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My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | tags: php, packagist, composer

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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Composer Explains the Show’s Two Big Needle Drops (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: game of thrones, house of the dragon, tennessee ernie ford

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Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-28 | by Jagmeet Singh | tags: spacex, cursor, india

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Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-19 | get Video Game Music Collection → | tags: bobby prince, doom, wolfenstein 3d

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Icon Composer 2 and SF Symbols 8 now available as betas (9to5mac.com)

2026-06-12 | by Marcus Mendes | get Apple Developer Beta Access → | tags: sf symbols 8, icon composer 2, apple

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An Update on Composer and Packagist Supply Chain Security (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-27 | by May | get Composer Security Toolkit → | tags: composer, packagist, php

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Laravel Lang packages hijacked to deploy credential-stealing malware (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-05-23 | get Laravel Security Patch Kit → | tags: laravel, github, composer

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Cursor Cloud Agents Down (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-19 | get Cursor Cloud Agent Monitor → | tags: github, slack, cursor

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Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-18 | get JetBrains ReSharper Ultimate → | tags: cursor, composer 2.5, javascript

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Composer leaks contents of tokens configured as GitHub OAuth tokens (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-13 | get OAuth Token Security Kit → | tags: composer, github, oauth

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Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-06 | get IBM Selectric Typewriter Font Kit → | tags: ibm selectric composer fonts, selectric un 11 medium, ibm typewriter

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Improving Composer through real-time RL (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-26 | by Jacob Jackson | tags: composer, reinforcement learning, inference volume

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Cursor's Composer 2 was secretly built on a Chinese AI model — and it exposes a deeper problem with Western open-source AI (venturebeat.com)

2026-03-23 | get AI Model Development Kit → | tags: cursor, composer 2, moonshot ai

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Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-22 | by Anthony Ha | get AI Coding Assistant Tool → | tags: cursor, kimi, moonshot ai

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Cursor’s new coding model Composer 2 is here: It beats Claude Opus 4.6 but still trails GPT-5.4 (venturebeat.com)

2026-03-19 | get Cursor Composer 2 Software → | tags: cursor, composer 2, anysphere

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100M-Row Challenge with PHP (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-25 | get Database → | tags: php, tempest, composer

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The Legend That Defined the Music of ‘Final Fantasy’ Is Getting the Biography He Deserves (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-21 | get Guitar → | tags: biography, biography hit, composer

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‘Sinners’ Costumes, Props, and One Very Special Guitar Are Now Part of the Warner Bros. Studio Tour (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-10 | get Guitar → | tags: celebrating, celebrating ryan, composer

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The Beauty of Dissonance (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-12 | by John M | get Dissonant Frequency → | tags: composer, composers, dissonance

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Implementing namespaces and coding standards in WordPress plugin development (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Troy Chaplin | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: composer, lint, php

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‘X-Files’ Composer Mark Snow Dies at Age 78 (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Justin Carter | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: composer, composers, film

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Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Dalya Alberge | get Amazon Echo → | tags: composer, nye, previously