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Decker revives HyperCard's spirit for the browser, with a scripting twist

Decker is a free, open-source multimedia platform for building and sharing interactive documents that combine sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. I

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DeepSeek reportedly halts raise after leaked transcript on US compute gap

A Hacker News submission points to a GitHub-hosted PDF billed as a translated transcript of a July 22, 2026 investor meeting with DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng

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DOJ Charges Atlanta Man Over GrapheneOS Phone Wipe in First-of-Its-Kind Case

Federal prosecutors in Atlanta have charged Sam Tunick under a statute that criminalizes destroying property to prevent its seizure, after his phone wiped itsel

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tech-cultureopen-source

Fed up with resetting bedside clocks, one tinkerer 3D-printed his own

An Ars Technica writer's decades-long reliance on cheap red seven-segment LED clock-radios hit a breaking point after a power flicker forced yet another round o

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open-sourcetech-culture

FFmpeg scripts recreate the sound of vintage cassette tapes

A bash-and-FFmpeg toolkit runs audio through processing chains that mimic specific cassette tapes, layering in tape hiss, wow-and-flutter pitch modulation, band

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Fly.io Bets the Company on Sprites, Cloud Computers Built for AI Agents

Fly.io founder Kurt Mackey uses this post to reset the company's direction after a public jolt: developer influencer Theo Browne, while praising the platform, n

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French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

No article body was supplied to summarize — the source payload contained only the headline, so a faithful summary cannot be written without fabricating details.

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Google's Filing Pegs Its SpaceX Stake at $94.1B — a Figure Worth Scrutiny

A disclosure attributed to Google reportedly values its holdings in Elon Musk's SpaceX at $94.1 billion, described as roughly a 6% stake. Beyond that single lin

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aitech-culture

Handing the Details to AI Isn't Empowerment — It's Abdication

This essay argues that much of the excitement around AI rests on a fantasy: the wish to bring things into being without ever grappling with their details. The a

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cybersecurityai

Inside China's Relay Market: How Stolen AI Tokens Get Resold at 95% Off

A sprawling gray market has grown up around reselling access to U.S. AI models like Anthropic's, OpenAI's, and Google's, mostly serving Chinese developers hunti

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LLMs as Proof Automation: Building a Zstandard Decompressor in Lean

Dependently-typed languages like Lean and Rocq (formerly Coq) can encode arbitrarily subtle invariants directly into the type system and have a machine check th

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Microsoft debuts MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a low-cost model for hunting code vulnerabilities

Microsoft AI has unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact, code-focused security model derived from its in-house MAI-Thinking-1 lineage, deployed inside MDASH — a

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