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OS9Map brings live OpenStreetMap browsing to Mac OS 9 PowerPC machines

Developer yllan has shipped OS9Map, a native mapping client that lets vintage Apple hardware running Mac OS 9 pull live data from OpenStreetMap. The app handles

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cloudopen-source

Oxide's interactive 3D explorer walks you through its cloud computer rack

Oxide Computer has published a browser-based 3D guided tour of its rack-scale 'cloud computer,' the company's integrated alternative to buying servers piecemeal

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open-sourcetech-culture

Papermark accuses YC founder of stealing its licensed code, not 'vibe coding' it

Marc Froehlich, founder of the open-source document-sharing platform Papermark, publicly accused a builder named Nico of passing off Papermark's code as his own

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aiopen-source

Sealed Herculaneum scroll read end-to-end for the first time, virtually unrolled

Researchers from the Vesuvius Challenge have digitally unrolled and transcribed an entire carbonized Herculaneum scroll, PHerc. 1667, without physically opening

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tech-cultureopen-source

Show HN: A roguelike that turns chess pieces into run-based dungeon runs

A developer has posted a Show HN for an indie game that blends chess with the roguelike genre, sharing it at princechazz.com. The pitch combines the determinist

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tech-cultureopen-source

Slate's bare-bones electric pickup undercuts the market at $24,950

Slate is selling a deliberately stripped-down electric truck it calls the Blank Slate, starting at $24,950. The pitch is minimalism as a feature: buyers get a b

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open-sourcecybersecurity

Tech giants launch Akrites to patch open-source flaws before AI weaponizes them

A coalition of nearly two dozen major companies — including AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and GitHub, OpenAI, IBM, NVIDIA, Red Hat, Cisco, and banks like Ci

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tech-cultureprivacy

The Doorman's Fallacy: When QR Codes Replace Service and Quietly Wreck the Experience

The author uses a frustrating brunch to illustrate the Doorman's Fallacy — the assumption that technology can swap out a human role without hidden costs. The re

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tech-culturedevops

The Garbage Collection Handbook returns: a 60-year survey of automatic memory management

The second edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook updates Richard Jones and colleagues' definitive reference on automatic memory management, succeeding the

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aiopen-source

Un-0 generates images with simulated oscillators, betting physics beats GPUs on energy

A startup called Unconventional AI has released Un-0, an image generator that swaps the usual deep-network-on-GPU stack for a simulated system of coupled Kuramo

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tech-cultureopen-source

WisdPi's 10G module for Framework laptops can't escape USB-C bandwidth chaos

Framework's expansion slots all route through USB-C, and that connector's tangle of overlapping standards is what undermines WisdPi's new $99 10G Ethernet card.

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open-sourcetech-culture

"You're the OS!" — a browser game that makes you the kernel scheduler

"You're the OS!" puts the player in the role of an operating system, tasked with juggling running processes, allocating memory, and handling I/O events in real

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