Video games are art, but a strange art: their essence is transformation of the player, not denoscription to the player. This makes meaningful criticism nearly impossible—you can point at the moon, but it’s not the moon, and once someone sees it, they no longer…

Non-obvious advice that I wish I learned sooner.

I've been an Apple user for over a decade and generally very happy with that life choice, but since iOS / iPadOS 26 and MacOS Tahoe were released a few month...

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The vote marks a stunning turn, pulling VPNs and private platforms into an age-check regime once unthinkable in a democracy.

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Fermented foods are more popular than ever, but what's the science? Dan Saladino reports.

The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.

TL;DR: I built a desk gadget that streams Hacker News comments to a cheap ESP32 display using UDP instead of HTTP/TLS. It works great…

Generative AI is changing how software is produced and used. In vibe coding, an AI agent builds software by selecting and assembling open-source software (OSS), often without users directly...

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Notes on writing this site's new, mildly cursed, and fun static site generator in (mostly) POSIX shell.

Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.

In the words of Tom Lehrer, “this is completely pointless, but may prove useful to some of you some day, perhaps in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances.” The problem is as follows: …

Apple today unveiled the new AirTag, now with an expanded finding range and a louder speaker.

Stress and scarcity aren’t strong enough terms to capture the water crisis facing much of the world, according to a new UN report.

Federal agents have pepper-sprayed, tackled and detained people recording their actions. If you post your recordings of agents, you also risk the feds tracking you and those around you.

Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month