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A Kantian Read of Bieber's 'Sorry': The Apology That Isn't One

A blogger applies Kantian moral philosophy to Justin Bieber's 2015 hit 'Sorry,' arguing that the song's hook — 'Is it too late to say sorry?' — is self-refuting

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tech-culturedevops

Apple Deprecates hdiutil in macOS 27, and the Replacement Isn't Ready

The macOS 27 Golden Gate beta marks the command-line disk-image tool hdiutil as deprecated, steering users toward diskutil image for attach, create, resize, inf

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aiopen-source

Autolith: a self-modifying coding agent built entirely in Common Lisp

Autolith is a terminal-based programming agent that operates directly inside a Git repository, handling the usual agent chores—reading and editing files, search

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open-sourceprivacy

Bluesky's ATProto adds 'spaces,' bringing gated non-public data to a public network

Bluesky has shipped an alpha of ATProto spaces, the protocol's first mechanism for storing data that isn't broadcast to the whole network. Until now every recor

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tech-cultureopen-source

Bruce Eckel Releases 'Thinking in Python' as a Free Online Book

The page is the landing/table-of-contents for 'Thinking in Python,' a new online book by Bruce Eckel, author of the long-running 'Thinking in Java' and 'Thinkin

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privacyopen-source

Hister: A self-hosted, full-content search index for pages and files you keep

Hister is an open-source (AGPLv3) search engine you run yourself, designed to index the full text of web pages you visit and local files you keep rather than ju

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tech-cultureprivacy

Moxie Marlinspike unearths a 2006 journal entry about scrapping metal in Pittsburgh

Moxie Marlinspike — the cryptographer behind Signal — posted an old journal entry, dated roughly 2006 and titled "Scrap," recounting his early days renovating a

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tech-culture

No article content provided for RF Cafe submission

The source for this item contains no article text — only the site name "RF Cafe" and a bare link to rfcafe.com. There is nothing substantive to summarize: no re

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aidevops

One week living in Codex instead of Claude: faster edits, leaner code, blunter tone

A developer spent a week defaulting to OpenAI's Codex instead of Anthropic's Claude for real Ruby and Rails work, and came away with a portrait of two agents wi

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open-sourcetech-culture

Racket: The Lisp That Lets You Build Your Own Programming Language

This tutorial introduces Racket, a modern descendant of Lisp, the 1958 language that pioneered ideas now considered standard: garbage collection, first-class fu

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open-sourcetech-culture

The NetBSD email: how one admin's OS switch saved his weekends (and his marriage)

A 2005 advocacy email resurfacing on Hacker News tells the story of Gary Rolland, a UK network admin who migrated his company's mission-critical infrastructure

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tech-culture

The Z80 at 45: Why a 1976 CPU Refuses to Die

Zilog's Z80, released in 1976, became one of the most enduring microprocessors ever made. Designed by a team under Federico Faggin — who had already led Intel's

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