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James Yu catalogs literary awards granted to works where AI was used or suspected in the writing process, from Japan's Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi prizes that allowed AI from the start to contests where AI use surfaced later.
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cakehonolulu digs into why older Samsung TVs can't mute their built-in speakers while using Q-Symphony with a Q990D soundbar, walks through the configuration issues and the TV's service menu, and finds a workaround by setting the service menu's Max Volume to 0, which mutes the TV speakers while Q-Symphony keeps working.
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Phil Eaton explains why The Consensus added an 'AI tells' detector to its curated technical-writing feed, so it can keep freely promoting thoughtfully human-written articles while letting readers filter likely AI-written ones.
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David Rudnick on the borderline impossible process of designing a bespoke Arsenal typeface
Olivia Hingley interviews designer David Rudnick and collaborator Johnnie Campbell about Rocastle, a bespoke Arsenal typeface: the research, constraints of football branding, and why crafting a club-specific type system felt borderline impossible.
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Did Ente Locker copy my code without attribution?
FairScan's developer Pierre-Yves Nicolas describes finding that Ente Locker's new document-scanning feature, which credited FairScan's segmentation model, appears to reuse several of FairScan's GPL image-processing implementations despite claiming they were written from scratch, and reflects on what that means for open-source motivation.
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Hittite royal archive found in Turkey
The History Blog reports a large Hittite-period cuneiform archive excavated in Turkey, describing the tablets’ find context, what kinds of administrative and royal records they appear to contain, and why the discovery matters for Anatolian Bronze Age history.
2 min · 549 words
Taylor Swift or Beyoncé? what 83 AI models think
We asked 83 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 89% picked Beyoncé. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
10 min · 2,392 words
Explaining the Magelight XP glitch in Skyrim
A reverse-engineering deep dive into why casting Magelight from a mountain outside Solitude grants huge Alteration XP in Skyrim. It debunks the distance and cloud-layer theories, traces how the projectile's collision and XP grant work in the game code, breaks down the bug, and gives a consistent setup guide to maximise it.
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An open-source developer recounts trying to share GitHub projects on Reddit: every attempt, from posting links on a new account to slowly building comments, adding typos to avoid AI-slop flags, starting his own community and finally earning 1k karma through the mobile app, ended with deleted posts and banned accounts.
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Calling it quits on ServerFault
After just over 15 years as an elected ServerFault moderator since the first 2011 community election, SysAdmin1138 is stepping down at year end. The post recalls early cross-cultural flame wars that shaped moderator coverage and post locking, the site's decline from its 2011-2012 peak to 2-3 questions a day, and recent Stack Exchange-wide spam campaigns.
2 min · 536 words
'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone
The Animation Obsessive newsletter recounts how Nick Park spent years making A Grand Day Out, his overambitious NFTS graduation film, mostly alone before finishing it at Aardman and premiering it in Bristol in 1989, plus Asians in Animation's Unboxed education project and animation news.
14 min · 3,247 words
Drake or Kendrick? what 84 AI models think
We asked 84 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 96% picked Kendrick Lamar. See every answer and who dissented.
11 min · 2,423 words
Automating my 35mm film scanning pipelineA story about replacing a creative workflow and focusing on another.
Shan Hannadige describes automating the tedious parts of scanning 35mm film from a Canon AE-1P, building a pipeline and a site to present the results, and what it means to delegate one creative workflow to focus on another.
5 min · 1,257 words
Being asked to sanitise Wikipedia entries
Longtime Wikipedia editor Ruben Schade describes getting paid and unpaid requests to scrub contentious material from articles—and draws a hard line against editing for hire or removing valid citations.
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Is a hot dog a sandwich? what 85 AI models think
We asked 85 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 66% picked No. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
13 min · 2,969 words
Mass Fraction: a love letter to Deuteros, in sixteen colours
Arda Karaduman launches Mass Fraction, a hard-SF space-industry strategy game at 640×512 in sixteen colours—mapping Deuteros and Millennium 2.2 into a Godot sim of Lid debris, named crews with dose ledgers, and indifferent Harrow machines.
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