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✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ok it’s not exactly $60 but you can get the board itself for that amount of money on eBay if you’re lucky, but on average the price is around $70-$100 (as of November 2025) which is still very cheap considering you can play Cyberpunk 2077 on this. What is this? The BC-250 began life not as a gaming board, but as part of a crypto-mining rig. The “trick” behind it: the BC-250 uses a cut-down version of the APU from a PlayStation 5 (PS5) —…

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: [Submitted on 3 Sep 2026] View a PDF of the paper titled Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus, by Ricard Sol\'e and 8 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a viral analogy, with LLM use spreading through populations, becoming embedded in cognitive and cultural practices. We model transitions among uncoupled, coupled, and persistently dependent users, and show…

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: My previous AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop is still up and running – it will now be my kids computer … so I needed a new one … but not a bigger one 🙂 I spent way too much time finding new Mini-ITX case for the next one … and after all possibilities … I got Silverstone case again :] … because nothing else was this small and with all needed features. Also … I was thinking WHAT exactly should I buy – especially in the…

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: GPT-6 Astra on robot arms | Robocurve September 4, 2026 A follow‑up to our comparison of Claude Fable 5 and Fable 5.1. We gave OpenAI's GPT‑6 Astra control of the same YAM arms under the same Inspect Robots agent policy, on the same two tasks: “Pick up the red block from the table and place it inside the bowl.” “Pick up the round blue puzzle piece by the knob at its center and place it into the matching circular groove in the board.” On the bowl task…

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings Previous: Copycats in Apple Books Articles index Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon) September 5 2026 Six years ago I published a blog post Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings that received quite a bit of attention: Michael Tsai, Hacker News The Register, The Verge, and Gizmodo, among others. The blog post was about a Google Chrome bug that mysteriously exempted Google-owned sites from the setting to automatically delete all site data. Eventually,…

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TLDR: Cloud in a Bottle is your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job. I'm frustrated with the state of the digital world. The software we use is so misaligned with our own incentives (intentionally addicting, loaded with ads, tracking you and selling your data, enshittifying). Software is easier than ever to make; how did we end up here? I think a big reason is the shift…

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A Domain-Neutral, Git-Native Persistent Project Memory for AI Agents based on the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) v0.2. Conversations with AI agents reset when context windows close. Valuable architectural decisions, domain discoveries, and operational facts are lost unless stored persistently. OKF Agent Memory provides a standardized, vendor-neutral memory layer that lives directly in your repository (knowledge/) as plain Markdown files with YAML frontmatter. It bridges the gap between unstructured ad-hoc markdown files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md) and complex, black-box vector databases. flowchart TD L1["1. OKF v0.2 Specification(Normative Markdown…