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Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie is expanding into an open social search tool

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Social,Bluesky ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Attie, Bluesky's AI assistant that lets you create personalized social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open search tool. The company said this week that it has added a new feature to its AI assistant, called Quests, that allows users to ask it for information and news spread across the broader Bluesky social network, nicknamed Atmosphere. This includes not only Bluesky, but also any application that integrates with the underlying AT protocol. Bluesky's user growth has slowed over the past eight months, as the…

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Today I want to talk about my journey writing a 3D software renderer for the Playdate. At the beginning, I didn't have any performance baseline. I had no idea how feasible my idea was, so I started with a simple test: a raycaster. I had written one many years ago, based on the code examples from Ken Silverman's webpage, and since then it has basically become what I write whenever I want to test the 3D processing power and screen drawing performance of a low-power device. …

the hands-free touchpad, from Augmental

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: “For the first time in my life, I was able to take pictures and videos independently. Augmental’s MouthPad has changed my life.”Esther K.“The MouthPad creates minimal friction between me and my device. I can work for up to ten hours without thinking about adaptive equipment.”Mike H.“I’ve been missing chess for so long, and I got it back, thanks to you guys.”Josh B.“With this technology I don’t have to use my 12″ mouth stylus anymore.”Sean C.“The MouthPad gave me back my independence and opened doors…

As the United States considers a response to Chinese AI, the industry is urging not to impose broad restrictions on open weight

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✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,Microsoft,nvidia,OpenAI,Hugging Face,mistral 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the United States should respond to allegations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property from their American counterparts and growing their capabilities. The letter did not mention China at all, but comes on the heels of reports that the Trump administration is considering banning Chinese open-weight…

Buz – A drop-in replacement for Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds – Showcase

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This is my WIP fork of Bun, based on the last commit before their Rust rewrite. It is still very early in its development and is nowhere near ready for production. I saw that a similar project had already been posted on Ziggit, so I am posting mine to avoid duplicating any development effort, though I have not looked at the other project as of this writing. I have ported Bun to build with the current upstream Zig (with minor patches to get incremental rebuilds…

India’s move against Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat has sparked a legal controversy

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🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Government & Policy,Social,Apps,Bitchat,jack dorsey ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Indian government's apparent effort to take the GitHub repositories of the Bluetooth messaging app Bitchat offline has raised questions about the legal basis for targeting open source software because of how it works. The Bitchat issue came to light after Dorsey posted on X on Friday what he said was a notice from the Indian Home Ministry directing GitHub to restrict access to three Bitchat repositories within three hours. The notice argues that the app's anonymous, decentralized structure could facilitate illegal…

Extinct Media Museum Tokyo Official Page：「絶滅メディア博物館」公式ページ : Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

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✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: What is the Extinct Media Museum ?The Extinct Media Museum (Tokyo,Japan) is a private museum that collects and exhibits media and media equipment that have died out or are dying out in the process of evolution based on the belief that all media other than paper and stone will become extinct.The museum's collection and exhibits include video cameras, photo cameras, typewriters, personal computers, recording media, music players, cell phones, PDAs, and mobile terminals with keyboards.The museum is a “touch museum” where visitors can freely take all the…

The perfect books for the beach … picked by Freida McFadden, Mick Herron, Robert Harris and more | Fiction

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture,Biography books,Science fiction books,Thrillers,Horror books ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: It is important to follow a balanced diet on holiday. Too many “My Wife’s Sister’s Husband’s Psychopath”, and you’ll get confused and grumpy. Too much sugary romance and your teeth will fall out. Something too big and challenging you’ve been meaning to get round to for ages will make you feel guilty and more liable to give in to scrolling, and if you take too many supposedly upmarket “must reads” of the summer, you will simply prove to…

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers

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💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Before we dive in, please note that this is not an official Google announcement. Instead, this is based on a recent, ongoing feature request on Google IssueTracker, in which a comment by one of the core ADB maintainers (Google employee) talked about restricting On-Device ADB connections to protect from “bad actors”.Before you stop what you are doing to head over to that IssueTracker thread, please read this carefully:If you plan to visit the issue tracker just to post low-quality comments (such as “Hey, don’t do…

Build publicly, fail publicly: What it’s like to be an under-20 founder right now

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🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: For Arlan Rakhmtzanov, 19, there is no middle ground. He says he either builds a valuable company like Google, or fails and ends up on the streets. He started programming when he was 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed two summer programs in San Francisco, and DMed every Y Combinator founder he could find on LinkedIn until someone gave him an angel check for his first company at 17 years old. This company, now YC-backed Nozomio, is an AI Agent Index API — a…