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toomanyrichies
44 minutes ago
Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows
Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies...
6 HOURS AGO
SCRLK
GLM-4.7-Flash
4 HOURS AGO
BOBBIECHEN
Fix Your Robots.txt or Your Site Disappears from Google
13 HOURS AGO
ARDENTSWORD
Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees
A DAY AGO
ANTIREZ
Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
5 DAYS AGO
MOOREDS
Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters
4 HOURS AGO
TOMTE
Cows can use sophisticated tools
AN HOUR AGO
BIRDCULTURE
AI Is Not Ready to Replace Junior Devs Says Ruby on Rails Creator
linolevan
4 hours ago
What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
A recent change to 1.1.1.1 accidentally altered the order of CNAME records in DNS responses, breaking resolution for some clients. This post explores the technical root cause, examines the source code of affected resolvers, and dives into the inherent ambiguities of the DNS RFCs.
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guessmyname
an hour ago
Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
CornerFix is a lightweight macOS menu bar app that restores sharp display edges by overlaying customizable “caps” on the screen corners. Safe, SIP-friendly, and easy to use, it lets you togg...
dhorthy
3 hours ago
A Brief History of Ralph
The Ralph Wiggum Technique went viral in the last week of 2025. Here's the story of ralph since the first time I met Geoff in June of 2025....
willmeyers
an hour ago
Show HN: A creative coding library for making art with desktop windows
A minimal Python library for live coding visual scenes using desktop windows. - willmeyers/window-art...
zigzag312
6 hours ago
CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024)
The truly No JavaScript web component....
sammelaugust
4 days ago
From Nevada to Kansas by Glider
Join the gliding community. Upload flights and share stories. Follow other pilots and take part in competitions....
teendifferent
16 hours ago
Bypassing Gemma and Qwen safety with raw strings
How a Single Function Call Gates Safety Alignment in Gemma, Qwen, and Other Open-Source LLMs...
diogotozzi
4 days ago
Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode
In the 1980s, if you wanted your computer to do floating-point calculations faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor ......
https://www.righto.com/2025/12/8087-microcode-conditions.html
rmason
an hour ago
There's a hidden Android setting that spots fake cell towers
The best defense against Stingrays...if your device supports it....
luthenwald
4 days ago
Iterative image reconstruction using random cubic bézier strokes
iterative image reconstruction using random cubic bézier strokes, accelerated on metal...
oumua_don17
2 hours ago
There Is No Comfortable Reading Position
Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about....
brna-2
13 hours ago
MTOTP: Wouldn't it be nice if you were the 2FA device?
mTOTP is an experimental, manual variant of TOTP designed to be computed by a human without electronic devices. It explores the limits of time-based authentication under strict human constra...
jonbecker
5 hours ago
The Microstructure of Wealth Transfer in Prediction Markets
Slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip return about 93 cents on the dollar. This is widely considered some of the worst odds in gambling. Yet on Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, tra...
rendaw
4 days ago
Self Sanitizing Door Handle
To prevent people from infection by contact...
benkan
an hour ago
Netflix tells directors to repeat plot for people using phones, says Matt Damon
Matt Damon has claimed that Netflix pushes writers to reiterate the plot for viewers who are watching while on their phones....