SoftwareNov 2AirFlick Drop sends iPhone files to Windows through Safari, with a claimed 15 GB ceiling
SoftwareNov 1A free 512-byte boot-sector program, bootgpt, boots a PC straight into a neural network that dreams fake Linux logs
SoftwareNov 1A free Windows app, hop, installs dual-boot Linux from your hard drive with no USB stick
SoftwareNov 1A free Go-based Kotlin compiler, kc, builds JVM libraries 10x to 16x faster than JetBrains' kotlinc at one-tenth the RAM
AINov 1A free Claude Code skill, reanimate, films any website animation and rewrites its code until the frames match
Hacks & BuildsOct 31Ben Krasnow 3D-Printed a See-Through Einstein Refrigerator That Gets Cold From an Alcohol Flame
HardwareOct 31Bluetooth Was Only a Codename: the Industry Voted 4-1 for "PAN" Until a Web Search Turned Up Tens of Thousands of Hits
RetroOct 31Brian Eno Made the Windows 95 Startup Sound on a Mac, to a Brief That Ended "It Must Be Three and a Quarter Seconds Long"
GamingOct 31BrickStation Turns Lego's PlayStation Set Into a Working PS1 Emulator, Hidden in One Side Tray
RetroOct 31Commodore's 1600 VICmodem Was the First Modem Under $100, and You Dialed by Hand, Then Plugged In the Handset Cord
RetroOct 31Undo Is Z Because Cut-and-Paste Pioneer Larry Tesler Picked It for the Apple Lisa, and Its Zigzag Reads as Do, Undo, Redo
AIOct 31Darkbloom Paid Mac Owners to Run AI Inference. Now Most Earn a Few Cents to a Few Dollars a Day
RetroOct 31Email Addresses Use @ Because Ray Tomlinson's 1971 Terminals Had About a Dozen Punctuation Marks, and Only @ Meant 'At'