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I Miss Terry Pratchett
📚 Honoring Terry Pratchett's Legacy
Terry Pratchett, a renowned author celebrated for his Discworld series, left an indelible mark on literature, blending humor, fantasy, and social commentary. His works not only entertained but also provoked thought on various societal issues.
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- Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You
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- Claude.ai Down Again?
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- Codex-maxxing
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- Colonization of Venus
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- Colored Shadow Penumbra
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- Computational Physics (2nd Edition)
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- Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation
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- Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer (NYC, Onsite)
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- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
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- Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
- Debian must ship reproducible packages
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- DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
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- Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
- Defeat as Method
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- Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
- Delve removed from Y Combinator
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- Democracy in 2025: on rising authoritarianism in the United States
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- Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations
- Digg is gone again
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- Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
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- Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
- Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s
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- Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
- Distributed DuckDB Instance
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- Do AI Agents Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes?
- Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
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- Dolphin Progress Release 2603
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- Don't Make Me Talk to Your Chatbot
- Don't Outsource the Learning
- Don't Roll Your Own
- Don't become an engineering manager
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- Don't run OpenClaw on your main machine
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- Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
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- FrameBook
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- FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement
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- Fungal Electronics (2021)
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- FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion (IMU and GPS and encoders)
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- GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
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- GPT-5.5
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- GTFOBins
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- Game about Data of America
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- Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down
- Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0
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- Gemini 3.5 Flash
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- Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS
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