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Reviving a Cricut from the e-waste bin by spoofing its serial over USB
A tinkerer rescued a Cricut Maker from the trash, expecting the perished rollers to be its only problem. The real obstacle was Cricut's remote lockout: the mach
Smarter but Harder to Steer: Wrestling an Agent Harness Against GPT-5.6 'Sol'
A developer who relies on a 'spec-driven' workflow—having an LLM draft a plan before writing any code—set out to automate it with a supervisor agent that delega
Stop Being the Copy-Paste Proxy Between People and ChatGPT
A single-page manifesto makes a simple argument: when someone asks you a question, dumping raw chatbot output back at them is worse than useless. They already h
The Naked-Baby Hologram: How Everyone Found Offense in Windows Artwork
Raymond Chen recounts a string of episodes where Microsoft's Windows imagery drew complaints from people who read something troubling into innocuous artwork. Th
Unsloth's Dynamic 3.0 quants squeeze 10% more accuracy from Qwen3.8 at the same size
Unsloth has released Dynamic v3.0, a post-training quantization method for large language models, debuting with GGUF builds of Qwen3.8-27B. The headline claim i
When AI Can Do Research Math, What Is Mathematics Actually For?
In an essay adapted from a 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians lecture, the author sidesteps the usual argument over whether AI will ever match human
Why great art rewards a second look: the case for 'thick' work
The author recants a long-held belief that 'great' literature and art are an elaborate con perpetrated on students. The real distinction, he argues, is what he
Why One Postgres Instance Can Replace Half Your Infrastructure Stack
A longtime PostgreSQL user makes the case for treating the database as a Swiss Army knife rather than just a relational store. His argument rests on three point
winstart.bat: The Windows 3.1 Trick to Load TSRs Only for Windows Apps
A Microsoft "Old New Thing" post unpacks the purpose of winstart.bat, a batch file that lived in the Windows directory and ran at a very specific moment during
A joke weather-balloon domain became dual-use infrastructure in the Ukraine war
SondeHub began in 2018 as a throwaway domain that simply redirected to Habhub, a hobbyist high-altitude ballooning tracker, with a filter for meteorological rad
AI now authors half of Linear's issues — yet teams ship more, not faster
Linear mined six years of its own product-development data to chart how AI has reshaped software work, and the adoption curve is steep and broad. Between Januar
AI's DRAM Land Grab Sends RAM Prices Up 500%, With 128GB DDR5 Kits at $3,399
DDR5 memory has become one of the most volatile line items in a PC build. Year-over-year prices are up nearly 500% on high-capacity kits, with 128GB DDR5 now ru