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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
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.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
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.
The first message went from California chief justice Stephen J. Field to Abraham Lincoln. Ten words cost $7, and the line put the Pony Express out of business.
A 35mm movie camera rode a captured V-2 rocket up from White Sands to about 65 miles. The camera was destroyed when it came back down; the film survived.
The Federal Networking Council passed a resolution defining the word, tying it to the Internet Protocol "or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons."
British Airways ended Concorde service by landing three of them at Heathrow one after another: from New York, from Edinburgh, and from a loop over the Bay of Biscay.
Bungie's shooter reached PC for the first time, sold only through Blizzard's Battle.net for $60. It was the first game on that launcher not made by Blizzard.
2008: A gigabyte of solid-state storage: $7.44. Today: about 20 cents. Intel listed its 80 GB X25-M at $595; Seagate's 4 TB FireCuda X1070 is $799.99 on its store, October 2026.
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.
Ryan Sael's Flat Pack rebuilds the BILLY bookcase instructions as a browser model: each of 14 steps opens at the angle of IKEA's drawing, then lets you orbit around the part you couldn't read.
OOSEX GANG's HackiOS runs Apple's open-source XNU kernel and the unmodified iOS 16.5 user space on a Snapdragon 778G Android phone, started with fastboot boot and never flashed.
LinPad OS is a free, sideloaded iPad app that runs Alpine Linux by translating Linux system calls to iPadOS, so Linux desktop apps open as native windows in a tiling desktop on M1-or-newer iPads.
