Articles by CharlesW
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[dupe] Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads (tomshardware.com)

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X-Plane Is Coming to Apple Vision Pro with Nvidia CloudXR (x-plane.com)

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Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google's app store until 2032 (theverge.com)

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Constraints and the Lost Art of Optimization (denodell.com)

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When Video Games Were Brown (youtube.com)

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"The Candy Factory": Life Inside a Singular Artists' Enclave in Brooklyn [video] (youtube.com)

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I Ejected Myself Off a Truck at 80 km/h [video] (youtube.com)

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Permissioned Data Diary 1: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt (leaflet.pub)

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Robert Kaye, MetaBrainz Founder and Executive Director, Has Died (metabrainz.org)

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James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus (extremetech.com)

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MediaFM: The Multimodal AI Foundation for Media Understanding at Netflix (netflixtechblog.com)

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MetaFilter Shifting to Volunteer Moderation (metafilter.com)

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Open source IoT board with 400 MHz dual-core RISC-V chip and lots of I/O for $29 (liliputing.com)

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Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents (machinelearning.apple.com)

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Claude Code creator predicts software engineering title will start to 'go away' (businessinsider.com)

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Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt (margaretstorey.com)

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Dolt is a version controlled database. Dolt is Git for Data (dolthub.com)

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How Nintendo Became the Most Fun Video Game Company (nytimes.com)

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Molly Guard in Reverse (aresluna.org)

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Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video] (youtube.com)

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WebMCP is available for early preview (chrome.com)

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Show HN: TagLib-WASM – Read/write audio metadata with all JavaScript runtimes

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Show HN: TabLib-WASM – Read/write audio metadata with all JavaScript runtimes

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Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece (newyorker.com)

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How thick is a sharpie mark? (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

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Unlocking the Codex harness: how we built the App Server (openai.com)

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John Romero: Making Catacomb 3-D [video] (youtube.com)

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Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI (Swift FOSDEM 2026 Talk) [video] (youtube.com)

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I have no mouth and I must scream at Black people: Scott Adams, 1957-2026 (tcj.com)

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Former astronaut on lunar spacesuits: "I don't think they're great " (arstechnica.com)

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A Poem That Behaves Like a Machine (medium.com/darwingosal)

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Yes, It's Fascism (theatlantic.com)

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SVT-AV1 4.0 (gitlab.com/aomediacodec)

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Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI (windows.com)

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Seat-back psychology helped a WA business build a dynasty (seattletimes.com)

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Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee (arstechnica.com)

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MTV Rewind (wantmymtv.xyz)

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We're Turning Todos into Tasks in Claude Code (twitter.com/trq212)

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The creator of Node.js says the era of writing code is over (jpcaparas.medium.com)

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Why Walmart still doesn't support Apple Pay (9to5mac.com)

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Does software piracy exist? (2021) (matthewbutterick.com)

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Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens (technologyreview.com)

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'Office Is Dead': Microsoft Decision Confuses 400M Users (forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman)

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Anthropic cuts off xAI's access to its models for coding (sherwood.news)

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Lego unveils a technology-packed Smart Brick at CES 2026 (engadget.com)

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Telling the story of Ultima across 2 years and 20 hours+ of documentaries (pcgamer.com)

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Apple announces sweeping App Store and iPhone changes in Japan (9to5mac.com)

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Using GraphViz for Claude.md (fsck.com)

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Apple is forcing iPhones to update to iOS 26 to patch security holes (sixcolors.com)

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I Hate ITC Garamond (2004) (designobserver.com)

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Agent Skills open standard (agentskills.io)

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The View from Inside the AI Bubble (theatlantic.com)

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Adobe Photoshop 1.0 source code now available (2013) (sixcolors.com)

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The Hit Hollywood Didn't Want (prospect.org)

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My new fave thing to go to is algoraves (interconnected.org)

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How iMessage sends and receives messages securely (support.apple.com)

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Podcast industry under siege as AI bots flood airways with programs (slashdot.org)

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Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022) (edutopia.org)

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Show HN: Axiom for Claude Code – Coding skills for iOS devs (charleswiltgen.github.io)

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Atmospheric CO₂ Monitoring Dashboard (portaljs.com)

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Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source (omgubuntu.co.uk)

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Disney Inks Blockbuster $1B Deal with OpenAI, Handing Characters over to Sora (deadline.com)

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Swift Configuration 1.0 Released (swift.org)

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SwiftUI Rich Text Layout: Inside MarkdownView and RichText (fatbobman.com)

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QuickTime turns 34 Yes, Apple's big bet on 'multimedia' still matters (macworld.com)

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Apple to resist India order to preload state-run app as political outcry builds (reuters.com)

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Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond (netflixtechblog.com)

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How to (and how not to) sell technology (2006) (pastiche.org)

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One Year of MCP: November 2025 Spec Release (modelcontextprotocol.io)

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The Hammer Hack (randsinrepose.com)

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Someone Is Trying to 'Hack' People Through Apple Podcasts (404media.co)

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AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta's Gigantic New Data Center (msn.com)

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OBR calls in cyber expert over botched release of Budget analysis (bbc.com)

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Giant of the Attic: On the Majesty of Alan Moore (metropolitanreview.org)

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Tattoo Ink Moves Through Body, Killing Immune Cells, Weakening Vaccine Response (swissinfo.ch)

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OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Bad UX World Cup 2025 (badux.lol)

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Soaping up Liquid Glass: less transparency, more contrast (sixcolors.com)

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Apple's Compliance with EU's DMA Mandate on Apple Watch, 3rd-Party Accessories (daringfireball.net)

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TikTok tests feature that will let users request to 'see less' AI generated slop (pcgamer.com)

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How to use the internet (1995) [video] (youtube.com)

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Training Agents Inside of Scalable World Models (danijar.com)

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Outlaws Remaster Review: LucasArts' "Forgotten" FPS Gets the Nightdive Treatment [video] (youtube.com)

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Google cracked Apple's AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones (theverge.com)

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Attack, defend, pursue—the Space Force's new naming scheme foretells new era (arstechnica.com)

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How AI will change software engineering – with Martin Fowler [video] (youtube.com)

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I wish we could ignore Gates on the climate crisis. As a billionaire, we can't (theguardian.com)

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Fun-reliable side-channels for cross-container communication (h4x0r.org)

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I made Minecraft in Minecraft with redstone (2022) [video] (youtube.com)

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Leaked documents shed light into how much OpenAI pays Microsoft (techcrunch.com)

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Apple tightens App Review Guidelines to crack down on copycat apps (9to5mac.com)

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After years of saying no, Tesla reportedly adding Apple CarPlay to its cars (arstechnica.com)

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End of The Line: How Saudi Arabia's Neom dream unravelled (ft.com)

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Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows (swift.org)

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In Praise of dhh (okayfail.com)

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An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping a Billboard Chart (whiskeyriff.com)

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The social contract of open source (snarky.ca)

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I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months) [video] (youtube.com)

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Key Takeaways from Australia's Latest AI Copyright Law Reform Announcement (twobirds.com)

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Tahoe's Terrible Icons: macOS 26's new icons are a step backwards (onefoottsunami.com)