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2026 Award Season Screenplays —1 New Script
It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.As in years past, I will track the year’s movie scripts as links become available.Current total of 2026 scripts for download: 1. New: Obsession.Obsession (Focus)You should download the scripts ASAP because these links have a way of disappearing.To access 100+ movie scripts made available by studios and production companies since 2009, go here.Reading movie screen
Go Into The Story Interview (Part 2): Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany
Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany wrote the original screenplay The Washroom which won a 2025-2026 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. I had an hour-long conversation with the pair exploring their creative backgrounds, analyzing their Nicholl-winning screenplay, and a discussion of key aspects of the screenwriting craft.Today in Part 2, we discuss how the pair met and originated the idea for their screenplay The Washroom.Scott: How did you two meet?Elie: We actually had short films competing
Show HN: Extending X402 for MoR fiat payments and budget attenuation
X402 and similar protocols requires crypto native settlement. For freelancers and SMEs under many European tax regimes, it can be a tax nightmare.In this proposal the payment is in FIAT (via a Merchant of Record), and the agents orchestrator can attenuate the budget into smaller, independently revocable sub-budgets for its worker using Biscuits.This is a reference implementation with some described known limitations, not a production system.I'd love to get feedback.Thanks for taking a look!
Layoffs Are Near a 57-Year Low — So Why Is America’s Job Market Freezing Up?
Employers are holding onto workers at a rate unseen since the late 1960s, yet job seekers are running into walls everywhere they turn. Something in the American labor market has quietly broken, and ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1715929344395-061f974b4bbb?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8NHx8Sm9iJTIwTWFya2V0fGVufDB8fDJ8fDE3MTYyMjEzMDd8MA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
Why I stopped buying smart bulbs and started putting smart relays behind my switches
<p>Smart bulbs are a great addition to your smart home, especially if you’re just starting out. They are easy to install, set up, and control.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/10/img_5813-1.jpg' />
Screenplays are stories, not formulas
“If you go in with formula, you come out with formula.”The late great William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Man, The Princess Bride, Misery) famously wrote, “Screenplays are structure.” That is true in a tangible sense because at some point, a script becomes a blueprint for the production of a movie. And in a very real way, everything hangs on the structure of the narrative — how one scene flows to the next, how the beginni
Go Into The Story Interview (Part 1): Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany
Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany wrote the original screenplay The Washroom which won a 2025-2026 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. I had an hour-long conversation with the pair exploring their creative backgrounds, analyzing their Nicholl-winning screenplay, and a discussion of key aspects of the screenwriting craft.Today in Part 1, Elie and Omar talk about growing up and how they developed an interest in movies and writing.Scott Myers: Congratulations for being named Nicholl fellows thi
Show HN: Freehire, open-source search 3M+ tech jobs from company career boards
freehire is a filterable, job board aggregator, job tracker, and AI-assisted resume tailoring tool. Saving your skills and preferences changes which jobs appear and how your resume gets tailored. I've looked at a lot of these solutions over the years and found it really hard to find the right mix of tools in an open-source offering.I've contributed to a few issues now and worked closely with the maintainer. I've watched this evolve over the last few months. I feel it's ready
Browser Avatar Ingestion: Presigned Object Storage and Private Bucket Boundaries
Short answer: use a short-lived presigned upload for the browser, but treat it as one step in an avatar ingestion workflow, not as proof that an avatar is safe or even usable. Keep the bucket private, authorize the object key on the server, verify the completed object, and publish only an application-owned avatar reference.The easiest setup is the one with the fewest hidden authorities. A React client should ask a Next.js server route for permission to upload one named object. The server should
I'm tired of AI: Engineer considers farming as tech jobs face a bigger crisis
A software engineer's plan to quit coding for farming reflects growing anxiety over AI's impact on tech jobs. As automation advances, India's workforce faces changing hiring trends, evolving skill ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1659077188772-7f54f609f7c8?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MjN8fFRlY2glMjBKb2JzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE2NTkyMDU2ODg&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
