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Why hobby coders treat AI-written code as missing the point
Fogus names 7 hobby programming communities where the learning, not the working code, is the product.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
TAC-2 is back: the new Commodore reissues an old joystick
Pre-orders are open for $49, with a steel shaft replacing the original's tire valve and a 9-pin connector instead of USB.
 • Rob Beschizza
The farthest you can get from a road in the San Gabriels is 2.7 miles
Dima Kogan found the spot near Ross Mountain and Iron Mountain using OpenStreetMap data and a Voronoi diagram, then hiked out and left a register.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Hoover Dam is set to lose 40% of its maximum power this year
A prolonged drought has dropped Lake Powell so low that a Glen Canyon Dam fix could cost up to $3 billion.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Microsoft, Google and Amazon now depend on two money-losing AI firms
Ed Zitron reports OpenAI and Anthropic supply 70% or more of the AI revenue at three big clouds.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
I Love the 90s! curates classics of the web and cable TV
Channel-surf VHS-scanned YouTubes from MTV to Supermarket Sweep, plus a 1996 Yahoo! directory replica and GeoCities archives.
 • Rob Beschizza
Border corner stores have filed 700,000 reports on cash transfers
Since April 2025, a FinCEN rule has required 86 shops in border zip codes to report cash transfers, and judges have now blocked it in several states.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
New daily word game challenges you to be succinct
Sheets.works' Long Story Short asks players to compress a 12-word sentence into just five, born from frustration with AI-bloated writing.
 • Gail P Sherman
Read 20,000 restored golden-age comics free in your browser
The ComicBooks.com Reading Room sorts everything by genre, publisher, and decade, with romance the largest at 3,590 books and no login required.
 • Popkin
Boing Boing, August 11, 2026
Plutonium injections, giant snail shells, and an impossible gold mine
 • Boing Boing
Man, those Romans sure lost a lot of cargo boats
The latest untouched wreck full of amphorae was found off the coast of Sicily, nearly 20 centuries after it sank.
 • Jason Weisberger
DoorDash sprints towards replacing its drivers with robots
DoorDash is paying gig workers $5 to load its Dot delivery robots, the same robots meant to replace them.
 • Séamus Bellamy
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