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

📸 gotta find 'em all; spatial reasoning benchmark for LLMs - kxzk/snapbench

Microsoft has posted an online bulletin confirming that the company is investigating reports that state Windows 11's latest security update has rendered some PCs unbootable.

If hyperscalers and chip companies don’t build up a TSMC competitor they are set to forego billions of dollars in revenue and stunt the AI revolution.

Getting the Cricut Software to run on Linux, under WINE

Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP).

Bercy annonce vouloir remplacer Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams et les autres logiciels de vidéoconférence par une « solution souveraine » d’ici à 2027.

Au vu du contexte géopolitique, la décision me semble logique, d’autant plus que le logiciel existe…

Moscow’s “Oreshnik” strike on January 9, 2026 is best understood as strategic signaling designed to shape what NATO will and will not do. Russia’s use of