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Apple Copland D11E4 booting in your Browser
Michael Steil ships Apple’s cancelled Copland OS build D11E4 in-browser via improved DingusPPC wasm, with patch notes for unlocking the last developer build.
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CrowdSec Statement: Source Code Exposure in May 2026
CrowdSec confirms a May 2026 GitHub source-code exposure reported on September 16, outlining scope, impact assessment, investigation steps, and security measures taken.
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C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
Sandor Dargo explains P2809R3: before C++26, empty while(true); loops were UB under forward-progress rules (Clang could delete them). C++26 narrowly defines trivial infinite loops as well-defined, with a freestanding yield caveat for bare metal.
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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Cody Ho and a collaborator reverse-engineered Apple's M4 AGX GPU firmware ABI and built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux driver in roughly one month, a process that normally takes years. The work was done in a clean-room manner using only hardware traces from a custom hypervisor, not Apple binaries.
1 min · 299 wordsagent-written
Refactoring Hermes with 1,393 agentsOr: How to get $1.8M of value from $19K of tokens
Nous Research recounts Hermes Agent refactoring ~1M lines of Python with 1,393 subagents over ~19 active hours—cutting non-test code ~34% for ~$19K of model spend versus a six-figure human estimate.
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Appwrite Init 2026 recap: Everything we shipped
Appwrite wraps Init 2026 with a full recap of five days of launches: Appwrite 2.0, native PostgreSQL and MySQL, VectorsDB, S3-compatible storage, Firewall, OAuth2 server, and custom Domains.
7 min · 1,505 words
Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet
A hands-on walkthrough of firmware hacking a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook (ARM64 MediaTek) to run Ubuntu after ChromeOS and postmarketOS fell short.
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One Year of Sponsored Servo Development
Last September, the Servo project announced that long-time maintainer Josh Bowman-Matthews (@jdm) would work part-time on improving the Servo contributor experience, entirely funded by the monthly donations on OpenCollective and GitHub. In his own words, here is a look back over the past year!
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My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it.
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it.
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Developer Vale observes that CSS-Tricks, the long-running web development publication acquired by DigitalOcean in 2022, has gone inactive again after a second revival attempt. The post criticises DigitalOcean for pledging $3 million to DHH's Omarchy project while allowing its own publication to go dark and quietly cutting small infrastructure payments to GNOME and Flathub.
1 min · 257 wordsagent-written
Celebrating 70 years of Fortran
Joe Wallwork marks seventy years since Fortran's 1957 debut: why the language still thrives in scientific computing, what the Fortran-lang community is building, and how modern Fortran fits high-performance and climate work.
2 min · 374 words
The Economics of Scientific Publishing
NYU Stern’s Vishal Singh maps scholarly publishing economics across 13 years and 4.2M articles a year: unpaid manuscripts and peer review, margins above Apple’s, and why third-party intermediaries prove so hard to dislodge.
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Unsloth Desktop: Local AI for Developers
Local models were never the hard part—stitching RAG, fine-tuning, APIs, and tools was. Gonzalo Wangüemert reviews Unsloth Desktop’s bid to put a full local AI workspace in one app for developers.
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The last mile of a long road: faster NumPy in the browser
Notebook.link explains how Emscripten-forge NumPy now links OpenBLAS in WebAssembly, delivering large matmul and linear-algebra speedups for browser scientific computing.
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You can run git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
Building ObjGit, Tigris explains why Git packfiles fight object storage, how remaking packfiles unlocks workable remote repositories, and what that means for Git servers backed by S3-style buckets.
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Feodor Fitsner announces Flet 1.0 for production Python cross-platform apps: CI from unit to on-device tests, declarative UI, multi-Python packaging, MCP/Studio tooling, and a compatibility policy.
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llmman launch dsh: Run DeepSeek Harness on any local or hosted model
DeepSeek Harness treats the model as a plugin. llmman runs any model on your own hardware, in one command. An agent harness is a loop around your model that takes your task, calls a model, runs tools (such as shell commands and file edits), provides results, and repeats.
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A sharp critical response to Dario Amodei's 'We Must Pace the Frontier' essay, arguing that the proposed pacing framework would entrench frontier labs' market position, suppress open-weight models, and dress up competitive self-interest as safety policy.
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Homebrew 7.0.0 ships faster installs and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checking via an advisory database, and drops macOS 10.15 support. Intel Macs move to Tier 3 as the project consolidates around Apple Silicon.
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Paul Graham argues that the most productive question a founder can ask is not how to make more money but how to make the company more powerful. The essay works through several structural moves—owning the customer relationship, enabling app-store-like extensibility, introducing network effects, going full-stack, getting customers earlier, and getting data earlier—that each tend to produce power disproportionate to the effort they require.
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