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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
Google Shifts Some Android Source From Git Tags to Google Drive Downloads
GrapheneOS reports that Google has stopped publishing certain source code through tagged releases in its git repositories, instead distributing it as files host
How the CIA quietly kept Steve Jobs's NeXT alive — and seeded the iPhone
A Wall Street Journal report, drawn from Sharon Weinberger's forthcoming book 'Valley of Death,' details how the CIA became a crucial early customer for NeXT, t
Let Users Speak Code Into Existence: The Case for LLM-Extensible Web Apps
Mainstream software serves the fat head of the demand curve well, but every user has a long tail of niche needs that never justifies a dedicated feature — and p