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The U.S. Army Studied China’s New Type 100 Tank and Published Where It Breaks. It Is Building Almost the Same Tank Anyway

China's Type 100 stunned analysts at Beijing's Victory Day parade last September, an unmanned-turret, hybrid-electric tank built for the drone age. Ten months later it is in service, and the...

Playground

Earn $100K+ in weekly rewards for hacking AI agents. Discussion | Link

WorkOS Pipes

My thanks, once again, to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Users expect apps and agents to reach the tools they already work in. Every integration that gets you there...

Dutch consumer group suing PlayStation argues the end of physical discs just proves its point: 'Sony alone decides what a game costs and even how long you are allowed to use it'

Sony's facing a challenge Steam is better poised to handle.

+ Whatever happened to the replication crisis?

My favorite (and least favorite) movies of 2026 so far

We're just over halfway through 2026, and by my count, I've see 15 2026 releases so far. Here's a from-the-hip ranking what I liked the most to least.Nirvanna the Band...

Fable gets another bump

One of the consequences of GPT-5.6 Sol being clearly a Fable/Mythos class model is that Anthropic have, once again, bumped the date that Fable stops being available in their Claude...

Paulo Andrade: ‘A WWDC 26 Update on Building a Mac-Assed App With SwiftUI’

Paulo Andrade: My last post on using SwiftUI to build a Mac-assed app got a bit more traction than I expected. It was mentioned on Mastodon several times, included in...

Christopher Nolan's first movie is waiting to be rediscovered (and for free)

Before Memento made him a star, Christopher Nolan directed Following. The acclaimed microbudget thriller is now free to stream on Kanopy.

sqlite-utils 4.1.1

Release: sqlite-utils 4.1.1 Mainly a fix for an edge case that regular Claude chat spotted while experimenting with the 4.1 release to answer a question about ON DELETE. table.transform() now...

Christopher Nolan celebrates Backrooms' success, believes younger generations are rejecting AI: 'Their judgement of AI slop has been immediate and harsh'

I sure hope so.

58 Blog Posts To Learn About Bash

Learn everything you need to know about Bash via these 58 free HackerNoon blog posts.

Porting the Nvidia GPU Driver to Haiku for 3D Acceleration

As good as a desktop OS may be, at some point it has to feature accelerated 3D graphics. This has been a bit of a sticking point for Haiku OS,...

How UIs Degrade Over Time

These examples are from Windows, but the same degradation is true for the standard look for MacOS alerts too. There was a time when system UI chrome was improving in...

7 years ago, Nintendo officially released the best anime RPG dramas of all time

Nintendo followed a soap opera model for Fire Emblem: Three Houses' storytelling, and it elevated it to one of the best Fire Emblem games

Spider-Man is at his best when Peter Parker can't catch a break

Spider-Man has endured for decades because Peter Parker never stops sacrificing. Here's why Parker Luck is essential to Marvel's greatest hero.

Axel Quest Xbox Review

We reported previously on the announcement of Axel Quest, a new 2D pixel art action platformer from the ever-dependable budget indie publisher Ratalaika Games, and since then, we’ve had the...

One-Pager Brief on Pangram Labs

Pangram Labs builds the most accurate AI text detector in the world. Team is >25 FTE; they are active on Twitter, you can engage directly, look for "affiliates" tab of...

Extinction risk is not the right first sentence

Money wins quiet fights but votes win louder ones. What actually moves the public to act on AI, and why it decides which regulations and safeguards survive.This is my first...

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