A small HEPA purifier sounds like a classic fan-in-a-box sleep machine. Jeff Kaufman ran the numbers: a 34-CFM unit at 45 dB takes a 10x10 room from AQI 200 smoke to about 72.
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Dietrich Gebert's Ponytail is one prompt file that makes a coding agent check what already exists before writing anything. His 585-session benchmark says it cut code 53% and cost 26%, and admits where it lost.
Steve McCrea's Quake64 rebuilds the first seven levels of id's 1996 shooter in 3D wireframe for the Commodore 64, and on October 23 he shipped an Atari 8-bit version too. The gun that looks rendered is a sprite.
Nick Steele's open capacitive linear encoder reads to about 40µm against a Mitutoyo indicator, costs roughly $32 to build, and sets its 0.1mm air gap with Kapton tape. KiCad files, STM32 firmware and test data are public.
A small HEPA purifier sounds like a classic fan-in-a-box sleep machine. Jeff Kaufman ran the numbers: a 34-CFM unit at 45 dB takes a 10x10 room from AQI 200 smoke to about 72.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
A small HEPA purifier sounds like a classic fan-in-a-box sleep machine. Jeff Kaufman ran the numbers: a 34-CFM unit at 45 dB takes a 10x10 room from AQI 200 smoke to about 72.
A one-person web studio in New South Wales built a free, self-hosted dead man's switch: weekly check-ins, next of kin asked first, contacts told at most 13 days after you go quiet. PHP 8.1, no database, MIT.
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A one-person web studio in New South Wales built a free, self-hosted dead man's switch: weekly check-ins, next of kin asked first, contacts told at most 13 days after you go quiet. PHP 8.1, no database, MIT.
Red-teamer Dahvid Schloss decoded a Cisco type 7 enable password on a big US pharmacy chain's edge firewall. The hour-long shouting match that followed was really about who got paid.
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Red-teamer Dahvid Schloss decoded a Cisco type 7 enable password on a big US pharmacy chain's edge firewall. The hour-long shouting match that followed was really about who got paid.
Dietrich Gebert's Ponytail is one prompt file that makes a coding agent check what already exists before writing anything. His 585-session benchmark says it cut code 53% and cost 26%, and admits where it lost.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
Dietrich Gebert's Ponytail is one prompt file that makes a coding agent check what already exists before writing anything. His 585-session benchmark says it cut code 53% and cost 26%, and admits where it lost.
Steve McCrea's Quake64 rebuilds the first seven levels of id's 1996 shooter in 3D wireframe for the Commodore 64, and on October 23 he shipped an Atari 8-bit version too. The gun that looks rendered is a sprite.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
Steve McCrea's Quake64 rebuilds the first seven levels of id's 1996 shooter in 3D wireframe for the Commodore 64, and on October 23 he shipped an Atari 8-bit version too. The gun that looks rendered is a sprite.
Nick Steele's open capacitive linear encoder reads to about 40µm against a Mitutoyo indicator, costs roughly $32 to build, and sets its 0.1mm air gap with Kapton tape. KiCad files, STM32 firmware and test data are public.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
Nick Steele's open capacitive linear encoder reads to about 40µm against a Mitutoyo indicator, costs roughly $32 to build, and sets its 0.1mm air gap with Kapton tape. KiCad files, STM32 firmware and test data are public.
It kept time with a tuning fork vibrating 360 times a second, so it hummed instead of ticking. Bulova guaranteed in writing that it would stay within a minute a month.
Six weeks after 9/11, Mayor Rudy Giuliani welcomed Bill Gates, who said "New York is absolutely open for business." By January 2006 more than 400 million copies were in use.
Rockstar announced the PlayStation 2 exclusive had shipped to North American stores; Europe waited until October 29. The series had already sold over 32 million units, more than 13 million of them Vice City.
Microsoft confirmed it had stopped making Kinect, the camera that turned your living room into a controller. Both versions sold a combined 35 million units, and then the games stopped asking you to wave.
