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The original Snowboard Kids N64 game is now 100% decompiled in just 84 days—about one-seventh the time of its sequel. The author credits a mix of AI agents, expert human help, and better tooling, but warns that LLMs alone couldn't have done it.
Asahi Linux's 7.2 progress report details a novel PSCI conduit via UEFI Runtime Services, a workaround for M4 WFI crashes, and m1n1 emulating Apple's SPTM to keep the hypervisor alive on M4+.
A new site crunches GitHub's incident history, revealing that Copilot and Actions are the least reliable services, with 24 incidents per month on average.
A subtle bug in CPython's IDNA 2003 implementation used the interpreter's Unicode version for case folding, diverging from the RFC 3454 spec. CVE-2026-17084 fixes it by adding exceptions to match Unicode 3.2.0 behavior.
Dolly Parton, the iconic country singer-songwriter known for hits like 'Jolene' and 'I Will Always Love You,' has died at 80 after a brief battle with cancer. Her legacy spans music, film, and philanthropy, including the Imagination Library literacy program and a $1M donation that helped fund Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.
Spring's latest weekly roundup is packed with new milestones, including Spring Boot 4.2.0-M1, Spring AI 2.0.1, and a wave of maintenance releases across the ecosystem. Here's what working Java engineers need to know.
Learn how to run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for just $4/month, from uploading a custom image to installing the OS via the web console, with tips on full disk encryption and SSH hardening.
A Portland engineer details the build and cost of a backyard office, from shed conversion to mini-split HVAC, offering a practical blueprint for remote workers.
A systematic survey of Hacker News front-page stories shows AI-related content now dominates roughly half of the daily lineup, up from 40% in February. The author also uses an LLM detector to estimate how many stories are AI-written, and the results are sobering.
SiFive's new BigSky SF-2U870 development server brings RVA23 support to the RISC-V ecosystem, offering a boring, functional platform for developers—a sign the ecosystem is maturing.
Cloudflare moved its blog to EmDash, a CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare Workers, serving as Customer Zero. The migration involved significant load testing, a multi-layer caching architecture, and a frontend redesign with dark mode.
The Internet Archive has curated a collection of AI software from the 1970s–1990s, offering a nostalgic look at the early days of chatbots and virtual life simulations.