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HTMX CEO Pushes 'No AI Fridays' to Fight Coding Skill Atrophy
A new campaign called No AI Fridays urges developers to switch off their AI coding assistants one day a week and write code by hand. The pitch leans on research
Inside the magnetic core memory of Spacelab's French-built flight computer
Ken Shirriff dissects the core memory of the Mitra 125 MS, the French minicomputer that ran the European-built Spacelab laboratory flown in the Space Shuttle's
Open-source driver squeezes ultrawide output from a limited SM750 HDMI card
A developer has released sm750hdmidrm, an out-of-tree Linux DRM driver written specifically for the SE-DP750A-HDMI PCIe card, a cheap board built around Silicon
OpenShot 4.0 adds screen recording, pro color grading, and local AI masking
The open-source video editor OpenShot has shipped its 4.0 release, one of its largest feature jumps to date. A new Recording View captures screen, webcam, micro
Rain Droplets Sliding Down Surfaces Generate Charge Strong Enough to Corrode Metal
A study published in Nature finds that water droplets pick up an electric charge as they slide across smooth surfaces, and that charge can be strong enough to p
Repurposing IP Security Cameras into a Self-Hosted, Local-AI Bird Detector
A homelab tinkerer describes wiring the microphones on three existing RTSP security cameras into BirdNet-Go, a Dockerized audio-recognition tool that identifies
Researcher Bypasses Claude Code's Auto Mode for 80% Code-Execution Rate
A security researcher at Embrace The Red demonstrated a reliable code-execution attack against Claude Code Opus 5 running in Auto Mode, the setting that replace
Serving '0 ms' autocomplete across 240M domains by racing the keystroke
The developer behind Wirewiki, a DNS and internet-infrastructure inspection tool, wanted autocomplete that feels instantaneous. The trick behind the headline nu
The Coordination Headwind: Why Good People Still Build Slow Organizations
Successful organizations reliably get slower as they grow, and Alex Komoroske argues this isn't anyone's fault — it's an emergent structural force he calls the
The developer who justified 17,000 words of monospace by hand — no tools, just word choice
Justified text is nearly impossible to do well in monospace. Because every character occupies the same width, the usual tricks for evening out lines fall apart:
AI Scrapers Now Eat 20% of git.kernel.org's CPU Rendering Commits
Konstantin Ryabitsev of kernel.org reports that AI training crawlers have become a permanent drain on Linux's public git infrastructure. Across five geo-distrib
Bug Blindness: Why Builders and Fans Can't See Their Software's Flaws
Dan Luu argues that most people, including many programmers, are effectively blind to the bugs and quality problems around them—and that this blindness can be c