- kanzure launched instamouse.com, a new web-based tool that appears to generate or manipulate 3-D content (a Blender fork is visible at /kanzure/blender), but it immediately suffered a “hug of death” traffic spike after being posted online.  
- L29Ah observed that the most cost-effective hardware for Monero mining is almost identical to the most cost-effective hardware for personal LLM inference, highlighting an unexpected overlap between cryptocurrency and AI edge-compute economics.  
- fenn circulated a Fixit Clinic blog post revealing that a local school district discards ~40,000 Chromebooks every few years; participants noted that installing Debian gives the devices a second life and avoids deliberate performance degradation introduced by later ChromeOS updates.  
- A 15th-century Paolo Uccello perspective drawing of a 32-sided chalice was shared as an early example of CAD-like geometric precision, illustrating how advanced visualization techniques pre-date modern computing by centuries.