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Half-Life runs at 30 FPS on a 2007 Nokia N95, complete with Bluetooth mouse support
Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has the original 1998 Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95, the Symbian slider phone from 2007, and has wired up Blueto
How Jordan Mechner squeezed Prince of Persia into 48K and defined a genre
Jordan Mechner, who broke into games by mailing floppy disks to publisher Broderbund from his Yale dorm, spent four years building Prince of Persia (1989) under
Kids' reading for fun has cratered since 2012, federal data shows
New National Center for Education Statistics survey data shows recreational reading among American schoolchildren has fallen steeply over the past 13 years. The
MaxProof: MiniMax-M3 tops IMO and USAMO gold thresholds via test-time proof search
MaxProof is a test-time scaling framework from the MiniMax-M3 series aimed at competition-level mathematical proof. Rather than relying on a single forward pass
Moonshot's Kimi K2.7-Code cuts thinking tokens 30% in open-weights coding model
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.7-Code on Hugging Face, an open-weights model tuned for agentic coding work. Built on Kimi K2.6 with the same architecture as t
New workplace rule for the AI era: don't ask colleagues to read what you didn't
Software engineer Tom Bedor proposes an etiquette principle for teams drowning in machine-generated text: anyone requesting a colleague's attention should demon
One weird trick for less sloppy AI frontends: ask for Qt style
A developer experimenting with AI-generated personal software ran into a familiar problem: no matter what visual style they requested, the output carried the sa
Open source maintainer bans LLM-generated pull requests: "I am not a reverse centaur"
Miguel Grinberg, a veteran open source developer, says the flood of contributions to his projects has shifted almost entirely to LLM-generated code — and he ref
Spyware authors weaponize LLM safety filters to dodge AI malware scanners
Malware developers have started embedding references to nuclear and biological weapons inside their spyware code — not as payload, but as a defense mechanism. T
The capability trap: why organizations reward firefighting over prevention
This 2001 California Management Review paper by MIT's Nelson Repenning and John Sterman explains why process-improvement programs so often fail — and the answer
Tonedear: Free Browser-Based Ear Training for Musicians
Tonedear is a free, browser-based ear training site aimed at musicians who want to sharpen their listening skills through repetition. It offers interactive dril
Translator to ChatGPT Evangelists: It's a Tool, Not a Magic Button
A freelance translator in Ottawa recounts a locker-room exchange that captures a widening gap in how people perceive AI. After explaining she had to skip a gym