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Google Pulls Doki Doki Literature Club from Play Store

Google has removed the popular visual novel "Doki Doki Literature Club" from the Google Play Store. The game, developed by Team Salvato and published by Serenit

via Hacker News ·
tech-cultureopen-source

Helsinki's Oodi Library: A Public Space That Goes Way Beyond Books

Helsinki's Oodi library, located near the central station, redefines what a public library can be. The ground floor features chess and go boards, a restaurant,

via Hacker News ·
open-sourcetech-culture

Homebrewer Open-Sources Sugar-Free, Caffeine-Free Cola Recipe

A developer has been crafting DIY soft drinks since 2020, building cola from scratch using essential oils (orange, lime, lemon, nutmeg, cassia, coriander, laven

via Hacker News ·
devopsopen-source

Interactive Explorer Maps Every Tunable JVM Flag Across Versions

Chris Sheridan's JVM Options Explorer is a web-based reference tool that catalogs the hundreds of undocumented and semi-documented flags available across Java v

via Hacker News ·
policytech-culture

Iran war fallout exposes cracks in Trump's energy dominance pitch

Trump insists the US is insulated from the energy shock triggered by his strikes on Iran, citing the country's status as the world's largest oil and gas produce

via Ars Technica ·
aitech-culture

LLMs Are Killing the Programmer's Most Important Virtue: Laziness

Bryan Cantrill revisits Larry Wall's famous "three virtues of a programmer" - laziness, impatience, and hubris - to argue that LLMs are undermining the most cri

via Hacker News ·
vulnerabilityopen-source

Marimo notebook pre-auth RCE exploited within 10 hours of disclosure

A critical flaw in the Marimo open-source Python notebook platform (CVE-2026-39987, CVSS 9.3) is being actively exploited to steal credentials. The vulnerabilit

via BleepingComputer ·
open-sourcetech-culture

Oberon System 3 boots natively on Raspberry Pi 3B with flashable SD image

Rochus Keller has released a native port of Oberon System 3 for the Raspberry Pi 3B, distributed as a ready-to-flash SD card image. The release also runs on the

via Hacker News ·
aiopen-source

One Operator to Rule Them All: exp(x)−ln(y) Generates Every Calculator Function

In digital logic, a single universal gate (like NAND) can build any Boolean circuit. Continuous mathematics had no equivalent - until now. Researcher Andrzej Od

via Hacker News ·
supply-chaincybersecurity

OpenAI Pulls macOS Signing Cert After Axios Supply Chain Compromise

OpenAI revoked the Apple Developer ID certificate used to sign its macOS application following a supply chain incident traced to a malicious version of the wide

via The Hacker News ·
open-sourcetech-culture

Phyphox: Open-Source App Turns Smartphone Sensors into Physics Lab Tools

Phyphox is an open-source application developed at RWTH Aachen University that repurposes built-in smartphone sensors - accelerometers, microphones, gyroscopes

via Hacker News ·
aicybersecurity

Researchers Build Agent That Scores Near-Perfect on Every Major AI Benchmark Without Solving Anything

A UC Berkeley research team built an automated scanning agent that exploited eight of the most prominent AI agent benchmarks - including SWE-bench, WebArena, Te

via Hacker News ·