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Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

Linux phones now have the hardware and software to succeed, but it is an open question whether they will become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly.

blog dds: 2026-10-08 — Thinking will become a hobby

sebsite.pw

oh, apparently it's not possible to portably check for string-to-float conversion errors in standard c

Solar Panels That Plug Into Your Wall Are About to Be Everywhere

California is the latest state to pass a law making it easier to install balcony-friendly solar panels. Renewable energy experts think the new technology is about to take off.

Fix bugs and improve performance · colinhacks/zod@d821685

TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference - Fix bugs and improve performance · colinhacks/zod@d821685

bbc.com

Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth, BBC finds

Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds.

ScienceAlert

Secret of Orange Cats Finally Revealed After 60-Year Search

If you've ever lived with an orange cat, you already know they're built different.

Pensieve: local code search and MCP context for AI coding agents

Search everything on your Mac by meaning. Give your agents the best context in one search instead of a disk-wide grep. See who owns what, and find knowledge gaps. Free and local.

GitHub - Geramy/LemonSeed-Studio: An iPad IDE with local LLM inference on an AMD GPU over Thunderbolt: the upstream Linux amdgpu driver embedded as DriverKit, LemonSeed Engine, and live GPU telemetry.

An iPad IDE with local LLM inference on an AMD GPU over Thunderbolt: the upstream Linux amdgpu driver embedded as DriverKit, LemonSeed Engine, and live GPU telemetry. - Geramy/LemonSeed-Studio

bbc.com

Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack

Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.

jacobin.com

Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers

In 1939, the 25-cent paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just kill the mass market paperback?

Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? | Hacker News

micahflee

Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic

I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of the end-times-fascist coalition. One thing that stood out

Bag of Decisions Reranker

Let an LLM generate the questions to ask Jev for a given query. See how well that works as a reranker.

CLI: make `daemon_auto_start` opt-in — a persistent, self-updating background daemon shouldn't be the default · Issue #48195 · openai/codex

What variant of Codex are you using? CLI — 0.157.0, installed via npm install -g @openai/codex, Linux (WSL2) What feature would you like to see? Please make daemon_auto_start opt-in (default false)...

Anthropic will be 'most ridiculous IPO' of year, analyst says

Anthropic reportedly plans to list on the Nasdaq before Thanksgiving, and one bearish advisory firm suggests that investors sit this one out.

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents | Hacker News

'AI' is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey

'AI' is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Live Science

Cool chemistry trick allows new tattoos to 'turn on and off'

Researchers created multicolored tattoo inks that are activated by different wavelengths of light, allowing people to hide their tattoos in different scenarios.

Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer

Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.

An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki

Plus: newsbits.

Simon Koeck

How I Found a $90,000 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google | Simon Koeck

A Flask cookie on developers.google.com was signed with a secret it was also carrying inside itself. Pulling that secret out turned a forged session into code execution across seven Google domains.

Add QEP428: No ai contributions permitted by nyalldawson · Pull Request #387 · qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals

Followup discussion at https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-September/068576.html. This formally changes the AI policy to a strict "NOT ALLOWED" policy.

Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones — SHOKUNIN STUDIO

Over the last several months I have been tracking AI guys trying to create vibe coded clones of popular apps, especially Adobe’s apps which have always been the most pirated apps since the 90s. There are now about a dozen vibe coded attempts to clone Photoshop and some other Adobe apps, not in

Ars Technica

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."

Fable took my jorb

Fable is cool yo, it takes jobs yo, - Dario "steve" Altman

Living in the Weimar era of Ruby

Much has been said about the DHH keynote that he gave at RailsWorld. To me, it was the voice of a person in an existential crisis, but also a very jaded one. “Look how I don’t care anymore, and you should not care either” is not a great message when you are the headline speaker at the conference - let’s call it CareConf - that you have, yourself, lobbied for. The message from the supreme leader was clear: we vibe-rewrote HEY in a more performant way, it worked great, we neither need nor care abo

OpenFatigue™ — Open is the new closed.

OpenChamber. OpenAI. Open WebUI. OpenDoor. OpenTable. OpenClaw. Open weights. Open this. Open that. We're tired.

Yahoo Finance

French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack

Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security.The office of the Paris prosecutor confirmed to AFP that an investigation has been opened into "the large-scale cyberattack affecting the refrigerators of several major food retail chains across France".

BBC News

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

The French firm is reinventing the classic model as carmakers come under pressure from Chinese rivals.

My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

On Friday, I did a Reddit AMA with the r/WebScrapingInsider subreddit about the law of web scraping. You can see the entire discussion here. I posted an introduction to the AMA, which I am sharing here: __ Hi everyone, and...

crypto.news

Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M...

Ledger confirms a hidden hardware implant in a customer's wallet as CryptoBilis halts sales amid an investigation into reported crypto thefts.

(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers

In the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline.

GitHub - morluto/rea: Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries. - morluto/rea

'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting  — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident

A cyberattack has hit supermarkets in Europe, disabling refrigerators.

GitHub - shaongitbd/doory: Open source canva alternative

Open source canva alternative. Contribute to shaongitbd/doory development by creating an account on GitHub.

Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues.

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

I’ve done a lot of web development over the years. I started around the year 2000, just after PHP 3.0 was released and started taking over the web world. I’ve used all kinds of approaches for generating HTML: raw PHP, string concatenation in Python, Smarty templates in PHP, Template Toolkit in Perl, and Jinja/Django templates in Python. Then, as the world moved on to SPAs and JavaScript frameworks, I stopped working on frontends.

GitHub - snuri00/ps2-web-recomp: PS2 games in the browser: static recompilation to WebAssembly with a native runtime

PS2 games in the browser: static recompilation to WebAssembly with a native runtime - snuri00/ps2-web-recomp

A modern web app in c | Corey Prophitt

A modern web app written in c and served the old way: CGI, SQLite and a single binary. No frameworks, no containers and no regrets.

GitHub - h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr

Contribute to h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (NGC) – pixelatron

Meta AI Research

Muse Wonder

A frontier model that leads on personal and professional agents

Google Data Centers

Locations of Google Data Centers

Discover the different Google data center communities located around the world.

taylor.town

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

Kelly predicted AI heavyweights while advocating for a future of open weights