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AI-Built Solver Cracks Magic Hexagons Far Past the Previous Order-9 Record
A magic hexagon fills a hexagonal grid so that every straight line of cells, in all three directions, adds to the same total. Only one non-trivial 'normal' vers
Amazon Plans 7.65GW Off-Grid Gas Plant in Texas to Power AI Data Center
Amazon has acquired land and state permits in Pecos County, Texas, to build an AI data center campus fed by its own 7.65-gigawatt natural gas power plant—initia
Chrome Extension Kills LinkedIn's Home Feed, Keeps the Rest Working
A developer frustrated by LinkedIn's algorithmic home feed built a lightweight Chrome extension that surgically removes it while leaving the platform's more uti
Designing Game Difficulty: Smooth the Curve, Don't Just Crank It Up
A common misconception in game design is that levels should get relentlessly harder as players progress. The real goal is to make players feel they're improving
Developer Pulls AI-Built Site After Discovering It Cloned an Existing Open-Source App
A developer who used Claude to spin up a stargazing web utility called Dark Hours has taken it offline after learning it closely mirrored an existing open-sourc
Ditching a VPS to Self-Host on an Old Android Phone
Frustrated by the cost of a Hetzner VPS — especially the dedicated CPU needed to run a remote browser called Surf — and unwilling to buy new hardware amid absur
Ex-NSA chief: keep water plant PLCs off the internet after suspected Iran attacks
Retired General Paul Nakasone, the former NSA director now heading Vanderbilt's Institute for National Security, argues that the programmable logic controllers
Gruber Retracts First Daring Fireball Post in 24 Years After App Store Rejection Story Unravels
John Gruber has retracted a Daring Fireball post for the first time in his 24 years writing the site, after the story he built it on turned out to be false. The
Hiding Photos Inside QR Codes with Two-Pass Error Diffusion
QR codes split into two zones: function patterns (the bold corner squares scanners use to locate and orient the code) and data modules (everything else, which s
How Gateway 2000's Cow-Spotted Ads Went From Charming to Cringe
A retrospective on Gateway 2000's magazine advertising traces the PC maker's shift from scrappy, self-aware marketing to bloated corporate spectacle across the
How Silicon Valley Founders Build Fraud: The 'Façading' Playbook
A new Organization Science study, 'Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley' by Tim Weiss (Imperial College London / Emlyon) and Nevena Radoynovska (Emlyon), dissec
Intel x86 Laptop Edges Out Apple Silicon on Efficiency, Undercutting ARM's ISA Myth
Jeff Geerling ran the HPL Linpack benchmark—the same test used to rank Top500 supercomputers—on a MacBook and a new Dell XPS 13, and the results upend a long-he