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Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

A Social Filesystem

Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video

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jQuery 4

Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

The recurring dream of replacing developers

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

Just the Browser

East Germany balloon escape

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

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Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

Cloudflare acquires Astro

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STFU

The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

25 Years of Wikipedia

Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage