AIOct 27Nietzschian Debugger Runs on Claude and Refuses to Fix Your Bug, Asking Questions at Three Settings From Socrates to Zarathustra
RetroOct 27The Oldest GUI Program Still Running on Windows 11 Is a 1992 NT Beta CD Player That Borrowed the System's C Runtime
SoftwareOct 27Shitty Screenshare, From the Developer Behind WHIP in OBS, Says Your Blurry Video-Call Share Is the Browser's Fault and OBS or FFmpeg Can Send It Instead
SoftwareOct 27Sudo Play, a Free Mac Menu Bar App, Picks One Spotify Playlist a Day From Your Genre and Developer Mood, Like Friday Deploy or Debugging
SecurityOct 27JFrog Found a Worm in 42 GitHub Repos That Hid 13 MB Payloads From Code Search and Planted Claude Code SessionStart Hooks to Run Them
Hacks & BuildsOct 27A DOOM-style raycaster lives inside a TrueType font's hinting bytecode, and the browser draws its 3D walls by re-hinting one glyph
Hacks & BuildsOct 27Introvert Programmer Built a Raspberry Pi 5 NAS From Two Old Laptop Drives, With an Arabic-Speaking AI Assistant You Can Call
HardwareOct 27iFixit's iPhone Duo Hinge Model Points to a Center Support Bar That Doesn't Drop Far Enough, as Owners Report Cracked Inner Screens
Hacks & BuildsOct 27Xuan-Son Nguyen's ESP32-S3 Firmware Gives an Old USB-Only Canon Printer AirPrint and AirScan, Once You Bridge a 5V Pad So the Printer Sees the Cable
AIOct 27Denis Zontak's One-Mac Software Factory Turned a GitHub Ticket Into a Merged Pull Request Overnight on a $200-a-Month AI Subscription
AIOct 27In Murmell's Test of AVP, a Git Replacement for Coding Agents, a Claude Code Agent Read a Rejected Push as Success and Four Tasks Never Reached Main
AIOct 27proc, a Free Process Tool, Now Has an Agent Skill That Stops Claude Code and Codex From Piping lsof Into kill -9 on Processes They Didn't Start
SoftwareOct 27Elm creator Evan Czaplicki wrote his own email sender and found sending is about one HTTPS request, yet Outlook users never saw his mail, not even in spam
RetroOct 27Meatloaf, an ESP32 on a Commodore 64's IEC serial port, loads programs from any URL and presents them as a period floppy drive
SoftwareOct 27TitleArt Rebuilds 1997-Era Microsoft WordArt in the Browser and Exports It as SVG, GIF or Video
SoftwareOct 27Drew DeVault Forked Vim at the Last Patch Before Vim9 Script to Make Vim Classic, an Editor Maintained With No Generative AI
HardwareOct 27NUS Researchers Wove a Working Touchscreen Into a Garment Sleeve From 1 mm Fibres That Survive 50 Machine Washes
RetroOct 27A 1990s St. Louis BBS cropped its borrowed ANSI logon screens to 17 lines and cut off the artists' signatures, and Josh Renaud traced them back
SoftwareOct 27MeshLive, an open-source Android app, livestreams video phone to phone over Bluetooth with no internet, each phone passing it on about 20 metres
GamingOct 27Blocks, a 1:1 Minecraft Switzerland generated from swisstopo's open data, runs on a height mod because the Dufourspitze stands 4,634 blocks tall
SoftwareOct 27Charlie Gerard's Overgrown, a Chrome extension, grows vines over tabs you ignore, and past 5% overgrowth you can't click the page until you hack them back with a machete, chainsaw or flamethrower
RetroOct 27Gavff Dug Up Nyko's Forgotten 8x Zoom Lens for the Nintendo DSi, Then Pointed the DSi at the Moon
HardwareOct 27Hugging Face's $399 Microduck learned to walk, skate and stand itself back up in a simulator, and its code is on GitHub
