Tech Running 83d
As AI-enabled recording devices proliferate, startups develop jamming technology to block them, echoing historical conflicts like radar countermeasures.
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Tech Running 3d
A developer found that UTF-8 encoded emoji bytes correspond to real CPU instructions, enabling programs written entirely in emoji.
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3 items 175 engagement
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Tech Running 3d
Tutorial on using bash/zsh event designators to avoid repeating commands and arguments.
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Tech Running 21h
Accessory images shared by leaker Sonny Dickson suggest Apple's first foldable iPhone will launch in two finishes next month.
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Tech Running 6d
Email provider lets users store data in European Union instead of US, built on company's own infrastructure rather than cloud services.
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12 items 568 engagement
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Tech Running 1h
A startup is selling patterned garments designed to fool AI cameras, with drop live on Kickstarter and limited runs of 50 units each.
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4 items 7 engagement
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Tech Running 3h
Engineer achieves supersonic projectile velocity using only a falling weight and mechanical leverage, surpassing physics constraints.
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3 items 259 engagement
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Tech Running 1d
Judge finds Meta created public nuisance through sexual exploitation and mental health harms; company plans to appeal.
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7 items 39 engagement
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Tech Running 3d
zHBM, zNAND-O, and BV-NAND all use wafer bonding to boost performance, power efficiency, and memory density.
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3 items 20 engagement
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Tech Running 1d
Two core team members step down, citing unsustainable workload and organizational friction within the Nix ecosystem.
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Tech Running 2h
New open-source tool identifies which lines of text were written by humans versus AI agents in collaborative editing workflows.
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6 items 52 engagement
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Tech Running 19h
Shopify rebuilt its oversell protection system using MySQL instead of Redis, handling record Black Friday 2025 traffic of $5.1M in sales per minute.
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13 items 336 engagement
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Tech Running 4d
Alphabet's autonomous vehicle unit drops waitlist, expanding access to self-driving rides across Dallas.
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10 items 335 engagement
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Tech Running 2d
A programmer abandons VS Code and Zed for Sublime Text, citing bloat and unwanted AI features in contemporary editors.
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Tech Running 1d
The 25M-subscriber science channel suffered its worst performance since 2013 after YouTube's automated system misidentified human-made videos.
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3 items 35 engagement
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Tech Running 17h
Developer creates modern GUI OS for 1980s IBM XT, 286, and 386 machines with multitasking and memory efficiency.
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11 items 253 engagement
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Tech Running 1h
Developer examines how storage engines balance write speed against durability by moving computational work to different system layers.
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3 items 68 engagement
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Tech Running 1m
A 1998 W3C article on URL stability gains renewed attention from the developer community.
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Tech Running 4d
Grady Hillhouse's video explores how 3D plastic grids transformed soft seabed silt into load-bearing foundation for container terminal expansion.
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Tech Running 1d
New IETF specification allows domain owners to advertise sales availability via DNS records without replacing active sites.
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10 items 435 engagement
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Tech Running 1d
New features enable dumping full program state for debugging without relying on logging.
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4 items 10 engagement
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Tech Running 1h
New digital audio workstation combines live performance, arrangement, and mixing in three integrated workspaces.
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3 items 21 engagement
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Tech Running 1m
A user documents technical steps to restore a 2021 reMarkable 2 paper tablet after years of disuse, resolving sync and update failures.
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2 items 150 engagement
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Tech Running 1m
A developer named Theo's criticism of Apple's iOS development restrictions sparks debate about whether consumer boycotts can drive corporate change.
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2 items 84 engagement
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Tech Running 1m
Developer migrates Niklaus Wirth's classic Oberon system from custom RISC-5 to open RISC-V architecture.
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2 items 117 engagement
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Tech Running 1h
Arch Linux documents best practices for alpm-install-scriptlet and alpm-hooks after analyzing 120 package repositories.
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2 items 52 engagement
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Tech Running 1m
A 2011 wager about link rot on the internet concludes as the disputed URL remains accessible on February 22, 2022.
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2 items 205 engagement
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Tech Running 1m
A 28-year-old feature about DEC's high-performance 64-bit RISC processor surfaces on Hacker News, offering historical perspective on the x86 vs. RISC debate.
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2 items 99 engagement
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Tech Running 13h
New Windows driver enables full DirectX 11 support in virtualized environments, allowing games to run on Windows guests in QEMU.
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2 items 224 engagement
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Tech Running 1d
Engineer reflects on workplace conflicts by studying how peer team handles similar technical disputes.
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Tech Running 6d
Open-source tool uses datalog logic programming to disassemble binaries accurately enough to reassemble them.
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Tech Running 1d
Daring Fireball's founder retracted a high-profile post criticizing Apple's App Store rejection after discovering the rejected app was actually an astrology app, not astronomy.
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9 items 347 engagement
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