A Rust dev just killed Headless Chrome.
It's called Obscura. The open-source headless browser purpose-built for AI agents and scrapers at scale.
Chrome vs Obscura:
- Memory: 200MB+ โ 30MB
- Binary: 300MB+ โ 70MB
- Page load: 500ms โ 85ms
- Startup: 2s โ Instant
- Anti-detect: None โ Built-in
Single binary. No Node, no Chrome, no dependencies.
Stealth mode is brutal:
โ Per-session fingerprint randomization (GPU, canvas, audio, battery)
โ 3,520 tracker domains blocked by default
โ navigator.webdriver masked to match real Chrome
โ Native function masking so detectors can't sniff it out
Drop-in replacement for Puppeteer and Playwright over CDP. Zero code changes.
If you run agents or serious scraping at scale, this repo prints money.
100% Opensource.
This 2-hour Stanford lecture breaks down how models like ChatGPT and Claude are actually built, clearer than what many people in top AI roles ever get exposed to.
Save this and set aside two hours today. It might end up being the most valuable thing you learn all week.
Someone built an API whose only job is to say no.
You send it a request. It sends back a rejection. That's the entire product.
It's called No-as-a-Service. NaaS.
1,000+ rejection reasons. All curated. All devastating.
Here's what it returns:
- "This feels like something Future Me would yell at Present Me for agreeing to."
- "I only function on coffee and denial, and I'm out of coffee."
- "If I agree, Iโd need to clone myself. And I donโt trust him."
- "I have a personal policy of saying no on days ending in 'y'."
Need to reject a meeting? NaaS.
Need to decline a date? NaaS.
Need to say no to your boss without getting fired? Believe it or not, also NaaS.
Here's the wildest part:
Developers loved it so much they built an entire ecosystem around it.
- A Slack bot that responds with /no in team channels
- A Signal bot for automated rejections
- An iOS app on the App Store called "Nope App"
- An Android app that gives you excuses on demand
- A Raycast extension so you can reject things from your launcher
- An MCP plugin so your AI assistant says no for you
6,500+ developers starred a joke. 408 people forked it to build their own ways to say no.
The license reads: "MIT -- do whatever, just don't say yes when you should say no."
The most honest software ever written. Its only job is to say no. And it does it beautifully.
100% Open Source.
(Link in the comments)
No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, but this guy is the greatest geek alive ๐ซก
Created UNIX in 1971 when he was 28 years old.
Created Go in 2009 when he was 66 years old๐ฒ
He also developed the B programming language (which led to C), created UTF-8 encoding (making international text possible online), and designed essential tools like grep that developers still rely on daily.
He also helped with the development of Multics (that led to UNIX), Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems.
That's 4 operating systems in total... Most people don't even use these many OS.
Pretty impressive resume, right? ๐ฅ
And it's a shame that many people, even the ones in the IT and tech industry, don't know him.
Ken Thompson.... Remember the name ๐
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When Andres Freund, Linux kernel contributor & Microsoft engineer was debugging slow SSH logins on his Debian machine in March 2024, he noticed something weird:
liblzma (part of XZ Utils) was using way too much CPU power, so he kept digging, and what he uncovered was a multi-year supply-chain attack!
An attacker using the name โJia Tanโ had spent two years slowly infiltrating the tiny XZ Utils project, a compression library used by virtually every major Linux distribution.
The backdoor wasnโt in the source code. It was hidden deep inside the build scripts. It would have given the attacker remote root access on millions of servers the moment a specially crafted SSH key was used.
Freund caught it days before it would have shipped in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and more.
One man, one anomaly, one routine debug session saved the internet from a potential catastrophe.
Respect!
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Today was the final, agentic (A2A, MCP), https://t.co/NtetbYkf62 workshop in 2025. Thank you for participating and for the discussions. It was fun! I'll see you in February 2026 for "Faster, Better, Cleaner Java Development with Agentic LLMs" (almost fully booked) ๐ https://t.co/NtetbYkf62 #airhacks #java