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The Twelve-Factor App: Heroku's Blueprint for Portable, Scalable SaaS

The Twelve-Factor App is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications that stay portable, scalable, and easy to deploy on modern cloud platform

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507 Mechanical Movements: A Classic Engineering Reference, Now Being Animated

The site 507movements.com is a digital rendering of Henry T. Brown's classic 19th-century reference '507 Mechanical Movements,' which catalogs gears, linkages,

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AI Agents Decompile Nintendo 64's Snowboard Kids in 84 Days

A developer chronicles how a harness of AI coding agents reconstructed C source for the entire Nintendo 64 game Snowboard Kids in about 84 days—a fraction of th

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Amazon to Shut Down Mechanical Turk, Its 20-Year-Old Crowdsourcing Marketplace, Sept. 30

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the microtask marketplace that connected businesses with a distributed, on-demand human workforce, on September 30. Launched

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Asahi Linux Cracks Apple Silicon Power Management Without EL3 Firmware

The latest Asahi Linux progress report centers on a stubborn obstacle to good battery life on Apple Silicon: getting CPU idle states to work within Linux's upst

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Cheap, fast AI models hit good-enough — and rewrite the economics of consumer apps

The author argues that small, inexpensive language models have quietly crossed a usefulness threshold. Running a model like the fictional gpt-5.6-luna, he clock

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Cloudflare Cuts 100TB of RAM From 1.1.1.1's DNS Cache — and Made It Faster

Cloudflare's DNS platform, internally called Big Pineapple, holds more than 250 billion cache entries at any moment across services like 1.1.1.1, Gateway DNS, a

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Content Negotiation for Bots: Serving Markdown to AI Agents via Accept Headers

The pitch behind acceptmarkdown.com is that websites should treat AI agents as a distinct client class and hand them a stripped-down Markdown variant instead of

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Devs Replaced by AI Answer Back With an Open-Source AI CEO

Open Executive, released by Sente Labs, is a tongue-in-cheek rejoinder to executives who cut engineering headcount in favor of AI: an open-source system that pl

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FDA clears Rasonque, first RAS inhibitor for metastatic pancreatic cancer

The FDA has approved Rasonque (daraxonrasib), a once-daily tablet from Revolution Medicines, for adults with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma who have alrea

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Gates Warns There's 'No Plan' for AI's Coming Economic Upheaval

In a roughly 6,000-word essay published August 26, 2026, Bill Gates argues the shift into the AI era will be one of the most turbulent stretches in human histor

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Google ships Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with production-grade video controls

Google has released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, an update to its generative-video model aimed at developers building creative and media-editing tools, now available

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