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Solo developer maps 18,000+ US golf courses using OpenStreetMap data
A single developer built Golf Course Browser, a free web app that catalogs more than 18,000 golf courses across the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Users can
The AI Jobs Apocalypse Isn't in the Data — Yet
A Stanford SIEPR synthesis of the current research pushes back on the dramatic predictions — including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's claim that AI could eliminat
The shell's do-nothing colon is a scripting power tool in disguise
The humble `:` null-command in POSIX shells evaluates its arguments and throws away the result, doing nothing on its own. That uselessness is exactly what makes
Uncompromising Is a Myth: Good Design Is Picking the Right Tradeoffs
Steph Ango pushes back on the marketing habit of branding products as "uncompromising." Every design decision is a compromise by definition — the moment you com
Amazon canopy bridges log 15,000 animal crossings, zero roadkill in 15 months
Projeto Reconecta, a Brazilian conservation initiative led by biologist Fernanda Abra, installed eight rope canopy bridges in 2024 near Alta Floresta, an Amazon
An Open Source Ethernet Switch ASIC Heads to the Fab
A hardware hacker is claiming what they believe is the first fully open source Ethernet switch ASIC, with silicon due back from the fab in mid-November. The mot
ARC-AGI-3 Leaderboard Grades AI Agents on Efficiency, Not Just Raw Scores
ARC Prize has published its ARC-AGI-3 leaderboard, marking a shift in what the benchmark measures. Where ARC-AGI-1 and 2 tested passive "fluid intelligence" on
Bitchat Ships Its Source to Radicle's Peer-to-Peer Code Network
Bitchat, the decentralized messaging app that routes chats over Bluetooth mesh rather than central servers, has published its codebase on Radicle. Radicle is a
Button Stealer: A Browser Extension That Hoards a Button From Every Site You Visit
Anatoly Zenkov's "Stolen Buttons" is a novelty browser extension art project that grabs a copy of a button from every website the user visits and files it away
Cambridge's Hannah Fry Wins 2026 Leelavati Prize for Public Maths Outreach
Hannah Fry, Cambridge's first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics, has won the Leelavati Prize at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
Claude Opus 5 Tops Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard at 61
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, running in Adaptive Reasoning at Max Effort, now sits at the top of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 61 acr
Community Nvidia driver brings native Half-Life 2 and real GPU acceleration to Haiku
A community effort to port an Nvidia GPU driver to Haiku — the open-source BeOS successor — has reached the point where Half-Life 2 runs natively on the OS, com