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Why Sci-Fi Authors Still Swear by WordStar, the 1978 DOS Word Processor
Novelist Robert J. Sawyer makes the case for WordStar for DOS as the best tool ever built for creative writing, a view shared by a striking roster of authors in
Will open-weight LLMs catch closed models by December 2026? Depends how you measure
A viral chart claims to predict the moment open-weight LLMs catch up to proprietary frontier models. The method measures the 'catch-up gap': take the best open
Windows 11 orphaned your 2015 PC — lightweight Linux can revive it
With an estimated 62 million metric tons of e-waste generated annually, a large share is hardware that still works but fell outside Windows 11's TPM 2.0, Secure
6,000 Emails, Zero Leaks: A Public Prompt-Injection Test the AI Survived
Developer Fernando Iglesias put his OpenClaw-based email assistant, Fiu, on the public chopping block at hackmyclaw.com, daring anyone to coax it into leaking a
A search engine for Hacker News obsessions: 18 years, 45M comments, charted
A new tool called Hacker News Trends does for HN what Google Trends does for search: it plots how often any topic, tool, person, or company has surfaced across
Age Verification Laws Are Quietly Becoming Mandatory Identity Checks Online
A wave of under-16 social media bans — led by Australia's December 2025 law and now being copied across the UK, EU, France, Spain, and several other countries —
AI as a supporting act: building a points-of-interest pipeline that fights hallucinations
While building In the Long Run, an app that maps Strava mileage onto famous long-distance routes, the developer set out to enrich its maps with notable landmark
AI memory crunch pushes Apple to raise MacBook and iPad prices 20%
Apple has lifted MacBook and iPad prices by roughly 20% worldwide — one of the steepest broad-based increases in the company's history. The trigger is a memory
Apple Hikes MacBook and iPad Prices as Memory Costs Surge
Apple has raised prices across its MacBook and iPad lines, pinning the increases on a sharp run-up in memory component costs. DRAM and NAND flash prices have cl
Apple to skip high-end M6 chips, leap to AI-focused M7 Pro/Max/Ultra
Apple is reworking its Mac silicon roadmap in a way it hasn't before: rather than building out a full M6 lineup, it plans to ship only a base M6 in entry-level
Ford rehires veteran engineers after AI fails to fix quality woes
Ford spent three years and billions of dollars chasing persistent quality defects, and its fix turned out to be people rather than software. The automaker broug
IBM claims first sub-1nm chip, packing 100B transistors with 3D 'nanostack'
IBM has announced what it calls the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, built around a new transistor architecture at the 0.7nm (7 angstrom) node. Th