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Afterglow — classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
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Afterglow — classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS

Hacker News·22 days ago
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Run classic After Dark screen saver modules — Flying Toasters, Fish!, Starry Skyline, and more — natively on macOS.

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Mariame Kaba’s letter to young activists: “I don’t know how things will turn out, but I am committed to someth

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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Mariame Kaba’s letter to young activists: “I don’t know how things will turn out, but I am committed to something other than this — the current structure and state of this world. We can live different

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My friend Adriana wrote about her story game based on Dante’s Inferno. “In Vya, I modeled Pom after the poet A

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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My friend Adriana wrote about her story game based on Dante’s Inferno. “In Vya, I modeled Pom after the poet Alice Notley, whose Descent of Alette (1996) is one of the great contributions to the liter

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This is impressive: an AI model has disproved an 80-year-old conjecture by Paul Erdős. “The proof came from a

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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This is impressive: an AI model has disproved an 80-year-old conjecture by Paul Erdős. “The proof came from a new general-purpose reasoning model, rather than from a system trained specifically for ma

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Paul Brown’s iPod. This is a lovely remembrance & time capsule: a playable iPod emulator of “the music on the

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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Paul Brown’s iPod. This is a lovely remembrance & time capsule: a playable iPod emulator of “the music on the iPod my dad had in 2018 before he died”. Click wheel works and everything.

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Pinterest Has Become Unusable. “When I started painting again in January, I went back to Pinterest and found i

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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Pinterest Has Become Unusable. “When I started painting again in January, I went back to Pinterest and found it overrun with AI slop. It’s continued to get worse and worse, and it’s now basically unus

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A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900 fake citations, presumably hallucinated by AI. The fak

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900 fake citations, presumably hallucinated by AI. The fake citations “were not limited to a handful of bad apples but appeared across many papers,

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As part of the Ocean Census project, “scientists have discovered 1,121 marine species in a single year”. Disco

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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As part of the Ocean Census project, “scientists have discovered 1,121 marine species in a single year”. Discoveries include “a new species of deep-sea ghost shark, a symbiotic bristle worm…as well as

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Infinite Jeffs is an actual physical book you can buy in which “every one of the ~550,000 words in Infinite Je

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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Infinite Jeffs is an actual physical book you can buy in which “every one of the ~550,000 words in Infinite Jest [is replaced] with ‘Jeff’ while preserving punctuation, line breaks, etc.”

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Slow blogging day today; I spent some time on the KDO undercarriage and a new little members-only feature for

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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Slow blogging day today; I spent some time on the KDO undercarriage and a new little members-only feature for the Rolodex: a simple list of links to the latest posts from Rolodex sites. (Click on “Lat

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Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community…they are completel

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community…they are completely revolutionary.” And: “It really is incredible to talk to your glasses and ask them what

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A very good, very 2026 headline: Japan Runs Out of Robot Wolves in Fight Against Bears. “Starting at around $4

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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A very good, very 2026 headline: Japan Runs Out of Robot Wolves in Fight Against Bears. “Starting at around $4,000, each bespoke Monster Wolf is now equipped with battery power, solar panels, and dete

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The Guardian asked authors, critics, and academics to help compile a list of the best 100 novels of all time.

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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The Guardian asked authors, critics, and academics to help compile a list of the best 100 novels of all time. They’ve done 41-100 so far. Selecting a book will show you who voted for it, then click on

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One of the coolest things about honey is its theoretically infinite shelf-life. 3000-year-old jars of still-ed

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·4 months ago
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One of the coolest things about honey is its theoretically infinite shelf-life. 3000-year-old jars of still-edible honey have been found in Egyptian tombs — they used it medicinally for all sorts of t

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