"No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewrite
Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...
'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential…
A former veteran Bethesda developer has cast doubt on the possibility of a Morrowind remaster in the same vein as the recently released Oblivion remaster, saying going back to play The Elder Scrolls 3 now, over 20 years…
The Civil War on Drugs (FULL MOVIE)
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What would you like to be added? This is feature request - someone can point it as bug as well but I will not. Ask / Request 👉🏽 Implement exit and quit as standard commands with a simple confirmati...
Wreckreation maker Three Fields Entertainment puts whole studio on redundancy notice
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America Used to Own the Internet. Now It’s Running Scared.
The U.S. restricted data transfers abroad. Cast as an assertion of sovereignty, the new posture signals weakness in great-power competition.
Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric…
Existing licensees are grandfathered.
Xthings Is Making a Narc Pole
The X Tower is an “urban guardian” that uses AI to detect public threats.
Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says it's "very odd" to see characters he created in the Prime Video show with "no credit" and "no residuals"
"In some ways, I think doing narrative in video games is a little akin to doing comic book work"
The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
How did Netgear do it? Nobody’s saying.
Mozilla Names New CEO, Firefox To Evolve Into A "Modern AI Browser"
Mozilla Corporation has named its new CEO in replacing interim CEO Laura Chambers.
A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
After Almost 4 Years, My Indie Game Is Almost Ready! 🥹
Abaddon is a first-person psychological horror game steeped in Lovecraftian elements. Descend into a haunting story as you take on the role of Jimmy, searching for his missing brother Georgie while confronting his past …
A Familiar Hunt | Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal | adult swim
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Nokia N900 Necromancy
Building a fake battery, adding a USB-C port, booting from SD card, and giving a new life to a classic Linux smartphone.
Capitalist induced Downfall of the Lord of the Rings
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Gujarat: Hackers steal maternity ward CCTV videos in India cybercrime racket
Police say that dozens of videos of pregnant women undergoing medical check-ups were sold on the internet.
Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI
It gave the leader of a nonprofit involved with it "a very grimy feeling."
Gentoo Releases Experimental Images Using GNU/Hurd
Following an April Fools' Day tease of Gentoo claiming they were going to switch to GNU Hurd as their primary kernel moving forward, they have now acknowledged the joke but in fact also announcing there are now experime…
Two cities in Oregon have ended their contract with Flock thanks to citizen pressure.
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Atok cooks fried rice for Israel [Warning: actually good post]
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NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions
NVIDIA has announced that starting January 1, 2026, each GeForce NOW cloud gaming subscription will be limited to 100 hours of play time per month. The company is implementing its long-lasting promise revealed in 2024, …
Hacker group threatens to release Grand Theft Auto VI data in Rockstar Games attack
The group named ShinyHunters have accessed a third party server and have given the company a deadline of 14 April to enter ransom negotiations
As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent
Highguard is gaining more positive reviews following the addition of a 5v5 mode that's becoming permanent, but does it have a fighting chance?
LLM/"AI" Policies | Jellyfin
The rise of LLMs as a useful development tool over the last year or so has been significant. The power and flexibility of tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT have given a lot of functionality both to experienced develope…
EDRi launches new resource to document abuses and support a full ban on spyware in Europe
EDRi is launching a document pool to centralise resources that tracks abuse and support the growing push for a full EU-wide ban of spyware.
DRAM prices predicted to jump 63% in Q2, NAND up to 75% — follows 95% jumps in Q1, Trendforce says AI server demand keeps supply tight
NAND Flash contract prices are now rising faster than DRAM.
The Document Foundation announced today the release of LibreOffice 26.2.1
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The Time Tunnel (1966): Banned Alternate Ending and Hidden Truth They Tried to Hide
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Babylon 5 free to watch on youtube
In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from…
TailwindSQL - SQL Queries with Tailwind Syntax
Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries. className your way to database queries in React Server Components!
dunning-krueger, artist agency, and how Fallout Season 2 is pretty good, actually
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Watch YouTube privately - Materialious
Materialious is a modern material design frontend for YouTube & Invidious, focused on a clean, privacy-friendly YouTube experience. It supports local video fallback when Invidious fails and is ...
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
Sandfall Interactive and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of its wins at The Indie Game Awards due to use of generative AI.
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
And its creatures: Humans, Trolls, Bots, Ailiens, Clones, and Metarats
ONLYOFFICE accuses "Euro-Office" maker Nextcloud and IONOS of License Violation
The “Euro-Office” initiative is an evident and material violation of ONLYOFFICE licensing terms and principles of international intellectual property law.
European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
The European Commission has opened a 'call for evidence' to help shape its European Open Digita [...]
Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database
Update (October 26, 2025): Just found out that someone posted this on Hacker News! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687458
Firefox 149 vs. Chrome 147 Web Browser Performance On Linux
It has been a while since featuring a showdown of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers on Linux.
TIL in 1982 William Shatner paid $10,000-15,000 to an ex-Green Beret named Bo Gritz leading a mercenary force on a raid into Laos
For decades, conspiracy theorists have clung to the fiction that thousands of soldiers are being held captive in Asia.
Lembas Elvish Waybread TV Ad
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G1 Currency System (potential UBI) updates to v2
Version 2 for Ğ1 software
Hunting For North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
Before we go any further, one thing that I want to make clear is that the word assume is going to be doing some heavy lifting throughout this post. This was a rabbit hole that I recently went down …
Gothmog was HILARIOUS on the Lord of the Rings set!
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Google, Cloudflare, Cisco Lose Pirate Site DNS Blocking Appeal in France
The Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed that DNS providers can be legally compelled to block access to domain names to stop piracy.
the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.
McDuck Showed The Difference Between $100K and $1Billion!
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Fallout: Episode 205 Exclusive Deathclaw Behind-the-Scenes Clip
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Bitcoin slips below $71,000 as Trump orders U.S. to join Iran in blockade of Strait of Hormuz
"Effective immediately, the United States Navy ... will begin the process of blockading any and all ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz," said the president in a social media post.