix model for multi-color FDM printing
Prusa has open-sourced ColorMix, a color-mixing model integrated into PrusaSlicer and EasyPrint that lets multi-material FDM printers produce dozens of color to
Quandri Engineering: Why Skills and CLIs Beat MCP for Most Dev Workflows
Quandri's backend team measured the real cost of Model Context Protocol servers against their stack and found the architecture struggles to justify itself for t