A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

You stand upon the cusp of the unknown. The Labyrinth of Time’s Edge has erupted into a vast and untamed world of 3,999 handcrafted rooms, each echoing with new horrors, mysteries, and echoes of forgotten souls. Every corridor tells a story, every shadow hides something waiting to be unearthed. The world has grown so immense […]
Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors

Israeli spyware maker NSO Group has confirmed to TechCrunch that a U.S. investment group has acquired the company. NSO spokesperson Oded Hershowitz told TechCrunch on Friday that “an American investment group has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership.” Confirmation of the deal came soon after Israeli tech […]
Monads are too powerful: The expressiveness spectrum
Okay, so you and I both know monads are great, they allow us to sequence effects in a structured way and are in many ways a super-power in the functional-programming toolkit. It’s likely none of us would have even heard of Haskell without them. It’s my opinion, though, that monads are actually too powerful for […]
Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)

What is pipelining in Postgres? Pipelining is a client-side feature supported by the network protocol that basically consists of not waiting for the results of previously sent queries before sending the next. This increases the throughput in two ways: The client, network and server can work in parallel. For instance, the network may transmit the […]
Major security breach at Austrian AI startup localmind.ai

Sehr geehrte Kundinnen und Kunden, sehr geehrte Partnerinnen und Partner, wir möchten Sie über die jüngsten Fortschritte bei der Aufarbeitung des Angriffs sowie über die laufenden Sicherheitsmaßnahmen informieren. Stabilisierung der Systeme Unsere bisherigen Analysen bestätigen, dass das Kernsystem der Localmind-Plattform selbst nicht kompromittiert wurde, sondern die Angriffe über administrative Schnittstellen und Testumgebungen stattfanden. Unmittelbar nach […]
Coral Protocol Open Infrastructure Connecting the Internet of Agents

Abstract:Coral Protocol is an open and decentralized collaboration infrastructure that enables communication, coordination, trust and payments for The Internet of Agents. It addresses the growing need for interoperability in a world where organizations are deploying multiple specialized AI agents that must work together across domains and vendors. As a foundational platform for multi-agent AI ecosystems, […]
China’s New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains

In advance of President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to South Korea later this month—where he is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time since 2019—China announced that it has expanded its restrictions on rare earth and permanent magnet exports. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce’s Announcement No. 61 of 2025 implements the […]
Show HN: rift – a tiling window manager for macOS

Rift is a tiling window manager for MacOS that focuses on performance and usability. multiple layout styles Tiling (i3/sway-like) Binary Space Partitioning (bspwm-like) Menubar icon that shows all of the workspaces and the layouts within click to see the menu bar icon MacOS-style mission control that allows you to visually navigate between workspaces click to […]
LineageOS 23

23 – Primetime Release Hey there! Welcome back! This last year has been a whirlwind to say the least, but we have remained dedicated to bringing an updated LineageOS based on Android 16 to the masses! We’ve been hard at work rebasing all of our changes and features since Android 16’s release in June. Android […]
Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf]
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