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Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing is a dystopian nightmare

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Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games

VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech

Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis

The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code

Modern LaTeX

Congress passes Take It Down act despite major flaws

OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours

France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking

Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

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A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime

Complete hardware and software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally

Discovery Coding

Garmin's –$40B Pivot

Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text

In Memoriam: Noah Gibbs