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Stories by ForHackernews

SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes (sailfishos.org)
Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension (github.com)
Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope (camras.nl)
The 'no. 8 wire' tradition in New Zealand (teara.govt.nz)
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? (theatlantic.com)
The VanDersarl Blériot: a 1911 airplane homebuilt by teenage brothers (2017) (historynet.com)
Flagship mobile phone with hardware kill switches for privacy (news.itsfoss.com)
Day 5 of Trump-Musk and Treasury Payments: Not "Read Only" Access Anymore (crisesnotes.com)
FUTO: Keyboards Shouldn't Connect to the Internet (keyboard.futo.org)
AI is failing the Indoor Plumbing Test (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
The Nonprofit Feeding the Internet to AI Companies (theatlantic.com)
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting (theatlantic.com)
The Essential Economics of Nigeria's Okrika Industry (2023) (rpublc.com)
Stack Overflow's forum killed by AI, but the company's still kicking for AI (sherwood.news)
In a World Obsessed with Innovation, What If Most of It Isn't Real? (persuasion.community)
The Open Gaming Collective: a collaborative platform for Linux gaming support (universal-blue.discourse.group)
America's WW2 Combat Drone That Bombed the Japanese – The TDR-1 [video] (youtube.com)
Zig Template for Flipper Zero (github.com)
Claude Can't Code (michaelkupietz.com)
Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot can now do backflips (popsci.com)
Beartype: Unbearably fast near-real-time type-checking in Python (github.com)
DeepMind is holding back release of AI research to give Google an edge (arstechnica.com)
A Panegyric for Human Chess Players (deprogrammaticaipsum.com)
The Antenna Array of Intrigue (engineeringradio.us)
GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it (therwp.com)
SIM cards are a marvel of software engineering (nelkinda.com)