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Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode
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Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in OpenCode
cy.md
January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
LLVM: The bad parts
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LLVM: The bad parts
www.npopov.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Postal Arbitrage
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Postal Arbitrage
walzr.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
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Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy | Cornell Chronicle
The new class of weight-loss and diabetes drugs are changing not just how much American households are eating, but even precisely what they buy at a supermarket or restaurant.
news.cornell.edu
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
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GitHub - haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM: A LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias
A LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias - haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
github.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
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blog.smartere » Floppy Disks: the best TV remote for kids
blog.smartere.dk
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
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Introducing Cowork | Claude
Claude Code's agentic capabilities, now for everyone. Give Claude access to your files and let it organize, create, and edit documents while you focus on what matters.
claude.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Apple picks Google's Gemini to power Siri
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Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year
Google's market value surpassed Apple for the first time since 2019 as it rolls out updated artificial intelligence features.
www.cnbc.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM
C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories
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std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories
Why std::move is just a cast, how it kills RVO if used wrong, and the mechanics of ownership transfer.
0xghost.dev
January 12, 2026 at 11:00 PM
This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser
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This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser.
A Portable Executable (.EXE), ELF64 and HTML polyglot that runs natively on Windows, Linux and in the Browser.
iczelia.net
January 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]
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Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola (It Took Me A Year)
The Coca Cola secret formula is one of the best kept secrets in recent history...and I hate secrets. So, naturally, I deciphered it with the help of mass spe...
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders
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“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros & Kirby Air Riders
Have you ever noticed that the food graphics in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders are flat “billboarded” stock images of food? This artistic decision from director Masahiro Sakurai has per...
sethmlarson.dev
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned
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twitter.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study
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Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade, study shows
A new study from researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health highlights a push from private equity investors into autism therapy centers across the nation.
www.brown.edu
January 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]
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I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs)
My motivation when starting this project was to build an engine that enables high fidelity modifications to world geometry during gameplay. In most games, th...
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Gentoo Linux 2025 Review
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2025 in retrospect & happy new year 2026! – Gentoo Linux
News and information from Gentoo Linux
www.gentoo.org
January 12, 2026 at 11:11 AM
iCloud Photos Downloader
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GitHub - icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader: A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud
A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud - icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
github.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:11 AM
CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
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2026 is the Year of Self-hosting
CLI agents like Claude Code make self-hosting dramatically easier and actually fun. This is the first time I would recommend it to normal software-literate people.
fulghum.io
January 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Code and Let Live
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Code And Let Live
How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.
fly.io
January 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
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Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>
antirez.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
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Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak
mitchellh.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 AM