Are We Idiocracy Yet?

Tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge's Idiocracy. It's got electrolytes.

Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app

MIDI Guide, the open, "comprehensive" MIDI CC & NRPN dataset, has far outgrown its original purpose.

Blackholing My Email

What being ripped off taught me

Expensive lessons

My Experience as a Rice Farmer

I’ve been inspired to write something for April Cools Club, and what fits better from my normal content than my experience rice farming in rural Japan!

Show HN: AdaShape-3D modeler for intuitive 3D printing parts / Windows 11

Design parts, toys, and little inventions in a friendly desktop app—then export for 3D printing.

Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security

Video game security has always been a moving target, as consoles evolved to full-blown computing platforms locked down with layers of protection — but for every lock ever invented, there has always been someone determined to pick it.

Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once

Search government surplus auctions from GSA Auctions, HUD, and more. Find gov auction deals on vehicles, electronics, equipment, and seized property — all in one place. Free to use.

Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents

Git, VMs, deployments, and execution — unified infrastructure for code you didn't write. The platform for AI app builders and workflow engines.

Second Revision of 6502 Laptop

LT6502b - Second, slimmer, revision of my 6502 laptop

German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups

A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines

The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.

Every GPU That Mattered

49 graphics cards. 30 years. From Quake to Cyberpunk. The complete visual history of every GPU that mattered.

AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart

Peptides: where to begin?

Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

Hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. 100% local, powered by WhisperKit and local LLM cleanup. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste. - matthartman/ghost-pepper

Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C

A subset of Go that translates to C. Contribute to solod-dev/solod development by creating an account on GitHub.

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates

Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues for similar behavior reports This report does NOT contain sensitive information (API keys, passwords, etc.) Type of Behavior Issue Other unexpected behavior What You Asked Claude to Do ...

Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz write.

Apollo Guidance Computer restoration videos

AGC Restoration Videos and Press Coverage: