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Prized is a YC S26 platform that lets non-technical staff describe internal tools in plain language and receive full-stack apps deployed behind company SSO, wired to company data, with role-based access controls and full audit logging. Their egress proxy model is the clever bit — API keys never touch the sandbox, credentials swap at the edge. Free tier gives 2 builds per month; Teams is $100/month.
The EU Court of Justice ruled VPN providers are not liable for copyright infringement — geo-blocking is the publishers' responsibility, not the VPN's. This undercuts UK policy efforts that had been eyeing VPN restrictions as a child-safety lever, and marks a significant win for privacy advocates across the continent.
Hillel Wayne examines why mathematical software correctness proofs remain rare in industry, finding that code verification is technically costly while design verification faces mostly cultural resistance. Programmer skepticism and skill gaps are the real barriers — not fundamental technical limits — and partial verification already offers meaningful practical value.
Ben Nuttall built a web-based drag-and-drop tool for visually designing Raspberry Pi GPIO circuits using gpiozero abstractions, running in simulation or controlling real hardware remotely. It generates Python code from your diagram and produces shareable circuit links.
Cambridge researchers found that inherited genetics strongly determines how tumors evolve after carcinogen exposure, even when the same cancer pathway activates. The findings point toward genomics-driven personalized screening and treatment based on individual risk profiles.
Ron Gilbert announced Thimbleweed Park 2 is in active production, targeting an early 2028 release with the original team — Mark Ferrari, Gary Winnick, David Fox — reuniting. It will be self-published with private investor backing on Steam, GOG, Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Mark Nottingham's RFC argues that IETF protocol design has unavoidable political consequences and that the engineering community should explicitly prioritize end users over operators and governments. It's a call for technologists to own the societal implications of the infrastructure they build.
Hacker Public Radio is a community-driven tech podcast releasing listener-created episodes every weekday, covering topics for hackers, makers, and hobbyists with no editors or sponsors. Contributors are asked to submit just one show per year, keeping it genuinely grassroots.
SDL_gp ports sokol_gp's 2D graphics primitives to SDL3 as a single-header C library, offering high-performance blend modes, transformations, and texture management with minimal overhead. It targets 2D game developers and graphics app builders who want low complexity without a full engine.
A deep-dive into the viral 1900s math puzzle about two sisters and overlapping ages that spawned newspaper debates, poems, songs, and theatrical adaptations before fading by late 1903. The author traces the puzzle back to originator Robert D. Towne and chronicles its full cultural spread.
