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Da Vinci's Robot: A Non-Powered Exoskeleton Whose Motion Becomes Sound A performer straps into an unpowered exoskeleton and every strained movement becomes live sound, inverting da Vinci's obedient mechanical knight.

In a Time of AI, Wildwood Celebrates Humanmade Art While AI art floods everywhere, one venue is doubling down on celebrating work made entirely by human hands.

Attention Is All You Need A group held a real funeral-and-resurrection ritual for a discontinued AI model — then the power cut out right as they summoned it back.

Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces We're sending swarms of AI agents to work while we sleep, but the interfaces for actually planning with them are strikingly primitive.

Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content Wikipedia volunteers are now hunting down and scrubbing AI-written prose hiding in plain sight across articles.

Genie 4 DeepMind's latest model lets you generate and walk around inside entirely invented worlds on demand.

Simulating day and night cycles in Godot A tutorial shows how to fake a full day-night cycle inside a Godot 3D game.

Sketch-a-day, October 25 entry Another day, another tiny generative sketch dropped straight into a public code archive.

The Slurptop: a home-built luggable that runs on power tool batteries Someone built a laptop that runs on the same battery packs as your cordless drill.

TitleArt: make text like it's 1997 A tiny web tool turns any text into a perfect 1997 GeoCities-style title graphic.

Seam Cutter A tool that lets you cut an image in half and slide the pieces apart just to delete the middle bit.

Nova Scotia farmers' markets draft proposal to ban generative AI Nova Scotia farmers' markets are drafting rules to keep generative AI off their stalls.

What's wrong with AI? A career coder writes 2,000 words refusing to debate you about why AI unsettles him.

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis A ten-year-old image classifier beat two 2026 frontier LLMs at spotting melanoma — the AIs called it harmless.

Making a heart with maths, with maths A heart rendered entirely from a few lines of math packed into a tiny shader.

PlottyBot, a pen plotter you can build A DIY pen plotter you build from 3D-printed parts and a Raspberry Pi Zero, fountain pens included.

Why the concept of data poisoning annoys me Why the anti-AI art tool everyone's excited about is quietly doomed to stop working.

Bunkering down After 27 years running his own servers, one blogger just admitted defeat to the modern internet's security chaos.

If anything happens to this guy, everyone is screwed One burned-out volunteer quietly holds together a piece of software the entire internet depends on.

How to run a city builder on 16 MHz The original SimCity simulated an entire city's economy on a processor slower than a digital watch today.

Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages Rewriting your app in Rust probably won't make it faster — here's the boring reason why.

We should be more ambitious with the software we build A side-project Postgres rewrite in Rust is already finding real bugs in Postgres itself.

A Shockwave relic, revived A 2003 Shockwave art piece about memory and summer light has been resurrected to run natively in your browser, two decades later.

Scrubbing video at 60Hz with zero lag Smooth, instant video scrubbing in the browser turns out to hinge on one trick: making every single frame its own keyframe.

Curling noise the correct way Warping a texture's coordinates breaks its lighting unless you chain-rule the derivatives too — here's exactly how to fix it.

A syntax highlighter that doesn't know grammar A 28kB syntax highlighter has no grammar rules for any language — it just treats your code like a pixel-by-pixel image to segment.

WebKit gets ready for dual screens Safari now auto-splits PDFs into two pages the moment you fold a phone like a book.

JPEG XL lands in Chrome and Firefox A years-stalled image format just hit both Chrome and Firefox, and it can losslessly shrink your old JPEGs by 20% with bit-for-bit recovery.

Local Wikipedia Type in any town and get a custom Wikipedia made only of things within a half-hour walk from there.

Apple Music's hidden iPod Apple hid a near-perfect, fully playable iPod — haptic beeps and all — inside its music site's error page.

Rafaël Rozendaal discovers painting The artist who made toilet-paper-unspooling websites now paints in a room without a computer in it.

Rafaël Rozendaal grows up on the internet He built his career on websites that did nothing on purpose — now he wonders what's left without the browser.

Examining the macOS gcc binary Typing gcc on a Mac doesn't call an alias — it runs real compiled logic deciding whether you meant clang or clang++.

Native masonry layouts with CSS grid lanes Native Pinterest-style masonry layouts are finally landing in CSS, nearly a decade after the first hacky workaround.

Tiling noise wraps around a torus A step-by-step shader tutorial shows exactly what breaks when you wrap procedural noise around a donut.

vvvv's boygrouping distributed rendering enters testing One art installation is syncing 42 computers and 84 projectors to live-code a scene in real time.

Megapop, a browser god game in raw WebGPU A full god-game, built straight on WebGPU with zero engine, runs entirely in a browser tab.

Jailbreaking the Switch 2 An AI agent helped jailbreak the Switch 2 through a browser exploit, then spent a day modding Mario Kart for fun.

Why one of the world's greatest mathematicians is on a 'war footing' One of math's biggest names says he's now on a 'war footing' over what AI means for the field.

Vivid microscopic images from the 2026 Nikon Small World contest A mycologist ran out of living things to photograph in winter, so he turned his microscope on his own coffee.

Vector graphics in Lil A 1967 digital typeface system for pen plotters gets reinterpreted inside an APL-flavored scripting language from 2026.