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Veda: The First Agentic Hobby Operating System (github.com)
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A minimal Rust TUI for managing GitHub repos and branches (github.com)
Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support (github.com)
Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won''t Say What It Protects (rews.cc)
Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware (werwolv.net)
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Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team (www.cockroachlabs.com)
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Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign Amazon AI Waiver: ''I''m Not an AI-Friendly Actor'' (variety.com)
The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
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Bitwarden Dual License Model (community.bitwarden.com)
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Apple/macOS silently removed from official Unix registry (www.opengroup.org)
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OpenAI annualised revenues 20B less than previously signalled (www.ft.com)
Anthropic bans ''abusive or cruel behavior'' towards Claude (www.theverge.com)
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As We Become Cameras (2016) (thebrowser.com)
Bloody Cavemen (www.lrb.co.uk)
OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results (twitter.com)
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New repository settings for configuring pull request access (github.blog)
I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it (www.reddit.com)
Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols (dat-ecosystem.org)
People Holding Up the Internet (sheets.works)
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