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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
"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