Facebook's social VR app, where friends met up as cartoon avatars, went offline. It never made it to the Oculus Quest, which tells you how its future looked.
2010: The first iPad: $499 with 16 GB. Today: $449 with 128 GB. The base Wi-Fi iPad on apple.com, October 2026.
Kumité is a free, brand-new full-contact karate tournament for the Commodore 64. A player asked for bloodied portraits in the comments; 18 hours later all eight faces went from clean to cut, bloody and battered.
pwn.watch lists the bugs being exploited right now and whether a fix exists. Every incident ships as plain JSON with a remediation brief, so an agent can check your lockfiles hourly and stay quiet unless one hits your stack.
A Paris court fined Quad9 €1,000 a day for not blocking sports piracy domains for beIN. The Swiss nonprofit says it can't tell who is French, won't block for everyone, and is leaving France on November 24.
REA is a free MCP server that hands a coding agent Ghidra, Hopper or IDA. One user pointed Codex and REA at DX-Ball 1.07 and got readable C that recompiles to the original game's exact bytes.
Wes Bos open-sourced 3D Model Anything: an iPhone capture app, a scan-to-threejs agent skill that renders each photo's exact camera view and compares it to the real photo, and a browser viewer where his rebuilt office turns into a physics playground.
V12 found 25 flaws in the x402 payment SDKs AI agents use to buy API calls, three critical: no default spending cap, a Solana check that took a token approval as payment, and logins signed for the wrong site. The fixes shipped in August with no security advisory.
Any dead link on music.apple.com now loads a playable click-wheel iPod with 1,029 songs, 15 playlists and the original iPod's Brick easter egg, 25 years to the day after Apple announced the first one.
Fountain Interactive's Tiny Computers, out the same day as the iPhone Duo, turns Apple's first foldable into ten miniature retro machines: screen on top, a clicking keyboard on the bottom half, and a Windows that occasionally crashes.
In April 2011 AMD's A75 became the first certified USB 3.0 chipset. Today USB4 Version 2.0 runs 80Gbps, up to 120Gbps one way, and the USB-IF tells vendors to sell it by speed, not version number.
A roughly €30 Aspire PIXO vape renders DOOM's first episode at 19.8 fps with no PC attached, using Artur Bieniek's DMC100-Doom engine, made for a FNIRSI clamp meter with 32 KB of RAM.
Concat is a two-month-old, AGPL-licensed Rust video editor with local auto-captions, voice cloning and background removal, no watermark and no account, and a built-in MCP server that lets an AI agent trim, caption and export a project.
In 2010, getting a lost laptop back meant a tracking script on its hard drive and hoping the thief went online. Today a lost Mac whispers over Bluetooth to passing Apple devices, and a thief who erases it still hits your Apple Account at setup.
Kevin Rose became Digg's CEO in 2010, months before its users fled to Reddit. In 2025 he and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian bought Digg back. Bots swamped the reboot, Rose returned full time, and Digg now ranks news instead of counting votes.
In 2011 the advice was to let LastPass make you a strong password. Since then, a streaming-app bug on a senior engineer's personal device led to stolen vault backups and a £1.2 million UK fine, and passkeys took over the job the strong password used to do.
In May 2010 Apple passed Microsoft at about $226 billion. Nvidia ended that year worth $8.94 billion. In October 2026 Nvidia is worth about $5.1 trillion, and the chips that got it there were built for video games.
In 2010 Shigeru Kondo's desktop computed 5 trillion digits of pi in 90 days. In 2025 StorageReview's single Dell server computed 314 trillion in about 110, on forty Micron SSDs. Here's what changed and what didn't.
Researchers asked Fable 5.1 to hide 50 messages in drawings. It mostly spelled them out in skyline heights, and a fresh session with no codebook read 39 of them back from screenshots.
Sammy Hajhamid spent about two weeks jailbreaking the Switch 2 through SmileBASIC 4, a Switch 1 coding app, with Codex agents running beside him on a rig of JetKVMs and a light-switch flicker that rebooted the console after every crash.
