Pedestrians wearing headphones are exposed to an increased risk of accidents. In an effort to reduce collisions with cyclists, Škoda Auto, in collaboration with scientists, introduces an innovative bicycle bell whose sound can penetrate even active noise…

Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.

Because of my legal work on behalf of groups persecuted by the Chinese government, I have been tortured three times since September 21, 2007. I have been subject to...

Copyright, Terry Bisson, 1991 Originally published in OMNI, 1991, and featured in HARPER’S and around the internet since. It has even made its way into several books on consciousness and brain science. I’m surprised, pleased, and proud. But please do not…

Flock Safety surveillance equipment is appearing in neighborhoods across the country. I spoke with experts about the tech, laws and privacy issues at play.

Use the interactive map to explore the Silk Roads, discover new routes, learn what resources and goods are traded, and find an outpost or town to dive into.

Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) running natively on the Nintendo Wii

tui-use lets agents interact with programs that expect a human at the keyboard — REPLs, debuggers, TUI apps, and anything else bash can't reach. - onesuper/tui-use

Introducing Claude Managed Agents, a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale.

A browser extension for Hacker News with inline replies, unread tracking, keyboard shortcuts, following feeds, and other small UX fixes that add up.

You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity. By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension…

A basic introduction to USB for people that don't need to know what happens on the wire

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

The ag manufacturing giant will also make digital diagnostic, maintenance, and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years.

Live status of the Strait of Hormuz

React is excellent at rendering UI. I built Snapstate because I wanted business logic to live somewhere else.

Eligible men will automatically be registered into the military draft pool by December as part of an effort to streamline the previous process of self-registration and save money. The Selective Ser…