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How Sony and JR East Engineered Suica, Japan's Battery-Free Transit Card

Suica, the contactless IC card millions tap at Japanese station gates, is a quietly remarkable piece of 1990s engineering. Each card stores only two things loca

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open-sourcetech-culture

htmx 4.0 Ships: Explicit Attribute Inheritance, fetch() Internals, Morph Swaps

After eight months of work, the htmx team has released version 4.0, a major update that nonetheless leaves most day-to-day usage untouched. The three changes th

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privacypolicy

Italian activist tech collective A/I flags U.S. sanctions atop its manifesto

Autistici/Inventati (A/I) is a volunteer-run Italian collective, founded in 2001 out of the autonomous anticapitalist movement, that provides free communication

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tech-cultureopen-source

Keyboard-Driven Is a Choice, Not a TUI Perk: The Case for Fully Navigable GUIs

Responding to a recent Hacker News debate over whether developers should build terminal UIs or graphical ones, the author pushes back on one specific pro-TUI cl

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open-sourcetech-culture

M5Stack ships PaperMono, an ESP32-S3 E-Ink terminal with NFC and LoRa

M5Stack has released PaperMono, a compact development terminal built around the ESP32-S3R8 and a 3.97-inch, four-level grayscale E-Ink display with touch input

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open-sourcetech-culture

Open-source engine revives TIE Fighter — and X-Wing Alliance — on modern hardware

OpenTIE is a clean-room reimplementation of 1994's Star Wars: TIE Fighter that runs the original game data natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It ships no co

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Orbify demos patent-pending 'warping' 3D navigation that bends the map

Orbify, a Norwegian company (Orbify AS), is showing off an interactive 3D navigation demo built around what it calls patent-pending 'warping' technology — the v

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open-sourceai

Pollen Robotics' Microduck: a $399 open-source biped you train with RL

Pollen Robotics has opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm, 800 g bipedal robot whose every behavior is a reinforcement-learning policy the owner can retrain.

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Show HN: Voronoi Go — no summarizable content available

No summary can be produced. The submission consists only of a Show HN title ("Voronoi Go") with no accompanying description, and the linked page at voronoigo.co

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policytech-culture

SSRI Withdrawal Was Downplayed for Decades — Now Guidelines Are Being Rewritten

SSRIs were adopted as the safe successor to older antidepressants like tricyclics, trading serious cardiac and toxicity risks for milder side effects. That repu

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Stanford's Terminal-Bench-Science tests AI agents on real research — top model hits 30%

Terminal-Bench-Science is a new benchmark from Stanford researchers and the Terminal-Bench team that measures how well AI agents handle actual scientific work r

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Stripe-led consortium walks away from $50B PayPal takeover bid

Stripe and its investment partners — a group that, per Bloomberg's reporting, included private-equity firm Advent International — have dropped a roughly $50 bil

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