Fake Fans
Edit 4/2: One day after this piece went up, Chaotic Good made significant changes to their website — including pulling the “Narrative Campaign” section completely. Some of the artists I write about here no longer feature on the website, though it is not clear if they are still clients of Chaotic Good (my suspicion is […]
Run Linux containers on Android, no root required
Run Linux containers on Android — no root required. Podroid spins up a lightweight Alpine Linux VM on your phone using QEMU and gives you a fully working Podman container runtime with a built-in serial terminal. Highlights Containers Pull and run any OCI image — podman run –rm -it alpine sh Terminal Full xterm emulation […]
Just ’English with Hanzi’
Learning Chinese is widely sold as the ultimate linguistic challenge. Students are warned that they must rewire their cognitive faculties entirely to grasp an alien logic. But there is a reality that few textbooks admit: The Chinese language has been Europeanized. Beneath the intimidating surface of the Chinese Characters (汉字, Hanzi), the operating system has […]
Show HN: TinyOS – A minimalist RTOS for Cortex-M written in C
An ultra-lightweight real-time operating system for resource-constrained IoT and embedded devices.Kernel footprint under 10 KB, 2 KB minimum RAM, preemptive priority-based scheduling. Category Details Kernel Preemptive priority-based scheduling (256 levels), round-robin within same priority, O(1) priority lookup via bitmap, priority inheritance Synchronization Mutex (with priority inheritance), semaphore, condition variable, event groups, message queues Software Timers […]
Charge Robotics (YC S21) Is Hiring Software and Hardware Engineers
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Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs
Got story updates? Submit your updates here. › Oracle’s strategic use of the H-1B visa program raises questions about the tech giant’s commitment to its American workforce.Austin Today Oracle, the software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, has filed thousands of petitions for H-1B visas in the past two fiscal years, even as it lays off […]
A new Postcrossing stamp from the USA
HURRAAAAAAAAAY!!! We’ve been waiting a looooong time to share this news: the United States Postal Service is issuing some shiny new Postcrossing stamps! Woohoo! It’s been a long road to get here: many of you have written to the USPS Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee over the years to ask for a Postcrossing stamp, and we’ve […]
Age Verification on Systemd and Flatpak
Apple is rolling out age verification for iPhone and iPad in the UK. The idea is to get the device “owner” to verify their age so that they can access “certain services”. Apple has already removed encryption for UK users in 2025: Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection in the United Kingdom to […]
Async Python Is Secretly Deterministic
When adding async support to our Python durable execution library, we ran into a fundamental challenge: durable workflows must be deterministic to enable replay-based recovery. Making async Python workflows deterministic is difficult because they often run many steps concurrently. For example, a common pattern is to start many concurrent steps and use asyncio.gather to collect […]
How to Make a Sliding, Self-Locking, and Predator-Proof Chicken Coop Door (2020)
Want a secure flock, but don’t feel like hand locking a latch or padlock on your coop door every night? Well look no farther! This vertical door slides easily with the small tug of a string that is conveniently located outside your coop. Most importantly, the coop door self locks from the inside as it […]