Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers
TL;DR Consumer demand for electric vehicles has slowed and governments in the US and Europe are easing transition policies. The…
Hisense 98-inch Google TV drops from $2,300 to $1,000 in Best Buy sale
TL;DR Best Buy has reduced the price of the Hisense 98-inch Class QD5 Google TV to $1,000, down from its…
Migrating web analytics: moving ten years of Matomo data to Umami
TL;DR A site operator moved a decade of analytics from a self-hosted Matomo instance to Umami by building a custom…
T-Ruby brings inline type syntax to Ruby and generates standard RBS
TL;DR T-Ruby is an experimental compiler that lets developers write Ruby with inline type annotations (.trb) and emits plain Ruby…
Four 20W USB Chargers for $10: A Cheap Way to Stock Up on Spares
TL;DR A four-pack of compact USB chargers is being sold for $10 on Amazon, each unit offering a USB-C and…
Always Bet on Text: Why Text Outlasts and Outperforms Other Media
TL;DR A longtime blogger argues that text remains the most durable, flexible and efficient communication medium, able to encode precision,…
Exe.dev presents terse landing page with SSH prompt and basic navigation
TL;DR The exe.dev homepage shows an SSH-style login line and a short message mentioning sudo and disk persistence. The page…
Open-source Claude-Manson engine: harvesting power from deep-sea brine pools
TL;DR A public-domain technical disclosure describes an osmotic-gradient power system designed to extract continuous energy from hypersaline deep‑sea brine pools.…
Grok and the Naked King: How Ownership Undermines AI Alignment in Practice
TL;DR The author argues that xAI’s chatbot Grok shows alignment is a question of power: owners can and do rewrite…