This is going to sound cornier than a bucket of Jiffy-Pop, but it is a profound irony that a man with such a big and beautiful figurative heart could have such a lousy literal one.

The top 20 stories on Hacker News, rendered on a split-flap departures board. Rank, points and headline on real mechanical flaps, refreshed by a scheduled cloud function. A remix of the Quickish flipboard.

Author of 24 bestselling novels including The Oppenheimer Alternative and FlashForward

IBM MCGA reverse engineered chips. Contribute to schlae/IBM_MCGA development by creating an account on GitHub.

A new book spots a real problem and offers terrible solutions

American factories deserve a supply chain that moves as fast as they do. The next generation of American manufacturing is being built right now. NOX METALS (YC S25) is the supply chain powering it.

We use software and automation to supply metal to American…

Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming.

New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

His doctors went looking for cancer, then they saw the worms' heads.

Postgres networking: Multigres

LLMs have gotten very good. It's impossible tell anymore if something was written by a human or a model. AI detectors are snake oil. Nobody trusts each...

The Videx VideoTerm was the 80-column card that turned the Apple II into a business machine. Emulating it on an FPGA means reverse-engineering a 1981 MC6845 CRTC design and understanding why slot 3 is unlike every other slot in the machine.

A filterable catalogue and live-preview surface for open webcams discovered through public internet intelligence - alectrocute/ipcrawl

Claremore man arrested for exceeding a 3-minute public comment limit at a city council meeting over a 300-acre data center proposal — and it's all on bodycam.

Keep your Mac awake only while AI coding agents are working - kageroumado/adrafinil

One of the great economic myths that never seems to die is the idea that giving taxpayer money to a private company will yield a windfall, incentivizing the company to create jobs and generate wealth that otherwise would not exist. And yet time and time again…