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OpenLogi: a local-first, no-account Rust rewrite of Logitech Options+

OpenLogi is an open-source desktop app that replaces Logitech's Options+ for configuring MX-series mice and other Logitech peripherals. Written in Rust and dual

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Ornith-1.5: Open Model Rivals Claude Opus 4.8 via Self-Improvement Loop

Ornith.ai has released Ornith-1.5, a family of foundation models built around a training loop in which the model generates its own work. Extending the self-scaf

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Skipping Google Lens: geolocating an island with triangle geometry and a GPU

A solver tackled Sofia Santos's 'gralhix 004' OSINT challenge — identify a resort island from a single photo — by refusing the obvious reverse-image-search shor

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SoLo lets fully static musl binaries load the host's glibc GPU drivers

Static Linux binaries are the low-drama way to ship software—one file, no runtime dependencies—until the program needs a GPU. Vulkan and OpenGL drivers ship as

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Sticky pay norms left 37% of US workers with falling real wages, 2021–2024

An ADP Research and University of Chicago team (Erik Hurst, Christina Patterson, Nela Richardson, and Ye Liv Wang) mined administrative payroll records covering

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Stripe to Acquire OpenRouter, the Multi-Model AI Gateway

OpenRouter, the marketplace and routing layer that lets developers access more than 400 AI models through a single API, is being acquired by Stripe. The company

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Terry Tao launches Palomar, a preprint-style registry for Lean-verified proofs

As AI systems churn out more mathematical proofs — many of them formalized in the Lean proof assistant — a practical problem has emerged: confirming that a give

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The founder's dilemma nobody admits: ambition vs. being a present dad

A startup founder reflects on the collision between professional ambition and fatherhood—a tension he says almost no one talks about openly. Having gone through

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Turbovec: Rust vector index fits 10M docs in 4GB, claims to outrun FAISS

Turbovec is an open-source Rust vector search index with Python bindings, built on Google Research's TurboQuant quantizer. Its headline claim is memory efficien

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Viral tweet: Claude coded a macOS driver for a Windows-only HP printer

A developer's post claiming they used Claude to write a working macOS driver for an obscure HP printer that the manufacturer supports only on Windows racked up

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Who gets to hit send? The unsolvable politics of emergency alert systems

A former Vodafone engineer revisits a hard truth about critical infrastructure: no amount of clever engineering survives contact with coercive power. During Egy

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AI;DR: A Pushback Policy Against Unedited AI 'Slop'

A self-described AI enthusiast argues that a norm is breaking down as of late 2026: people are pasting raw, unedited model output into Slack threads, newsletter

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