We are deeply saddened by the passing of Richard “Levelord” Gray.
From his legendary work on Duke Nukem 3D to the countless players and developers he inspired, Richard leaves behind a lasting legacy.
Rest in peace, Levelord.
Miami from space (2012 vs 2025)
The replacement of warm, orange sodium lights with cold, white LEDs is one of the greatest crimes against humanity of our time.
You can now scrape the web with AI agents in 85ms.
Someone built in Rust what Chrome engineers couldn't optimize in years.
Obscura is an open-source headless browser engine for web scraping and AI automation.
A 70MB binary that boots instantly, loads pages in 85ms, and runs on 30MB of RAM.
The Google equivalent needs 300MB of disk, 200MB of memory, and 2 seconds to start.
The real trick is stealth mode.
Per-session fingerprint randomization across:
> GPU, canvas, audio, battery
> 3,520 tracker domains blocked
> navigator.webdriver fully masked
> Native functions patched cleanly
No detector can catch it.
The engine runs real JavaScript through V8 and speaks the Chrome DevTools Protocol natively.
That means it works as a drop-in for Puppeteer and Playwright.
You swap the binary, your code stays untouched.
One developer shipped this alone. Free to use.
Lost my phone at the office and spent 30 minutes turning the place over. Find My was disabled by MDM.
Out of ideas, I asked Claude how I could find it. It suggested tracking the Bluetooth signal strength, then wrote me a meter in about a minute.
I walked around watching the number climb. Found it.
Apparently you can just make the tool you need now.
Code: https://t.co/fmnISzHfZ2
@NewsFromGoogle You guys are living in a complete bubble. Step outside Silicon Valley for two seconds and you’ll realize no actual human wants AI sludge crammed into every corner of every product. Touch grass. Talk to actual people.