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Why 'Renting Is Throwing Money Away' Misses the Real Math of Homeownership
A homeowner since 2011 lays out the line items most rent-vs-buy comparisons ignore. Closing costs ran about 3% of the purchase price ($12,778). Of the initial $
50 Hours, a T-Square, and a Circle Stencil: Drawing Data by Hand
Artist Doug MacDowell describes the week-plus he spent producing a single statistically accurate line graph using paper, ink, rulers, and a vintage lettering ki
A 1992 Computer Lab, Logo on Paper, and the Magic of Early Computing
A developer reflects on his introduction to computing in 1992, when his new school in a small Indian industrial town happened to have a computer lab stocked wit
Audiomass adds multitrack editing to its browser-based open-source audio suite
Audiomass, a free and open-source audio editor that runs entirely in the browser, has expanded beyond single-track waveform editing to support multitrack sessio
Australian study: 14 of 15 firms kept the four-day week after 100:80:100 trial
A Deakin University study published in Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications tracked 15 Australian companies running the 100:80:100 model — ful
California to exempt open-source OSes from age-verification law after backlash
California Assembly Bill 1856 would narrow the state's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) by excluding operating systems distributed under licenses that permit
Claude Codes Fine, But Don't Let It Architect Your System
Charlie Holland argues that organisations are quietly handing architectural authority to LLMs, with predictable consequences. The pattern he keeps seeing: someo
DeepSeek Reasonix: Native coding agent built around aggressive caching
Reasonix is a coding agent built specifically for DeepSeek models, pitching itself on cost efficiency through heavy use of prompt caching. Unlike general-purpos
Didgeridoo Practice Cuts Sleep Apnoea Severity in Randomised Trial
A 2006 randomised controlled trial out of Switzerland tested whether learning to play the didgeridoo could treat moderate obstructive sleep apnoea. Twenty-five
Dutch Police Seize 800 Servers, Arrest Two Tied to Russian Cyberattack Infrastructure
Dutch financial crime investigators arrested Andrey Nesterenko, the Russian-born founder of MIRhosting, and 57-year-old Youssef Zinad of Amsterdam on May 18, ch
Firefox patches zlib-rs to dodge Raptor Lake CPU crash
Mozilla developer Mike Hommey landed a workaround in Firefox's vendored zlib-rs deflate code to stop crashes seen on Intel Raptor Lake processors. The fix sits
Four Years at AWS: An Open Source Advocate on Burnout, Layoffs, and the GenAI Pivot
A departing AWS open source strategist reflects on why being fired feels like a relief after four years at the company. Two forces drove his disillusionment: th