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This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World's Remotest LocationsIt sends encrypted signals with no satellites or relay towers required
IEEE Spectrum interviews Rhizomatica’s Peter Bloom on HERMES, an open-source HF data radio that pushes files and optional encryption over the ionosphere for remote and emergency communities.
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dlab Open Source Week: Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware
Tim Dettmers argues that small academic labs can compete by building coherent open-source ecosystems rather than isolated papers. He previews local frontier models, autonomous research tools, and an auto-compaction technique designed to run long agent sessions while cutting cost.
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Overview of AOOSTAR WTR Pro on *BSD
Joel Carnat’s hands-on FreeBSD/OpenBSD notes on the AOOSTAR WTR Pro NAS mini-PC: networking, storage, power, quirks, and what works out of the box.
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Farid Zakaria on dynamic derivations and nondeterministic build graphs ahead of NixCon 2026—when a build step can roll dice, and what that means for caching and reproducibility.
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Pirate Face: The permanence layer for sovereign AI
Pirate Face mirrors open AI models from Hugging Face as checksum-verified torrents—magnet links meant to keep LLMs, image/audio models, and datasets alive peer-to-peer without a single owner or takedown point.
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Reversing the SH-4 fpu with the help of three AI models
Using three AI models to reverse-engineer approximate SH-4 FPU instructions (FIPR, FTRV, FSCA, FSRRA) for Dreamcast emulation accuracy.
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A detailed practitioner review of the V programming language covering syntax, tooling, performance claims, and where the language felt productive versus still rough around the edges.
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Bartosz Fenski’s continuous benchmark suite for multi-device CoW filesystems (btrfs, ZFS, bcachefs) measures snapshot aging, compression, rebuild, ENOSPC, and other workloads classic single-disk fio tests miss.
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LWN covers Typst’s rapid progress as a modern typesetting system — package ecosystem, compiler work, and why more people are trying it as an alternative to LaTeX workflows.
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Alex Alejandre interviews CHICKEN Scheme maintainer Peter Bex on the 6.0.0 release, Scheme standardization, Postgres versus MySQL/SQLite, and working in Clojure.
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Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper
Lari Huttunen continues a Smart TV reclaim project: after isolating an LG WebOS OLED behind OpenBSD, blocking ACR/ad DNS breaks the App Store—how WebOS couples apps to telemetry endpoints, and how to work around the gatekeeper.
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Keva: Running Coding Agents On-Device on Unrooted Android
Simon Lin's technical paper on Keva—an on-device Android AI coding agent running Claude Code/Codex-style loops—covering architecture, failure modes, and systems lessons without rooting the phone.
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An unofficial community project revives Amiga Unix (Amix) for 68040/68060 machines and modern accelerators, with a modern toolchain, package manager, and open grimoire of the work.
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TypeSafe's Jev AI Model in .NET: A Community SDK for Structured AI Output in C#
Laurent Kempé introduces TypeSafe’s Jev decision model and walks through a community .NET 11 / C# 15 SDK port so apps can get typed, structured decisions without brittle JSON parsing.
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Eric Bailey argues CSS-Tricks should become a co-op so the web keeps an independent, practitioner-owned home for frontend knowledge—after the site’s repeated near-deaths under corporate ownership.
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USRA Contributes Planetary Science Expertise to NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model
USRA describes an open-source NASA–IBM lunar foundation model that fuses diverse Moon datasets to support scientific analysis, including ice-prospectivity patterns near the poles.
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SAIR's Open Math Model initiative
Terence Tao announces SAIR's accelerated push for community-governed open-weight math models and tooling, seeking partners for funding, compute, expertise, and governance.
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Mold has recently updated their linker benchmarks and included Wild for the first time. These benchmarks show Wild being substantially slower than Mold in contrast to Wild’s most recently published benchmarks from our last release on August 4th. This post is an attempt to understand why there’s such a difference in the benchmark results. Mold’s benchmarks were run on two machines:
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ZCode uploads your entire git history, and only Z.ai holds the key
Tokenstead reports ferstar's reverse-engineering of Z.ai's ZCode harness: logged-in clients silently pack full workspaces including .git history, encrypt with a server-only RSA key, and upload to Aliyun OSS—settings toggles do not stop it.
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Release notes for jemalloc 5.4.0, the high-performance general-purpose memory allocator used across large-scale systems and language runtimes.
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