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Open-source app trains perfect pitch in kids before the window shuts at age 6
BSharp is an open-source Android app built on the premise that absolute pitch can only be acquired in early childhood — the developmental window effectively clo
OpenAI Codex bug floods SSDs with logs — up to 640 TB/year, eating drive endurance
A GitHub issue against OpenAI's Codex CLI documents a logging defect that writes staggering volumes of data to local disks. The reporter measured roughly 37 TB
Perceptual Hashing Turns a Cluttered Camera Roll into Accidental 3D Wigglegrams
A wigglegram is a faux-stereoscopic image built by looping near-identical frames shot from slightly different angles into a GIF. The author, an indecisive photo
PowerFox: An Open-Source Browser Keeping PowerPC and Old Intel Macs Online
PowerFox is an open-source web browser targeting Macs that Apple long ago abandoned — PowerPC and early Intel machines running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard
Recall: a fully local memory plugin that fixes Claude Code's cold start
Recall is a Claude Code plugin that tackles the cold-start problem—having to re-explain your project at the top of every session. It maintains two files under a
Sakana's Fugu-Ultra: orchestrating frontier models beats any single one at agentic tasks
Sakana AI's Fugu project makes a single argument across six wildly different benchmarks: an agent that coordinates several strong models can outdo any individua
Sandi Metz: When an Abstraction Goes Wrong, the Fastest Way Forward Is Back
Sandi Metz argues that a bad abstraction costs more than the duplication it was meant to eliminate. The failure mode is predictable: a developer spots repeated
Swiss AI Initiative ships Apertus, a fully open multilingual foundation model
EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the national supercomputing center CSCS have released Apertus, a foundation model built under the Swiss AI Initiative that opens far more
Valve's Steam Machine returns — but the store page reveals nothing yet
The link points to Valve's Steam hardware store page for a product called "Steam Machine," reviving a brand Valve first used for its line of Linux-based living-
When does buy still beat build? Pricing software's LLM survival threshold
Brandur Leach, leaving Stainless to run his open-source job queue River as a business, tackles the obvious objection to selling software in the LLM era: why pay
Why Your Brain Breaks Under the Modern News Firehose
Human attention evolved around a survival rule: weigh threats more heavily than rewards, because missing a real danger was fatal while overreacting cost only a
AI Is Quietly Eroding Expert Skills, Early Studies Warn
Professionals across medicine and software are starting to show measurable skill loss as they lean on AI tools, and the people most affected are worried about i