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Sealed Herculaneum scroll read end-to-end for the first time, virtually unrolled
Researchers from the Vesuvius Challenge have digitally unrolled and transcribed an entire carbonized Herculaneum scroll, PHerc. 1667, without physically opening
Show HN: A roguelike that turns chess pieces into run-based dungeon runs
A developer has posted a Show HN for an indie game that blends chess with the roguelike genre, sharing it at princechazz.com. The pitch combines the determinist
Slate's bare-bones electric pickup undercuts the market at $24,950
Slate is selling a deliberately stripped-down electric truck it calls the Blank Slate, starting at $24,950. The pitch is minimalism as a feature: buyers get a b
Tech giants launch Akrites to patch open-source flaws before AI weaponizes them
A coalition of nearly two dozen major companies — including AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and GitHub, OpenAI, IBM, NVIDIA, Red Hat, Cisco, and banks like Ci
The Doorman's Fallacy: When QR Codes Replace Service and Quietly Wreck the Experience
The author uses a frustrating brunch to illustrate the Doorman's Fallacy — the assumption that technology can swap out a human role without hidden costs. The re
The Garbage Collection Handbook returns: a 60-year survey of automatic memory management
The second edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook updates Richard Jones and colleagues' definitive reference on automatic memory management, succeeding the
Un-0 generates images with simulated oscillators, betting physics beats GPUs on energy
A startup called Unconventional AI has released Un-0, an image generator that swaps the usual deep-network-on-GPU stack for a simulated system of coupled Kuramo
WisdPi's 10G module for Framework laptops can't escape USB-C bandwidth chaos
Framework's expansion slots all route through USB-C, and that connector's tangle of overlapping standards is what undermines WisdPi's new $99 10G Ethernet card.
"You're the OS!" — a browser game that makes you the kernel scheduler
"You're the OS!" puts the player in the role of an operating system, tasked with juggling running processes, allocating memory, and handling I/O events in real
Zig overhauls @bitCast semantics, rethinks integer lowering for LLVM, advances SPIR-V
Zig's latest devlog covers two substantial compiler efforts. The first is a long-planned fix to how the LLVM backend lowers arbitrary-width integers (u4, i13, u
Age verification is mass surveillance dressed up as child protection
Cory Doctorow argues that there is no technical way to verify a user's age online without tracking everyone's activity in fine-grained detail. So-called age ver
AI-Generated PR Spam Is Open Source's New Email Problem
When OpenClaw became GitHub's fastest-growing repo, its pull request volume exploded from two a week to 3,400, and its merge rate collapsed from 48% to under 10