State-Level Employment Situation: September 2026
Over the 12 months ending in September, total nonfarm employment increased by 496,000 jobs nationwide, representing a 0.3% gain. Job gains ranged from 400 in Hawaii to 154,300 in Texas. Collectively, ...<img src='https://images.pexels.com/photos/4219217/pexels-photo-4219217.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=1200' />
AI Job Boom Favors Men As Female Employment Growth Stalls
New data reveals a widening gender gap in AI-exposed jobs, with men seeing higher employment growth than women—especially among non-degree workers.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1576570489273-9ab33773a03f?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MXwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8OHx8RW1wbG95bWVudHxlbnwwfHwyfA&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
US Army announces 2 job openings, invites eligible applicants to apply
The US Army is hiring social workers in substance abuse and family advocacy roles through Direct Hire Authority, with Miami-Dade County among the locations now.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1675664534136-51375fb40129?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTB8fEpvYiUyME9wZW5pbmdzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE2NzYyMDI1MTE&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
Jostraca Review: A Good Merge Engine with Unsafe Defaults
Most code generators assume you never touch what they produce. That assumption rarely holds. Someone adds a prop or fixes a class name, and the next regeneration wipes it out.Jostraca is an open-source JavaScript code generator that takes this problem head on. It says it can regenerate over hand-edited files and keep your edits. That is a big claim, so I tested it. I built a small React component generator, edited the output by hand, and changed the generator to see what survived.Short version:
Technical Breakdown: Vitest Dev-Server Secret Leak (CVE-2026-112948) & How to Protect Your .env
Original Technical Advisory & Research published on DevOmniTools Security Lab. Executive Summary & Vulnerability ContextOn October 21, 2026, the GitHub Advisory Database published CVE-2026-112948 (GHSA-p458-7748-mcp3), exposing a critical file access vulnerability in Vitest 5 dev servers.When developers execute test suites using:The interactive UI (vitest --ui)Vitest Browser Mode (@vitest/browser)- Or by exposing the remote API (api: true / --api)Vitest's underlying HTTP server inad
How I Built a Privacy-First PDF Processor That Never Uploads Your Files
TL;DR: Most online PDF tools transmit your documents to remote infrastructure. We engineered KAOpdf to execute all PDF manipulations directly inside the browser sandbox using WebAssembly and Web Workers — zero server uploads, zero remote storage, zero data leakage risk. Here is the technical breakdown of how we built it. The Problem With "Free" Online PDF ConvertersIf you have ever used a standard online PDF compressor, converter, or merger, you have almost certainly uploaded your documents
Layoffs Are Near a 57-Year Low — So Why Is America’s Job Market Freezing Up?
Employers are holding onto workers at a rate unseen since the late 1960s, yet job seekers are running into walls everywhere they turn. Something in the American labor market has quietly broken, and the consequences could ripple far beyond the unemployed.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1715860873971-5548ca4a6dc7?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MjB8fEpvYiUyME1hcmtldHxlbnwwfHwyfHwxNzE2MjIxMzA3fDA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
4 Tips On Creativity From The Creator Of Calvin & Hobbes
I saw this article in Fast Company a while back and in reading it, I realized how important comic strips have been in my adult life. Doonesbury. The Far Side. Bloom County. And, of course, Calvin & Hobbes.Calvin & Hobbes was created by Bill Watterson. And in the documentary Stripped, which came out in 2014, the famously “media averse” cartoonist, provided 4 tips on creativity:1. You Have To Lose Yourself In Your Work“My comic strip was the way that I explored the wor
I ditched desktop apps for these 5 Linux terminal apps, and I’m not going back
Terminal apps have a reputation for being too minimal, confusing, and useful only for technical workflows. And while that might have been true a few years ago, modern terminal apps are a lot more intuitive and functional, covering plenty of everyday computing use cases. This makes them excellent lightweight alternatives to typical desktop apps. In fact, here are fiv
This is the right way to weatherproof your 3D prints without using sealant or epoxy
Want to 3D print items that live outside? One option is to throw caution to the wind, print with whatever material you like, and seal everything up with an aftercoat. Unfortunately, this requires time and money, and things can still wear with time.
