AIOct 28Indra, a one-million-parameter text-recognition model, reads scans 15 times faster than Tesseract on a CPU
GamingOct 28Co-op Anything Has AI Coding Agents Turn Single-Player Games Into Online Co-Op, Starting With the Whole Deus Ex Campaign
AIOct 28A $7 ESP32 Board Lets an AI Tap Through Any iPhone App by Posing as an AirPlay Screen and a USB Mouse
SoftwareOct 28Aqueous, a New Archiver, Undoes JPEG, PNG and ZIP Compression, Squeezes Harder, Then Rebuilds Every Original Bit for Bit With WebAssembly
SoftwareOct 28Homelable Scans Your Home Lab With nmap, Then Lets You Draw the Rack and Its Patch Cables Port to Port
AIOct 28Parley Puts Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode Sessions in One Local IRC Channel, With a Breaker That Stops Them Talking in Circles
SoftwareOct 28Ploom Runs Every Thread Order of a Python Test Until One Fails, Then Saves That Order So the Bug Replays on Demand
SoftwareOct 28ProxMate Sends Friends an Invite Link to Spin Up VMs on Your Proxmox Cluster, Without Ever Showing Them the Admin Panel
GamingOct 28Smashcat's Arduino Uno Now Plays Pac-Man Championship Edition on a TV, Drawing Each Line Just Before the Screen Does
AIOct 28Survival LLM Puts 930,000 Wikipedia Articles, a Medical Encyclopedia and Military Survival Manuals in a Free 9 GB Offline AI That Picks Its Model by Your RAM
SecurityOct 28Harmen Stoppels's Tar-Minefield Feeds 81 Crafted Archives to About 20 Tar Readers, and They Pull Different Files Out of the Same Bytes
AIOct 28Wenlan Turns Your Notes and AI Chats Into a Local Wiki, and Throws Out Any Page Whose Citations Don't Match the Source
HardwareOct 27Enkiplate turns an Inkplate 4TEMPERA e-paper touchscreen into a Japanese flashcard deck that climbs from kana to kanji at 12 new cards a day
SecurityOct 27ESP-Watchtower turns a $3 ESP8266 into a home-network tripwire with a fake Telnet shell, a fake router login and a fake security camera
Hacks & BuildsOct 27Chris McCoy Played Gottschalk's Grande Tarantelle by Decoding a Blind Musician's Braille Score Into MIDI, and His Parser Caught Seven Bars Where the Braille Disagrees With the 1874 Print
Hacks & BuildsOct 27Hack the North's 1,750 Programmable ESP32 Badges Shipped Through Four Board Spins, a Capacitor in an Inductor's Slot and an NFC Chip That Couldn't Read
HardwareOct 27Keybytes Puts a RISC-V Microcontroller in Every Single Key, Then Snaps the Keys Together With Magnets and Pogo Pins
AIOct 27Last Commit writes Día de los Muertos epitaphs for dead GitHub repos with a small Qwen model running in your browser
AIOct 27Nietzschian Debugger Runs on Claude and Refuses to Fix Your Bug, Asking Questions at Three Settings From Socrates to Zarathustra
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
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 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 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
