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The Swartz Double Standard: Prison for Scraping, a Slap on the Wrist for Meta
An opinion post revisits the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the RSS co-creator who faced up to 35 years in prison, a $1 million fine, and asset forfeiture for dow
Vomit: a local LLM that rewrites Claude Code's output into plainer English
Vomit is a small Go command-line tool that intercepts the text Claude Code emits and reroutes it through a locally-run language model, which paraphrases the out
Why Biology Class Kills Wonder — And How to Teach It Like a Mystery
Writer James Somers argues that biology repelled him in school not because the subject is dull but because it was taught as dead memorization — organelles, cycl
A 125M transformer that autocompletes piano in real time on an iPhone
A developer spent roughly a year building RollTab, a free iOS/iPadOS app that acts like Copilot for a MIDI piano: you play a short phrase and a small on-device
Air Theremin turns your webcam into a wave-to-play instrument in the browser
A browser-based theremin lets you produce sound by moving in front of a camera rather than touching a physical instrument. Using a laptop or phone webcam, it tr
AliExpress's silent WebAudio fingerprint keeps Bluetooth alive, hijacking multipoint
A user tracing why their multipoint Bluetooth headphones stopped switching back to their phone traced the fault to AliExpress. Loading the homepage in Firefox o
Artist Manabu Kosaka builds hyper-detailed sculptures from paper alone
Manabu Kosaka is a sculptor who recreates everyday objects using nothing but paper. Each piece is assembled entirely by hand — cutting, shaping, and joining man
Brain scans show finishing a TikTok you like quiets self-control circuits
A Zhejiang University team scanned 56 young adults with fMRI while they freely watched short clips, and found that the two hubs of the brain's cognitive-control
Computing the day of the week in three CPU instructions
Ben Joffe dismantles the assumption that converting a day-count (rata-die) into a weekday is a trivial modulo operation. Because the divisor 7 is a Mersenne num
Devs push Claude Code to adopt AGENTS.md as a cross-tool standard
A feature request filed against Anthropic's Claude Code asks the tool to support AGENTS.md, an emerging convention for a single Markdown file that any coding ag
Ditch Radians: Why Trig Should Take 'Turns' on a [0,1] Scale
The tau-vs-pi debate misses the bigger win, argues this piece: in most code, the constant can vanish entirely. The common pattern in game engines and graphics l
fx: a 6MB Zig coding agent built for embedding, not terminal theatrics
fx is an experimental, open-source (Apache-2.0) coding agent written in Zig that trades the heavy "IDE in the terminal" approach for something closer to a Unix